Was dead-set on rolling Druid, my original vanilla class, but in the end i've decided to go for Shaman.
Both classes are required to heal in raids, and i'm fine with that, but druid is the weakest healer imo, plus without a normal res 5/10-mans can be much more challenging and you can get crap from the group more often.
I'm fine with healing spec, as long as down the line there's promise of a good pvp spec with somewhat accessible gear, and druid pvp is pretty good, esecially WPvP, but gearing up to pro levels is a giant hassle. By contrast, shaman can do much more with much weaker gear.
The only thing a Shaman can't do over a druid tbh is tank, and i'm fine with that. Utility i'd say they're pretty even in terms of usefulness, but shamy also seems more fun (totems) than Innervate/Brez.
Druid will probably be my first alt, though.
I'm not being scared away from any one class. One of the best things about Classic is that it gives you unlimited time to do whatever it is that you want to do, instead of giving you more crap to do every 2 years faster than you can do
While you say that I have to imagine the game will get new content/expansions if we think it's gonna be good. It will grow if it's a good game and they won't let it die if that happens.
I'm not being scared away from any one class. One of the best things about Classic is that it gives you unlimited time to do whatever it is that you want to do, instead of giving you more crap to do every 2 years faster than you can do
While you say that I have to imagine the game will get new content/expansions if we think it's gonna be good. It will grow if it's a good game and they won't let it die if that happens.
I almost rolled Shaman if I knew there was going to be future content updates and if they were going to change the classes...because there's no way they would leave Ele shaman to be as garbage as it is. One of the original vanilla devs said on a podcast that there were lots of changes desired for lots of classes/specs, but were held off for the new expansion. The changes would have gone live in like patch 1.10/1.11 otherwise.
I'm planning to go enc shaman, and rush for nightfall as a priority, no matter what.
At first I wanted a war, but it will be too much overpopulation.
For me it's druid and pally. I was pretty set on druid but I don't really enjoy the pvp style. You can absolutely make it work, and it's very possible to pvp, but I found it very limited. I want to be able to juggle and kill multiple enemies, and druid just doesn't really offer that.
Pally I really want to try but I'll never enjoy healing, would only enjoy ret, and ret is, again, just too limited imo.
same but plus hunter. i think i'll be going for warrior.
For me it was 99%druid and 1%paladin. But after some talking with old friend he remainded me that I always loved PvP more, and always picked the classes that are the most difficult.
Another thing also happened. My other friend, who always plays BM hunter, said that this time he will play priest. Which makes me wanna roll tanking class again. But warrior and druid seems so overwhelming with forms and stances, so now I am between paladin, warlock, and mage. The last two for pure pvp and self relience .
Because after all, the best feeling in the game for me is finding somebody in the world around my level and killing it ALONE, really makes me think that I don't suck that much 😆
I was 100% going to play paladin up until about 2 weeks ago. Now I am almost certainly going to be a warrior, but still 1-2% want to be a paladin.
I'm not being scared away from any one class. One of the best things about Classic is that it gives you unlimited time to do whatever it is that you want to do, instead of giving you more crap to do every 2 years faster than you can do
While you say that I have to imagine the game will get new content/expansions if we think it's gonna be good. It will grow if it's a good game and they won't let it die if that happens.
I almost rolled Shaman if I knew there was going to be future content updates and if they were going to change the classes...because there's no way they would leave Ele shaman to be as garbage as it is. One of the original vanilla devs said on a podcast that there were lots of changes desired for lots of classes/specs, but were held off for the new expansion. The changes would have gone live in like patch 1.10/1.11 otherwise.
Oh man classic wow with some BC talent changes would be so awesome!
Oh man classic wow with some BC talent changes would be so awesome!
To be fair, elemental gets ripped off pretty bad in Vanilla. Beyond having a tiny mana pool and lightning bolt being a weaker spell than all other classes' main nukes...
An Elemental shaman doesn't benefit from Curse of Elements.
And a talent tree, Elemental, that gives the most natural spell crit in the game lacks a talent that refunds mana on critical strikes. They gave that talent to mages, and it's called Master of Elements.
To be fair, elemental gets ripped off pretty bad in Vanilla. Beyond having a tiny mana pool and lightning bolt being a weaker spell than all other classes' main nukes...
An Elemental shaman doesn't benefit from Curse of Elements.
And a talent tree, Elemental, that gives the most natural spell crit in the game lacks a talent that refunds mana on critical strikes. They gave that talent to mages, and it's called Master of Elements.
Oh yeah Elemental could for sure use some improvements, but i'd say the spec is far from garbage. 30/0/21 gives massive spell crit for LB (10%) and while no mana refund talent is available, Elemental has the obligatory clearcasting talent (10% after any cast to reduce mana cost by 100% for next spell). Not to mention the largest cast time reducer available, to my knowledge, of any caster (1sec off LB and CL).
I almost went with a priest or warrior main after I heard the Kevin Jordan interviews on the Countdown to Classic podcast.
Hearing how proud Kevin was of the classes, explaining how and why they were so 'COMPLETE' compared to other classes as far as talents and design go, etc.
I was heavily considering Warrior because I've tanked more than ANYTHING in all of my WoW years. But in the end I realized that I only truly loved tanking as my blood elf paladin that I started in TBC, that I started Tanking initially because I couldn't find groups consistently as DPS, and that I want to try and do things differently instead of try to oddly recapture something that I shouldn't be trying to recapture since I didn't tank until post-vanilla anyway.
