Wrath Classic Class Picking Guide - How to Pick Your Main Class for PvE & PVP

all right guys and welcome to my class picking guide for classic rafa village king so my class picking guys are going to be a bit different to everyone else's class picking guide i'm going to be very straight to the point and give you a good fast short and sweet tldr for every single class and spec covering the most important topics let's be honest that you care about is the class any good in pve is it any good in pvp and then lastly we'll finish with some class quirks and unique selling points by the way guys if you're looking to level up a new character in preparation for raffle lich king or you're looking for a leveling guide in the future for raffle rich king i definitely recommend checking over the guides over at rusticspeed.com these guys made by the best speed leveling world record holding guys in the game and if you're also looking to make some serious golden raffle licking i definitely recommend checking out solheim's gold gun making guide you find all the information to that in the description down below and if you're looking for more detailed class videos i will leave a playlist to all of those videos in the description down below because i'm slowly getting through them class by class too but anyway enough jibber jabbing let's crack on with the video starting with the warlock so the tables have turned with the warlock now affliction and demonology of the top dog dps specs in a raiding environment destro is it's decent but realistically it is just a worse version of a demonology or affliction warlock but it does provide the replenishment buff if your raid doesn't already have it you know from a rep paladin or something like that both are great at single target and aoe dps of over demonological wallet definitely is the stronger candidate for aoe dps they're really just slightly behind a mage their dps is stronger during the executes phase dramatically so in longer fights they will creep up on the logs also it's very good to hear but the warlock is a proper pet class now the play is to always have your pet out in pvp we get this great new spell called demonic circle teleport where you place it on the ground if you can teleport back up to that location affliction will always go for unstable affliction now it's very overpowered because it silences the healer when they dispel it haunt can now also be used to increase all dot damage on the target definitely not as tanky in pvp though because we can't soul link and siphon life all specs across the board apart from the prop red spec will spec deeper into their trees not really that much hybridization of rafflechicken an affliction wallet goes very well in the mld comp which is magellan druid shadowplay which is of the shadow priest healer and shadowcleave which is an holy definite healer destruction is also very good in the arena but it's limited to comps that have a lot of control otherwise the destruction walkers isn't going to be able to get those chaos bolts off it's going to be hard countered by a melee comp for instance so most people like to play lsd when it plays destruction and demonology is just worse than the other specs it relies on metamorphosis to do a lot of damage but then without it it is more of a noodle version of affliction or destruction the quirks of the warlock all the great stuff like summoning health stones you've got your new teleport spell in slave demon you've got an aoe fear you've got the inferno the doom guard you've got shadow fury which has been buffed to also have a slow when it's glyph now you have your own weapon oils with firestone and spellstone and you also have soul stone to self-resurrect yourself or one of your allies now one of the big elephants in the room is the warrior the simple truth of warrior is it's the exact same story with the bernie crusade they just scale to become better as the expansion goes on once we get a good amount of crit and armor penetration they will start to pump in ulduar and then by icc they are one of the top dps if not the best possible dps possible when they finally do get shadowmoon but early on in phase one they will excel on those cheeky clay fights as a tank you are considered the weakest tank now in this expansion but you can definitely clear over content no problem it's just that the other tank's got a huge power spike in ruffle lich king you also don't have to worry about aoe dps pulling aggro for even dungeons anymore because you just have better aoe abilities and better aoe frets you can also apply arms if you want you provide that great blood frenzy buff still which will complement a physical damage heavy settle now in pvp the top dog spec is definitely arms you have that mortal strike which reduces the healing of a target by 50 fury really is just a arms worry with less pressure and less utility they get a lot of needed changes jumping into wrath first of all we have much better stance dancing since tactical mastery has been moved to the top of the fury tree rather than a protection tree for example you can easily bump over defensive stance for a cheeky spell reflect even more healing reduction would be unrelenting assault talent if you're you know overpower the target while they are casting so basically if you overpower a target while they're casting obviously a healer then yeah the next heal is just gonna be absolute pants this is also the age of bladestorm it's great for cleaving the enemy arena team and just destroying people in battlegrounds if they