WoW Class Preferences

[Slayerik]

Long time everyone...figure ill start some stupid poll like thing that will get me flamed :)

Say what you like about your current class, and then name the class you'd like to have maxed.

60  UD Priest , Shadow Moon

I love the priest class. It feel a lot like a UO mage to me, I have fast heals, direct damage nukes, debuffs, buffs. I have no problems finding a party. In PvP, I am a beast. There is nothing more fun than throwing a god mode Paladin into the "Blackrock Lake" and watching him burn. Every situation rides on your priest, be it large scale PvP or instances...I like the pressure and the thanks for it. Mass fear is the coolest thing ever, next to Ramstein's Lightning Bolts.

I love to have a 60 Engineer Rogue, with 4 friends all as rogues. The engi is required for a 205 req Goblin Sapper charge:

Goblin Sapper Charge
Requires Engineering (205)
Use: Explodes when triggered dealing 450 to 750 Fire damage to all enemies nearby and 375 to 625 damage to you.

Teamspeak coordinated suicide bombers, we take 500 damage you take 3000. Then fire off the Ramstein's. Crazyness.

ANyways, peace...

[MrHat]

I have a 60 Orc Rogue.

It's incredible fun, but I have trouble finding groups because I've outleveled the friends in my group.  So he's somewhat retired, I still get on when there's battle be had.  I wish that I had made him an undead because Will of the Forsaken is an incredible pvp skill.

I'm currently playing a mage, hunter, and shaman.  The class I'd most like to have up and levels is a UD Priest to 60 for the reasons you've mentioned.

Edit: Changed working to playing because I am still enjoying myself.

[Sky]

44 Orc Hunter, ERing

I like the hunter, played warlock and warrior to 23/24 before settling on the hunter. Nice ranged, some melee, pet (I played a necro in eq), feign death, run buff, tracking. Pretty flexible yet still pretty straightforward. The perceived uselessness on high level instances doesn't really factor in, since I won't be taking part in that crap anyway. Pretty solid and fun in pvp.

I've rolled up a mage alt I'm enjoying (on scarlet crusade), and a priest as well.

Which would I want maxed?

None. The journey is the experience.

[Paelos]

lvl 47 Warrior. I like him because he can wear any armor, hold any weapon, and take a crazy amount of hits in defensive spec. I'm currently specced under rage for leveling, but i'll go defense at 60.

[Train Wreck]

I have a gang of lowbies.  Warrior 22, Warlock 14, Mage 13, Priest 10, Hunter 8.

I don't yet know who's my favorite, though the Warlock gets the most time because I'm trying to catch him up to the rest of Bat Country.  (The others I fuck around with every few days to harvest their Zzzz xp.)

This is subject to change because I haven't seen what all the other classes have to offer, but I think I like the Priest the most.  Being able to keep insta-cast regen going on me, and shield-healing from near death back up to 100% hp, just kicks tons of ass.  I can take on three +1 mobs at once using that tactic, and still have most of my mp left over.  Desperate Prayer is a "Get Out of Death, Free" card that I can pull out every 30 minutes if something goes horribly wrong.

[Morfiend]

Level 60 Undead Combat Rogue. He is fun to play, but when I dont have time to do a high end instance or pvp, I play my alt who is a lvl 37 Undead Warlock. I promised my guild GM that I would also get the Lock to 60, becasue we want to be the ones on our server to open the dark portal.

I had a great time in Iron Forge last night with one of the other rogues form my guild, sapping people, and taking out the flight master and such., while scouting for our attack point when we go to kill the gnome king.

[Rasix]

Level 60 Troll Shaman.  This is my main (duh) and I like the class quite a lot.  Right now I'm in a wierd spot due to a friend of mine quitting that's pretty much going to force me into joining the uber guild on our server if I want to participate in any of the higher end PVE stuff.  Still not quite sure on this.   I'm not sure I can handle a recruitment process.  I don't want to feel like I need to impress these fucking people.