Priest I almost considered because I have always loved the idea of an undead priest and I've never focused on healing ever. I thought that trying the ultimate healing class in vanilla would be a great new way to tackle the game. I shied away from it in the end because I think it's going to be too new that it will hinder my performance too much and I'll have to spend too much time learning.
I settled on having an opportunity to claim the glory I originally wanted to claim with my original UD Lock from retail and the fact that I just absolutely love how the class plays. Especially in classic w/ the talent trees.
To be fair, elemental gets ripped off pretty bad in Vanilla. Beyond having a tiny mana pool and lightning bolt being a weaker spell than all other classes' main nukes...
An Elemental shaman doesn't benefit from Curse of Elements.
And a talent tree, Elemental, that gives the most natural spell crit in the game lacks a talent that refunds mana on critical strikes. They gave that talent to mages, and it's called Master of Elements.
Oh yeah Elemental could for sure use some improvements, but i'd say the spec is far from garbage. 30/0/21 gives massive spell crit for LB (10%) and while no mana refund talent is available, Elemental has the obligatory clearcasting talent (10% after any cast to reduce mana cost by 100% for next spell). Not to mention the largest cast time reducer available, to my knowledge, of any caster (1sec off LB and CL).
It's...pretty bad. Not benefitting from CoE is rough, having no built-in ways to manage mana beyond Clearcasting is not great. I mean if you could convince me that Ele is viable, it'd be my main 100%. As of right now, I'm weighing bear druid or warlock. I want it to be good, like a lot. I'm just not convinced it can be.
Im still 50/50 on Warlock or Priest, but i think i will end up playing a priest just to try something new. Its going to be fun no doubt
I made an Orc Shaman during the initial stress test beta for WoW in November 2004 but chickened out and abandoned him before level 2 for an Orc Warrior, which I ended up playing when the game released later that month and for the rest of the vanilla days. Planning on going back to Shaman as my main for Classic after trying it out on a pserver a while ago and liking it.
I sometimes get tinges of wondering if I should do Warrior or Hunter or Rogue or sometimes Priest instead but I'm trying to just keep my head down with my original choice so I don't drive myself crazy. Maybe mess around with the other ones when my leveling buddy is offline or I'm trying to build up Rested exp.
To be fair, elemental gets ripped off pretty bad in Vanilla. Beyond having a tiny mana pool and lightning bolt being a weaker spell than all other classes' main nukes...
An Elemental shaman doesn't benefit from Curse of Elements.
And a talent tree, Elemental, that gives the most natural spell crit in the game lacks a talent that refunds mana on critical strikes. They gave that talent to mages, and it's called Master of Elements.
Oh yeah Elemental could for sure use some improvements, but i'd say the spec is far from garbage. 30/0/21 gives massive spell crit for LB (10%) and while no mana refund talent is available, Elemental has the obligatory clearcasting talent (10% after any cast to reduce mana cost by 100% for next spell). Not to mention the largest cast time reducer available, to my knowledge, of any caster (1sec off LB and CL).
It's...pretty bad. Not benefitting from CoE is rough, having no built-in ways to manage mana beyond Clearcasting is not great. I mean if you could convince me that Ele is viable, it'd be my main 100%. As of right now, I'm weighing bear druid or warlock. I want it to be good, like a lot. I'm just not convinced it can be.
Though after some tinkering with the character planner on wowhead, Ele shaman might be competitive with warlocks in Phase 1-2 content, even with Warlocks having T1 because their set is kinda garbo.
Almost picked Hunter. I played one on p servers and they were a lot of fun. I also almost picked Paladin, as it was my original main from vanilla wow. However, I think I'm going to roll a warrior. I want to tank and it's the only class that can really do it well, outside of niche instances and circumstances.
Warlock, but I prefer stomping someone's face in with a big-ass weapon nowadays, so Warrior it is.
Priest! Having a pet in Vanilla seems...friendlier. Since you have to care for it and such!
Both druid and pally. I enjoy tanking/barding and PvP but, honestly, with either choice the conundrum is to end up healing, a role I do hate. It gets even worse on druid after having it enforced by my guild during my retail playtime.
But even then... warrior doesn't cut it for me when it comes to PvP (so little utility for someone who enjoys being an enabler or a CC/buff/debuff bot) and the only actual melee remaining (rogue) sucks in group settings (again, PvP-wise) so I end up in a loop and considering back these two (ret/prot pally and cat/bear druid).
Both druid and pally. I enjoy tanking/barding and PvP but, honestly, with either choice the conundrum is to end up healing, a role I do hate. It gets even worse on druid after having it enforced by my guild during my retail playtime.
But even then... warrior doesn't cut it for me when it comes to PvP (so little utility for someone who enjoys being an enabler or a CC/buff/debuff bot) and the only actual melee remaining (rogue) sucks in group settings (again, PvP-wise) so I end up in a loop and considering back these two (ret/prot pally and cat/bear druid).
I feel your pain. I played druid in vanilla and was constantly forced to heal against my wishes.
That said 1.12 druid is much better. Your main values as raid healer are innervate and brez; both are base abilities. With that said you can easily run a 0/30/21 spec, or even more extreme, while raiding. You’ll still be expected to heal, but once the raid is done you’re still left with your spec of choice.
It might not be ideal, but thanks to druid Resto tree being quite bad, most people don’t care what you spec as long as you heal and have your utility spells ready.
Compared, paladin’s holy spec is so good i imagine most people will demand you spec it for raids; at least until most of the raid is geared.