I think the op is confused. You need on all hunter gear not on classes.
Hunters would roll need on other classes if there was the option.
“Hey guys, I found a holy priest to join our raid tonigh-”
“DIBS.”
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Every class will be desired in some capacity.
I think the most difficult class to recruit is warlock. It’s a cumbersome class to raid with.
I’d say high demand classes are Resto Druid, Fury Warrior, Warlock (if Alliance), and Rogue. Low demand classes are Mage, Priest, and Prot Warrior. Any class I didn’t mention falls in the middle.
Oh, I didn’t think of that. Great point.
Some advice for recruiting warlocks from one that’s been playing since Vanilla:
We are not your personal taxi service. We couldn’t be even if we wanted to, it takes several players working together to summon. SO DON’T SEND THE WARLOCK TO BLACKROCK MOUNTAIN AND ASSUME “SOMEONE ELSE” WILL HELP SUMMON YOU.
The times I just sat around WAITING for some of the group or raid to FINALLY get out of the cities and just START heading to the instance were utterly infuriating. It was like pulling teeth to get them to go, but I was expected to drop anything and everything just to stand around like an idiot because a WARLOCK CANNOT SUMMON PEOPLE SOLO.
GAHHHH!
/spam immolate in flashback of fury
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Keep in mind though that polls are really a moot point as far as what is most needed. You take classes to raids in varying amounts. Shaman may be trending high, but you usually take 6-8 of them to a raid. Druids are trending low, but you really only need one of them.
And they might be making money on the AH or being otherwise productive while you are waiting. Oh, and you have to farm in advance of the run.
So if you are taking 6-8 shaman (assuming resto), you would only need 2-4 priests and maybe one resto Druid? Is that a typical trend for horde raid groups (not needing/using as many priests)?
More or less, yep. It’s probably more 1-2 druids. One or two shaman could be dps in more flexible groups, leaving more room for priests.
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Generally paladins are most in demand for alliance due to blessings.
Tanks obviously, to a point. But the difficulty of finding a tank is pretty overhyped imo. Especially for raids or whatever, there’s always an unsaved tank somewhere.
After that it’s usually druids and warlocks in my experience. Warlocks because people are fing lazy and need sums, druids because they have needed buffs, brez and they’re rare.
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I see a lot of resto druids, or this subclass or that… which brings the question did you all forget about spec trees and how they functioned?? there was a thing in Vanilla called Hybrid Spec Lines…
For all intents and purposes the term “resto druid” in vanilla generally just means any druid that isn’t specced feral and can heal decently well. Which may mean a balance heavy resto or a full resto because meta changes.
The term “resto druid” isn’t really a spec. Druid speccing is one of the most dynamic of any class in vanilla
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I think you’ll need some type of class to hold aggro and that can take a lot of damage, then another to keep everyone from dropping dead, then a handful to help do all the damage.
However you want to handle it, go for it. It is Classic.
Holy Pally will be the only pally.
Why? because of the lack of healers.
Alliance have 3 healing classes:
Priest, Druid and Pally.
Druids are few and far between. This leaves priests and pallies.
This is the true reason that pallys ‘have to heal’. The lack of raid healers in a 40man group…