Ok, enough personal crap; I really like the class and think it's almost perfect balance wise.  The one problem is that in order to be a good raid shaman, you probably should have the mana tide totem.  This means you have to spend 10 talent points in two talents that are worthless.  I don't really know anyone that likes or needs the healing or water totem or wants moderately improved versions of these.  This eventually should be fixed, but not now. Any boosts to shaman will bring the fanbois out in force.   It's a fun class to pvp with, but I'm not quite sure where our raid/instance usefullness lies.  We have some pretty handy totems, can do decent damage, can backup heal (a shaman is not a primary healer, goddamnit, believe me people), and take a couple hits.   Shaman pvp is just great.  Due to being a jack of all trades, we have a counter to just about anyone.  If you don't know what a shaman can do, you will get pwned by one in short order.  Right now I'm a 21 rest, 20 elemental, and 10 enhance build.  This allows for 10% clearcasting, 1 second ghost wolf, nature's swiftness (instacast anything), a more powerful lightning shield, more crits on healing and lightning spells, etc.  The build just really enhances and improves upon the verstatility that's inherent in the class.

I mostly just play this class right now to farm gold and items for myself (any improvment helps) and my new twinkie rogue.

My rogue is now 33.  In the bank he's got about half a set of level 44-50 armor, most of it of the monkey variety.  Also has a Bloodrazor and a Joonho's Mercy that I got for him last night (neener neener neener alliance bastards, I got Fangferror timed).   I like the class a lot. Now, I'm a big fan of chaotic melee ginsu classes, just always have been, and the rogue fits this to a tee.  I love the creativity of this class and the amount of utility they built into a pure melee class.  Even if the rogue isn't the most sought after for instance groups and isn't and kind of needs to get the jump to be ahead in pve, I think this is the class for me.   Plus, abilities like vanish are the kind of things that I always like in a mmorpg. 

So, depending on the guild shit, I could be playing the shaman a lot or continuing to work on my rogue. 

As for a free 60 class to play around with?  Probably a priest.  From time to time, I like to test my healing skills.  I was quite good at it in Shadowbane, but for some reason, I don't feel I'm as good at it in WoW.   Maybe something about my first group solo healing experience being dwarf hell in BRD.  Fucking assholes.

I prattle on a bit too much on about this game.

[Righ]

Irth, 60 hunter, Earthen Ring.

I find it almost impossible to play without tracking. Tracking is love. Portable microtank (pet) is handy, and despite not having been a pet class fan before, I actually quite like it here. Feign death is wonderful. You can try out anything, and still get away with it most of the time. Tougher than other ranged classes. Both marksman and beastmaster builds are enjoyable, survival build works, but involves more downtime than necessary. 2/3 ain't bad.

I'd probably most like to have my warrior maxed out, as it would give me a place to drop all the higher level junk I can't use but which refuses to sell.

[AcidCat]

43 NE Druid.

Having sampled all the classes (at low level anyway) Druid is my favorite, really because of the variety. Restoration specced so I'm a good healer, Dire Bear form adds a ton of armor so I'm a viable tank in a pinch, catform is really sweet for stealthing, great for avoiding trouble or finding it with Track Humanoid up, being sneaky and harassing enemy players. A good class for both solo and group.

I also have a level 20 Undead Priest alt, which I enjoy. Undead are just characters and it's fun to play this one on an RP server.

Hunter is also a fun class.

Least favorite would be Warrior ... only plus is plenty of cool gear and weapon choices, but the rage system just kinda puts a damper on the fun, it's a continuous feeling of being restricted, waiting for that rage to build to be able to do anything ... I'm sure it's a game mechanic that works and makes a kind of sense, but it just isn't fun.

[Threash]

60 NE rogue on bleeding hollow atm, i love the class and i don't see myself switching for anything else.  It has the perfect combination of twitch play and strategy that i like and i feel that i have a decent shot at beating most classes out there.

