No dungeons
Fresh start
Only open world content.
Huntard, Mage, Warlock
Aren’t these classes gear reliant so skipping dungeons will hurt these classes a lot ?
Frost Mage and Hunter aren’t too gear reliant, Warlock is alittle more .
While leveling every class is gear reliant.
I am leveling a Affi lock atm, he’s level 73 with full Brutal glad all gems and enchants and will pull 30 mobs with no issues and tank them all while not needing to drink or eat.
I’m sure if my Affi only had a bunch of garbage quest greens and blues I’d only be able to do like 10 mobs instead of 30 hit it would still be significantly faster than any other spec in the game.
Go warlock. Easiest leveling in the game.
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Ehh id argue thar druids don’t care to much about their gear. The base damage from their abilities at so high.
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demo and beast master talents and spell strength alone carry them fine without gear. But lock will zoooooom if you get spell dmg. Even without, you dot then drain so zero downtime. Go afflic to multidot but you need SL to be efficient. I’ve leveled several locks and hunters on multiple alts.
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I think it’s Druid. You have big damage, healing, innervate, stealth, travel form, then when you get to outland flight form. The gathering quests take a fraction of the time since you don’t have to leave flight form to collect items. From 70-80 with 2x heirlooms my druid averaged just under 2 hours per level from questing only.
Don’t forget instacast flying.
But yeah not dropping out of flight form while collecting quest objectives is HUGE.
Believe it or not warriors are pretty fast leveling as prot. They do better with gear sure, but I have a level 42 warrior in green gear that kills stuff fast. Plus if you want to run dungeons being a tank definitely helps.
I’d vouch for druid. They have a bit of everything.
Protection Warrior is the fastest leveling class and spec.
Hunters are good. Pet is a solid tank, and going engineering you can make your own ammo which is nice when you got no money.
Enjoying my Affliction Warlock. Almost no downtime, and it’s amazing what you can survive through even when you make a bad pull.
I actually really enjoyed leveling prot on the warrior. Revenge hits like a truck. The addition of victory rush is a real game changer for the lower levels now.
Druids are sort of a swiss army knife. Good enough for most things and very little downtime. Not too great when you accidentally pull to much, but you can run away and reset like a champ.
Rogue has been sort of middle of the pack for me. Solid damage, but the lack of heals slows you down.
I hear mages are good but I don’t have any experience leveling them in classic.
My least favorite so far are shaman, pally, and priest.
Affliction Warlock with siphon life can pull endlessly.
I found pld to be pretty easy. You can tank as retribution easily well into the 40s. I regularly carve through 2-4 mobs at a time and you’re hard pressed to find better density than that unless you can pull instant cast with no CD at range like a warlock.
Taunt hits like a truck if the mob isn’t targeting you. It crits for almost 30% of a mobs HP. My pull sequence from 60-80 was taunt, judge, exorcism with art of war buff, mob is on me at this point, crusader strike, divine storm, hammer of wrath if I need to and didn’t crit any of my abilities. Mobs dead and I’m targeting the next one. Literally running through without stopping in most cases.
Roughly 6-8 seconds per mob. I can kill within the taunt CD window.
Cleave 2-3 mobs is roughly 20 seconds.
Zero mana issues, great CDs.
I was unable to solo most of the group quests in northrend though. So I did leave a few quests on the table. If I went prot as my dual spec instead of holy that wouldn’t have been a problem.
Ive played both hunter and warlock. I would say though a skilled warlock > a skilled hunter, mostly because of how much more mobs they can handle at once. A hunter might have an easier time soloing tough elites though
I don’t know I found most group quests were easily manageable on my warlock when I was leveling. If they aren’t immune to fear it’s even easier.
Most mobs in general are easy to solo. Im just saying that a bm hunter would theoretically have an easier time if the mob was tough enough, but a lock with the right spec/talents can take a beating too
Hunter then Feral Druid. Both have movement speed abilities that they get well before you can mount. Hunter’s is more useful since it can be used indoors.
Both have little downtime though hunters may have slightly more depending on how you manage your mana. Druids are a lot harder to kill and can pull bigger packs generally but hunters have feign death if you get into trouble.
Pet management can be a little bit of a pain and hunters are a little more gear dependent but still probably the fastest overall.
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