pair well with a very high dps for instance founder cleave which is going to be with an enhancement shaman or tsg this is the golden age of tsg death knight and arms warrior with a healer normally a holy paladin just deleting healers from the game i mean people will quite literally delete their characters if they're playing a healer in rafflich king and go against tsg a little too many times now for the quirks in the fury tree you can now equip two two-handed weapons which is always really cool you got things like disarm you've got shattering fro now which can break ice blocks you've got shockwave the big juicy aoe stunning protection tree got spell reflection you can charge in combat now you've also got abilities like intervene range pull with heroic throw you no longer have to use your gun all the time you've always got your strong defensive cooldowns like shield one on last stand you've got an aoe slow pacing hell i've also got vigilance which is a little ability in a protection tree that transfers fret and refreshes taunt whenever that target is taking damage and now for the hunter this is a top tier dps but the tables have turned again this time round the top dog specs are survival and marksman marksman is similar to a warrior it needs about armor penetration before it really starts to pump but you can make survival pump early on in reflecting very easily you just got a melee weave to put your traps down on the target because what this will do is it will proc that lock and load effect that causes periodic damage of your immolation trap to make your explosive shot trigger absolutely no cooldowns it's like a free explosive shot and you can do that every 22 seconds unfortunately base mastery becomes really really cool and rough you can you know tame things like devil souls but it's it's just a leveling spec not gonna lie the dps just isn't that great it's an absolute shame because it's one of the cooler specs in the game but yeah really is just a solo farming or leveling spec now now in pvp most people are going to play marksman beast mastery works well with beastcleave which is a comp with an enhancement shaman just has less utility than marksman but it may be good really early on in raph when people are low resilience geared because the burst is pretty insane you can play survival if you want but again it's just a worse version of marksman because it has less bursts and less utility getting traps up is really easy now with the ability freezing arrow which would shoot your trap onto a location where you want it it's when the scatter trap combo comes into play it's much easier to get traps up you can also play through traps at once you've got disengage which has been buffed this is when disengage will actually leap you backwards aimshot also isn't casted anymore it's just an instant ability it's very op because it's basically a mortal strike you've also got masters core which is a four second freedom that the pet actually can cast on your allies so you can cast it while you're cc'd you've got readiness which refreshes all of your hunter cooldowns you've got chimera shot which can also disarm peck can intervene and the comps of hunter really goes well with is jungle cleave which is with a feral and a healer you've also got cupid cleave which is with a hunter and a retribution paladin and then you can also if you're going to play survival go with an affliction warlock you know to have that double dot combo going and now for the quirks obviously you're always faster with the aspect of the cheetah aspect of the pack you can call a stable pet every five minutes now which is cool you don't have to always go back to your stable you've also got silencing shot now let's cover the paladin it's the exact same story as the warrior if i'm going to be honest they scale when they get better gear and they're good on the cliff fights early on they actually have really really good natural cleave because a lot of their single target abilities are also aoe abilities and we just have to change one of their seals for the ability to start cleaving which is really nice what gives me a really good power spike though is the icecrown citadel two set bonus has a 40 chance to reset the cooldown of divine storm which is one of your hardest hitting abilities as a tank you are considered the best tank of the expansion insane survivability insane aoe threat and damage and now you have a defensive cooldown divine protection you also have a very powerful road cooldown divine protection which used the damage on the entire raid because of aura mastery making the raid immune to silence effects as a heel ever also very strong you now finally have some aoe healing with this holy light glyph can heal two targets at once with beacon alight which also makes them extremely mana efficient you can also go into melee range to get your mana back you know with your seal of wisdom when it comes to pvp retribution is a mid to top tier spec we have really good burst damage with lots of support like freedom dispels two sacrifices now they can also do instant off heels with their art of war procs you've got blessing protection their replenishment talent which is great because it helps out the healer they normally played comps like cupid cleave which is hunter and a disc priest and the rep paladin you've got van gaal's cleave which is when you play of an unholy death knight that's very strong you can also play of a warrior too which is very nice because you give the warrior freedom hola paladin absolute top tier considered