Which classes were you put off by

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I have a Rogue and a Shaman in their 50’s that I just can’t bring myself to level up further because they’re just uninspiring to play. I’ve never played a Warrior as in no mmorpg have I ever found the class interesting to play.

I tried a Monk, which was a class that never interested me, and I’m enjoying that a lot. Tried the Tank spec and found it so poor that I respecced back into Damage within 10 minutes. Haven’t tried Healing spec and probably never will since the Damage spec is fine as regards self-healing.

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Warlock because I started one in BC when I started the game and then found a on-hit shadow-bolt staff and proceeded to happily auto attack mobs with it assuming “I won’t have to manually cast shadow bolt anymore”
Mage friend with more experience then me laughed at me and mocked me (tongue in cheek wise) before explaining why this was bad, havn’t turned back since
Now playing one on classic, considering rolling one on retail as well

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I deleted druids 5 times already, always in their 30s-40s. I finally leveled one in Legion because of the neon cat and now it’s my other main.

But honestly, I think it was a character creation mistake. I didn’t want the female night elf because I had two already, so I made a male one. I thought he sucked so bad, with crinkly face and weird casting animation, I deleted him at lvl 25. Later on, I made trolls, worgens, female tauren… Not one sat right with me. It turns out, I wanted to have the vanilla cinematic druid all this time. Made her in legion and I’m really happy with her, she’s my alliance main. The only other race for me (for druids) is male tauren, I’m leveling one right now (highmountain for the heritage).

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I had never been interested in shamans. There was absolutely nothing about them that I found even remotely intriguing. But then, one day about 2 years ago, I created a Horde shammy because I was bored out of my mind and wanted to try something new.

As it happens, I soon realised that shaman was actually incredibly fun to play and I regretted not giving this class a proper chance before. But I learned my lesson - never judge a class before actually playing it.

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Do it, I recommend Dk or Warrior first.

For my answer, the longest time I took with a class was DK.

For a long time I’d never really played one properly…i’d done the basics in wotlk, got one into outland, but usually I was a bit “meh” and just left it.

About 3 months ago I thought “I don’t have a DK max, let’s do it” and it was amazing compared to what I remember. Huge fun.
But the best part was blood. I love tanking as blood. Always having to watch my health to time death strike, being able to leech lots of HP with a well-timed bonestorm. I main tanks and even though I play my Dk the least (He’s my horde toon and I main ally) whenever I tank on him I have an absolute blast. I’m looking forward to 8.3 so I can racechange him into an alliance panda and have him join my ally mains and he’ll probably become my most played char for tanking.

Warrior was another one I came to late because I never really found the concept interesting. It’s the arms spec I really like. The whole “how high can you go?” during colossus smash with Test of Might in great fun, see how big I can get those execute crits! Still got a shocking weapon (400ilevel lol) but I’ve managed over 60k execute crits thanks to proper test of might preparation!
And seeing all those big bleed numbers when cleaving a pack of about 30 mobs in island expeditions is good fun. So many numbers!

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Warrior. It has to be warrior.

I am what some call an alt-o-holic. Even now. I have counts on fingers 3… 4 L120 warriors.

It all started in vanilla. I made 1st one in early vanilla, but later demoted that lady into bank alt.

In TBC, I made new one - I leveled as arms, and I had never ever taken so much time to get something to 70 I did then. She is still 70. Because of what weapon she has and is not available in game and so then I made her “holder of old”

Then came WOTLK and I had my DK mania - made 3 in beta and on live made one of each race except gnome, goblin… and tauren. Levelled all 80 too. One thing that did not get 80 in wotlk was my warriors.

And so fast forward to MoP. my guild fell, and my monk went to look a guild to get her Garosh mount. So one of new alts as profession slave (enchanter) was warrior. I wanted to break my fingers.

Faster forward to Legion - so I take invasion and level all my warriors over the years to 110. And then void elves come. And I think “they have cool heritage armour” and that realm, that account had no warrior. And so I made another rogue, leveled that 20-110, so i can make warrior 100 with character boost because before falls the darn sky I level another warrior because it is the worst class I have ever played.

I… just… cant. And yes, I have 4 L120 warriors, and 1 L110 warrior. That class simply is not for me. And guys, you cannot say I have not tried! I even did M+ 10s with my warrior because everyone said warrior is fun and best M+ tank. I crawled back to my blood dk and brew monk soon after.

Other honourable mentions I am not very enthusiastic about are paladins. But least paladins of mine have occasionally got to tank (and even heal) in places. but i absolutely loathe retribution. IN past decade only time I played retri was in mage tower for sword.

And shaman is another honourable mention. If I want to play melee I play rogue, if I want to play caster I play mage and if I want to heal I play druid. I do have a… 1 … L120 shaman, and that says a lot. :stuck_out_tongue:

I do have each class levelled 120, and some have duos, some have triplets, but none comes close to amount of dks I have. DK’s are THE best class for me.

