So when I started the game in the closed beta just before launch, I played a rogue, priest and had an alt warrior until cata, I quit in cata. And I was fairly casual in TBC. WOTLK/Vanilla were the expansions I put the most hours into I think besides Legion/BFA.
Anyway I am having trouble deciding on what to play and what faction.
I was considering picking up warrior again so I could tank raids (I forgot when paladins could start tanking) and assuming its as close to classic as possible, I will probably want to be a warrior for the gg sunder spam.
Or go heals again, since Priest was really my most dominate class back then.
Do you all think we’re going to be more starved for heals or tanks? I mean its always inevitable, those classes end up falling off first. So I figured I’d cut out the middle man and just pick up a couple primary roles even though I want to rock a stealth class again. Hah.
Tanks in 5 mans will always be in demand. You’ll get spammed with requests to tank. 98% of groups will be “LF1M Tank in /trade”
Raids however, you need to get into a guild or start your own and earn the spot. With the exception of a couple fights you only need 1 or 2 tanks total in the raid. So that is the challenge if you want to tank.
Fortunately a lot of people will roll Warrior that are terrified of tanking, speaking on vent/discord, etc. and should have been a Rogue instead. Good luck!
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Dungeons will need both healers and tanks, raids will need healers.
There’s pretty much always a shortage of those two roles, but most raid fights need an incredibly small number of tanks in proportion to the total raid size. Getting a tank spot in a raid can be harder than any other role because of this.
Right up until Naxx40, then we need like 8 tanks. Haha.
Just for the one fight, and I believe guilds use a combination of Feral Druids and Fury tanks to make up the difference on that one.
Yeah, I mean I tank, do tank and did tank as necessary. But I suppose I am thinking about modern day dps vs classic days of dps, and the dps role was harder, at least I am assuming so because i clearly remember doing a lot of sap pulls even in 5 mans and CCing.
But I also don’t want to role a class to find out nothing ever happens because we’re always stuck looking for tanks and/or heals.
Luckily 5man tanking and dpsing goes fine without being that leader guy on vent. I think warrior is the most support class out of raids as they are the most scarce and are needed in every group.
I think now a days knowing what we know versus what we didn’t know back then. We may see guilds have more tanks. Whether a tank dies mid boss fight or just having someone to tank swap for CDs. I assume we’re not going to have the clutch random healer out of combat to res and bres as well.
That might be. Also hybrids may shine here or warriors that are hybrid fury/prot and so on.
All I know is I don’t want to end up like the current content for me, which has been fairly subpar as a dps, even making my own groups has felt very chore like. And this late in to the expansion it’s hard to reroll and catch up. I also really like my main class so I’d rather not. Hah.
Back on the subject of paladins, when did they get the ability to really hold their own for tanking? I am assuming that was pretty late, like around TBC?
I never saw a paladin tank until TBC. I’m sure some did 5 man’s but not many. Ran with some druid tanks though.
Druids were great off tanks and could actually main tank 80% of raid boss encounters. We had a Druid tank in our guild in 05. He would swap between tanking/DPS, and had some healing gear when needed. I was a hunter, but I’m rolling feral off tank with off heals this time.
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Hmm, interesting it’s been so long since I really thought about classes I just have the memories.
I was just hoping to try a new class but I kind of think I want to stick what I already know/play but I suppose I got some time to think about.
Druids always made me nervous because i found all the binds over whelming.
I’m thinking of doing the same thing this time. Druids are a blast in WSG.
Paladins weren’t super good at tanking till TBC and even then they were subpar tanks till about the time you hit Outland
I tanked in Vanilla but only did it in guild runs. Did all the 5 mans and even tanked a raid boss or two in ZG. Took way more effort than it was worth really.
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They really are. I love flag carrying!
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For 5-mans, healers will certainly be in demand. But decent tanks will be in huge demand. Tanking in vanilla requires skill. Many will be terrible. And there is only one class that can really do it well.
In raids, as Kolben said, it’s different. Every warrior will need to be able to tank at some point, regardless of spec. But there is only a need for a couple of prot tanks who focus on it and spec for it.
Do the math. For raids, only 1 in 20 need to be a dedicated tank. For dungeons, it’s 1 in 5. So if you hit 60 and you are not a tank, and you aren’t in a guild with some tanks or don’t have some tanks on your friends list, your personal progression in WoW Classic will stagnate there.
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I think I will probably do both, play a war at first because it will be the faster grind, and then priest after
:druid:
And here comes the Bear. A resto-heavy Druid, leveling in resto spec, completely dressed in Agility gear, always wanting to heal but always tanking.