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Wow... uh sorry deathlich i didn't even see your post oh what you thought of the character classes till just now. I had only saw darkness's and thought that was it for what was posted recently in this thread. I didn't scroll up to see yours. Well I was talking about the Deathknight from Warcraft 3 is overpowered by the paladin. Is what I was talking about. Didn't know you guys meant WoW's paladin.

Oh I payed 8 dollars to pay for the Final Stress Test they made a couple days ago. I've been playing for a while and I made two classes. I wasn't sure on whether to have an Orc Warrior and a Human Priest, or a Human Warrior and an Orc Shaman. Through it all I made an Orc Warrior and a Human Priest. Still I have doubts on whether I made the right choice.

For some reason my mouse doesn't show up on the game screen and I have to guess where it is in order to click onto things. However, the mouse isn't needed to do combat so I have no trouble there. All I have to do is hit the tab button to select a target on the field, then start casting spells. I asked and no one else playing the game seems to have my mouse problem... must be my comp.

The game is fun and my two character classes are very different when it comes to playing. So fortunately it's not difficult to play more then one class and I have fun with each.

edit: On what I've gotten done with my classes. The warrior seems to be able to go around and kill things faster. However it's a lot harder to kill my priest, even when I get jumped by more then one unit, which I can't say for my Warrior. I can just sit there all day basically and heal myself. Mana and Health seem to replenish pretty fast for both classes. I don't think I really ever need any food or drink to replenish it. I've only used one piece of food once as a warrior because I was stuck in a place where the monsters were stronger then me and my party had all died off, but me.

Deathliches opinion on the classes eh?

Druid: The druid is definately not like a priest. Like the warrior the, the druid is able to change his combat at anytime in the game to suit what kind of party he is in or if he's going solo. Unlike the warrior who can only switch between a very offensive person, to a very defensive person, to something inbetween for soloing. Each form of the warrior has its own set of spells. The druid can turn into a bear to tank for the group, a cat to deal high damage if there is multiple melee friends in the group or to just solo, or use his druid form to heal and cast buffs.

Hunter: The hunter is intresting, but all the classes are. You don't summon units, you really just befriend them. They can learn their own abilities and they aren't fully loyal you have to give them presents and love to keep them loyal. It's very different from a warlock.

Mage: The mage isn't just a solo spell user, but since he doesnt heal, summon, or cast great buffs, he has the most powerful ranged spells. He is useful as a ranged ally and his frost spells can keep an enemy from dealing hardly any damage to a melee unit.

Priest: Well the Priest as far as the WoW's discription goes is this, "Priests guide the spiritual destiny of their people. Through their insight of the mind. They are able to shape an individual's beliefs. Whether to inspire or terrify, soothe or dominate, heal or harm. Just as the heart can hold both darkness and light, priests weild powers of creation and devestation by channeling the potent forces faith." Which sort of sounds like what I look for as far as magic goes. They have neat spells that deal high damage also, maybe not side effects like a mage's frost slowing, but they also have the ability to turn an enemy and have them fight for you for as long as you desire or put an enemy to sleep. They have okay spell buffs and will keep it's allies full of health.

Rogue: The rogue is a very different class from a warrior you can't go around killing things. You have to use a lot of strategy and make sure you don't get too many direct hits, because you have low armor and low life. You also cast spells not using mana or rage (like the warrior,) you use this different system called energy.

Shaman: The shaman.. I dunno about his ability to fight. I don't think he really can... I know he doens't have any summon spells. He is a mix between a priest and a mage. Not really better at either of those classes then they are, but he has the neatest buffs to aid allys and himself.

Warlock: the warlock is very different too like all the classes. He uses his pets to deal his damage he also has DOT spells which is damage over time. He can use drain life to heal himself or sacrifice some of his pet's life to replenish some mana. He has curses to hex an enemy and he can cast spells to make his summoned units stronger.

Warrior: The warrior is anything but boring. Us Warriors are the ones out there protecting your warlock and rogue butt. Blizzard wanted to be very careful when making WoW in order to make sure the warrior didn't seem boring to it's fans. Like I said in an earlier post. The warrior goes around killing things a little faster then other classes, but it's a lot harder to kill a priest. A few years ago I wasn't interested in a warrior class. Thinking they were the least appealing of all classes in any game, but over the years I've realized I'm a lot better with a warrior class then most people. Since I'm good at strategy and I'm quick at movement I'm very good at keeping myself alive and if I'm taking charge of the group and doing all the tanking we usually prosper. Besides it's usually my personality to be a warrior. I also like supporting my team mates and helping others out. So that's why I chose a priest for my second character. Like I said, I'm very good at strategy and I can make sure my team mates don't get themselves killed. Also the priest isn't just a heal buffer he can be a mean damage dealer. I basically use my Warrior to solo and help out newcomers and my priest to just help out and learn. I suggest trying out the warrior, just do the first few simple quests and get to level 4-5. I think you'll find that it may not be your kind of style, but it's not so bad either.

In all fairness the skin I chose for my orc looks sort of like a tealish color because in the creation room he was surrounded by a dark-red sky and he looked like he was a dark, dark green, but I don't care I still like him. I haven't formed a party with my priest yet, but I've had no trouble soloing with him. I go around healing people and casting buffs.

1-5 @Bloodthroe and 6@Darkness.

1 I was just getting my information from what other people said and my past experience with the same classes in other games, so my info was bound to be off from the start. I have never truly seen or played the game so that also contributes to my statements. Although my attitude towards different classes is likely to change upon my purchase of the game.
2 I read that alot of people think of the Mage as a solo character because his AOE -Area Of Effect- spells can wipe out many creatures at the same time and some people don't like kill hogs and tend not to invite a Mage every time they make a party (this is what I read about three months ago, so Blizzard may have changed it).
3 A Blizzard rep. said that the Shaman is the "average character" who "isn't really good or bad at anything." Also he said that "they fair well in combat too." That is why I said him being the average character. I didn't know he didn't summon though...unless tikis count as summons.
4 The reason I called the Warrior class boring is because I'm a spellcasting type of person. I don't mind beating the living snot out of stuff, but I'd prefer spells, expecially fire spells or summoning.
5 Thanks for answering to my post and I like your characters looks (both of 'em).
6 How do you get the options for the poll to show? (ex. for the options of the poll being orc, ne, etc.)

-edit-BTW Bloodthroe do you play on the PvP or Allience vs. Horde server. Tell me about the one you've been playing on and if you have played on both, then please tell me which is better and what the differences between them are.

player vs player of course! the more challenge the better. The only diff between the servers is that other real life people won't be able to kill you if they have stronger characters or something and you're on a regular server. I think that's the only diff between PVP and regular. I've been only playing on the PVP, I'm still early in the game and in the early towns so I haven't seen any alliance RL people with my orc and same with my priest. But I did form a party and raided a human outpost. All humans were NPCs though.

edit- Oh both servers are alliance vs horde. Just in PVP both sides can kill each other. Some people don't like PVP when playing online games. Where a stronger unit can kill you once you leave a town and loot your body or where you form a party and take it over to enemy territory only to be jumped by 3 enemy parties. Although I don't know if someone can loot your body on WoW and I heard that WoW doesn't fail in PVP where things like the above mentioned happen.

i would like to be a blood elf...cool starting area and stuff...orc warriors are probably the most strong races i intercepted a rogue in wsg and he died on my lvl 80 orc warrior...so if you want to be a horde be orc/bloodelf/tauren for starting if you want to be a ally pick human/night elf/gnome cuz they're fun