one of the best healers in arena in rafflech king mainly because a beacon of light this is stupidly overpowered in pvp because you're just constantly healing two people at absolutely no extra mana cost and holy shock crits can now turn into instant flash of lights you also have really good reduction on spell pushback with your concentration aura which can be increased with aura mastery you are wearing full plate gear which makes them much more tanky and you've got good cooldowns like divine shield and blessing protection but normally paired in comps like tsg fonducleave lsp and one last thing to mention is there actually is another spec to play which is the strongest support dps class in the arena it's actually been popularized by private servers not many people well to my knowledge really played this in original raf and it's called preg spec or prot reds where you use a one hander and a shield of a spell power weapon you spec half into rare and then half into protection it's only really strong very late game when you get lots a lot of crit gear because obviously your crits will generate these out of warp rocks which provide loads and loads of instant flash heals and you can also pack a punch as well because obviously you can turn them into exorcisms if you need for damage so when you're geared enough you just have constant free flash of lights so it's almost like having two healers in the game and if you are gonna get trained you will have reckoning to counter damage for quite a lot this normally pairs well with a priest or an elemental shaman or an arms warrior and the disc priest let's talk about the quirks you now finally have a single target taunt exorcism and holy wrath affect all targets not just undead and demons and you also have a new ability called sacred shield now let's talk about the best class in the game which is obviously going to be the death knight so both unholy and frost are top tier specs day one to the end of the entirety of rafa lich king the greatest single target damage and aoe over unholy is the absolute king of aoe and refugee king arguably the best aoe dps in the game early on they pump because they don't rely on gear but then they also scale incredibly well with gear even bloodspec can be played but since most of his damage is melee he needs a high amount of ammo penetration like the warrior to become powerful but it surprisingly pumps quite a lot of decent damage because you have really good cooldowns in the blood tree like a power room weapon and hysteria which is an ability that should never ever be casted on a feral druid and should only ever be casted on other fellow death knights as a tank they have the best self healing in the game which allows them to actually solo a lot of old raids you're probably going to see a lot of our action on youtube when raft does come out we also have great defensive cooldowns like icebound fortitude the best fret generation in the game with icy touch but just a top tier class across the board is to be expected really they are the class of the expansion now in pvp they really are a force to be reckoned with they've got great burst damage a great cleave damage because they can spread over dots like a wall off we've got amazing peels of chains of ice chain devices extremely overpowered and rough because it starts off as a 95 movement speed reduction of end light slowly degrades you've also obviously got death grip got great defensive cooldowns like i mentioned before ice bound fortitude massive damage reduction death pack just heals you 50 percent of your health why not even anti-magic shield which totally counters magic damage we've also got lich lichborne it's the new will of a forsaken willow forsaken actually gets nerfed in wrath but then like death knights get it for free can't complain at that the only downside is you can be shackled or turn eviled during your lich born it's fine because you need to set up a macro to remove it when they're casting it frost has homegrown cold which is a great aoe freezing trap basically but frost just simply has less utility and less survivability van and hold because unholy it has anti-magic zone has bone shield has desecration which is like an aoe slowing effect on the ground but gargoyle is also just ludicrously overpowered in rufflage king the goggle is so overpowered it could probably just solo a player it does that much damage and obviously it's very hard to avoid that damage because it's in the air just constantly casting spells at you unless you you can shackle it or turn evil it unholy goes well in a number of specs tsg obviously which is a warrior healer like i mentioned before you've got shadow cleave with an affliction wall because that is just insane aoe pressure on the entire team you basically if there's a ticking time bomb when you play against shadow cleave before that raw damage is just going to drain the healer's mana and then they will just win it can also go well with repaladin as well blood in pvp is more of a meme spec to cheese winning 2v2 games against really bad players to get your arena points now for death knight quirks you've got roon forging which means for life you have totally free enchants you save a lot of money in that regard you have to spend like thousands of gold on your berserkin enchant you've got water walking and you've also got a faster mount with a talon in the holy tree now for the mage arguably the strongest ranged dps in ruffle lich king many speedrunners will stack them i've seen it in the footage before it's a similar