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Hi guys!

Yesterday I started with WOW on Antonidas.

To start, I created a magician, but as a beginner it doesn’t seem to be that easy.
Did some class tests with Feral Druid, Vengeance Paladin, Destruction Warlock, Elemental Shaman & Frost Mage.
All classes have accepted me.
Now to my question: Which class is best for a beginner who almost always plays solo? I want to play both PVE and PVP and be able to do something there too.
The class should not be a complete easy mode, otherwise the fun will be lost.
I don’t want to have a huge number of characters, just one that I will always play. It’s kind of my thing in MMORPGS that I only have one character.

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Don’t you want to try Warlock again, but Demonology? Stronger pets, and those can take the heat off you just in exchange for a little bit of your soul in your solo journey.

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Unfortunately, demonology is not my thing at all. And as with destruction, I feel like I’m a turret. I’ve now tried something and I like the magician the most in terms of fun. Can I handle this all on my own or will I keep dying?

And what is with elemental shaman or feral druid? I was told that he does everything solo and is really good at PVP. Is it beginner-friendly?

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Well mage is nice, but fragile. You can take survival abilities like increased barrier strengths or reduced cooldowns at the cost of extra damage. But cloth is cloth, melee will still strike through it like knife with butter.

As for feral druid, you have to take combos into account and I don’t like cat. Sneaking could be useful though.

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I don’t like the cat that much either from what I’ve seen. That’s why Druid is out of the question for me too. Now fluctuate between frost magician, retribution paladin and elemental shaman. Even if the magician is so weak in close combat, he certainly has his strengths. I just have no idea :smiley:

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This is a common problem. :smiley:

Nobody - not us, not you - can tell what class you will enjoy until you try it, and give it a good try, not just 10 minutes.

Every class is viable.

You say

Frost Mage is my favourite thing to be.

If you play Frost Mage well, it is nearly unkillable. OK, it can die in PvP - and maybe in dungeons if the party messes up. But it is pretty near impossible to die in the world.

If you are dying, you are playing it badly. :stuck_out_tongue: Of course, since you have just started, you haven’t yet learned to play it well. :smiley: And you don’t have all the abilities yet; indeed, at 10, you hardly have any.

It’s against a Frost Mage’s religion to die in the world :rofl:

Mage has more escapes than Houdini, if things are going really badly. Invisibility lets you just run away unharmed from anything. Mirror Images gives you 40 seconds of being ignored. Ice Nova or Frost Nova will stick the baddies’ feet to the floor while you run away. And ofc you can keep slowing them with Frostbolt and Blizzard.

A Frost Mage can have simple blow-away encounters, or more complicated “kiting” encounters. “Kiting” is dragging mobs around like they’re a kite on a piece of string, killing them while they can’t get at you. When I started the game, end even today, I just love kiting mobs. Even after 13 years of playing a Frost Mage, I can still find simple fun in going out into the workd, finding a big pack of mobs, and messing them up while I Blink around them, slow thm, Blizzard them, Orb them, have them chase me around without ever catching me. It’s a simple pleasure that never gets old.

I won’t lie - either Retribution Paladin or Enhancement Shaman will lead to a simpler life, because their heals and armour means they don’t have to dodge hard melee mobs. And Paladin has the option of a Tank Spec, Protection Paladin, which is just unkillable and can roll over anything in the world like a bulldozer.

But Frost Mage, or any other mage spec, can be a lot if fun if you enjoy it.

Most of us who play WoW have multiple characters, or “alts”, so if you stay a while, you probably will too, and then you can enjoy the contrast of different play styles. :+1:

If you want to see how the various classes and specs play at max level, check out YouTube and search for the Class and Spec plus “Dragonflight” or “pre-patch The War Within”. Those will probably give you far too much information, but it gives you some idea,

Here’s a short one, one, for example, about Frost Mage

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OK, you convinced me. I’ll probably become a magician after all :smiley:

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Welcome to the Council of Mages then :smiley:

But in WoW, ALWAYS remember that there are other classes to try as well, and they are all good options!

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