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Damn, you have tried. It’s an acquired taste for sure, especially as tanking.
I have a lot more to do as prot than brew. I have to watch my 2 active mitigations, and make sure i’m not wasting Thunderclap and Shield Slam CDs, outside of that there’s revenge procs and then devastate, as well as other abilities if and when.
When I first went from my brewmaster monk main to trying tanking on my warrior I was really disturbed. I wasn’t used to “the flow”, I was clunky, and I felt weak. It was horrible. I focused on another char for a while.
Then I came back and tried again, because my monk is “done” (ie no more content for him to do that I can attend, as no mythic raids in my group, and I don’t really care for them, at about 440 ilevel) so I get bored of playing him quickly. The warrior has the most progress on essences so I feel obliged to keep trying, keep working on it. Steadily I get better, than I move my keybinds around and I find it: “the flow”. I finally have all that instinctive stuff down.

And I have to say, I find it so much more fun. And yes, it is powerful, my tank dps makes my monk’s look like critter slaps despite him being a good 19 ilevels ahead of me. It’s absolutely ridiculous if you have the right traits going. Avatar every second pull, and just below 80% critical block during avatar. Pop shield block (or Last Stand, because it’s not like it has a huge cooldown lol) and mobs can do diddly squat outside of spells. I’ve felt delicate at times on my monk, I feel like an absolute god on my warrior. I just march into huge pulls, do my cds right and there is no worry, I have a tool for the situation and i’m tough as nails, and the healer isn’t straining to help me out. Sorry kung fu panda, but my tin can panda has very much replaced you as my current tank of choice!

Now the class I just cannot get on with…would be DH…but only because it is elf only. I actually loved veng tanking in legion. But I will not paly one because of the races.
In terms of playstyle i’d have to say it’s probably paladin that sits least with me these days. Healing is alright, I find the tanking just lacks something for me and the DPS spec feels less fluid than arms with a bit less to watch. They’re probably very similar, just I dunno, I don’t get on with it anymore. It’s weird because I mained a paladin all the way through TBC.

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elemental shammy, cos I thought it was just another mage type. yknow, throwing elements about etc etc. Tried it, loved it, guild needed one, changed it to my main, mained it for years and loved every minute of it

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I think here we have the clear example of ‘playstyle’ types and game-flow preferences. For example brewmonks actually feel and “flow” very close to blood dks - which I have been almost whole my wow-life since wotlk. Blood dk is more button smash, but generic feel and rhythm (lets call it like that) is very similar.

I’ve noticed from early on that the shield-tank game play does not sync for me compared to “face tanks” like originally druid, later death knights and monks. Both shield tanks - paladins and warriors have same kind of style and rhythm. The core logic is same - in sense of what, how and when you press your def/off etc abilities. Where as face-tanks have similar - “keep this buff up 24/7, fill with that buff, and then heal with that ability”

I love tanking - its what makes me feel relaxed and relief my stress. And only reason I am not tank in Classic because… I … I… I… cannot play warriors ! And you kind of have to be warrior in Classic if you would love raid tanking.

Side note - I noticed you don’t like elves. Majority of my characters are either night elves or blood elves, and only classes that elves cannot be are not elves. And death knights. Death knight army of mine is special. My original mage is not night elf either because I never race change. If I want to change races I level new one. Hence some of my dks came to be - human and worgen. Later was for tanking due racial being good for Firelands last boss (and I still solved it by using priest grip on my night elf and a speed potion).

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That’s really weird, because I LOVE tanking on my blood DK (not my main only because he is horde, but when he can become an ally panda, we’ll see). And I feel that Blood, Brew, and Prot all have different feeling “vibes” to me.

Monk feels the most methodical aka “keep this up, maintain this” type. Mainly how I position is my choice as I have good mobility.

Warrior feels kinda like a halfway house. I have reactive DR (Shield block, Last STand, Avatar) but I alsohave a maintain this (Ignore Pain) and some general rules of thumb play (like SS on CD, TC on CD).

DK to me feels the most reactive. You spend RP on DS only if you’re gonna cap, so you hold your resources. You don’t spend runes unless you need charges/RP/you’re gonna cap. There’s a lot more observation of my resources and my health to determine what I do, rather than just (do X). I think keeping BS charges above 5 for ossuary is the only general rule (other than never capping resources, but every class does that).
But stuff like Vampiric Blood? Bonestorm? AMS? These are all abilities that benefit from timing and I really like that.

I can see why people would say they’re similar as you have in terms of how they work in principle. When playing though I do feel these three are quite different, but I’ve managed to find a rhythm for them all that works when I play them, and I think DKs is the favourite so far as it is very much “pay as you go” tanking.