story to the burning crusade you will play arcane until you get insane crit gear and then you swap to fire frost is more of a just a pvp and leveling spec in the fire spec you also now get living bomb in rough lich king which makes it slightly more interesting because they will proc into some really dirty hot streak procs which means instant pyroblasts and even arcane spec is a little bit more interesting since you can weave in arcade missiles when you get missile barrage procs now in pvp arcades just a bit of a meme most people are just gonna play frost you've now got mirror image which is a great bursting ability you got frost fire which applies a slow and a dot you've got a glyph of polymorph but what i was going to do is when you polymorph a target that has dots on it well it'll just remove those dots so you can always get a polymorph off evocation also now regains health with a talent sorry actually a glyph dragon's breath has been buffed it's now a five-second disorientate effect blast wave now actually has a knockback so he can knock people off the platforms in the arena 5 spec also has a talent that makes you immune to silence and kicks for 20 seconds after you know being affected by one it goes well with comps like affliction and a boomkin because again it's like two dps classes that have two sets of dots deep in the frost tree we also get the ability deep freeze which is a five second stun and it doesn't break and it also acts like that target is frozen so it causes shatter for five seconds you can just pump into a target and get that shatter effect you've also got things that are frost which is a proc which acts like the targets are frozen again so you get those shatter procs we've also got a new procking effect called brain freeze which is instant frost fire bolts so basically you don't have to rely as much on you know getting frost nova's off to do your big pumper shatter crits there's loads of different ways that you can get those big juicy crits which means more sustained and better pressure the only downside to a mage is a little bit more squishy so again like you don't want to get trained or anything like that but anyway the mage goes well with a rogue rogue mage princess rmp you've got mageloc shaman mls if you've also got shatter play which is with a shadow priest and a healer probably a feral druid not feral druid obviously a resto druid now the quirks are playing a mage obviously you got portals free food you got invisibility which is great at the start of the arena game you've got slow fall and abilities like spell steal and now for the shamans so both elemental and enhancement are both great in pve but there's a little bit of a catch to the elemental spec basically long story short other classes get huge power spikes later on in reflection and early shaman it just doesn't it just kind of continuously steadily rise in power whereas all the other classes just well they get injected with steroids and the elemental shaman just doesn't but they still provide great buffs both that can kind of also be provided by other and better dps so long story short of elemental shaman much less desirable in raffle lich king they also get lava burst as well that's important to mention enhancement of your hand it's a strong pumper from start to finish but be mindful has a fairly high skill ceiling to be honest you you do actually have to be good at the game to pump high as an enhancement shaman it's also important to know that you finally do get to cool down spirit walls which is very cool resto shaman finally gets riptide and has the goodies that it all had in tbc but it's very simply just falls behind the other healers on the meters so you probably won't see many in raids unless a bloodlust is needed has not been provided by an ellie or enhancement shaman now in pvp you can play both enhancement and elemental but elemental definitely is the top dog many people consider elemental to be the best caster in the arena or best range dps they finally get the ability hex which is like a polymorph the player can still control it but it's a curse so only mages and druids and other shamans can remove it and it has a very short cooldown in wrath of only 45 seconds you've also got abilities like wind shear which is an insane interrupt because it's a ranged interrupt you don't have to be in range of the healer you can kick the healer and do the side of the arena game you've also got the great totems and utility like grounding totem you've got stone claw totem which now actually provides a bubble with a glyph you've got earthbind totem which with a talent will also rupert target in place which gains great control enhancement also has maelstrom weapon for instant heals all lightning bolts purge again is always there perch can be one of the most op abilities in arena elemental just has insane burst damage now because of lava burst and you can chain that into a la you know chain lightning and then chain lightning also has a 33 chance by default to deal his damage twice so a little bit rng involved but yeah elemental can just spike out insane burst damage out of nowhere that healer won't even expect you combine that with a cheeky chaos bolt the target is definitely dead enhancement mostly goes well with melee comps like a warrior but elemental can play you know lsd lock shaman druid goes well with destruction like i mentioned before because you can bind their burst dps and they have a lot of control to allow their casts to pop off resto has obviously been buffed of rip tide because