How did you decide your classic class?

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I literally couldn’t decide I spent hours a day researching different classes and I like basically every class for something different. So after literally days worth of researching and studying every class and even every spec. Gear lists, consumables, world buffs, rotations everything lol

I just couldn’t decide I was thinking ahead which tier 3 set looked best, what were the classes like in TBC just Incase we eventually got the expansion, couldn’t get a single class to 60 even on private servers just because I couldn’t decide.

Well yesterday I put every class into a spin wheel, and spinned it whatever it landed on I took that class out until I only had one left, as classes were going away I was thinking damn there goes hunter etc lol.

Well the final two came up and it was warlock and shaman. Both classes I had highly thought about. The final spin came through and it ended on warlock which ended the debate on which class to play shaman it was!

How did you decide your class?

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In every game I play, I want to play a class that has potential to outplay by skill and not because I pressed a button as a meta juggernaut and won. I play off meta classes only. In WoW I really like lore. Monk just fit everything I wanted and one tricked it since the start of legion.

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Based on my play experience from Vanilla and my proficiency with certain classes/skill level I had when I was career PvP in vanilla its going to be::

Warrior: Main - Raiding/PvP/World : Engi/Alchemy
Mage: Alt, PVP only PoM Frost, crafting mats mule. Mining/Herbal

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I wanted something with good utilities and the ability to heal, or at least self heal and I am dead set on playing horde.

That narrowed it down to priest, shaman, druid or warlock. I bounced around between those weighing the pros and cons for quite some time.

I came to the conclusion of a tauren druid and an orc warlock as my first alt. I went with druid because they pretty much have the most utilities of any class in Classic. They have unrivaled mobility and can potentially fulfill any role, although not at peak performance, but still well enough for PvP. I’ll likely be one of just a few druids in my raiding guild which means a lot of loot. I’ll also be highly sought after for WSG premades.

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Will “main” warrior and shaman, then in this order:
Hunter
Druid
Warlock
Priest
Mage
Rouge

Then if I have enough time, I’ll make another warrior so I don’t have to keep switching specs for tanking. So yeah, I’ve heavily invested into coffee and plan on doing every chore my wife asks of me until classic drops :slight_smile:

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This might not help you, but I wanted to get the Runeblade of Baron Rivendare. The classes that can put it to best use are paladin and hunter. Paladin can eek out it’s full power while hunter can use their kiting to let it work. In the end I chose paladin because who doesn’t want to be unkillable.

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First will be a Holy Pally with engi/alchemy
Next Resto Druid with mining/herb
Lilely leveling a priest at the same time as the druid. He’ll take Ench/tailoring.

Pally is just a great versatile choice for an initial toon. Tank/heal/dps while leveling. Tends to be under represented and is needed for endgame. Helps that I prefer healing.

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Actually paladins are the most played hybrid class at 60 on Alliance side. They are actually more common than warlocks. They’re played about the same as hunters and are only slightly less common than warriors and rogues.

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That’s my one main gripe with playing a shaman especially Resto Shaman is you can’t really farm effectively. While classes like paladin, Druid and priest can do DME lasher runs with no problems as there healing specs. Shaman is kinda left in the dust and has to rely on gathering professions to self sustain them.

Which is fine I don’t mind just using herbalism to farm, so I’ll probably just run herbalism / alchemy.

I generally only play one character with no alts so that was another thing I had to consider lol

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Every game I have ever played the thing that always draws me toward a class is their abilities. In vanilla I first rolled a warlock because I thought it would be like Necro in d2. Saw a paladin bubble so I rolled a paladin. Saw a mage use cone of cold and blizzard so I rolled a mage. Stuck with the mage until the end of tbc and went pally again.

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For me my priority was being able to play the class effectively in PvP, since I was on a PvP server this was kind of a big deal; getting ganked all the time without being able to gank in return is no fun.

I answered this really through trial and error. I tried Warrior first, but literally couldn’t PvP with it to save my (electronic) life. Then I tried mage and found that I was able to play it effectively enough to hold my own in PvP, so I stuck with it all through Vanilla. If I hadn’t been trying to reach the end game ASAP back then, and had been on a PvE server, I probably would have tried other classes, but my circumstances and goals really limited my ability to explore other classes. I did try SPriest towards the end of Vanilla, but I didn’t make it my main until WotLK.

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I knew I wanted to be a healer so I looked through the various races to find the best healer-y racial bonus-human (+15% spirit and +5 maces/swords at the time expecting to be something like a DnD cleric/druid where my weapon choice was limited to blunt). I then looked through all of the class descriptions carefully until I saw: “Priests are the masters of healing and preservation”… Job done…

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oh my bejeezus. I FORGOT HOW POWERFUL SPRIESTS WERE IN 1.12 Zizek was a terror to fight as a mage…

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He was a beast lol

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for the most part I’ll be playing solo and not raiding . For me it’ll probably be a hunter . That is by far the most solo friendly class in the game

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PEYTON.

Props on the OG reference catch.

I was on Dragonmaw as Alliance while he was on it and I got to fight him ALL THE TIME as a PoM frost Mage. He was one of the best PvPers on our server and I would actually make a character on my brothers account to find where he was to go fight him and talk to him after particularly brutal or vicious fights. He’s one of the reasons I’m so good at PvP and I CAN. NOT. ;LKJHDSFJKGH-ING. WAIT. FOR. CLASSIC.

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about to unsub BFA and wait for it.

I just hate the itemlevel grind and it being the ONLY thing that really matters…

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Well, once Blizzard decided on shared sub, I knew I wasn’t going to go with my original plan to level one of everything.

First, it was going to be a Horde character, as my primary goal is to do as much of the questing as possible. (I did all the Alliance questing on multiple characters, only getting back to Horde with a DK which didn’t quest in Azeroth. So Cata bombed the world I knew before I ever got a Horde past about 25.)

Second, much of my time is likely to be spent solo questing. Pet classes can be easier in that regard. Hunters have to deal with food for their pet, taming new pets and learning and teaching skills, and keeping ammunition. They also have to deal with buying a mount at 40 and 60, as well as going from leather to mail at 40. So Warlock won out.

Third, the only races that can make warlocks are orc and undead. I just don’t tend to like the appearance of the undead, especially the way they can make any robe look like a rag, and for some reason I’ve never kept one past level 20 (a throwaway DK is the only undead I have over 20). So Orc won out.

I haven’t decided male or female yet. That will come in the character creation screen as I look at faces and decide whether I want the hunchback or not.

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Will be a pally as a main and my first Alt will be a warlock.
Hoping folks will have “evolved” and Ret will be able to get a raid spot. Else i’ll just putz around with with end game dungeons, Since i’ll refuse to be main healing again on this toon. Had enough of that during the first 2 years raiding.

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I can’t decide on a class either, and playfully considered picking classes out of a hat to just leave it up to fate. I realize this is a chance to truly start Vanilla WoW over again, something I never thought possible even 2 years ago. My play time is a fraction of what it used to be, so I’m afraid I won’t really have time for ALT’s. I need to make my decision count.

Server Type: 100% sure I’m going RP or PvE server
Faction: 90% sure I’m going Horde
Class: Favoring Priest, Mage, or Rogue