I’m not looking for answers, just opinions. I like conversation.
Someone comes to you and says “I’m hanging up my cleats. I’m done Mythic Raiding. I’m playing 2 hours a night if I’m lucky. What class should I play, do you think?”
What would you say are the Top 3 best classes?
I can’t think of a third but Druid and Marksmanship Hunter occupy my top 2. I did Loremaster with a mix of both.
Druid - Instant travel, stealth, ranged instant dot, speed puts it super high on the list.
MM Hunter - Camo, movement speed and Barrage makes this a peak class for doing old content very quick. I don’t think I’ve quite had the ‘kill’ quests done so fast as spamming that!
Warlock, Druid and a hunter
Depending on spec which is best varies.
A lot depends on what your comfort and familiarity goes a long way.
I’ve been been playing a druid for years so I like the best.
Speaking as a long-time collector, my top three for these purposes are druid, hunter, mage.
Druid covers leather, has handy travel forms, stealth, self-heals, a tank spec, and the Dreamwalk ability to get around easier.
Hunter covers mail, and is pretty sturdy with access to a tank pet and good dps.
Mage covers cloth, a variety of useful abilities, and of course portal/teleport.
Between these, you really do cover most scenarios.
(Admittedly it’s less important to have specific armor type characters for collecting, but sometimes it still helps. For plate, I’m torn between fury warrior and ret paladin but no real preference…)
Hunter, because it has its own additional collection game built in.
Whatever they are, make sure you’re an engineer. I seriously couldn’t imagine not being an engineer on my main, especially with the Tome of Teleportation addon that combines all of my wormholes, trinkets, cloaks, rings and CM/M+ dungeon portals in the one simple menu.
I agree with the others: druid, hunter, and mage (from a collector perspective)
Mage is less ideal for speedrunning raids and dungeons for farming, so I usually only use it if I’m doing holiday achievements or multiple dailies for multiple different groups per day (so I usually try to collect as many different methods of teleportation as possible). Generally just good for traveling to a bunch of spots at once.
Druid is the most ideal for farming dungeons and raids. I like using worgen druid due to the extra speed boost you get, and the dreamwalk is pretty great too.
MM Hunter is also fantastic for clearing out packs quickly or mob farming. Barrage is a god send and their pets can be super useful for soloing certain raid achieves or just content overall (in fact, I typically use hunter to do said glory of the ___ achieves).
Havoc with heavy Mastery and, preferably, a speed set if you’re collecting in instances. Druid for world content solely because of instant cast flight. A pet class (Hunter, Warlock, etc) for some of the trickier achievements that exist (pets can come in handy when solo for numerous things).
Collecting as a class is pointless since everything is learnable now. Otherwise warrior was a goto because it learned all the weapons besides wands and glaives and plate + shields.
Now it’s about how fast can you move in an instance and/or have niche ways to get to places meaning druids and mages have a slight edge given their teleports (DK too if you want to go to Legion specifically…but DK is very poor for running speed).
Overall I’d pick a druid or a hunter with that fast running until you attack things talent.
Hunter = Barrage
Druid = Starfall
Demon Hunter = Glide control
druid, cause speed all the time, you can pick up stuff in bird form so you don’t need to waste time mounting up every time, and its versatile, you can be dps melee or ranged, you have good aoe, you can heal and you can tank.
My favorite farmers have always been my paladins and death knights. Druid being a close second or third.
Strictly solo world content? Rogue.
People say Druid but you can’t vanish. Basically Rogue just for Vanish and Sprint, I also like Grappling Hook in dungeons.
Shadowmeld doesn’t work in raids, that isn’t a vanish option, it’s a very ghetto vanish in the outdoors. Rogues get 2 charges of Vanish now. If you play with Warmode on you get all types of broken crap in honor talents.
Rogue, Druid and probably Hunter. Hunter is like the ultimate AFK class.
Either a pet class, or a tank class with sustain, something like Blood DK.
I’ve always played a Hunter personally, but that’s been my main forever.
If not that, I’d probably be farming old legacy stuff on a Blood DK instead, they’re almost immortal. You can solo group elites, just will take a longer time to kill.
Maybe Lock or Druid after those two.
I’ve always played a Hunter, so BM is good for me. However, I have Druid to be ideal for most collecting and farming.
Instant Flight form
Can be tank, dps or heals depending on achievement
Druid Hearth to give access to both continents easily.
Good speed overall
BM Hunter and a Druid. Don’t need a third.
BM Hunter could handle most situations and a Druid is nice if you want to stealth past something.
If you’re really twisting my arm for a third… maybe a rogue? warlock? I guess.
3rd Place: Fury Warrior.
You’re virtually immortal in world content. You do really great damage. Honestly, leveling a fury warrior is stupid fun. You just run in, berries out, to any place, and absolutely destroy everything. Honestly, I understand the rogue suggestions, and they really are fun, but they’re squishy. Fury warriors are not squishy, and you can do a LOT with them.
If melee is where your heart lives, and you want to do nothing but casual solo content…make a fury warrior.
2nd Place: Beast Mastery Hunter
A BM Hunter can solo things so easily that it’s ridiculous. BM Hunters soloing un-soloable things is practically its own genre on YouTube. They move ridiculously fast, the pet lets you stand in one spot and just delete everything in a 40-yard radius without having to even think much. Collecting the pets is a minigame all to itself, as well.
For having fun in casual solo content, you can never go wrong with a BM hunter.
1st Place: Druid, Any Spec
Once you’ve gathered in flight form on a druid toon, you just can’t ever go back. Ask me how I know. /grin
You can tank, heal, ranged, or melee, and all four specs are viable in world content. Like the BM hunter, you can solo a LOT as a druid, especially if you’re familiar with all four specs and can figure out which one is best for the stuff you’re trying to do.
There is nothing in the game more suited to solo content than the druid, and you have stealth for when you want to just walk in, skip things, and then walk back out.
Shapeshifting removes roots and snares. You move faster in cat form and enjoy greatly reduced falling damage. You move even faster in deer form, you can take a friend along on your mount form to pick herbs or mine together. You can jump off of cliffs and wild charge at the bottom or just turn into a bird halfway down. As a bird, you now have dragonflight and can pick herbs with all the benefits of druid forms and dragonriding speed. Your aquatic form means no breath bars, and you swim just as fast as the aquatic mounts, and even faster with the wild charge speed boost on top of that. Seriously, shape shifting is amazeballs. No cast bars for mounting up. Just…shift and go.
Honestly, I feel sorry for people in this game who don’t main druids. /grin
Beast Master Hunter and Feral Druid.
Then Rogue cuz Stealth OP against AI.
You just named the two classes I use the most, and I concur.
Third, I would probably say mage because of their portals. Can save a lot of time. Since Legion, druids have dreamwalk that’s like their own portal room. That’s been great with the world bosses this event.
WW monk
Hunter
Druid
and DH
People are answering for raid and instances. I answered for world content/achievements/collecting.
WW monk is so so nice in world content.