Comments on: Are you stuck on a particular class?

By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:37:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure those “basic” classes you talked about (Warrior/Priest/Mage) are the only 3 I don’t intend to play. I know I’m rolling a Worgen Rogue for Cataclysm, and aside from my Hunter, I’ve enjoyed each of the classes. Granted, I haven’t done all the specs for each class (haven’t touched moonkin, ret, demo/destro, elem/resto, blood/frost), but those that I have played (once again, aside from Hunter) I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. Each class and spec has its own playstyle (or in the case of cats & bears, a kind of “restricted” version of another playstyle). While I don’t really enjoy healing, I will heal every once in a while, but changing from melee dps to ranged dps to tanking is fun.

I’d say my ranking for toons I’ve made, for how enjoyable an experience it is to play them would be:
Druid (Cat/Bear) [1st toon, 1st to 80, my Achievement-whore]
Warlock (Affliction) [2nd toon, just got to Outland]
Shaman (Enhance) [most recent toon, almost 30]
Death Knight (Unholy) [5th toon, almost 73, pretty much just used to be a miner/banker for a while til I made a bank alt]
Paladin (Prot/Holy) [3rd toon, 2nd to 80]
Hunter (Beast) [35, just to level his professions up to 300]
Not sure just where I’ll be taking my Rogue once I roll them up, but I’m thinking it should be enjoyable.

By: Mars

Mars — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:33:03 +0000

First toon NE Druid. I love the idea of being one with nature while I claw your face off. I have tried every spec ended up as a resto more because every one needed a healer. The one thing I hated while I was leveling where horde warlocks….this was before berserk, there was nothing I lothed more than being feared. Except maybe horde hunters. I was also tired of being blamed for a wipe…allways the healer or tanks fault for a wipe. So I wanted a class that I could not be talked into healing or tanking, I became a BE lock…run in fear, also had to become an hunter just because. Might as well have a DK got to skip the whole 1-60 lvling. While I was playing horde I missed my Druid, it is very hard to split my time between servers so I now have a Tauren Druid. I must say that I always thought war stomp and health buff was so much better than shadowmeld/dodge…untill shadowmeld got you out of combat….Damn. Anyway getting off subject, after all of me getting sick of being blamed for wipes I only use my alts to make money…run dailies and sell primodials. I heal icc on my NE and tank it on my Tauren(NE offspec is feral Tauren is resto) There is no other class you can do every job….melée/range dps, heal or tank. If you truly want to experience the game the is nothing like a Druid.

By: Bullgawd

Bullgawd — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:10:06 +0000

Druid.

In the Everquest days I played a Druid and a Ranger (I LOVED my Ranger!). When I came over to WoW I gravitated straight to the Druid, since there was no straight Ranger type class (Hunters are NOT Rangers), and started a Night Elf. I spent days and days exploring the world (prowling across entire zones so no one would see me!) and learning the class as best I could. I started other classes but found that playing a Druid was in my blood. I enjoyed the utility of it; I could melee and take on multiple mobs with ease, I could cast if I needed to, I could heal myself and others when necessary, I could run away if I wasn’t in the mood for a fight or if it was just smarter to get the heck out of there.

I also PvP’ed a lot and found myself having Tauren envy…so I started one! Soon after he made it to 80, dual spec came around so I decided to start another Druid because I wanted to be ‘ALL things Druid’ but just didn’t have the gold to keep switching specs. Now I have 2 80 Druids; one is Resto/Boomkin and one is Tank/DPS. Heals, ranged DPS, tanking and melee DPS in 2 awesome toons! Life is good.

I have many 20s and 30s and 40s of other classes (including other young Druids) across several servers, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten with most of them. I’ve found that I don’t like cloth classes – too squishy. I don’t like pet classes because it’s just a hassle to have to worry about me AND my pet. I like the plate classes, but realize to be good at them I have to give up my Druid time. I am leveling up a Mage and I have an 80 Rogue that I enjoy playing, but I’d rather play my Druids.

