I’ve recently come back from a very long break! I played back in the days of WOTLK & finished around the MOP release.
I’ve always loved playing the game but have never really achieved end game and feel like I haven’t even touched the sides of the game. I’m a casual player and enjoy all specs/classes, with this though, I can’t pick a main! I have a really bad habit of just starting new classes/faction because I like the look of a YouTube video I see or the class I play looks to be lower in the rankings!
How do you go about picking one main & getting to end game/learning the class well instead of never mastering one!
My classes I have liked recently are:
Protection Warrior
Destruction Warlock
Shadow Priest
Retribution Paladin
Mage
My worry for the tank is not knowing the dungeons/raids well enough and feel I’d be to far behind and would it be better to learn by sitting back as a DPS?
My long term goal is to farm gear, do some dungeons and complete the story line, I have a young family so my playtime is mainly evenings but I’m getting annoyed at watching videos and then starting a new main and never getting anywhere! Hoping someone can give me some guidance!
One last thing, I have been playing on Kazzak realm in the Horde side, do social guilds exist in the game anymore? All my old friends have completely stopped and having the social side of the game to ask people for help guidance and just general chatting in a guild is a massive help & also fun!
Sorry for the long post, hoping someone can steer me in the right direction!
I wouldn’t worry too much about not knowing dungeons & raids; WoW has seasons now, with changeing dungeons & raids, so a new season start is a good opportunity to rejoin the game.
You can do endcontent gearing by either playing raids, dungeons or delves (or PvP if you’re that kind of player). All of those contents can give you quite good gear; it’s no longer like back in WotLK where you had to do dungeons first and raid later to improve your gear.
Many things are now “accountwide” (warband wide), which makes it easy to switch mains in my eyes.
I don’t have real main as I also like to play most classes and I switch the classes I prioritize each season, depending how good the tier sets look for those classes.
I’d recommend you to just level you characters to max level for now and then start with the new season that will roughly begin around February.
I think because I’m a causal gamer of maybe a couple hours in the evening the constant changes to swapping classes and feeling like I’d never be able to gear up multiple classes was just starting to annoy me and feeling like I wouldn’t get anywhere like I did a long time ago!
In what I have said, does ranking classes really make that much different, or being a casual player I don’t need to over stress it as this is top end game content?
Classes and specs are all equally viable unless you want to mythic raid or do very high M+ which probably isn’t the case, so don’t worry. Play what’s fun to you.
However, there are classes/specs better suited for solo play than others, but if you want to play with others in a group, this won’t need to bother you. On the other hand, playing a tank or healer is still the fastest option to get into group content in contrast to dps.
I think it depends on how you visualise ‘end game’ this time for yourself. For more casual play you can usually play around and somewhat gear multiple characters over the duration of a season and enjoy them all. It’s a relaxed way of playing, to me at least
If you’d really like to dip your toes in more serious content, I’d try find a guild or community (there are recruitment sections for those on the forum) and either go with something they could use, or perhaps stick with the pally for now as they can do all three roles which might mean flexibility for you while learning the ropes again.
I’d consider my Pally my main, even though I don’t really play endgame. My main is the one with which I play new content first. Then I play alts for different stuff like side quests/dungeons/PvP.
I chose my pally by going down a priority list:
Role
Range/meele
Class theme
Best fitting race
I knew I didn’t want to play a lot of group content because I can’t sit at the PC for long periods of time. So Heal or Tank didn’t make a lot of sense even tho Prot Pally is pretty cool in open world.
I’m not the biggest fan of range classes. I enjoy them, but not enough to play one as a main.
So I narrowed it down to: Pally, Warrior, Rogue and decided of all 3 Pally would be the most interesting class for me.
Then I had the choice between human and dwarves. Human race is sometimes a bit dull so I went with the beer drinking mine dwelling uber beard chads that is the dwarven race.
