Want to bring my friend to the game

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Hello,

My friend is finally wants to try to play WoW and I don’t want to overwhelm her with informations, addons, rotations and things to do.

She likes to play support classes in games like DoTa, HoTS and LoL, something like range dps or heal and I was thinking to suggest her to start with Druid (Balance/Resto), Priest(Holy/Shadow) or maybe Mage (Frost), but to be fair, even everyone suggest Druid to newcomers not sure is the class a bit complicated with shape-shifting and a lot of spells and since I haven’t play for a while, not sure how hard are Resto and Balance specs. At the other hand, Holy Priest could be good choice, but Shadow was very hard to learn when I was playing before. I know the best would be to try a bit of everything and explore what she likes but want to give her a suggestion for an easier approach with least addon requirements and not too many buttons for start.

Second, after the Island, thought to recommend her to level via Chromie time, but which expansion would you suggest? Maybe to avoid Shadowlands? Maybe WotLK or Pandaria for story?

Thanks in advance! This is the first time someone really close to me wants to try to play the game with me, and I will finally come back since I lost my motivation to play alone. Really want she likes it and stay for a while.

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druid is probably the best thing and it isnt needed to learn shapeshifting yet for optimal rotation or avoidance of immobility effects.

druid offers the most versatile start and offers ranged and melee solutions.

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WotLK leveling sucks. There, I said it. You spend hours fighting unnamed zombies and tall humans for that coveted go at the Lich King. 80% of the first few zones is just filler, with very few exceptions, hardly any “story” to be seen.

Not to mention zones are so huge that starting there without flying sounds like a huge pain.

As a new player let them play classic cata, at least they’ll experience some flavor of their chosen race in the first few zones.

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Druid is def a really good class to start out on. Gives you all the options and is pretty easy to pick up. (also I find Wowhead to good for letting you know whats a good starter build and rotation).
As to what expansion I think thats down to what your friend enjoys. They each have a very different flavour! (although maybe not Cata as I think it helps to have some backstory already for that one as its quite disjointed).

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How about Legion for Class Hall, exploring the class, etc.?

Well, she will mostly going to play only Balance or Resto, she is not very interested in melee or even tanking.

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I dont know if they have changed it but if it is her first character, arent she forced to lvl in BFA or is Chromie available from the start now?

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I would suggest MoP, BFA, or Legion whatever she likes thematically the most. When I was a new player though, I was most captivated by Pandaria and BFA visually :smile: Shadowlands is also not a bad choice.

Would really recommend Evoker actually. It’s very new player friendly and doesn’t require any macros. Most spells are similar to Mobas with skillshots, and it has 2 supportive specs, while the damage one is very easy. Button count is also pretty low.

Discipline Priest currently got reworked and is very easy and intuitive to play. It’s also visually very captivating and looks cool now. I bet she’d love disc Priest. Good luck!

Else another suggestion would be Resto Druid. They barely have to shift, and until it’s relevant, she will already have figured it out most likely. Thanks to treants there is also a lot of passive healing too.

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Thank you very much! I think for Evoker she needs to have at least level 50 character, but I am not quite sure.

Yea, maybe BFA could be nice since it’s very “groundy” expansion.

If disc got reworked, maybe to suggest that, have to see how it looks like now.

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It’s very easy now, and feels satisfying. They really did a good job at reworking it. It’s not complicated anymore like it was

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My experience as a casual player: I started with a druid, and got so used to being able to heal that on other characters I always forget to bring food and potions. If she wants to be able to play other classes as well, you might want to pay attention to that, or start her on a ranged dps.

Also,

I think this is still accurate.

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Legion is probably a good pick because of the class quests and the atmosphere. BFA is also a fair choice because of the straight forward story and background (no confusing time traveling, different worlds and dimensions, etc).

Can’t help much with classes because I came back to the game only fairly recently. I used to main a druid on my previous account for over fifteen years and loved it for the versatility, which made it ideal for my preference to only play one character (or at least only a few). But the game and most classes have become more complex than they used to be, and I don’t know where druid stands these days in terms of accessibility (forgiving rotations, low number of spinning plates, etc).

There are class trials in the game, which may be something your friend could spend a bit time on. In general, I think it’s best they pick something that thematically appeals to them and that may offer two roles (perhaps ranged dps and healing, based on what you wrote).

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I came back to the game on a new account about a month before 10.2 and Chromie was an option right away (I leveled through Shadowlands on a DK since that is where I had stopped). The BFA starting quest did pop up automatically, but it wasn’t mandatory.

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druid is very easy to learn actually, sure it has shapeshifting but you generally mostly just use travel form and the form wich tied to your specc.

So its a perfect class to learn wow on. you can try all roles and see what fits you best.

But if she wants ranged dps as a first time then hunter or warlock might be great. The pets can tank alot of your stuff out in the world.

But honestly, just ask her to pick a class she might like. We don’t know what role, class fnatasy she likes

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would aug evoker not be the ideal choice if she likes to play support classes? it doesn’t have many buttons to press i believe so it may be a simple option to start with.

not sure if there are any restrictions to pick it though. otherwise, last time i checked disc priest out (start of df), it had a smaller amount of buttons to push and didn’t feel overwhelming.

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I didnt play when evoker came out so not quite sure about the class, and also think you need to have level 50 character to be able to make Evoker.

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The first Evoker a player creates only requires the purchase of Dragonflight. Successive Evokers (on other servers) require a level 50 character on those servers.

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i think older expansions are better for new mmo players because it’s easier to understand. with shadowlands she’s gonna face a lot of stuff like covenants conduits mission table anima etc. but if you go to wotlk it’ll be a smoother questing experience while she’s learning the basics

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I chose Shaman.

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Ya SL doesn’t seem like a new player expansion with those things, thanks for point it out @Breaths.

Any specific reason for Shaman?

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For someone support oriented, I’d really recommend holy/discipline for something simple to start with, although don’t consider newbies stupid so don’t be afraid to just let your friend experiment.

As for addons, you really need nothing more than DBM, the base ui is very good and works for me even at the higher end stuff. No use overwhelming her, but do let her know that if anything annoys her in the ui she could ask for an addon idea, if it’s possible to fix it.

For leveling expansions like Pandaria and beyond have very strong leveling experiences and BFA has a streamlined ui in the form of displaying main quests for you to focus on if you want just that.

And most importantly make sure you let your friend explore, learn stuff by herself and only really offer help rather than force it(I’m not saying you would, but many do, ruining their friends’ experience in the process)

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