it's an instant heal would have to you know hard cast it earth shield is also harder to dispel because it has when you dispel or purge a resto shaman it will purge stacks of the earth shield rather than removing the whole thing off and they can also remove curses now which is really cool they're likely to be paired with a mage and a warlock so mls or wing fury cleave which is a rep and a warrior because obviously that winfrey tell him is massively buffing the rhett and the warrior and it can also obviously do tsg now for the quirks obviously you still got bloodlust and you can also use it in arena enjoy it while you can because that is going in cataclysm you've got clean spirit which removes curses you've got your cleansing totems as always which are really great you now have earth living weapon which is a weapon imbuen that has a chance to give you a hot when you're striking with your melee weapon elemental now finally has thunderstorm so here come the days of knocking people off the map in i have a storm and you finally get that cheeky ability that can drop four of your totems at once and you can have three different presets over different you know totem sets that you want for different environments and different setups now for the rogue you'd be glad to hear that it's not the same story as the burning crusade you are a top tier dps start to finish you just have to change your spec so early on assassination is definitely stronger than combat because of combat it relies on amp penetration and crit also very very easy to gear up an assassination from rome because you can get your best in slot daggers from your auction house for just these crappy blue daggers when you finally can play combat which is normally going to be in audwar you can do really good cleave dps now with abilities like fan of knives and killing spree so you're no longer restricted to just being able to cleave with your blade furry cooldown you've also got the new ability tricks of a trade which was added in wrath which transfers threat and increases damage done by the target by 15 for six seconds it's also important to know that energy now regenerates constantly instead of in ticks your big chunks anyway now when it comes to pvp simple chord hard truth is you probably know this though combat is just a worse version of a supportive rogue and assassination is a less worse version of the subtlety road playstyle has totally changed you no longer just stick on your target and spam hemo since your your damage is way more bursty and spiky so it requires you to like master perfect cc chains and setups you know with your blind sap and million different stunning abilities that you have what's cool is that you get extra crit when other party members will crit you've also got this new op ability called shadow dance that allows you to use stealth abilities like sap and everything like that while not actually in stealth along with vanish and prep it means that you have better access to your juicy stealth abilities it just makes subway so much better than the other specs the compositions you're likely going to go with is rogue shadow priest and healer and then you've got scuba dook leave which is a rogue rep paladin and a disc priest and obviously you can also go rmp which is rogue mage and a priest now for quirks again you always have the quirks that you've always had as a rogue soloing dungeons and pocketing everything like that you also have a great cc ability disarm which counters over melee dps massively also faint now will reduce the aoe damage that you take so also kind of works like a pet's avoidance effect which can be very nice and now for the druids so feral is an extremely strong dps from start to finish because you can pump without armor penetration but then also benefit massively from arm penetration you also finally do get to do some cheeky cleave dps as a tank you're the mid-tier tank not much has changed honestly you're still very reliable meat shield it's just that people love death knights and piled in tanks about a little bit more but people aren't going to complain because you know not many people play a tank so you know if a feral druid tank turns up it's happy days as a balance you are mainly a support dps you provide great buffs and debuffs but your dps will always be in the middle of the pack however on aoe fines fat really is your time to shine because your aoe damage is absolute top tier because of star fall and the hurricane now the main thing that stands out about arrestor druid is the little ability called revitalize your rejuvenation wild growth have a small chance to regain energy rage mana and runic power per tick so this can increase a tank's aggro boost dps other than that they are just an absolute solid healer as always what's nice about this new wild growth ability is you can like stack it up before aoe damage comes in and then when aoe damage comes in everyone already has a little bit of a cheeky hot gonna top them up farrell is also very good in pvp now finishing moves make your nature spells an instant cast for instant clones instant heals all that good stuff berserk also makes them totally immune to fear and will actually break fear if you're already in a fear you've also got survival instinct 30 health boost great defensive cooldown but ferrodruid is still a little bit squishy that's the only issue but not incredibly squishy like a mage but just a little bit squishy they normally go in comps like jungle cleave which is with a hunter or kitty cleave which was with an arms