Howd you all choose your classesFollow

I'm still cought up in trying to decide what i want to play come exp. I've play rogue for a long time but got bored of it recently.

I've having a huge problem because i like a little from eatch class and also dislike something from each one nothing that really stands out and says PLAY ME. also i really dislike leveling but really like the endgame with my friends

so howd you guys choose what to play?

Heh, my girlfriend.

Without her I would still be playing every class a level at a time. She loves her hunter, and I didn't want to miss out on her playing, and keeping her interested. So I stuck it out with Mage.

Sounds like you got some alt issues, you might be one of those unlucky fools jumping to one class or another. But you desire end game stuff, so I suppose picking something and sticking with it would be best. However I don't think there's anything I could tell you that would make you pick one. That's for you alone to figure out brotha.

Okay, I first played FFXI, I've always loved paladins so that's what I played. I grew fond of tanking, the thrill of it kept me going.

Now, come WoW, I play a paladin to 60. While I find paladins aren't primarily tanks, I bore with it and had some good times, but my love of tanking went unanswered until finally, I dug out an old gnome warrior alt I made for kicks. Once I got the hang of the art again, Shamibell was here to stay. ^^

I started out on the same server as my friends, we were all Alliance newbs. Reading the class descriptions here, Rogue caught my eye as it read:

DPS: highest?

Having always been playing a support role in my previous mmo (ffxi), the idea of being pure DPS really intrigued me and I thought it would be a lot of fun.

We all leveled up our allied toons, I only got to 48 and we jumped ship to the horde's side of things. I then chose a Shaman as it seemed so mysterious and cool to me. I leveled that one straight to 60 and then spent another 20+ days /played on it.

Now I'm back to my rogue.

I went with a very sophisticated and ancient system... you might know it by the common name of "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe..." ;)

Seriously, when I started, I'd just come from FFXI and an abortive attempt to level as Beastmaster (this was just before the awful rape they committed on the class last year). The thing I liked the most about BST was having a little guy to fight alongside me, so when read up on all the classes, I tried out hunter first. Loved it, but got bored, and tried a bunch of other classes.

When my (now ex-) girlfriend started playing, she wanted to be on the server with all her friends, who had a small guild. When I found out that there was only one warlock in the guild, I rolled a human warlock named Reghades, and I've stuck with him for a lot longer than any other character (he's currently 53, and my previous highest level toon was mid-20s).

I've tried shaman a couple times, hunter at least 3 times now, warrior twice, rogue twice or thrice, mage once... Honestly, only classes I've not really done much with is priest, druid, and paladin...

My first character was a priest. I liked the Idea of the whole help the other guy thing. But, around lvl 15 my son was going on and on about his hunter Argonox, so Dadanox was born. My priest layed pretty much untouched for a year, but something was calling me.... Oh yeah, also played to lvl 20 all the other classes. At one point or another I've said "now this is for me" about most of them, since every class has it's strengths.

First char was a priest. I picked priest because a friend told me I'd always be in demand. What he didn't tell me was that wouldn't happen for quite some time...

Second character was a hunter, for absolutely no reason. Turned out I liked the class and have stuck with him.

all interesting =D

still not sure myself

right now i have a 26 priest, 22 shammy and 19 druid

biggest thing is im use to being melee and weilding big weapons which i liked, going caster is interestin but i think id miss melee and big weapons, ect :P

maybe OnimenoJason's idea is best =D

yea im confused much as well beacuse i know they all do now and their weakeness'

so as i level i always am 2nd guessing the class im playing and thinking of another :P

just need to decide how i want to play this time around maybe ;o

I'm obsessed with ninjas, therefore I picked rogue (the ninja class). I don't regret my decision at all, as I like to think myself as one of the most *** kicking rogues there is.

Plus I love killing people so fast ;_;

Personally, I take only Hybrids (Druid,Pally,Shaman) Simply because they are great Solo characters AND in group situations, Hybrids are usefull because we can heal. I like the other classes but I hate not being able to do more than one specific task and besides, Hybrids are the most interesting classes IMO.

IMO, the elements to consider in order to choose your classe are many :

Play mostly alone or in group ?

No life or casual ?

Easily bored at high level, not motivated by gear collecting ?

PvP or PVE addict ?


I'm a casual, I play mostly alone and I like to feel useful in a group when necessary, I like being powerful without depending on my gear, I only do PVE

and I've chosen Mage !
cause it's powerful, no need for a great gear, I can solo 2 elites at once, I'm useful in group because I can sheep and distribute water ^^
And since I'm a casual, I'll never go in a 40 people raid, never join a big guild, so purple stuff is not for me, I can't have a class that depends on it's gear like warrior, and all close combat classes.

sometime ago, when I liked Pvp, I took a full feral drood, but the feral branch was not really good, blizzard never developped it fully, and being a feral drood means no way of having enough mana and being a useful healer in group ^^ so I stopped


Edited, Dec 10th 2006 11:31am by hideokoima

Trial and error.