What will you play?

[kahari]

Alliance for sure (never cared for horde questing).
I'm completely torn between healing (priest) and tanking (warrior).

So I might just be crazy and be a bear. I know druid tanks have a bad reputation in vanilla, but enough people swear by them that I'm not entirely convinced the rep is warranted. Any former druids care to weigh in? I figure if it's awful I can always fall back on healing.

[Drain]

Druid all the way, if you want the easier choice in Classic. There is no contest once so ever here. Druid is one of the easiest classes to level. Warrior is the exact opposite, the single hardest class to level. This is made even more true on a PvP server. Druids are great in the low levels, where as Warriors are just free honor points to anyone that wants them. Warriors lagg far behind every other class in Classic, not even beginning to catch up until 40+ when you get MS/BT, a mount, and plate. Before 30, they are nearly useless to anything other than tanking, which a Druid can do just as well without any of their problems. Druid is complete easy mode compared to a Warrior.

[kahari]

Hey thanks for the weigh-in Drain. I'm not so worried about leveling - I leveled two warriors and druid in retail vanilla, and personally I felt both of them were no fun at all to level either way I'm not worried about hitting 60.

Mostly I'm concerned about my performance in groups. I loved warrior - being fantastic damage as fury (with good hit gear!) and a great tank too, but there are way too many warriors on every server. Druid tank seems like a challenge (which I like) but I don't want to invest a huge time dump into my character if I'm going to be grossly inferior to warrior tanks even at my best. I'm really torn! Especially because if I know I'm going to be healing, I really prefer being a priest. Decisions....

[Smorgeybork]

Undecided.

I like the flexibility of a druid, but not the hybrid tax.
I like pummeling stuff as warriors, but I don't like getting kited.
I like the fun tools priests get, but I don't like being the heal bitch.

It's not like you can just reroll either, characters take a long time commitment and rolling a new one feels like a huge waste.

[Hatson]

Just remember Kahari, that a Warrior is the best scaling class in the game. So.. lvl 60 is a different story than the leveling game. The Warrior has always been the king at endgame, and there's no exception in Vanilla. Be it PvE or PvP. They're the best tanks in the game at 60 in Vanilla and they're unstoppable killing machines in PvP. (Although you might want a pocket healer there to help there, but you can still do just fine without them)

[Shaggoth]

I agree with Hatson
As I played warrior in the beta and managed to get some end-game stuff, it's really funny when who have a healbot (shaman for WF // priest to dispell all the shit you can get). On the low-geared people it goes like this :
Charge - aa crit - MS crit - exec when you're lucky with 2 crits (it happened quite often with my 30%)
AND A FUCKING SPINAL REAPER BRO
But you'll hate two guys : the hunts and the frost mage. Those guys are slowing bitches.

About the end-game part it's both true and false
Warlock have a strong late with both fear, dots lot of stamina and hign-damage bolts
Mage (frost in PvP) have like 100% crit chance, the frost bolts deals like 1500 damage (on 4-5k for a good geared warrior) and the pom pyro just OS you
Priest have shield that prevent you from getting rage and the SP perma-stun you with their passive (unless you're an orc)
Rogue have tons of cc but if they stun lock someone else, you can tear their ass too
Druids are also good at kitting but without the mega damage output the hunt and mage have
Hunter are hunter, they can trap you with FD/frozen trap than start the fight with a 2k aimed shot
Shaman ? THE (?) most broken in vanilla PvP (expiation ftw)
-enhanced - if you crit with WF, you'll see what OS means (mainly on cloth/leather)
-elem - elemental mastery, chain lightning and frost shock
Paladin are really hard to kill with their invulnerability, and even more if they are spec heal with the plate+shield but I've never seen one vindic dealing that much damage

[Switchblade]

I'll make a horde character, but I'm not sure about which class, maybe a warlock or something else

[Hatson]

I agree with Hatson
Shaman ? THE (?) most broken in vanilla PvP (expiation ftw)
-enhanced - if you crit with WF, you'll see what OS means (mainly on cloth/leather)

Shag, you'll be happy to know I'm going Enhancement.. for the 3rd time in Vanilla. It's just too much fun, I can't resist playing it again and again.

We can PvP together, it would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s#t=40
I can be Aladdin, and you'll be Jasmine. Someone photoshop this.
And by 'A Whole New World' - I mean WF crits.

Old screenie from early ED days: http://i.imgur.com/qc08tmD.jpg
>read combat log, it was an OS

And that's in shitty blues. :3

[Hatson]

Paladin are really hard to kill with their invulnerability, and even more if they are spec heal with the plate+shield but I've never seen one vindic dealing that much damage

As long as you don't send a pet to attack a Retri, you won't be in too much danger of seeing their one shots.
The dumbest thing you can do is hit a Retri/Reckoning Bomb with fast/low hitting swings, as he will just spam Sit (X) so that the puny hits crit him, instantly getting tons of reckoning stacks. You don't ever want to do that.

[Sélenne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=635Twh1NuIo

Shaggoth and Hatson IRL