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I just started playing again (after a 4 year break..) and like to play a lot of alts. However, since heirlooms make alt play so much better now I want to get one char to 80 asap. Any suggestions?
Back when I played (just original wow), rogue/hunter were quickest imo.
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Most classes rip through mobs like wet tissue paper after the recent talent/spell changes. Pick a class you like and go bonzai.
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What Talehon said.
All the classes solo very well, there isn't any doomed soloing classes like the old days. Â
It is more important to find what you LIKE to play, than worry about a slight difference in speed, else you are going to waste a lot of time for nothing once you get to 85 and realize you hate your class and need to do another one.
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Agreed.
Play the class with the style you like. They all, pretty much, rock right now.
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What they all said. You really don't need heirlooms. Quest and run dungeons whenever you can. You'll be decked out in blues on your character permanently from level 25 and on. And the 20% XP bonus from heirlooms is negligible, seriously. The leveling is just that fast (and fun.)
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Pally imo.
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Wait a week and do it with the new 1-60 areas with The Shattering.
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If you have an existing level 55, roll a DK. They start at level 55. You walk out of the starter zone at level 58 (at a minimum) and right into Outlands, fully geared in good gear and ready to head to 70. Takes about 4 hours if you're new to the quests to get to 58. (i can do it in 2, but I've rolled at least a dozen during testing.)
As a melee class, both frost (AoE) and unholy (with pet) and self-heals as part of doing damage make this am easy butter-slicer class. There are quests in Northrend that often are group quests (elites) that the DK can solo. Not as easily as say a prot pally, but played right, just a chain-pulling monster.
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Dk is a class with almost zero downtime. Fun and can solo a lot of content that a lot of other classes can not.
Druid is also a fun class, as cat/bear also non stop soloing, able to heal or caster dps as a off spec if you like...very nice to have.
as the others already pointed out, ALL classes can solo very well.
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Thanks for all the input so far. I think I'm gonna go rogue for now.
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Wait a week and do it with the new 1-60 areas with The Shattering.
I'm playing 3-4 classes now and will lvl the rest once the new areas come out. I'm enjoying playing in the old zones, nostalgia ftw.
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I can't think of a class that levels slowly nowadays.
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Nothing levels slowly, but DK is still the fastest hands down.
Dual spec blood for elite quests and there are no group quests that you cannot do all the way to 80.
Spec frost for normal questing and you will tear through mobs as fast a rogue, but travel faster.
Plus, if you play a DK, then you won't want to play any of those alts anymore :P
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Spookysheep posted:
Nothing levels slowly, but DK is still the fastest hands down.
Dual spec blood for elite quests and there are no group quests that you cannot do all the way to 80.
Spec frost for normal questing and you will tear through mobs as fast a rogue, but travel faster.
Plus, if you play a DK, then you won't want to play any of those alts anymore :P
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Well i would have to agree with DK sine you start at level 55...
I just leveled a Shaman it went very fast, I do a lot of damage and can heal myself, virtually no down time.
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I'll roll a DK when I hit 55 on my rogue and see which one I like better. Thanks everybody.
Why does DK travel faster though?
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The short answer is, of course, the dk because it starts at level 55 :-)
Starting at level 1, I don't know which is fastest, although it may be the mage, owing to the portals.
From about level 60, however, I've found the shaman to be incredible fast (and I speak as someone who has, in the past, been quite critical of this class). This class takes down ordinary mobs with astonishing efficiency, and there is no non-instance group quest that I have been unable to solo with it since level 60.
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Osito_de_Felpa posted:
The short answer is, of course, the dk because it starts at level 55 :-)
Starting at level 1, I don't know which is fastest, although it may be the mage, owing to the portals.
From about level 60, however, I've found the shaman to be incredible fast (and I speak as someone who has, in the past, been quite critical of this class). This class takes down ordinary mobs with astonishing efficiency, and there is no non-instance group quest that I have been unable to solo with it since level 60.
Lava Burst at a lower level made Ele Shaman quite fun. I enjoyed it, and did 60-80 in record time on that toon..
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Are mobs getting harder in cata? Cuz I made a druid today and my rake two shots mobs when crusader pops...
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Kordirn posted:
Are mobs getting harder in cata? Cuz I made a druid today and my rake two shots mobs when crusader pops...
I read a blue post that said something along the lines of "Cataclysm mobs will have the ability to kill you quickly if you aren't paying attention".
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In the Beta, last I played the starter mobs in Hyjal have about 30k health and hit for about 1k a pop. Not too challenging for geared peeps but you can't really grab 2-3 and not take any damage like you can now.
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DarkNem posted:
I just started playing again (after a 4 year break..) and like to play a lot of alts. However, since heirlooms make alt play so much better now I want to get one char to 80 asap. Any suggestions?
