To complemeent Corpseburner’s thread, which Class in this game do you feel the most kinship with?
For me, it’s always been Druid.
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Paladin, next question 
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Warrior from a strictly RP centric pov.
It enables me to wear anything I need (save for class exclusive noise)
Spear and shield? Do it.
Crossbows or bows AND be able to badbuttedly pose with them? Yep
Between all the cosmetic sets and civilian sets we have as well as the spell scrolls from inscription, all the toys, I’ve had comments from people surprised that my character is actually a warrior, because I just use its toolset to play a melee mage. And I love it.
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Druid was it for me for the longest time. Shadowlands killed druids for me.
Thank you blizzard.
Nowadays its priest. I dont know, something about playing shadowpriest just makes me happy.
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For me it’s either mage or priest.
Priest is a bit of an easier one to explain so I’ll knock that out the way first - Obahar was my first proper PvE character and later my actual first RP character. Without picking up the priest class when I did I don’t know if I’d have stuck around all these years later.
Mage has become my favourite class to actually play in content - rogue and priest are probably tied for second and from there it largely doesn’t matter - but it’s also just a class I feel you can get a lot of different angles from. You can have a mage that is youthful and inexperienced, old and wise, weak but in control of the power they do have, strong but lacking the finesse. You can have a mage that purely avoids combat and spends their time opening portals for paying clients, a mage that exists purely for utility (polymorphing, barriers, walls of ice, spreading ice across the ground to slip or slow enemies) - there’s so many different angles you can take with a mage and as long as you put some thought into the character the possibilities are endless. Granted that could be said about all classes - but I don’t feel like paladins, for example, have that same versitility (which is fine - they don’t need to, being a warrior of faith also comes with it’s own angles)
Anyway cloth classes good.
Admittedly if Titan’s Grip wasn’t a thing, I don’t think I would’ve made/played my warrior way back when. The spear and shield combo was an integral part of his character.
Mage. Next question, please.
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Mage, I suppose.
When it comes to casters I like the aesthetics of Warlocks a lot more but the class suffered a major blow when it lost metamorphosis to Demon Hunters and many of the core design elements for the class in general are very outdated. Burning Rush, for example, is exceptionally clunky and risky whereas most other classes have long since lost their negative elements by comparison.
So I shall go with mage, as it’s a very satisfying class with abilities that look fairly cool not to mention a lot of utility such as the ease of teleporting around the game world on a whim.
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Demon Hunter, Death Knight, and Warrior are my top three.
If I had to choose… Ugh, I don’t know. Between the first two. I love DH for the gameplay but DK for the lore.
Druid, as it’s the class I’ve been playing since Vanilla.
But must admit that since DF, Warrior also grew on me.
Kinda has to be Mage. They’re the only magic class not beholden to some sort of code or smelly.
Druids probably have the coolest powers but most of them have rules and/or duties that might put you at odds ( looking at you D.E.H.T.A. )
Paladin. Bonus points if it’s a human + retribution + from Lordaeron + wielding the Orcslayer 5000!
Warlock.
Relevancy-wise. Power-wise. Aesthetic-wise.
Warlock.
Who caused the Draenei to be exiled? Who made the orcs green? Who shattered the world? Who was doing necromancy before necromancy was cool?
Warlocks. The powers of the legion.
The best villain class both playable and unplayable. The best class quests back in vanilla. The best looks. The best pets. Consistently good tier sets. Iconic storylines.
You don’t like warlock? That’s okay. It’s like not liking John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. You either don’t get it or aren’t refined enough to understand the nuance. Warlock is the best class in this game.
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I look at the pedestrian masses crawling in the mud as they use crude devices or filthy animals to move around and feel nothing but contempt. To even try to empathize with them, to see things from the perspective of someone who can’t scream “Open wide!” at Azeroth and rip through her Ley Lines to move across the street, is simply something inconceivable. The sheer notion that there are people out there who need to do pathetic activities such as farming, hunting or baking fills me with disgust of unfathomable proportions. Their mere existence is an affront to everything good in this universe that the great Titans created with their mastery of that most awesome and glorious of supernatural powers: Arcane.
Frost Barrier - Alter Time - Ice Block - Blink and Displacement - Cold Snap - Mass Barrier, GG, I win, see you in next round, scrub!
Monk.
They tank, they DPS, they heal, and they don’t rely on any stupid external forces like the Light or Elements to do so. No begging or scraping at the altar of something greater, just pure self-mastery.
Since chi is all self-contained, even their Celestial Invocations are just manifestations of their own will rather than begging for someone else. They’re like “yeah, I’m so good at punching and inner peace that I can make a lightning tiger with it”.
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Shaman, they’re the cooler Paladins anyway. Very cool lore (I ignore the goblin shaman lore, it’s dumb), powerful, cool and imo it seels the battlemage fantasy way better than any other class. It was the first class that I played in this game and while I wasn’t fond of the changes Blizzard introduced in Cataclysm, I’ve returned to be a shaman enjoyer since Dragonflight. I really appreciate this new direction. On top of that? Very cool and satisfying spell visuals, some of the best in the game. Shaman also are imo the winners of the hero talent race in TWW because I don’t think they have a bad one, while for Enhancement specifically Tempest and Totemic provide two different and distinct playstyles that are fun in different ways. Also shaman sets are generally pretty solid.
I really want to like monk and I think it’s super interesting to portray in RP as well but I also can’t stomach the fact that Blizzard has neglected the class as much as they have the Pandaren. Their animations and spell effects are really lacking and feel super old compared to others. Still, the gameplay is still satisfying and unique compared to other dps/tanks/healers and they have some of the best transmog game in the game.
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Shaman.
First and foremost, it has one of the widest arsenals. Different elements, ancestors, beast spirits and more, all of them working in different ways depending from the race or even a faction, it allows to play as more different archetypes than most of the others. Same goes with the tactical role: you can excel in almost any position if you know what you want to achieve and which spirits use for it. Add to it an incredible flexibility when trying to multiclass (the Sunwalkers and orcish ancestral priests say hello), and you get a hoard of different roles to play, themes to explore and stories to tell.
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I think Mage and Warrior are the S class.
Most classes take inspiration from them and are just their variation with different layers.
Warlocks? They are just emo mages with additional kinks.
Priests and shamans? Those are altruistic mages with a different trench coat to their spells.
Death knights? They are a mix of mage+warrior.
Rogue? They were are dishonorable warriors.
Monks? Forgetful warriors that forgot to bring their 2h weapon to the battle
Oh-
Imagine a shaman wielding a ghostly ancestor as a 2H weapon.
With how many Pandaren ancestors are monks, it’s not certain who would wield whom as a weapon.
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So… Warcraft Monks are just like Guild Wars 2 Revenants?
Wielding the powers of powerful ancestors… sounds actually like a pretty cool idea to play with.