I do have a lvl 29 hunter ive leveled up mostly to do alchemy for my rogue (meed 35 to be an artisan at a tradeskill)

[Calantus]

41 Dwarven Priest

Like Slayerik I'm just loving priest. I like being able to get all smug when people don't kill me right away because I know that leaving me alive will spell their doom. I like how I'm almost impossible to kill quick enough without stunlock and/or silence because I have 2 instant heals (desperate prayer & potions), shield, renew, aoe fear and flash heal spam to keep me alive. I love dispell. Love it. I love stripping my enemies buffs and HoT spells, I love releasing warriors and rogues and such from frost nova and root. I love that I'm such a wrench in the works for my opponents. I like throwing people from cliffs and high bridges because it's about as lame as you can get. I love mind controlling hunters and making them kill their pets, heh. Love MCing lowbies and making them jump around like a fool.

As for another character I'd like... Druid. Let me keep my heals and give me root, travel form, stealth, and an instacast nuke. Yum.

[MrHat]

41 Dwarven Priest

Like Slayerik I'm just loving priest. I like being able to get all smug when people don't kill me right away because I know that leaving me alive will spell their doom. I like how I'm almost impossible to kill quick enough without stunlock and/or silence because I have 2 instant heals (desperate prayer & potions), shield, renew, aoe fear and flash heal spam to keep me alive. I love dispell. Love it. I love stripping my enemies buffs and HoT spells, I love releasing warriors and rogues and such from frost nova and root. I love that I'm such a wrench in the works for my opponents. I like throwing people from cliffs and high bridges because it's about as lame as you can get. I love mind controlling hunters and making them kill their pets, heh. Love MCing lowbies and making them jump around like a fool.

As for another character I'd like... Druid. Let me keep my heals and give me root, travel form, stealth, and an instacast nuke. Yum.

Damn you.  My new priest Caprice is L9!

[Jayce]

38 Warrior.  I like the class, though when I started I was under the impression they were the ultimate gimps.  I think playing the warrior isn't as twitchy as rogue, but you still have to use your strategery.

I am also a fan of the shiney, which warriors need in abundance.

I am tempted to play around with druid or hunter.  I have always liked pet classes, and the hybridity (new word!) of druids attracts me.  What I will probably end up doing, though is playing the priest my wife made on my account.  There seem to be few high level priests and they also seem to be indispensable... and it's good to be popular .

[sidereal]

48 Restoration Druid

Loving the class.   Solo, I rarely shapechange (except Cheetah).  I prefer being able to cast healing spells.  I have enough insta-cast damage, DoT, good heals, and a big enough hammer that I don't have any problems with 2-3 yellows at this level.  In groups, I really like being able to jump roles.  In one case I was primary healer (and doing a fine job) until we found a priest and our warrior had to leave, so I tanked as a Dire Bear.  Druids are great glue for any group. . and get little respect for it.

I've brought a rogue, priest, hunter, and warrior up to at least 20, and I always went back.

[Kageru]

Level 60 Orc Warrior. Has been protective spec since level 10 which made soloing awesomely slow and risky (22 days played to 60, I got to 65 in EQ in less) but that was my way of expanding the game experience. I love standing out the front and getting to call the shots, getting in the face of huge mobs and sometimes even surviving. And the warrior class is great in that tradeskills are not hobbies, potions, bandages and food are things I needed to level. The disappointing thing is outside of my element I'm sort of lost, rage is slow and my DPS is low so soloing, non-elite PvE and PvP are sort of pointless.

I have an L17 alliance rogue as my "selfish" character and would like to get her upto 60. I also have a L17 undead mage as my `relax' character, very different pace to play, not so much reactive and will probably be better than my warrior on the battlefields. I have an L16 priest but i'm torn between the desire to enable more groups (priests are so rare) and my horror of most pick-up groups. Not sure how to resolve that one.

Played and disliked hunter and druid. The druids powers are too modal whereas the shaman can be off-tanking, DPS'ing and throwing a desperate heal. They're also going to end up spending too much time as primary healers which priests are better at. Bored with hunter and haven't played warlock (DoT's are bad) and I'm not going to be my pets bitch again like I was an EQ necro. Besides, pets don't scale.

[stray]

I have a gang of lowbies.  Warrior 22, Warlock 14, Mage 13, Priest 10, Hunter 8

Same here, but I'll be coming back soon, I think.

