Finding a group as dps?

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So this time through Classic I am looking to play a dps role. Healing was… okay at best for me. The issue I am running into is possibility of finding groups while leveling and then at 60 to gear myself out, then finding a raid spot later on.

Mage or Rogue are my top choices. What is it like to have to compete with so many other DPS specs through classic? I didn’t bothering leveling anything other than a shaman, so I just healbotted everything.

I am also curious if horde or alliance is better for those two classes?

Thanks guys!

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You will have WAY MORE chances to get in a group if you are a mage, compared to a rogue. AoE fest … CC … etc

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It’s actually somewhat faster to find a group as a dps when there are no group finder tool since you can build your own group instead of waiting 45 min in queue.

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I hate to say this, but you really don’t need dedicated tanks for 5-mans. You really just need geared people and a healer. It’s just not that hard tbh. You can tank 5-mans with pretty much anything.

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Found the non-healer.

It can be done but it comes at the expense or working the healer.

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How edgy.

No really, it’s pretty easy. Any geared group of DPS + healer can down 5 mans without sweating.

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Calling someone edgy is more edgy than that.

Sure, out gear the place. Run the place level appropriate and you will either be slow pulling or draining the healers water supply.

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You are aware that you’re in the Classic forum, right? And if so, we’re talking about in the next 6 months, not a years and a half from now when people are in AQ40 gear.

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I’m sure you know exactly how hard Classic is.

Even on overtuned pservs people AoE down 5-mans without even paying attention to the healer or tank.

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Lol… this is how you can tell people didn’t play Classic.

You can literally do 5-mans with 5 Hunters. That is an actual group.

It just isn’t hard.

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It’s not like that, “even on overtuned pservers” until you overgear them.

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Honestly, it depends if you buddie up to a tank or healer, both classes are solid. But you may be more liekly to lose gear as a mage then rogue, to other classes. But so long as you find a tank and youre good to him, and vice versa gearing grouping finding a good guild is easy

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I’m telling you, don’t even need to over-gear them to do a 5 Hunter run.

Even with 5 Mages you could probably do it easily in T1.

You guys are just having a hard time understanding this concept. It just isn’t hard.

It’s not Burning Crusade.

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Easy decision OP. Mage all the way. Your cc is best in game while you’re leveling. And similar to retail, range dps always have easier time getting into raids than melee.
Melee will be dominated by warriors/rogue in raids.

Horde will be your better option for a pvp server. Pve server won’t matter.
Why? because less locks more mages on alliance side pvp due to wotf. Or that was the trend in the past.

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It will be whether your in a guild or not and how many friends outside of the guild( if your in one). When this guy hit 60 I got whispers and guildies wanting to run stuff all the time. Being friendly/ helpful will go a long way

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Nope, not over geared at all

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my roomate and I used to 2 man scarlet strat as hunter/priest, you can do pretty much any dungeon without a tank until the lvl 60 ones. maybe not sunken temple either

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Thanks for trying to take that out of context. I literally just said “with 5 Mages”.

My original point being, you don’t need a dedicated tank. You just need a healer and four DPS with semi-decent gear.

Keep trying to troll dude.

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The OP said “while leveling and then at 60 to gear myself”

If you think rolling through the dungeons for leveling without over gear is easy. Then “found the non-healer” is all about you.

Calling you out as a non-healer isn’t trolling.