Back when I played (just original wow), rogue/hunter were quickest imo.
DK's start at a higher level so DK's.
And...seriously? Could I convince you to play the class you like the most?
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kyrv posted:
DK's start at a higher level so DK's.
And...seriously? Could I convince you to play the class you like the most?
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Please play a class you enjoy. DKs for me are the slowest because I don't enjoy it. I have to force myself to play mine which is why he is my lowest character at level 73.
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Trigeminal posted:
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DK's start at a higher level so DK's.
And...seriously? Could I convince you to play the class you like the most?
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Please play a class you enjoy. DKs for me are the slowest because I don't enjoy it. I have to force myself to play mine which is why he is my lowest character at level 73.
I forced myself to get mine to 70 pre patch. I absolutley hated the class. With the talent changes - DW frost DKs are amazingly fun. I couldnt stop playing him after the patch.
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Talehon69 posted:
Wait a week and do it with the new 1-60 areas with The Shattering.
i just wish the new races were available then...
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Aside from DK's that start at 55 the fastest classes to level 80 would be Tank or Heal class running instances via the dungeon finder.
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Tank and healer are archetypes, not classes.
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Semantics.
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Trigeminal posted:
Please play a class you enjoy. DKs for me are the slowest because I don't enjoy it. I have to force myself to play mine which is why he is my lowest character at level 73.
Kriegprojekt posted:
I forced myself to get mine to 70 pre patch. I absolutley hated the class. With the talent changes - DW frost DKs are amazingly fun. I couldnt stop playing him after the patch.
You guys force yourself to level a class you don't like in a video game... really?
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I can't think of a class that levels slowly nowadays.
I used to have a hard time with my holy priest, but I haven't played him since BC was released so idk if that still holds true.
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Sociop posted:
Aside from DK's that start at 55 the fastest classes to level 80 would be Tank or Heal class running instances via the dungeon finder.
I dunno...I've tried this route and didn't have much success. I have found that I actually leveled faster doing quests than running dungeons. I also found that it became mind-numbing to do this once I hit 40 because there's a space there where there aren't many dungeons to choose from.
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Fastest = hunter (assuming you can't make a deathknight). Ease = hunter hands down. Spec beast mastery and sleep while your pet kills everything. That said, they are ALL easy to level with now. Pick what you enjoy.
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Prot Pally. You can insta Q random dunjuns as tank and they also solo quest very well. They have added quite a bit of DPS to the Prot spec. I can top DPS charts in Heroics as Prot tho I still get the occasional (why is a tank DPSin?) in groups. Pretty much never die or even run into trouble soloing and can solo the elite mobs for the group quests you have. Best part with pally is when all is said and done you can decide if you want to heal, dps or tank if you go the raid route.
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The_Korrigan posted:
Trigeminal posted:
Please play a class you enjoy. DKs for me are the slowest because I don't enjoy it. I have to force myself to play mine which is why he is my lowest character at level 73.
Kriegprojekt posted:
I forced myself to get mine to 70 pre patch. I absolutley hated the class. With the talent changes - DW frost DKs are amazingly fun. I couldnt stop playing him after the patch.
You guys force yourself to level a class you don't like in a video game... really?
Wow...
I took 3 DK's to 80, and deleted them all because the class is garbage. It isn't our fault you enjoy a boring faceroll class that takes no skill.
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Once Mages get Arcane Barrage they get down right brutal. One shotting mobs all over the place.
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Arcilite_I posted:
The_Korrigan posted:
Trigeminal posted:
Please play a class you enjoy. DKs for me are the slowest because I don't enjoy it. I have to force myself to play mine which is why he is my lowest character at level 73.
Kriegprojekt posted:
I forced myself to get mine to 70 pre patch. I absolutley hated the class. With the talent changes - DW frost DKs are amazingly fun. I couldnt stop playing him after the patch.
You guys force yourself to level a class you don't like in a video game... really?
Wow...
I took 3 DK's to 80, and deleted them all because the class is garbage. It isn't our fault you enjoy a boring faceroll class that takes no skill.
My 12th 80 was my 3rd DK.
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I loved leveling my 2 DKs. It's very handy having Death Grip up every pull thanks to glyph of death grip (now it's the talent Unholy Command). I always thought it sucky there isn't an equivalent for Warrior Charge.
BM hunter if you are starting from 1 for speed and very low reliance on gear.
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Auenwing posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
I took 3 DK's to 80, and deleted them all because the class is garbage. It isn't our fault you enjoy a boring faceroll class that takes no skill.
My 12th 80 was my 3rd DK.
12th? wth you're crazy hehe
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Are mobs getting harder in cata? Cuz I made a druid today and my rake two shots mobs when crusader pops...
Yes. They're just turning on EZ mode to let people wrap things up before the xpac releases.
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