warrior now balance is still limited by the fact that it's a massive hard caster you will get trained and then you won't be able to do that much pressure but at least they're not as squishy because you know there's a lot of armor in moonkin form you've also got abilities like typhoon to knock people back and provide heat peels people playing boomkin are probably going to play with a fire mage in the spicy chicken cleave which is probably the coolest sounding arena comp name of all time may also play lsd2 which is an affliction boomkin and resto shaman this comp is really good for the same reason shadowcleave is good there's a ticking time bomb taking when that arena starts if the boomkin and the infliction will get over a dots up it's only a matter of time before the of he healer is gonna run out of mana and the enemy team will just slowly die resto also gets some decent buffs you've now got an instant aoe healing over time effect while growth you've got nourish which is a much shorter burst heal so it's easier to you know get off when you're being trained you've got glitter swift mend which prevents the swift man ability from removing regrowth or rejuvenation so you can just spam that to your heart's content without it removing your hots they're also just generally really good at escaping and continuing to heal during line of sights they were likely playing comps like mdl which is magellan druid or lsd like i mentioned before when it comes to quirks again you get everything that you did in tbc the only changes here really are nature's grass now has free charges which is really nice and obviously you can always take advantage of all the great different druid forms and that means you always have access to stealth and you always have access to a fast water moving form and lastly but definitely not least we have the priest so the new top dog spec is the disc priest power word shield has been drastically buffed in rough it's extremely mana efficient with talents like rapture that return 2.5 of your manner but also a grammar tango resource regeneration like the jewish revitalize holy is still good with its you know cheap aoe healing with circle healing and you get out jail free card with guardian spirit which is new ability which is very nice you can have a tank totally cheat death shadow is still a mid pack utility and support spec but at least as the expansion goes on they don't get worse and worse and worse to just being like slightly above the tanks on the dps meters we also get a new aoe ability called mindshare in rafflechecking so they no longer have to like spread their dots on a we fight to then do absolute noodle dps they can do mindshare but the issue of mindshare is it won't actually deal damage to the target that you mind shearing so you really need big big packs for that ability to pump there's also a lot of situations where the a wheeling healing of a priest is very very good and obviously on your longer finds vampiric touch is also a great of regenerating mana to the rest of the raid in pvp when you're playing disc you've got a new ability called divine hem which can heal through pillars which is great so you can you know get some cheeky heals off without actually being in risk the ability of rapture is very overpowered in pvp three percent damage reduction on power word shield targets crit heals also provide an extra cheeky bubble and after casting your power shield it reduces the cast time on your abilities so it's just much easier to get your heels off you also got penance as well which obviously heals a target through loss as well and it also just packs a punch shout out spec still great pain and suffering reduces the damage you take from shadow word death so it's less risky to use shadow word death you can also refresh your shadow word pain on the target you've got a new cc ability called psychic car it's like a horrify effect but it can also be used as a 10 second cheeky disarm dispersion is your new strong defensive ability can be used in all forms of crowd control to break them the only issue of a shadow priest is they do have big ramp up time like you need to get your dots up you need to get your vampiric embrace up and everything like that and if you don't do that then you you're banging trouble so it gets counted hard by those really harsh bursty comps like tsg but it goes very well in comps like rpd which is rogue shadow priest and druid and then obviously shatter play when you play the mage it's also important to note that this priest does go well with a number of comps now for the quirks you obviously always have fear ward you've got your himmer hope which is mana regeneration for the whole party you've got master spell which can break ice blocks and divine shields and you've also got power infusion which can boost the dps of a friendly target more friendly caster and that guys is going to be the end of the video of earth my voice box is about to explode after you recording such a long video but anyway my name is melly goblins my next video ciao [Music] you

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Keywords: world of warcraft, tbc classic, fresh classic wow, season of mastery, the burning crusade, mmo, class, guide, leveling, raiding, phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, phase 4, phase 5, phase 6, wrath, wrath of the lich king, classic wrath, wrath of the lich king classic

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Length: 30min 38sec (1838 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 21 2022