First time I as a retail player will be playing classic since they are putting in fresh servers I plan on playing on a pvp server and I figured it’d be a good idea to put a shout and ask about any tips and tricks + some advice on what I should be doing as a player to avoid mistakes. I plan on playing either a warlock or a priest but I want to do both pvp and pve (im aware that priest has a heavy focus on healing outside of pvp spriest and that’s fine with me) is there anything specific to either of these classes that I should know before hopping in?
And is there anything else that is vague that I should know about that I wouldn’t know just by playing as someone who has never really touched classic era before?
You can actually die to the game if you pull 10 mobs your level, rather than walking through all content and pulling everything on retail unscathed.
Well it doesn’t have dual spec because dual spec is an absolutely brutal, game breaking feature that ruins the game. It won’t even launch if they add it. Not even if you reset your modem which, if I am being perfectly honest, is downright flabbergasting.
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leveling isn’t dictated by just finishing the quests in the zone. by far and wide the biggest mistake i see is some dude finishing elwynn forest at level 9-10 and being surprised that they are getting slapped around in westfall due to not being at the same level as the quests. Classic demands you kill mobs for a lot of your experience or at least swap zones often for on-level quests and there will be dry periods.
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I would recommend a leveling guide addon. Normally i wouldnt recommend it cuz it ruins the fun, I just feel like with players who are used to retail features its a little harder for them to slow down. I would get one, restedxp or something like that, (rested is only free to level 20) and then if u dont want it, turn it off.
Maybe do some research on youtube for like must have addons and weakauras, see what you like. Join a guild whenever u can too, guilds are very useful here. Guilds will be able to answer any questions u might have.
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this 100% too. you are planning on playing a priest or warlock OP so you will have almost no issues being wanted in any form of content even during the leveling process.
Ok thank you. Do you guys know where guilds tend to congregate for recruitment outside of in-game word of mouth? Server discords?
Bosses don’t have mechanics unlike retail.
since its a “brand new” release. Guilds wont be recruiting till they make a gold to start one, so guilds will be recruiting out in the leveling zones. I would just keep an eye out in general. Otherwise, there is a guild recruitment happening right now in the forum section for classic guild recruitment.
Pve discord
Discord. gg/NNgXFXbf
Pvp discord
Discord. gg/usfresh
Guild recruitment on both.
Lots of guilds looking for people.
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This suggestion is not so much to help you have an “easier” time, so much as having a more fun experience. There is an addon called VoiceOver. I love it, it basically narrates the quests u accept. So you can pick up quests and continue running, while it reads it to you by (ai, or voice actor, whatevever is used to read it to you)
Oh, i just thought of this too, but you can go on the era servers right now if u wana practice and test classes u might like. But you probably already knew that.
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We would have to play sod again 
Lmao pve server one so small
yea i played a classic PTR a long time ago but I never played it because classic was already like near naxx or past it so I didn’t see much of a point. that’s why im deciding on either priest or lock cause I did some pvp and enjoyed melting face as shadow on priest and healing is pretty fun as well but warlock is near that as well for me.
Don’t play on a pvp server unless you have major amount of time. Leveling to 60 may take 3 to 5x compared to leveling on pve.
If you are going to play on a pvp server…play a rogue. Why? because you’ll be able to choose your fights and escape from ganks more easily than other classes.
Go in zones, do all possible quests in the zone and then go to another zone. Avoid downtime (too many dungeons, going back to cities to train, browsing the ah, traveling, etc…)
Good luck, see you there!
Fight mobs within 1-2 levels of you. If a mob is 3+ levels higher, your spells chance to resist gets significantly higher.
Leveling as a warlock is faster than leveling as a priest and imho more enjoyable. Leveling as a priest is a little ‘boring’ (I’m a priest main) because most of your damage comes from just wand-ing things.
The biggest upgrades you can get to improve gameplay are more bag space and a mount (first mount at 40, 2nd faster mount at 60).
The majority of your experience gains will be from killing mobs. Quests that say “kill 20 mobs” might feel annoying or grindy, but they’re much more efficient than quests that have you run around looking for a random item on the ground.
Early on you might not have enough gold to level up every single ability so prioritize your best or most frequently casted abilities and ignore other ones.
At 60 priests are basically just healers because shadow is unfortunately near-unplayable, especially in raids. It’s not just that the damage is bad, it has MASSIVE mana issues.
At 60 warlocks are DPS but also provide great utility in being able to summon people. This makes running dungeons and group activities much faster because once you have 2 other players with you, you can summon everyone else to where you are.
Both priests and warlocks are great at PvP.
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With a Warlock you can PVE and PVP with the same build and be a “high” performing player. You should always find a group, as Warlocks are essential and a group running without one, just cripples itself.
SP´s used to be a bit of a niche in orginal Vanilla, they became strong in pvp later on, but our raid usually didn´t have more than 1 or 2. We put one in the MT group, with the imp Warlock and two main healers.
Another SP if at all, went into a group with mages, as they tend to run oom quick. But besides that, a SP is always outperformed in utility by a healing specced priest, so you might not find a group that easily.
But who knows what the elitist jerks have come up with, it´s been 20 years for me so maybe they raid with 20 SP´s now…
As for questing,
it is always a good advice to level in at least two zones simultaniously. For instance, you level at Elwynn and at the same time you can do the zones around Ironforge.
When you do Dun Morogh, you can also do Westfall and Redridge …
Classic zones vary in difficulty, so you can have one part that is level 5 and the other is level 12, so you have to combine them, else you must grind mobs, which is a nightmare alone and super boring.
Buff food is very useful, try to have your professions up to date, so that you can utilize the new drops in each zone.
Another reason people don’t bring 2 shadow priests is because the class takes up a lot of debuff slots for what it’s contributing.
I don’t want huge changes in Classic but an increase in debuff/buff slots would be welcome imho. Just allows for a little more class diversity without really harming much.
Save up to 10-20s and look up wands on the AH they will save you alot mana. Wands in classic are pretty op even more so at low level and are used by mages,warlock and priest. You can also craft them with enchanting. When comes to using a wand you’ll equip it like do anything else next you’ll look for ability call shoot in your spell book and drag it to your action bar. When click shoot on a target your wand will start auto casting using no mana.
This is great advice for really ANY Caster, the Lesser Magic Wand can be equipped at level 7 and the Greater Magic Wand at level 13, these are leaps and bounds better than anything you will find out and the world and will help your leveling out tremendously and won’t be replaced until you get Cookies wand from DM or something equivalent well into your 20’s. Good Luck!
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