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What class will you main and why? What professions will that character have and why?

Just want to see other player’s thoughts on what they are looking forward to playing.

I usually have tons of alts but I want to stick to one character to master this time around. I haven’t decided between Horde or Alliance yet.

As for me it’s either gonna be;
Gnome Mage (Mining and Engineering), mainly due to the unlimited food/water, and ports. I plan on Solo leveling a lot so the CC’s will help greatly.
Human Paladin (Mining and Blacksmith), mainly due to the hybrid feel and I’ve never played one yet! I hear they are slow but are tough!

Orc Shaman (Skinning/Leatherworking), Again, hybrid feel excites me. RNG windfury will be a blast!
Troll Priest (Tailoring/Enchanting), Master race :wink: big shadow priest fan!!

What about you?

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I was going to make this thread so thanks for doing it…

Because I can’t make up my mind.

I really think I have to go Horde.

I have spent 98% of my time on Alliance. I made a Forsaken Rogue once got it to like lvl 20…

So… knowing I have basically zero Horde experience.

What would be the best Horde class and race to roll on Vanilla?

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I have to roll Horde, it’s a passion. I’ve tried Alliance and it doesn’t feel right. The role I do best is healing. I like complex classes. Tauren are relaxing to play, and who doesn’t love the Electric Slide?
= = Female Tauren Druid.

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InB4 eloraell

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I am going to toss out Tauren Shaman. The race is the kinder of the Horde and the shaman is the paladin’s replacement on Horde. Otherwise you know the classes, try out the areas. Tauren’s is mellow and fantastic. Forsaken is dark and creepy. The Orc and Troll’s starting area is near Ogrimmar with a nice mix of topography.

Going Horde, your journey is starting on the right foot.

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Im torn on what to do. Part of me wants to relive my old experience by same class/race/prof combo i did originally. The other part wants to do opposite faction with new class/profs. So i can get a new perspective on the whole thing.

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Good advice.

And on the other hand I kind of want to repeat the whole human zone to see how it differs and, knowing what I know, if I can do it better and faster.

OR! I can do BOTH, muahahahaah :slight_smile:

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I would suggest Dwarf or Human.

Gnome has no “real” starting zone, they share it with dwarves in Vanilla

And Night Elf always made me feel so alone and distant out in the woods so far from “civilization”

Try a Dwarf Paladin. You could go really crazy and make a female dwarf, no one does :stuck_out_tongue:

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I was thinking of playing an orc shaman but after thinking about it, I want to play a tauren druid now. I like PvP and raiding and balance druids are very good in PvP and I can heal for raids. Balance druids are so underrated in PvP, they have dots, can deal mage like damage and heal but also escape very easily.

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Dwarf shadow priest…alts will be human warrior and gnome mage…FOR THE ALLIANCE!

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Im in the same boat. I mained night elf druid back at launch and only ever really played alliance. I have soooo many nostalgic memories of this character that its hard to give up.

But, i want to go horde shaman in classic for a new experience.

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Same! But i am succumbing to the nostalgia and will be rolling the same NE Druid with herb/alch just like my original character.

Hard part is convincing my wife to make a NE. She wants to go horde undead.

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I tried alliance once and got a dwarf DK leveled into BFA before quitting. Dwarf is the only race I like on that side so I gave it a try as well as a new class. But it isn’t Horde.

The newness will be a class I have not tried or played past starting zone. Paladin is out for being on the side of evil and injustice. I hate tanking so warrior is out. Brother is going to be a rogue so that is out as well.

That leaves the mage. He likes the Forsaken but I could go Troll. Been both as Lock (my only Forsaken), Priest and Shaman.

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Like many of you I’ve done about a million backflips, and considered maining pretty much every class/race combo there is. For some time now though I’ve been set on orc warlock, and naturally I’ve been leaning very strongly towards the superior faction. Found out the other day that my friends are planning on rolling alliance, which has thrown a real spanner in the works… To stick with warlock and make it a gnome? Maybe… or maybe NE hunter for the shadowmeld ganks… or dwarf rogue… apparently my group is going to be low on warriors though… on the other hand screw those guys and screw the alliance…

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You’re gonna be in for a rude awakening… balance was never even close to mage in terms of damage, they only really have moonfire as a dot which is relatively weak compared to ignite or any warlock dot, and they feel super clumsy and slow in moonkin.

You’ll probably have a much better experience doing a resto-feral hybrid for pvp. The one ultimate strength of vanilla druids was staying power - they can outlast anyone, the only other class that even comes close is paladin. With a resto-feral build, you have the healing power to keep you and your team alive, but you aren’t spending all your mana on spells (trust me, there’s a reason it was called oomkin), you use bear and cat for your offense/defense and save mana for heals.

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I think my plan will be to rebuild this little guy here. He was my original Main and to a degree still is. But I think this time I’m gonna go a different direction with him. Back in Vanilla (because I didn’t know any better) I leveled 10-60 as a fire mage. I think this time I’m gonna go frost for leveling and take Skinning for free money and either enchanting or maybe another gathering profession like mining. When I hit max level I’ll probably swap to either tailoring or engineering (probably engineering because I’ve never leveled it). I want to have money to do what I want to do while leveling though so I will probably be doing a lot of grinding rather than questing so much.

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Dwarf Priest. I want Benediction and regret never getting it originally.

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My first character and 60 was a Tauren Druid. I loved resto/feral but didn’t raid with him. Just pvp and it was fun. Herb/alchemy for the win with that combo.

Got to play what excites you. If you like options, the Druid is the way to go.

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You can easily get 2k Starfire crits, 600 moonfire and using insect swarm while being able to heal is op because not a lot of classes could deal damage and heal. Most classes only have 4k hp so this is half their hp in one starfire. If you moonfire and insect swarm they are dead if they do not pot or heal. Warriors, rogues, mages would all die in a battle of endurance to a balance druid. The only hard class is shaman but if im horde I never have to see one in PvP.

I just remember dueling balance druids in vanilla on my mage and I was always unable to win. You can also go on youtube and watch balance druids just wreck people in duels and bgs going 30/0/21 for swiftmend.

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I’m going to parrot what lots of people say in class selection guides: choose a character that you’re going to love.

You need to be excited about giving your char new gear, new spells, new talents, progressing with a guild of like-minded people.

If that connection to the char doesn’t exist then it becomes very easy to quit the game early. If you quit the game the min-maxing of racials or classes doesn’t matter, making that “perfect” race choice an overall worse choice. As hard as it is to break the min-maxing habits of retail in some cases you have to.

IMO try out your class/race before Classic launches, or at least be open to rerolling at level 20 after launch. That’s only 1-2 days of lost time.

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