TBH I find I’ve become disillusioned with BRM only because i’ve been playing it so long this expo. Chances are i’ll take a break and come back to it and fall in love all over again, but atm really enjoying playing him as a healer as well.

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For me brew is a ‘joke’ … haha I mean I play it because of a joke. I am death knight to the core. I love death knights. I love their lore, I love that they actually are not protagonists in this game - your character also is a jerk. This you also learned during class hall quests, and mount quests and so on. They are… not nice.

But some time during BoD raid we had very bad night and troll bosses - what was it called ‘conclave’ ? and I was the ‘solo’ tank of that nasty guy that normally requires tank swap, but most groups just opted out of that and used dps or a healer taunt. So we have bad day - dps forgot do his job, healers too busy with raptors chasing them or what not either way i died, other tank died. A lot. And then raid leader tosses "I should come on my monk… " and I pulling a diva, “Oh I have seen your tanking, fine… I come on MY monk!” - of course everyone - every one of the 19 people thought that was some late night banter.

… and ego-hurt as I was 2 reset later I was there with my monk demanding mythic progression spot. I did intend to go back to dk for eternal palace, but … well with all that movement and monk simply shining on some fights - and I decided that I stick with my monk in raids. i still treat and see my DK as my ‘main’, even when monk has higher ilevel and does better content.

never intended to be brewmaster monk. It was supposed to be a drama queen move from my behalf. But I am having great fun in raids. And oh my being defensive as monk is so easy and the mobility. Dk in me weeps every time I chi torpedo. And raid occasionally weeps too, especially on Orgozoa alike fights, where I chi torpedo over the ledge.

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Haha, yeah Monks kick some serious business in raids. I haven’t raided on this guy yet, and although I prefer him in mythic+, I think my monk will remain my to go guy in raids (as said though being able to paly my alliance as DK where all my money and tradeskill maxes are may change things, he lonely horde atm).

Monks just have too much going for them in raids. Super crazy kiting in an environment where there isn’t mobs everywhere, stagger is crazy good versus big boss hits, as is their stacking dodge. Like, I’ve tanked stuff on my monk in EP where the other tank (it was my first time) would be like “Care on Orga, those first hits as nasty” and i’m like “Eh? What do you mean?” because stagger makes Orgazoa tickle even at low sting stacks.

The only tank I have yet to try seriously in any endgame (as said did DH in legion…but elves…really wanna try it again though) is druid. I’ve never tanked endgame dungeons as a druid, only levelling ones. My druid is 115 and climbing slowly. I dunno whether i’ll like it though. I seem to be waiting on Mangle procs most of the time it feels like to get some rage. Not that’s I’m dying, I just feel like i’m spamming swipe a lot because i’m waiting for other stuff to do? Maybe it smoothens out when you get good gear/traits.

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Time for you to hit the AV event - there’s nothing slow in there :wink: Its so fast I think Blizz will nerf it on 110+

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Not a class itself but all of healing specs, now when they are prunned and easy i find it enjoyable to a degree when leveling monk/pala/priest i spend more time healing in dungeons than actual dps which i’m leveling ^^

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I may consider this, but abusing the emissary stuff to grind rep on my chars who need rep ressences is quite hard to ignore. It’s the week to grind rep! Here’s hoping they don’t nerf it because by end of this week I should have all of my chars whom need at elast one at revered, which is what they are nerfing the recs down to in 8.3. Screw exalted, done it on one, never again (except this guy because i’m not too far off with the active bonuses)

I’d also probably wait for the WOTLK TW event, prefer dungeon levelling. From what I hear AV is a complete balls up this time around with people just farming rams and whatnot. I liked vanilla AV but that doesn’t extend to spending 3 hours in it because half of the players are focused on Farmville questing.

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Druid, let’s face it… they look dumb. Especially when you was able to turn in to a tree. Dunno what was worse, that or the chicken form. Let’s go fight god like beings and bring a fat chicken who’s gonna chuck light at them.

Really enjoyed playing them though, still haven’t found a beefy transmog that looks good though. Some of their specs have been stupidly OP over the last 15 years.

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None.

I’m put off by a few classes, but I don’t like them because of how they play mostly.
Hate Priest most.

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For me, it’s Shaman.

I just don’t really understand Ele or Ench and I don’t understand the rotations. They don’t come as naturally to me as a Shadow Priest or Warlock (of any spec) would.

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I am generally terrible at melee DPS classes (Unholy/Frost Death Knights, Feral Druids, Fury Warriors, Rogues of any spec etc).

On the other hand I love tanking, but I avoid melee DPS specs, because I cannot play them properly.

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At first glances I was put off by BFA ret, until I tried it, then, I was certain it was trash.