I see a lot of threads about easiest/hardest class but many times the focus becomes “ease of leveling” or “ease of PvP.”
What I want to know is which class is the easiest to play mechanically. For example, my Warlock is a leveling machine but at level 10 I am already managing pet, soul shards, fear, etc. Meanwhile my rogue seems to be much more “straightforward?”
Druid seems vary hard with the shifting, Shaman has a gazillion totems to manage, Hunters level easy but there’s pet management and shot weaving…
So, give me a ranking of the easiest classes to play based on mechanics. What class would you give to your buddy (or kid) when you don’t want them to be overwhelmed?
For dungeons and raids, probably depends on where you are in progression exactly, but overall I’d say hunter, warlock, or mage (the pure ranged DPS classes).
Personally I find pet classes to be the most difficult, but that’s also because I would hold myself to the standards of some really really good pet class players.
That being said, as a Mage my toolkit is very advanced, not only with the nature of the spells, but the varrying ranks and using them at the right times. I find this 10x easier then managing a pet.
Tanking would probably be the easiest once you get it down. End content is all about threat gen as there isn’t much placement positioning needed in Classic or nearly as much Add management as todays game.
pally is very simple and easy to do. you’re able to tank 3-4 mobs at once and autoattack and use your mana only to heal yourself. and if you make sure your gear is up to date you take very little damage. it’s a class for patient people though because you don’t have a lot of DAMAGE spells. just utility spells.
Most classes in PvP have some sort of skill ceiling that’s high enough to distinguish good players vs bad players, and reaching that ceiling for any class is probably about the same difficulty imo. That’s what makes Classic so great
Tl;dr there isn’t any easiest/hardest classes. Except hunters, they’re the easiest class (it’s a joke before any hunters come screaming out of the woodwork like HURR AKSHUALLY)
Not a troll I promise. Had an 85 Rogue in retail back in the day and a 60 hunter and 45 Warlock. It just seems that the rogue was easier to manage the “decision chain” in a fight. Wondering if anyone else feels that too is all.
I played hunter, mage, pally in Vanilla. Hunter was the easiest to play, but the hardest to master. Mage is kind of mid difficulty all the way. I’m early raids you’ll just spam frost bolt, and AOE packs with blizzard. Decursing is a thing though. Pally isn’t super difficult, but in groups you really feel how short 5 minute buffs are. When TBC launched I shelved my main (hunter) and rolled a shaman. Shaman is pretty cake. You’ll drop the same totems mostly while solo leveling, and in raids you drop totems for your group comp (melee/caster). Spam chain heal, and remember your place in the mana tide rotation. Easy peasy!
I will say on the Hunter and Lock thing. I leveled a lock to 25 on a still queue heavy server. Decided to re-roll 2 days ago and went with hunter instead… I’m already a bit from 19. I admit part of the reason is less competition for quest items and mobs. But it’s not a huge part of it. My pet actually keeps aggro whereas the blueberry needs to taunt a couple times before you can really go at it. It also seems to regen health much faster than the void.
Honestly my only gripe is ammo lol But I played during vanilla so it’s nothing new.
I don’t think hunter is hard at all. Level as beast mastery and enjoy the ride. Warlock is still very easy compared to pretty much the other classes. Mages have good clear and the sustain needed, but requires a bit more mechanics. Warriors struggle for a long time. Rogues all in all are the meh of the lot tbh lol Energy sucks and they miss a LOT of autos. Priest is not bad because they have the heal sustain with fear and bubble. Druids are nice to level too because of sustain, but they are also mechanically heavy. Shamans like you said do have a ton of totems but all in all they’re a solid class to level with too. Sustaining heals and all that.
So in terms of ease of use as well as leveling power I’d say it goes: Hunter, Warlock, Mage, Shaman, Druid, Priest, Rogue, Warrior (2 things to note. This is my personal opinion and therefore can’t be right or wrong. If you disagree, good for you. That’s your own personal opinion and I accept that. The other thing is I left out Paladin on purpose because I played Horde during Vanilla)
