At first I was thinking mage for obvious reasons. Then it occurred to me that he uses mostly (if not all) support magic. He wears gray/white cloth. So priest. Then I remembered he goes toe to toe with a Balrog using a sword and has a fancy mount. So, paladin maybe?
Edit: I know it’s LOTR and not WOW, but if you had to pick one class that best represents him.
Well kinda, but it probably would be more wizardly.
Idk anything about balrog
Gandalf is an angelic being who is posing as a “wizard”.
So more like a cleric-- not really a WoW class. Say a mix of mage, priest and paladin.
There was a Gandolf and a Gandalf on my old server and they were both priests. So there you go.
Gandalf says “You cannot pass…I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.” This is Inner Fire – clearly he is a priest.
This.
Gandlaf isn’t a wizard. He was limited to a wizard form. Gandalf and Balrogs are actually the same ‘thing’ just different forms of the same ‘class’.
Rogue. Count how many times he vanishes and reappears in the series.
He’s an arcane mage, with colour customizations. When have you ever seen him heal something.
He’s a human mage, cloth armor, horse mount, with a sword and a staff. It’s about as mage-like as you can get
Well in the movies (you said ‘seen’) he seems to revive Pippin with magic. In the books it is debated (but possible) that he used magic to revive Pippin.
There’s a few more examples too.
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He’s an Epic Level Spellsword with the Divine School of Magic.
Gandalf was pathetic.
Hah Gandalf defeated Sauron with his hands tied, while Sauron used every once of his power. That’s pretty baller.
You’re approaching this from an entirely wrong perspective.
Gandalf is after all an NPC.
And some NPC:s do have a class they represent while often having powers not available to player character classes.
Many of them are just “undefined” class and I believe Gandalf would best fall under this category. A strong story NPC with a mixed bag of abilities.
But if I had to choose his middle earth form would obviously be a mage.
Gandalf’s abilities don’t match any WoW class.
Thematically he’d be a Druid. Protecting the natural world, buddies with the Eagles and other animals (though not to the extent of Radagast), and all that.
Actually Shaman might be a better choice, especially with the whole “dying and being resurrected” thing.
He’s not playing a class but a race, and he’s basically the equivalent of an angel in LotR.
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Tolkien wrote that the Maiar are “spirits whose being also began before the world, of the same order as the Valar but of less degree”
The wizards of Middle-earth were Maiar: spirits of the same order as the Valar, but lesser in power.[1]:389 The first three of these five wizards were known in the Mannish tongues of the Lord of the Rings series as Saruman “man of skill” (Rohirric), Gandalf “elf of the staff” (northern Men), and Radagast “tender of beasts”
Mage with Sword and there are plenty of off-hands in the game that look like staves.