WOW - Worst Class?

IwantanewPC · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:03

Thoughts?

Bigpig · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:05

none all have there good and bad points

Puppetmaster · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:06

worst for what?

PVP? PVE (Raids), Grinding?

IwantanewPC · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:09

Generally I guess.. but why not answer all of those?

Hedge · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:16

By the time you hit 60 they are all pretty balanced. Rogues might dominate against certain classes.. yet get nuked by others for example.

The balance is pretty good alround. I guess best or worst can only be judged by how fun they are to play. I have a shaman at 27 and find that boring.. and i have a rogue at 60 and a mage at 40. I liked the rogue and mage a lot more than the shammy.

Gonna sell my account soon anyway cos im sick of the game. it took too much life and it is worth nothing other than a few epics etc.

Phalanx · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:17

though druid is my favourite class, it is without a doubt the most gimped class in the game.

levels 1-59 we are as balanced as other classes
at 60 everything changes

Cat form DPS
With the ultimate Cat form gear in the game, our DPS will be equal to a Tier 0 - tier 1 Rogue who has no idea how to play. Cat form scales horribly with gear

Bear Form
Bear form is mainly down to the guild, with very good gear (some considered "rogue" loot) we can tank very well since we can gain the highest armour and health in the game. However we cannot block or parry which is why guilds will usually want a warrior. Our attacks also scale horribly with gear so while we can hold aggro very well, we can't do much damage.

Moonkin Form
Incredibly mana inefficient, lack of leather itemization and bad scaling are the main issues, again it's based upon whether your guild is experimental enough to allow a moonkin to buff the mages. Scaling and Mana inefficiency should be fixed in TBC. Since there are so few balance items in the game, we usually have to ninja cloth items.

Caster form (healing)
Our only decent role currently, our healing is on par with priests pretty much with the best HoTs in the game, only problems are we have slow heals with swiftmend and nature's swiftness as our only insta cast heals. The only other problem noticeable is that we cannot lose aggro like a priest's fade.

PvP
We are by far the hardest class to PvP in the game, we have no imba spells, no burst damage and our in combat stun is available in Bear Form. Most classes consider a druid a free honor kill. To be effective in PvP, you need to make use of all your forms, have exceptional gear and a huge amount of experience to even begin to be a threat.

PvE
1-59, we can fill any role in instances, DPS, Healing, Tanking, at level 60, the scaling issues hit us and we can only heal effectively.

Im sorry i wrote so much but there's a reason druid is the most rare emo class in the game

and im annoyed I have to wait till january to roll a shaman

Hedge · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:33

why do you need to wait til january to roll a shaman? you waiting for new race?

Phalanx · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:34

Hedge said:
why do you need to wait til january to roll a shaman? you waiting for new race?

yeah, all my friends are alliance and it'd be a bit anti social to play a different faction

MNuTz · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:37

As with all games, its based around the rules of rock, paper, scissors.

It doesnt matter what class you are, there will always be at least one that will kick your backside.

Phalanx · 30 Oct 2006 at 15:42

MNuTz said:
As with all games, its based around the rules of rock, paper, scissors.

It doesnt matter what class you are, there will always be at least one that will kick your backside.

or if you're a druid, all classes will kick your backside

Tical · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:17

Phalanx said:
PvP
We are by far the hardest class to PvP in the game, we have no imba spells, no burst damage and our in combat stun is available in Bear Form. Most classes consider a druid a free honor kill. To be effective in PvP, you need to make use of all your forms, have exceptional gear and a huge amount of experience to even begin to be a threat.

Hard to master yes, but once mastered you'll have no problems vs any class (equally skilled druid and shadow priest are the exception).

My friend plays a druid, played with him from level 1 to 60, and PvPed with him up until he hit rank 13. The stuff he can do is unbelievable, like any class, if you get the combos down right and adapt to differing situations druid rocks. They arn't suppose to do huge amounts of burst damage like rogues, but they can last infinately longer with roots, bash, heals, travel form etc.

