| It isn't easy to immerse yourself into a game as | | | | hand focuses primarily on 2 handed weapons with a |
| World of Warcraft. As if that isn't enough you're also | | | | small mix of short range spells. Another part you will |
| burdened with the choice of picking your class. In this | | | | have to consider is the utility your class brings to the |
| page you will find some general guidelines to choosing | | | | group. If you choose to specialize as an unholy death |
| the class that suits you. You will find yourself having | | | | knight you get a talent that makes all monsters |
| to decide how you wish to play your character. The | | | | affected by one of your diseases take more spell |
| general roles you can find yourself playing are healing, | | | | damage. This usually means Death Knights are |
| tanking and dealing damage. | | | | required to keep their diseases on every target in a |
| As a damage dealer your primary concern will be | | | | fight to maximize the group damage, as such you |
| what kind of abilities you use to deal your damage. | | | | could be losing damage for the benefit of the raid. |
| You get the option to deal ranged damage in the | | | | If you want to be a healer your class choice will |
| form of physical or spell damage. If that doesn't suit | | | | mostly be based on how you like to heal. As a druid |
| you you can focus on melee combat, getting up | | | | you will get many heals that heal their amounts over |
| close and personal with your foes dealing damage | | | | time. This allows you to heal multiple targets very |
| with weapons like swords, axes and fist weapons. | | | | efficiently. If you're more the kind of player that |
| The interesting part is that in World of Warcraft | | | | wants strong single target heals you might be more |
| quite a few classes are able to specialize in dealing | | | | interested in the paladin as they are unmatched in |
| different kinds of damage. For example as a shaman | | | | keeping up a single target. Once again the utility of a |
| you can specialize to do either melee damage or | | | | healer is also an important aspect. For example, |
| ranged spell damage. Because of this you may want | | | | shaman healers also have powerful totems that they |
| to get an idea of all the specializations your class can | | | | can drop to buff allies in the vicinity. This makes |
| perform instead of just focusing on the one you like | | | | them a very desired healer, especially when the |
| the most. | | | | group is lacking the buffs the shaman brings. |
| After completing that step you are able to have a | | | | As a tank you will be looking at which classes suits |
| look at the classes so you can get an idea which of | | | | your kind of play the most. Not only do they use |
| the 10 available classes accommodates to your | | | | different kinds of abilities to hold the monsters on |
| playstyle. For example if you wish to deal damage in | | | | them, they also have a totally different feel to them. |
| melee range you could be going for a death knight or | | | | If you choose to play a paladin you will be protecting |
| a rogue. The difference between these 2 classes is | | | | your allies with holy powers, whereas a druid would |
| that rogues deal damage using dual wielded weapons | | | | shape shift into bear form using bear-like abilities to |
| and powerful poisons. The death knight on the other | | | | keep themselves and their allies alive. |