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Race to 60 on your main, sit back and take in the scenery on your herb/miner hunter alt. If you find yourself falling far behind, just take your time. I'll tell you this: The serious players will all be 60 by the end of the second week. The /racers/ will all be 60 by the end of the first week. The /winners/ and runner ups will all be 60 by the end of day 5, early day 6 max (maybe not a priest but some people exclusively go for the off classes to lock a win), sliding their crashed and damaged souls into the wall like a player lagging out. The simple fact is: You are already thinking about the race. The battle for firsts: (server first 60, server first 60(class), faction first 60, faction first 60(class) etc) and their unique agonies and benefits are an intense part of the wow experience that adds a great deal to the memory of the game, both good and bad. People will remember you, especially the people who fought for it against you, even if you don't get first. I argue: If you are going to waste time playing wow, go all in and build memories worth throwing your life away for. It's an experience worth having at least once in your life, and if you are serious about it, it is as challenging as running a marathon. Some people even "cheat" and rotate shifts with a lover/friend, while you're on your 40th hour awake, eyes bleeding, rounding the corner on lvl 35 hating and appreciating the feeling of that twelfth cup of White Flood (look it up) etc. Just collapsing (shaking) into bed because you /have/ to rest your eyes but you're basically on speed so you only go unconscious for an hour and a half is /still/ a great part of the experience. Very similar to working on a classic car, it sucks, then it rules. Having hit class cap faction first a number of times in retail (vanilla, BC, DK in Wrath) I can /tell you you get a flood of back patting and some obscenities from rivals (BC the other lock from ally side actually came to gloat in our Vent about beating me by 8 minutes lol). Standing in Org doing a /who 60 trying to get an UBRS group going and only getting 9 hits, no healers, sucks; conversely making the opposing faction's lives a living hell in STV when no one can hope to stop you, is awesome, and an experience most people /never have/. You sear your toon name into the hearts and minds of all the future opponents that have to corpse run for the fifth time with no hope of logging over to another toon to challenge you. The best players, with the most fun tricks in pvp are on the first wave. 60 pvp before people are fully geared is a unique experience with really good players. One week you have to respect their gear advantage, the next they are running screaming from yours. Getting your class pauldrons, before armory screwed everything up, was enough to terrify opponents into believing you had more pieces. How would they know? They weren't even raiding MC yet! Struggling through raids in trash gear while some undedicated raiders watch football and do subpar apm is tough. Being the most inspected toon in org/IF rules. Getting server first gear rules. Being on the team that downed boss X first rules. The entire server forum operates from these types of high profile players. You are simultaneously the reason people play, and why they ragequit. Basically the experience is what you make of it. Being on the very front lines of content and pvp sets you up for extreme rivals, sycophants that want to /w you all day, a truly balanced skill:gear ratio with respect to the time investment, proportionate to the time available, etc. No matter what anyone tells you, getting world firsts in greens is a massively more rewarding experience then getting into a raiding guild that has content on farm. For some people playing wow is a "second life" with a lot on the line for their ego, for others, it's something they do while trying not to fall asleep watching the grass grow around zombies on Walking Dead. Figure out which you are, and live with no regerts.

Feel free to offer your own advice for criticism. Or is actually producing content too difficult for you?

I agree. But that roaming around for totems though! /hate

No. For a multiple number of reasons: Tanks are jealous spiteful assholes, and they deserve to be. There are only two reasons to be a warrior: MT and the one dps warrior that goes nuts farming and prepping for raids to get the gear that dominates pvp. There is no other flex. A good guild that is going to be able to gear out characters has no use for more than three warriors in it. The MT, the warrior OT (who will be competing with the pally on ally) and the singleton dps war. The competition is fierce, esp for the MT and dps slot. This is basically a "member when" situation. You will be competing with many people who were wielding asscandy, TF, or quel'sarrars are are anxious to get back to their former glory. They have forgotten more about the encounters than you could expect to learn in the timeframe that benediction holders, core hound rogues, etc are willing to tolerate. Warrior slots in raids are hyper competitive, limited, and frankly, given the average experience of the player base, you're going to be pushed to the back. My advice would be mage or hunter. If you are interested in learning the content as fully as you can hunter is the way to go. You'll be part of the pulls, an integral part of of the raid with marks etc, and you'll get the closest experience to tanking because of it. But since you claim you'll be missing raids, and not dedicated (college) mages are the go to dps basically for all of vanilla. If you have any intention of being competitive in the game on a "I want to see end game content" basis then you are obligated to at least twenty hours of game play/week. If you want to be a warrior, then it's much higher until at least the fourth boss in BWL.

