Ally lock or Horde Shammy?

[mookiejookie 0]

I have the usual hesitation as previously mentioned by so many other threads, and also cannot decide for myself who I want to be as a grown up. Thoughts? I'm mainly looking for the social aspect that used to be relevant in vanilla WoW. 

[szuszak 2]

go horde

its a safer choice

especially shaman

[Hurricane2 2]

Safe is for pve care bears.  Play whatever class you like.  I can't speak for horde but locks are always in demand on Elysium. 

[Aethelwulf 12]

Well if you want to feel unsafe, truly the Alliance Warlock is without equal. The Undead race's Will of the Forsaken racial and Shaman class's Tremor Totem are the bane of the Warlocks. The Warlock also has the worst kiting abilities of all ranged classes. Druids have Entangle and shapeshifts. Shamans have Frost Shock and Earthbind Totem along with fast Ghost Wolf if they needed it. Mages have a ton of kiting options. Hunters have Freezing Trap, Concussive Shot, Wyvern Sting, Wing Clip, Black Arrow, etc. Warlocks have Fear, Succubus pet's Seduce, Death Coil, and Curse of Exhaustion. The first two are broken by WotF and Tremor Totems. Death Coil has a gcd and lasts 3 seconds. Technically there is also the Aftermath talent but no one ever takes it. For bonus poinst, the warlock is the only spellcaster (aside from the extremely rare balance druid) who has no talents to avoid casting loss from damage (unless we are counting Fel Concentration which applies to drain channels and intensity which applies to AoEs and Soul Fire).

This is the reason why there are so few alliance warlocks on PvP servers. At least 70-80% of every Horde class that can be Undead is Undead, except for the Warrior. And the Warrior can Berserker Rage out of fears and obtain fear immunity (Fury Warriors can also Death Wish for more fear immunity). Rogues in particular are over 80% Undead iirc. If these people carry PvP trinkets they can even break two fears. On the upside, because Warlocks are typically the least popular class on the Alliance, at least you will have a great time obtaining raid loot now that there's half as many Warlocks or less in your raid compared to the Horde.

(Also if you are rolling a Shaman, Taurens are the best race. War Stomp and +5% health are both excellent racials. The nature resist doesn't hurt either.)

[csant 3]

Taurens is not the best race for horde shaman. I won't switch from my Orc for shit. What class give em the most problem? Rogues and if you resist a stun or two you can win most fights. You can keep that war stomp and +5 health. Im not saying its bad, but its not the best neither. 

Also, gnome lock are beast. 

[Aethelwulf 12]

Or you can obtain the Shaman PvP trinket which will let you break out of a stun guaranteed instead of counting on a 25% stun resist chance. War Stomp works well against Rogues too since Rogues are guaranteed to be in range for a stun. If you really want to ruin Rogues, just get a Free Action Potion and pop it right after your PvP trinket. Now you can break a stun and get 30 seconds of stun and movement impairing effect immunity to obliterate Rogues. Tauren is better.

Gnome Warlocks have better odds of kiting Warriors maybe, but against Horde Rogues, Priests, Mages, Warlocks which will all be undead, the Alliance Warlock is much worse off. And Horde Warlocks don't have to worry about their Succubus pet being unreliable in PvP, so they can obliterate Warriors with their Succubus.