Funny you say that. Nostalrius PVP’s first 60 was an alliance warlock and Nostalrius PVE’s first 60 was an alliance druid.
On the next populated server launches (which I will not name for obvious reasons), the server first 60s were a hunter, another hunter, a mage (dynamic respawns were broken on that server) and another hunter. The server that you’re talking about also had broken dynamic respawns on top of some mobs giving too much XP (hyenas in Desolace as an example, where the whole pack of low hp mobs is supposed to give 2-3 mobs worth of XP but instead had every mob giving full XP).
Funny how the only servers that got mages as realm first 60 were the ones that had broken respawns, which made aoe leveling a lot easier. Private servers can be a decent metric for some things, but don’t base your judgement off the ones that had broken mob respawns. Mage isn’t the best leveling class and certainly not the “undisputed king” at it.
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Haha, no. Not unless you got good gear and a pocket healer, otherwise you’re still a free kill for any half-decent ranged that can kite.
mages are fast on low population realms too. private servers are pretty binary, either super overcrowded or pretty dead.
if you can aoe without anyone getting in the way ever, then they are quite fast
Mages with perfect conditions can match a hunter’s pace. If they can’t AoE farm, they fall behind.
They do, but the problem is if you pull 2 even once, you are going to need to blow a cooldown. With how easy it is to aggro things, and how dense and cramped alot of the questing spots are, you ARE likely to pull 2 or 3 mobs more than once in 5 minutes. General questing sure no problem, but some of the KEY quests are in areas where this will happen and you can’t just ignore.
Also, stealthing isn’t really THAT good until you waste 5 points in improved stealth to be able to effectively get through caves and what not. And even then, you need another 5 in the stealth speed talent to move fast enough to get past some patrol routes. It does come up more than you’d think
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I never had much frustration with rogue. Can sap for packs, can vanish if things get messy, have extra dodge cd.
If you go combat and keep weapons decently up to date I thought it was very fast and easy.
Warrior on other hand also need to keep weapon up to date but don’t have all those tools. So have to be very careful. Warrior is really only class I felt was “difficult” to level.
I’m going to be leveling sword-n-board. Gonna crush it. Just gonna wade into the forest at level 1 and come back out at level 60.
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With front shredding - right?
Which they won’t really be able to at launch given all the mob competition.
Rogue will be next to warrior.
Warlock/mage will be the nearest to hunter.
All other classes depends on spec, how well you play, knowledge, and professions play a roll.
Paladin is VERY easy (can pull 2 mobs each 2 levels higher than you), but at the same time VERY slow.
Pallies are mostly auto attacking their way to 60, they wont die, but it’s “mentally” hard.
I remember being able to do that in TBC. It was a huge gripe that ferals had that you could never get it to work from behind but you could sometimes get it to work from the front or halfway through the mob.
Ranks - Easiest to Hardest
9 - Hunter
8 - Warlock (Warlock/Druid are pretty close, some people think Druids are faster)
7 - Druid
6 - Mage
5 - Priest
4 - Shaman
3 - Rogue
2 - Paladin
1 - Warrior
I believe this is the order. Druid/Warlock are probably tied, maybe Warlock is a bit faster?
I dont get the hate on the rogues? I leveled a palidan, mage, and this rogue in vanilia. The palidan was mind numbing slow, never died, but mostly auto attack. Mage was god like unless you screwed up an aoe pull. But my rogue…just make sure you got decent weapons and you’re g2g. You level as combat swords sine you’ll be face tanking eveything. You pull 2 mobs, pop evasion and take them out. At higher levels you pop blade flury and take them out at the same time. Quest mob in the back of a cave or top of a building, stealth past the BS and get your kill. S*!# hits the fan, sprint and vanish. Sure you’re squishy, but you have lots of defensives and dont be afraid to use them!
Once a rogue hits 30, and is combat swords, its easy. Any other build its a bit harder. But combat swords is just 1 button, I find it slightly dull.
All in all, you are correct I reckon
Reckoning Paladins can pull massive amounts of mobs then mow them down. One of the quickest - but requires a very specific spec and grinding pattern - melee mobs
Just want to point out that Undead Warrior and Rogue will level easier than others by way of Cannibalize. Every 2 or 3 mobs, if they are humanoid, you can eat their corpse for 35% health.
This made my leveling in vanilla, much easier and cheap on my Rogue.
I just needed bandages and cannibalize.
Im playing as a rogue. its pretty hard. I die if there is more than one enemy or if the enemy has a heal like the shaman dogs in night elf area
staff weapons? really? 2h or 1h? damn you’re scaring me ! hah… I had never played a warrior at all until just like a week or so ago i finally made a nightborne in retail… and enjoyed it so I thought i’d try one for classic. And it’s pretty good so far… I’m pretty sure i’ll stick with it. I don’t tank though, i’m dps. Not sure fury or arms… but ya. I don’t tank.