Howdy, what’s the easiest class for beginners who want to come to classic?
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Probably hunter. Very tanky for a dps class, good at solo’ing/kiting things and you have a pet to help you out.
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I had a lot of fun leveling as a hunter I think that is a good place to start. Has a cool quest for a good weapon when you hit 60 as well.
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For sure a mage
Hunter would be a bad choice because a poo poo hunter is a poo poo hunter and it actually takes skill to be good. Not to add they’re the least needed and liked class in dungeons and raids.
Unlike a mage.
Easiest to level, easiest to play and very desired in dungeons and raids.
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Paladin, heals, tanks. Easy fights.
Hunter requires feeding pet, buying ammo. It’s ok if you pick it up quickly.
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Easy depends on the player. Hunter is so easy to get along as mediocre while leveling the quickest but I find it overwhelming to excel at. Druid is a good one that has quite a bit of macros but not over the top to do well and lots of options.
I have slow reaction times so for soloing, mage is for sure an easy one (and yet I have never played it) and levels quickly. I found the Warlock another pet leveler that is not too difficult. They have some nice class quests along the way too. I played this through TBC and ranked in PVP but never raided until Classic under another class. Paladin is another easy albeit slow level with class quest immersion.
Easy play style - Mage
Easy but slow - Paladin
Versatile and moderate difficulty - Druid
Semi easy with pet safety - Warlock
Hunter - easy if you just want to do the minimum (my kids back in the day always played hunter up to 20 when trying the game out)
Mage, hunter, druid.
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Mage is my favorite class, and I’ve tried them all, the reason I didn’t recommend it though is that the mage play style is easy when you know the game, but to someone just picking it up, I could see it being really frustrating. Mages are the squishiest class, and learning how to maximize your ability slow/kite things isn’t exactly intuitive.
Hunter is the easiest to level. However they require a lot of pet maintenance and the cost of pet food and ammo will require you to pay attention to the small amount of gold you get. Hunters don’t play like they do in retail where there is zero maintenance, no minimum range, and 2 of 3 specs are entirely braindead. If you have played survival in retail though you’d prob find the maintenance here no issue at all.
Mage is also easy to level and doesn’t require any additional maintenance. The only downside is how long it takes to buff/conjure at low levels. If you like casters I’d level one.
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Mage. Free water, food and ports are amazing in classic.
Not to mention you can aoe farm to level fast and make a ton of gold doing it.
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Hunter if solo, mage if you want to solo and raid and dungeon.
Mage gonna have a lot of competition for gear but Hunters are some of the least liked players and class.
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You have a really nice toolkit for solo and group content, portals, water/food. This was my first ever mage, and I’m surprised I waited so long.
I’d recommend mage as an easy to level, fun class to play.
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Ret paladin and Shadow priest are mechanically easy enough that you might actually feel like your intelligence is being insulted when you play them.
Hunter is similarly easy, but tends to be more involved as a class in general, pet maintenance , ammo, learning pet skills from capturing other pets, etc… It will take a bit of research and effort on your part, but that’s basically the entirety of the classes’ depth
Mage would likely be the next easiest. It’s pretty straight forward with what everything does, and is incredibly easy to play in raids
Locks are gonna be a controversial pick here, but I always found them incredibly easy and intuitive. The issue with locks is they have a bit of everything mechanically… Pet management, shard management, Tanking (via pet), Healing (yourself and pet), they have to balance their health pool as a secondary mana bar, and have a diverse set of spells, many of which are castable at different ranges, and often deal damage in very different ways. That being said, despite teh complexity of the class in general, I find it’s probably the only class with “a tool for every situation”, and once you learn the right tool(s) for the job, actually playing a warlock is incredibly easy. I will warn you on one thing, however, once you have lifetap as a mana user, it’s exceedingly difficult to ever want to go back to one of the peasant caster classes.
I lvled 6 classes, hunter was by far the easiest one.
Send pet in an just auto ez.
and added to the fact hunter pets can actually abandon you in classic haha
and each pet type having different abilities and food required. Hunter is def not as easy as mage with free food and water
mage, ofc.
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Mage is pretty rough to level for a beginner IMO. My grandma could could probably level a hunter…
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Main tank
Easy
Tried a mage in classic. Died my first death at level 4, after getting Frost Bolt and Water. 1on1 it was ok, but then another mob got into aggro range and mage died. Also notice that even when using frost bolt, mana is used up very quickly, only get about 2-3 shots before running out of mana and mob health varies from 20/100 - 50/100. It is not a easy class to play. Same level is not going to work out, guess will have to start over. Maybe farm lower level mobs until get enough xp and coin, will have to get at least +1 to +3 levels above quest mobs so do not die so often while running out of mana. mob damage have noticed is higher then player damage with melee/ranged weapons.
Honestly Hunter or Mage, the issue is at end games, a mage is easy to raid with, and makes easy money, a hunter is hard to be good at,if you keyboard turn you’ll never be any good at kiting, same with back peddeling. I’d roll mage if I was you. Hunters get one less bag space, we have to carry around ammo it’s not optional, our only saving grace is we don’t have to flask.