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Which World of Warcraft class should I choose?
By admin | December 2, 2009
I have narrowed it down to two classes, Hunter and Mage. I would like to know the pros and cons of each class and how easy they are to level.
Thank you
The Hunter has many features that make it desirable to a lot of people. A hunter can use ten different types of weapons (one- and two-handed axes, one- and two-handed swords, daggers and staves for melee combat; and bows, crossbows, guns and thrown weapons for ranged combat), more than any other class except for the warrior. Most of the hunter’s personal special attacks are for ranged weapons, so hitting an enemy at range early and often is a strategy that many hunters find most useful. Hunters can wear leather armor upon creation, and can learn to wear mail armor at level 40. Hunters can learn to tame beasts at level 10, and a tamed beast (hereafter refered to as a pet) can act as a second character (more or less) in combat. Once you have trained a pet to do your bidding, leveling a hunter is relatively easy to do.
Now for the down sides. While ranged weapons are most useful to the hunter, they will not work at close range, so all of those cool ranged weapon abilities are useless in melee combat. While hunters do have a few melee abilities, they are weak by comparison, making melee combat undesirable to hunters. You have to give food to your pet once in a while to keep it happy. An unhappy pet may actually abandon its owner. Only beasts may be tamed; other creature types (humanoids, elementals, etc.) cannot be tamed, and not all beasts are tameable either. If you aren’t paying attention, your pet may chase a creature that is running away right into a crowd of enemy creatures, who will suddenly take an unhealthy interest in and kill your pet. Then they will come after you, in which case you’re in trouble.
Mages are the most powerful class in ranged combat. They have many destructive spells available, and they have a greater range than any other class. So powerful are they that if they keep their training up to date, they can often kill an enemy before it can get into range to do any damage. They can create their own food and drinks, making the purchase of extra food and drinks unnecessary. Best of all, they can eventually teleport themselves, and later others in his party, to any capital city belonging to his faction (or neutral capitals).
Mages can only wear cloth armor, making them vulnerable to damage, especially during melee combat. They can use few weapons (daggers, staves and wands). However, they make up for these deficiencies with their devastating attacks, which can also be used during melee combat. Because they rely so much on mana for their attacks, it is easy for them to run out, leaving them with limited attack power due to their weak weapon skills. mages are difficult to level due to the fact that they die easily and do not handle crowds well.
If you would like to have the best features of both classes, you might want to try the warlock class. Like the hunter, they can use pets (in their case, demons instead of beasts), and you don’t have to tame, train or feed them. Like the mage, they can deal out a lot of damage at range, and they can teleport other characters in their party. However, their teleportation skills work in reverse of the mage’s. While mages can teleport themselves and others only to certain specific locations, warlocks can teleport others from anywhere in Azeroth to wherever they happen to be. Just a thought.
If you can’t decide which class you want to play, why not try both or all three? Play each of them up to, say, level 20, so you can see how each of the classes play. Then choose the one you like best and either delete the other(s) or keep it/them for those times when you get bored of your choice or want to do something different for a change. – LJS
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Topics: Classes | 5 Comments »
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I think you should quite before it consumes you
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December 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
a hunter becuase you can get a gun or bow anda sword so you ca attack from long RANGE and up close. A mage is harder to level up and a hunter can track alot of things like animals, gold, ores,plants, a mage can teleport and make food…dwarfs there land is easy to remeber and theres alot of treasure, and wolves. hunters can also tame pets you can tame any pet you want as long its lower or the same level as you. you can do this at level 7 or 10. mages can have pets but pets are easieer to sumond and they dont really cost mana when you summon them. As you level up so will your pet but the thing is you have to feed your pet meat or other stuff. and for you bows and guns you need ammo but a hunter is easy to level up and they have cool moves like you can control your pet or see from like 200 yards away, being a hunter is cool
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played as a hunter and mage hunter is better
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Hunter in my opinion. Cloth wearers are way too squishy for me. But it all depends on your preferences. =)
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80 warrior, 80 druid
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
The Hunter has many features that make it desirable to a lot of people. A hunter can use ten different types of weapons (one- and two-handed axes, one- and two-handed swords, daggers and staves for melee combat; and bows, crossbows, guns and thrown weapons for ranged combat), more than any other class except for the warrior. Most of the hunter’s personal special attacks are for ranged weapons, so hitting an enemy at range early and often is a strategy that many hunters find most useful. Hunters can wear leather armor upon creation, and can learn to wear mail armor at level 40. Hunters can learn to tame beasts at level 10, and a tamed beast (hereafter refered to as a pet) can act as a second character (more or less) in combat. Once you have trained a pet to do your bidding, leveling a hunter is relatively easy to do.
Now for the down sides. While ranged weapons are most useful to the hunter, they will not work at close range, so all of those cool ranged weapon abilities are useless in melee combat. While hunters do have a few melee abilities, they are weak by comparison, making melee combat undesirable to hunters. You have to give food to your pet once in a while to keep it happy. An unhappy pet may actually abandon its owner. Only beasts may be tamed; other creature types (humanoids, elementals, etc.) cannot be tamed, and not all beasts are tameable either. If you aren’t paying attention, your pet may chase a creature that is running away right into a crowd of enemy creatures, who will suddenly take an unhealthy interest in and kill your pet. Then they will come after you, in which case you’re in trouble.
Mages are the most powerful class in ranged combat. They have many destructive spells available, and they have a greater range than any other class. So powerful are they that if they keep their training up to date, they can often kill an enemy before it can get into range to do any damage. They can create their own food and drinks, making the purchase of extra food and drinks unnecessary. Best of all, they can eventually teleport themselves, and later others in his party, to any capital city belonging to his faction (or neutral capitals).
Mages can only wear cloth armor, making them vulnerable to damage, especially during melee combat. They can use few weapons (daggers, staves and wands). However, they make up for these deficiencies with their devastating attacks, which can also be used during melee combat. Because they rely so much on mana for their attacks, it is easy for them to run out, leaving them with limited attack power due to their weak weapon skills. Mages are difficult to level due to the fact that they die easily and do not handle crowds well.
If you would like to have the best features of both classes, you might want to try the warlock class. Like the hunter, they can use pets (in their case, demons instead of beasts), and you don’t have to tame, train or feed them. Like the mage, they can deal out a lot of damage at range, and they can teleport other characters in their party. However, their teleportation skills work in reverse of the mage’s. While mages can teleport themselves and others only to certain specific locations, warlocks can teleport others from anywhere in Azeroth to wherever they happen to be. Just a thought.
If you can’t decide which class you want to play, why not try both or all three? Play each of them up to, say, level 20, so you can see how each of the classes play. Then choose the one you like best and either delete the other(s) or keep it/them for those times when you get bored of your choice or want to do something different for a change. – LJS
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December 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Hunters are FAR easier and faster to level, in fact it’s a joke…you hardly ever die as a Beast Master hunter. My pet can kill three same-level monsters with me hardly doing a thing.
Hunters put out the same or often more damage than hunters now and have done for ages. They are more complicated than mages if you play them properly; most people can’t and there are a lot of bad hunters (huntards) that give the class a bad name.
Mafes are simpler and huge fun to play. You will need to group up for some quests that hunters can solo easily, and you will die more.
You might also want to consider Warlocks which combine elements of both classes.
Despite her weakness, my mage is my fave character.
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80 mage, 80 lock, 80 hunter, all epic geared raiders.