I like to think i'm a fairly good PvPer on both my priest and rogue, but I really wish I had a druid to play about on.

scorza · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:27

Shaman is the worst class. Totally overrated in PvP, and completely outshone by the Paladin in PvE. Come Febuary (I'll give it a month for the Blood Elf Paladins to get to 70), there'll be no reason to take more than one shaman on a raid.

Oberon · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:09

To be honest WoW is no where near balanced for PvP.

SpellCasters/Hybrids > Melee

Warriors in particular get downright owned until they are in BWL gear and above. Even then it takes skill to kill anything that uses range in about 3 seconds, if you don't they will kite you and you have pretty much nothing to counter it.

Spell casters have insane damage output, excellent kiting and control utilities etc. They also have Melee damage reduction/abosorbtion shields which are completely imbalanced and annoying. Rogues/Warriors and i suppose paladins are pretty easy to kill with Mage/Warlock/Priest/Shaman.

Druids are free HK's no matter what you think.

sarutobi · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:51

my personal favs are rogues, warriors and paladins

i dont mind priests n warlocks n mages

im not much of a fan of the others, just personal choice though.

preists are the weakest of all but are the most useful

Hedge · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:55

If you want a lvl 60 Rogue with 5/8 Nightslayer, Viskag and other epics just gimme a shout. There is also a lvl 40 mage with good gear too.. I need rid of it. and need some cash hehe

0gami · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:55

I really dislike loladins - they just seem to suck.

I was a Hunter for a while, got him to 60 and got as far as ZG and MC

But now i'm playing Priest and absolutely loving it!

sarutobi · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:56

they should make a ninja class, be a bit overpowered though

a lvl 1 ninja>lvl 60 anything else

Puppetmaster · 30 Oct 2006 at 19:03

scorza said:
Shaman is the worst class. Totally overrated in PvP, and completely outshone by the Paladin in PvE. Come Febuary (I'll give it a month for the Blood Elf Paladins to get to 70), there'll be no reason to take more than one shaman on a raid.

How are they the worst class. In pvp i think they probably are the best class for one on one's.

They literally have a spell / totem for everything. Grounding totem and earth shock + melee against casters, tremor totem against warlocks and priests.

Warriors just dps and shock, heal every so often.

Paladins can be a pain as can rogues.

Also, if you have read the wow forums, you will see that there is and will be need for shamans. Raid totems i think are planned, which will be a big reason to keep shamans in. They are also a great hybrid class to have in a raid.

Dark_Injection · 31 Oct 2006 at 17:18

Adapt to a class revolving around your friends.

If they are mostly healers roll and warrior or rogue and visa versa.
If they have a equal amount of melee or healer classes, roll a caster etc !

Priest is very fun when you gear yourself up, PvP healing is the way forward.
But as other people mentioned, do you want to PvP or PvE.

I know if i could re roll again it would be a Warrior.

Your call anyway, they are all good fun, just depends on what you like and want to do.

scorza · 31 Oct 2006 at 17:41

Vicious said:
How are they the worst class. In pvp i think they probably are the best class for one on one's.

Nope, equivalent skill level/geared warriors, warlocks, priests, hunters, druids all own us. At least they did until I stopped playing a few months back. 1v1 PvP hardly ever happens anyway in my experience.

Vicious said:
They literally have a spell / totem for everything. Grounding totem and earth shock + melee against casters, tremor totem against warlocks and priests.

You're lucky if its worth dropping two totems during a pvp fight. Grounding totem is good, as is earthbind, but the rest are all very much meh. Tremor totem is a waste of space - yes it breaks fear, but only every couple of seconds, so unless you're extremely lucky it gives the fearer enough time to either escape or cast their next spell.

Vicious said:
Warriors just dps and shock, heal every so often.

What DPS? - most raiding shaman are required to be resto-specced

Shocks only happen every 6 seconds you know - and warrior dps can be insane.

Vicious said:
Also, if you have read the wow forums, you will see that there is and will be need for shamans. Raid totems i think are planned, which will be a big reason to keep shamans in. They are also a great hybrid class to have in a raid.

Dunno about raid totems, knowing Blizzard they'll prolly give us a raid-wide sentry totem or something

Like I say - shamans are totally overrated in pvp.