Indecisive of what class to roll >.< !!!

[Zenechules 0]

I am going to re roll on the pvp server and don't know what class to play, halp?

I've been playing wow for a looong time I just don't remember whose good in Vanilla, I know rogues and mages roflstomp people but are there any consistently great classes from vanilla?

 

How well does Shaman perform on Elysium? Are they as strong as they were in real vanilla?

[Aethelwulf 12]

Rogues are the best for world PvP, which is why rogues are incredibly popular on PvP server and why the game has been called World of Roguecraft. The ability to sneak up on people undetected and ambush them off-guard as well as their absurdly lengthy stunlock routines are extremely powerful. Not to mention Rogues typically have the luxury of avoiding PvP encounters they don't want thanks to stealth. Druids are also capable of stealthing and ganking people using their cat form (and Druids do make very good PvPers if you truly master how to shapeshift around in PvP and use all the abilities of a Druid), but they don't have stunlocks and their damage is usually a bit lower so they lean more on raw damage and need to powershift and the like to sustain their output or heal themselves as needed.

As for Shamans, they're quite strong if they are 30/0/21 elemental PvP spec (especially if they are Tauren for the War Stomp + Lightning Bolt combo). But if you are talking about Enhancement Shamans destroying people with big 2handers and Windfury, that's just perception bias. Enhancement Shamans are generally terrible at closing distance and staying there, whereas Windfury only has a 20% chance of proccing (so an 80% chance of not proccing). With Stormstrike your odds of a WF increase a bit (36% chance over 2 hits) but the odds are still well against you successfully unloading a WF on someone, and Enhancement Shamans are highly vulnerable to kiting. It's usually an agonizing game of trying to get close and hoping that the RNG gives you windfury and maybe some crits. Other than auto-attack and Stormstrike's high cooldown, there's nothing Shamans actually do in melee. Enhance has been likened to a slot machine and with good reason. They only do good damage when they get crits and windfury. Elemental Shamans on the other hand don't have to worry about being kited, since they can just comfortably unload lightning bolts and chain lightning from a distance, and their lightning does extremely high DPS.

[csant 3]

One advice I will give after picking the class you wanna play. Pick up Engineering it is absolutely needed for pvp. 

[Ringringring 0]

Shadow Priest is generally regarded as the ultimate 1v1 spec.

You already know that rogues and mages are good so I'll spare you an explanation of them.

You might consider a hunter, if you never played one. They level easily and farm quickly. The skill cap is high, and once you become skilled at one, there's almost nothing you can't beat. In fact, I'd be so bold as to say that, if you can get the jump and have enough room, nothing can beat you. How can a mage nova and deadzone you if you never let him get close? How can a priest fear you if you don't let him get close? Warriors can't intercept, rogues don't have shadowstep, warlocks drain life is channeled and 20 yards. Heck, every spell in the game except fireball has a max range of 36, but you can get 41.

That being said, if YOU get jumped, it's an uphill battle. Still doable in a lot of cases though, Feign death/freezing trap helps a lot along with scatter shot or intimidation.