Priest. Every raid needs druids and pally/shaman though. I prefer priests. They tend to be more dedicated (because it is harder to farm gold lol).

It's been my experience that even the use of special characters deters reports and allows for people to pose as other players. There is no specific solution if it is allowed, but mine would be that every character in the name has to have an inflection. There is no purpose outside of intentional deterrence in having your moniker searched/reported.

Idk, I've never been a fan of /tar macros (except maybe for bwl kiting and off tanking trash?) and I find those to be very particular to each encounter. For that I'd suggest you look at individual boss/ trash pulls/strat guides for tanking each encounter, I'm sure there are plenty of macros for that. Scholomance and stratholme are really good practice for click targeting problem mobs (perhaps this is just an aspect I enjoy from playing so much counter strike) and I really think it is beneficial to the player, as a tank, to get good despite any given handicap at this skill. For example the pathing core hounds when clearing trash before Gehennas or Harbinger in MC. You want to be in a position mentally where the only reason you wipe is because too much was pulled (accidentally, by dps) and because your healers can't keep you up from unplanned adds. You should pride yourself on gaining and holding aggro on 90-100% of everything dps wanders into right up until you keel over from impossible hps then savor the decimation of dps after you die. Threat is hardly ever an issue unless people aren't doing what they should be. There's a decent amount of tab (click) targeting as a warrior tank in vanilla and it has to be planned and observing the idiot dps activity. For example I might pull by shooting a target that I don't want people to dps down first but I want aggro on it initially because it's a caster, then I switch to the objective target which the dps is supposed to assist me on (if they know the event). Dps will initially pull aggro on the target but I'll steal it back with shield slam or w/e then taunt a third target blah blah. Now if they are assisting me when I make the pull they will attack the caster and pull aggro after the first cast. It's my job to make sure I see the arrows, shadowbolts, frostbolts heading to that target and efficiently manage my gcds to regain aggro after I've got the rest of the mobs under control. If some wayward meter hungry mage keels over from being too ambitious then so be it. If I can collect the trash and save him then more power to me.This is the essence of tanking. Warriors are the best tanks in the game in vanilla, there are only a few encounters that a top apm player would fare better as another class in the tanking role. They will never be an autopilot class/role and require the most focus, flexibility in spell rotation and targeting, and response time. There's no macro for that.

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=9199 You can see the apparent lag in this video. I hope you roll horde on the new server. =D Be sure to focus my priest.

What's going on in this thread? People throwing salt on bait?

The most entertaining world pvp memory I ever had was rezzing in the tram turnaround in IF with my two friends by the AV WSG NPCS, after seed of corruption had been added. The only way to get up was to tech jump when a ghost. We then promptly summoned guildmates and the most aggressive pvp players in the faction. You see, the guards can't get up into the tram turn around. The healers can stay out of line of sight and the ONLY way to stop fifty people killing your pvp npcs is to mass rezz in the tram turnaround after dying, running back, making the jump (which becomes increasingly difficult when multiple people are doing it at once), timing the rezz, as a raid, and getting extremely lucky at half life. Every failed attempt at breaking our raid required at least another ten minutes of jump attempts to try again. Meanwhile SoC and other ranged AoE are just slaughtering every fool that wandered into range. As I recall, we held down Crushridge's IF pvp npcs for over three hours until we received a stern warning from a GM. I have never laughed so hard, for so long, playing wow in my life. I can still taste the salt.

Season 1 gladiator. Helping a friend become high warlord and never getting it myself is a close second I guess lol.

With computerization and automation the United States has become a very expensive lure to maintain. One might even argue it is becoming useless in motivating the rest of the labor force in China and India. The "powerful" have made it clear for years that they intend to shift the hub of human civilization to the East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a0zhc1y_Ns The game's a lot bigger than you think you know, and if you think you know, I don't think you know. -DMX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bX0WlAT-v8

Melee is definitely warriors with the right gear they can two shot people with the auto attack lag and tend to stay up. Caster is definitely lock/hunter just due to pet, autoattack, and dots. I feel like healer is gear dependent. Pally/shaman on average probably the best for bubble and shock evasion

To be fair, I'm leveling human (mc rep ftw), and by mutable I meant free to change the talent choice. We all have our reasons.

Fair it's been a long time since I played vanilla lol. Thanks, I forgot the ole charge, clap switch stance dance