By: Redbowl

Redbowl — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:48:30 +0000

Druid. I’ve tried rolling other classes, and the only one that ever felt nearly as natural to play as my druid is my warlock. My lock I actually got to 80 and occasionally act like I’m going to try to convince myself to think about the possibility of maybe(possibly) grinding out heroics with him. I’ve got a DK, that I did the first quest on, and said frack this, a level 7 hunter, and a level 1 rogue, besides my main and lock. I was a bear forever but took a break right after TOC came out, and came back right after ICC debuted, and now I’m stuck healing :(. I’ve been enjoying DPSing, but my biggest mistake was being an intelligent and efficient healer. (I CAN DPS AND TANK INTELLIGENTLY TOO YOU KNOW /end QQ)

By: Merell

Merell — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:13:19 +0000

Excellent points all…

I love trolls and dranei…

I find myself constantly coming back to them – which is why I kind of forced myself outside my box and went for a girl orc… (underplayed imo) shaman… and contrary to almost all ‘online advice’ of going for enhancement, I’m kicking butt with elemental at 40… It is another journey, it is another attitude to look at quests with, it is an excuse to look into different lore. For all the breaks I’ve taken with various groups I’ve played with… the game will always welcome me in when I need a break.

Huzzah!
.-= Merell´s last blog ..You know what the world needs? =-.

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:07:24 +0000

I have an 80 druid and 80 hunter, but I find myself repeatedly coming back to druids. Its a bit of a joke in my guild – I think I’m up to 5 druid alts, none of which are higher than level 40. Recently though I’ve become addicted to leveling my shaman. I leveled her up to 72 as a resto, and finally picked up dual so she can go enhancement too. Its the most fun I’ve had since I got mangle on my very first druid.

I find that I’m mostly drawn towards classes that have an affinity with nature. I have absolutely no desire to level a pally or dk for that reason.

By: Skiannach

Skiannach — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:04:59 +0000

I have a ton of alts, but I’m stuck on healers. No matter how I promise myself that this time I’m going tank, or DPS, not long after hitting 80 I find myself unable to resist the temptation to sprout leaves, or whatever. (I did once manage to get a DK to 80, although I’m not sure why because once I hit 80 I stopped playing her.)
I have one level 80 healer of each possible class now, although it’s the shaman and druid that I keep gravitating to…the more hybrid they are, the more I like them.
And racially, although I have the necessary spacegoat and nelf, my default character choice is always dwarf on the alliance side and troll on horde. I find them irresistable. I keep trying to vary it a bit, but I always end up back with those races.

By: Savvy-Savvage

Savvy-Savvage — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:55:53 +0000

I just canceled my account and I’m still reading this blog… hrm… good job BBB. After leveling my rogue and finding him unwanted years ago I decided to try healing and tanking as a paladin and warrior respectively to see which I preferred with the intention of sticking with that char afterward because I love fast and dirty instances and wanted to be in demand. I hadn’t picked a favorite by 70 and was main healer and main tank for 2 seperate Kara raids in my guild. By accident of history I end up tanking on both one weekend as my paladin went through a last minute, bank breaking conversion. I loved it. As I began to figure out all these tanky pally buttons I got better at it but I also got better at my warrior. I fully understood her strengths and weaknesses having the paladin to compare her to was better able to accentuate and mask them accordingly. I started a bear and a death knight the day I got Wrath and fell in love with both of them as tanks also. I ended up with 4 80 tanks in epics that were ready to rock your raid. It’s wonderful except the part where I have to suffer through all those second hand comparisons. I should have known something was up with me and tanking when my first 70 (the rogue) dinged tanking normal underdog late one night. Go go evasion, cloak of shadows and kidney shot.

By: Tufva

Tufva — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:51:52 +0000

It’s funny, as much as I’ve had many lowbie alts over the years it is only recently that I have started to level them properly and actually enjoying the differences between the classes. I recently leveled my 2nd 80 (kitty druid) and am also levelling a mage from scratch Hordeside to see that side of the game. I love them both as much as my priest even though they are vastly different or maybe because of that. When I’m on another char I miss the instant flight and shadowmeld of the druid, the portals, food and water of the mage and the, ehm, the, ehm – not quite sure what I miss about the priest class. Hmm… I’ve played it for so long I can’t remember. :-)

For me I think becoming more adept at the game and how it works have made picking up new classes much more enjoyable. I never thought I’d like a melee style, but I adore playing kitty. Didn’t think I’d like a char that can’t heal, but my mage is great fun.

So much to do and so little time… :-)

By: Saniel

Saniel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:24:24 +0000

Funny, I have a post very related to this topic that I have written up and stored away for a rainy day. I've tried almost every class in WoW, but I keep coming back to melee classes, especially ones that can heal themselves. Feral and Enhancement are both insanely fun for me to play. To a slightly lesser extent, Blood. (I can't, for the life of me, get a Paladin past level 15, so I can't speak for Ret.) I've tried a lot of other things, but either they don't interest me, or they're "conditionally fun." By which I mean I enjoy playing them under very specific circumstances, some of which are completely unrelated to the class. .-= Saniel´s last blog ..By the light of the moon! =-.