Obviously playing a lot and watching better players play the class you are playing and learning from them helps. I could use top talents better players’ use but I think that is kind of cheating (even though it really isn’t). I am betting i just have to do trial and error? Any underrated advice you can give me that maybe you learned while learning a new class or spec?
I level from 0-80 in dungeons creating my own weakauras for the information i want while copying a build on murlok. I do this for every spec too so if i did fury, I’ll level a new warrior for arms. From there i just get full green honor gear, queue for skirmish and normal bgs for a couple days then do rated. No need to over think it, just play the game
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I agree with this approach. It’s easier for myself to do this as well.
Same route. If I’m starting from scratch, I usually level the ‘long’ way if I feel like there is a lot to learn. In the past, I would even start a fresh character and start at level 1. While this can be a bit time consuming, it pretty much guarantees you’ll figure out your rotation as new abilities are added.
If not, I’ll just do 2s and grab a healer and grind out games.
The thing about new classes is as long as you have good foundational knowledge of how this game works you can play any spec to a pretty mid level maybe even above average.
Mainly cause a lot of the classes are very easy and have rotations shallow as dishwater with 0 depth what so ever outside of the rare outlier.
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I agree in the sence that you are a demon hunter lol
Some thoughts/tips.
- As others have mentioned don’t use exp buffs or level up faster type things; grind it out to develop muscle memory
- Get a flow feel for how you want to play and take the time to create any macros or “cozy” key binds you have.
- Once able, you can queue up follower dungeons to help optimize/setup your UI the way you want. This is for those who want full customize functionality with WA and other elements.
- Watch some streamers doing the desired content and take tips from them, don’t copy them outright. You might have your own variation or style and there is nothing wrong with that as a lot of specs and such have the ability to add in your own preferences to the gameplay
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Youtube has some “experts” that really do know what they are talking about for your spec concerning the content that you care about. They’re gonna walk you through all of the important information. Even if you do the rotation correctly, if you have the wrong stats, talents, embellishments, enchants, ect its going to be a bad time. But they’ll tell you all of that and walk you through the rotation and some of its intricacies. Absolutely, practice helps but find out what is guaranteed to work from the experts that are making it work for them.
Play 2s with a friend that also wants to learn a new class/spec. You will get your brains farmed out, hopefully you will flame each other with extreme toxicity.
The toxicity is good, you love each other, and your love will cause you to point out every single mistake you see your friend make and he will return in kind.
Jumping into the deep end forces you to learn faster, as long as you do it with a friend. Trying to do it with randoms will just make you sad and you will want to give up.
Edit: If you really want to improve a lot and have never played a healer before, play a healer in pvp. You will hate it(it is miserable) but it will make you much better when you go back to playing dps.
reps. i learn more from getting stomped than i do from winning as well. dont go in max geared by farming crates. take lumps in unrated modes in less gear to force you to play better to get kills.
Imo, Best way to learn a class is to play it.
Sounds like im being a smartass right? Only about 50%. Cant just watch a video and magically learn how to play.
I read some of these comments about leveling in dungeons. It is a simple effective way to learn basics of a rotation that allows you to deal damage, tank, &/or heal.
Only reason that top players have certain talent builds is because they have played & found what what works for them. Sometimes what works for them might not work for you.
Another thing I find helpful is that if you’re leveling up alts, anything past your 1st character keeping certain categories of abilities on the same keybind throughout characters helps with muscle memory.
For e.g. your burst, trinket, movement speed cds, etc all on the same keybinds throughout. This helps to speed up the learning process for a new class.
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Don’t buy a level boost. Actually play the class throughout and get used to the abilities as they come.
I’ve basically only played WW monk since MoP. I love this class to the exclusion of all others. I did level an Evoker and that was a hell of a learning curve for me since I was 100% monk all the time.
I got the rotation down by hitting the PvP combat dummy and then applied it in regular random BGs. You’ll get rolled until you don’t anymore, and that’s when you know you have it down well enough to move to the next level.