If I can get a dependable guild to play with, and one that understands that my character would do nothing but heal and not die, the Paladin would be my favorite probably. I'd prefer it to a Holy Priest or Retribution Paladin at least.

Other than that, I'm just a jaded Warrior.

[Train Wreck]

Same here, but I'll be coming back soon, I think.

If I can get a dependable guild to play with, and one that understands that my character would do nothing but heal and not die, the Paladin would be my favorite probably.

You should make a char on ER for Bat Country if you haven't already.  I'm still low enough (15) that you can easily catch up.

[stray]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

[MrHat]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

[Xilren's Twin]

You should make a char on ER for Bat Country if you haven't already.  I'm still low enough (15) that you can easily catch up.

My 2nd BC character, also an undead Warlock, just hit 15 last night Train.  When do you normally get on?  I started him just to check out enchanting and he's so fun to play I'm now alternating between him and my 23 rogue.  The "tailoring to make stuff I can disenchant to use to up my enchanting skill" bit is fun.  Looted a beatslayer enchantment recipie so im trying to skill up to try it out.

I twinked my warlock minorly with stuff my rogue found, so haveing a decent wand at lower level made running out of mana a non issue.  And I still mail myself linen and occasional green item. Good stuff.

Xilren 

[jpark]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

Undead Priest here.

[stray]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

For shadow spec, sure. And especially for solo play. For Holy Spec, healing groups in PvP, I don't think Priests are the best choice, even if their heals are superior to a Paladin's. They die instantly if the enemy group is focusing fire. With a Holy/Prot Paladin, I can buy my group a little more time. And an opposing group would only be hurting themselves if they think they can target me first.

[Slayerik]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

For shadow spec, sure. And especially for solo play. For Holy Spec, healing groups in PvP, I don't think Priests are the best choice, even if their heals are superior to a Paladin's. They die instantly if the enemy group is focusing fire. With a Holy/Prot Paladin, I can buy a little more time. An opposing group would only be hurting themselves if they think they can target me first.

Thats the hardest thing about fighting alliance, the super healers. I just mana burn the piss out of em though, then they are just a weak warrior with the DPS of a wooden spoon :)

[WayAbvPar]

Looted a beatslayer enchantment recipie so im trying to skill up to try it out.

Arrgh! I need one of those. Where did you acquire it? Also, let me know when you get up to 90 so you can hook me up with teh shiney on my weapons.

[Train Wreck]

My 2nd BC character, also an undead Warlock, just hit 15 last night Train.  When do you normally get on? 

I'm usually on between 10 PM until 2-4 AM, PST.  I'm not always logged in as Tenebrosus, though, so try Garbarge or Growlface if you don't see me.

[MrHat]

For shadow spec, sure. And especially for solo play. For Holy Spec, healing groups in PvP, I don't think Priests are the best choice, even if their heals are superior to a Paladin's. They die instantly if the enemy group is focusing fire. With a Holy/Prot Paladin, I can buy my group a little more time. And an opposing group would only be hurting themselves if they think they can target me first.

Have you tried solo killling (1v1) a holy spec priest?

I'm convinced the only ones that can are rogues and only if they're lucky.

[stray]

Have you tried solo killling (1v1) a holy spec priest?

I'm convinced the only ones that can are rogues and only if they're lucky.

Nope, though I'd think that more than rogues could do it. How about an Undead Holy Spec Priest?  :-D That's assuming the other Holy Priest is Alliance, of course.

As for solo killing a priest with the Paladin I have in mind: I wouldn't try. This kind of character has zero worth in that respect. Ideally, I'd only play in groups and do no damage at all. Not even pulling out my hammer to whack kobolds.

Though I could be persuaded to whack a few elves....But last I heard, they were on my side 

A better comparison would be a team with a Priest vs a team with a Pally. And unless I'm missing something new, all of the Priest's tricks are not as attractive when they have to deal with multiple opponents. Especially when they have to protect friends at the same time.

