Going to start leveling now on Nightslayer in prep for TBC classic. Don’t really care too much to play at 60 end game but want to go hard in TBC. Right now leaning towards hunter, lock or mage. Would like to have an enjoyable time in PVE and PVP, instanced and out in the world.
Hunter or lock.
Mage needs a lot of babysitting.
If you want a high skill ceiling rotation play Hunter.
If you want to press Shadow bolt and still top DPS or press seed for AOE, play lock
For PVE, all three are very high dps
For PVP, if you have arena ranking aspirations, drop the hunter from your consideration.
For economy, mages are once again the kings of AOE farming, capable of solo farming Slave Pens on both normal and heroic (with gear), duo farming SL, SH, SV, multi-mage farming SWP trash, and I’m sure even more amazing things will be discovered.
The only correct answer is of course any class that a space goat can be.
is hunter that bad in arena?
If you want to be the most in-demand class, go shaman. Unless Blizz does something crazy like making bloodlust raid-wide and/or adding sated.
I realize it isn’t one of the three you mentioned that you’re considering but I would also toss in druid for consideration. A feral tank to be more precise. They are an absurd amount of fun and you’ll have groups pretty much on demand. They are strong from the start of TBC and just continuously ramp up from there.
Warrior because they are the best DPS at the end of TBC.
You don’t want to be not the best do you?
The answer is always shaman.
People have gotten glad on it, but it requires very specific comps. Hunter RDruid for 2s can be pretty strong.
For 3s you can run jungle cleave (feral, bm hunter, resto sham)
It is viable, but it isn’t necessarily meta.
sheesh fella that question nearly gave me an aneurism
Anything that can tank, a paladin or a druid would be a good idea.
Sure, a hunter or lock would be fun, and you can do both. But for actual progression especially though the dungeon arc, have at least 1 tank.