[chinslim]

For shadow spec, sure. And especially for solo play. For Holy Spec, healing groups in PvP, I don't think Priests are the best choice, even if their heals are superior to a Paladin's. They die instantly if the enemy group is focusing fire. With a Holy/Prot Paladin, I can buy a little more time. An opposing group would only be hurting themselves if they think they can target me first.

From my viewpoint playing an undead priest, paladins need to learn to play defensively, and especially help keep their priest alive.  The problem with Alliance priests is that shamans can tear them a new one so fast(whereas I usually brush off paladins), that paladins should be stunning them(and not me).  Priests bring alot to the group with PW:Shield, fast heals(although not the big heals), and ranged burst DPS that you you don't want to go without.  Paladins are usually ignored not only because they're the hardest to kill, but they're also the least threat on the order.

[Slayerik]

Silencing UD priest is my latest spec, 26 disc/ 25 shadow i think. I can tear up almost any class. Hunters hurt if they have the 1 sec spider, cause viper sting drains 1100 mana over 8 seconds. That adds up quick, even with my pool of 6667. For most casting classes, start off with the silence then mana burn. Fear em and mana burn some more, throwing in a DoT if they can't dispel. 2 DoTs (devouring plague) on any meleer 1 on 1 is real trouble, then mind control and watch the DoTs tick :) Instead of mind control you can do the always popular -shield/renew/flash heal -bunny hop staff swing.  I have lots of fun tricks with my priest, if you want advice on any matchups just ask...

[Morfiend]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

Shadow priests are kings of 1v1 pvp. LArge scale pvp, they are avarage. But always run out of mana to heal.

[Llava]

My Druid got cat form last night.  I love this class.  I was in a group and constantly shapeshifting from one form to another to help out where was needed.   Priest needs health, go back to caster form and toss him a heal.  Swap to cat form and start ripping up the enemy we're fighting.  Uh oh, we have an add.  Swap to bear form, growl and tank it until someone else can take him, then switch back to cat to tear him back up.

Good times.

[Slayerik]

You guys are Horde though, right?

Plus, I don't think I'd get a lot of use (or fun) out of a healer without a lot of PvP going on.

Priests are kings of PvP.  KINGS.

Shadow priests are kings of 1v1 pvp. LArge scale pvp, they are avarage. But always run out of mana to heal.

A well specced priest can have heavy discipline for mana regen and 10% extra mana pool, inner focus for free spell every 5 min. Then take shadow up to silence. Great in 1 on 1 pvp, group pvp , and instances.

[Hoax]

54 Dwarf Priest...

Yeah I pwn 1v1, yawn so what as said by others  I'm avg or less in GvG, I find myself stuck in some limbo where my best use is SWp and PWs everything in sight while throwing out dispells and rejuv and mind flaying, but instead I usually end up hiding and trying to get off a 4sec f'ing heal while the pld's run around doing less dmg then me and not casting their invluns on others or using their uber for pvp heals.  I would much rather be a pally using +int gear, god that'd own   

Characters I wish I had:
-60 NE hunter, yes NE is gay but aimed shot from stealth is a sexy beast.  Hunters a one of the most fun classes to play in GvG (second possibly to mage but w/out the paper armor).

-60 Dwarf Palladin, using a mail/plate combo to get a 6-10k mana pool then showing off how great pally heals are while everyone ignores me on the kill order, gg no class hp/mp tables!

-60 Shaman, I think its the best class in the game, why wouldn't I want one?

[WayAbvPar]

60 NE hunter, yes NE is gay but aimed shot from stealth is a sexy beast.  Hunters a one of the most fun classes to play in GvG (second possibly to mage but w/out the paper armor).

-60 Dwarf Palladin, using a mail/plate combo to get a 6-10k mana pool then showing off how great pally heals are while everyone ignores me on the kill order, gg no class hp/mp tables!

You and every 3rd player of this game. That is all I ever see- NE hunters and dwarf pallys grief-killing lowbies all the live long day.

[stray]

You and every 3rd player of this game. That is all I ever see- NE hunters and dwarf pallys grief-killing lowbies all the live long day.

Yes, but every one of those 3rd players in the game are making retribution pallys.

They can have them for all I care. My build is better.