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Mage, lock, or priest? And why?
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Post by
Brett06
im wanting to roll a mage lock or preist but im not sure which to do. I heard locks are very confusing but do crazy damage. Heard mages also confusing but crazy damage. And priest just unsure about help me please!
Post by
Adamsm
Test all three; level them up to 20, then continue on higher with whatever one you have the most fun with.
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MasterOfDisguise
My honest answer is that it's really all a matter of personal preference, so I would say try all three classes to get a basic idea of what each one's like, and then decide which you like the most.
Also, when posting a topic, please just keep it to one forum. Thanks.
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MoD, your avatar is slightly disturbing.
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Post by
Riot5
Try going Holy when lvling a priest solo.
Post by
Dragoonman
MoD, your avatar is slightly disturbing.
Yeah... I agree....
Anyway, I would say try all three, but I'm a mage man.
Mages can always do the most AoE damage and have like, 5 buttons to push.
2 buttons for 1 target.
3 buttons for AoE.
The attacking sounds boring, but all the fun spells and abilities mages have just make me LOVE them!
Warlocks on the other hand seemed bland to me in PvE... But in PvP I was like.... OMG BLAMMO! DIE YOU JERKS! FEAR HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And the the priest just allows you to heal or dps.
Blink, invisibility, mirror image, ice block, making food and water, topping dps charts.
But then again.... mages are the squishiest things ever, and the can be bland with the 5 buttons.
Post by
conas
Test all three; level them up to 20, then continue on higher with whatever one you have the most fun with.
If He does this He will never level the mage, mages suck big time seing as its usually pull mob, kill mob, drink, and rinse and repeat, until Lvl 40 when they can get
Ice Barrier
, after that it becomes a lot easier as its ice barrier, pull lots of mobs, frost nova and blizzard, drink, rinse and repeat, overall it must be the most boring class to level until level 60 and above when you can go arcane if you like the damage it deals.
With the warlock you become an unstoppable machine of destruction around 30 or so, having to stop only to loot the bodies of your broken enemies (it sucks having to go across half an area just to loot bodies)
The Priest I have never tried, so cant tell anything about it.
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Post by
Joim
I also wanted one of these three as my next alt.
I tried them all, and warlock seems the coolest for me. Once you get voidwalker, you are pretty much invincible against one (and later on a lot) of mobs.
You want to AoE fest? Get on void's shield, pull, rain of fire x2. After that, just life tap.
Warlocks have a great array of utility spells while levelling: life stone to have an extra pot, soul stone so you don't have to run back to your corpse, you can life tap then drain life or drain mana later on to not to rest ever... etc.
Said that, priests are pretty amazing too, when you play them as healers. If you are to level a priest, level it as disc until 40, so you can both heal dungeons and do some damage while questing. Mage is too squeashy at low levels, but going frost increases your survivability a lot.
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Post by
Monday
Lock.
They just = win. I can't say anything else because they are so cool (Although Shamans are better, roll one of those if possible).
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Post by
Loophole
I have a level 48 priest right now, and while you get shadowform at 40, it is still not truly viable until lvl 50 when you get vampiric touch. I tried speccing to shadow at 40 with BoA gear, and it still was iffy... If you roll a priest, be expected to be called upon to heal sometimes which isn't bad. You can be praised for being timely with your heals and covering up the tank's mistakes or dps pulls, but expect to take the blame for not healing a bad pull mainly if the Tank doesn't speak up. I would dual spec so I can LFD as holy/dis cause of quick queue ups and go shadow while questing.
I play a mage to 31 and it was interesting. You have a good bit of very situational spells, but it was still pretty fun. I heard the mage at end game can be fun. I'm sure others can inform you about them.
I haven't tried Warlock, but it is the one class I want to level soooo bad, but I can't afford (gold and time) to level another alt right now. One thing I know is you will definitely have a lot more buttons to press than its counterpart, the mage. I'm not sure if that is good or bad for you. It has a Direct dps, DoT tree, and pet tree. It is the most versatile pure dps class in the game imo because of being able to do damage in 3 different ways. I would say level the Warlock as affliction, because you will probably get a lot of satisfaction from it while leveling.
Post by
Br0tha
Hey,
I don't know if you made up your mind yet,
but I'll give my opinion on that one.
Mage are, in my opinion the most simple of the 3 dps.
You don't have alot button to memory, and you give the big number.
Trought LFD, even without BoA, you'll get a good dps.
You might tho, drink up alot in the low level.
What I find cool about mage is mostly the portal at higher level.
As for priest, when I leveled mine, dps spec as low level is one of the most boring thing ever.
Dps as high level, seems nice but, even there, I would tell you that mage and lock are more interesting. The big advantage of the priest is really the healing part. You can heal for quicker LFD, dps while questing.
The lock is pretty simple, you just need to get the rotation. You'll have to play with dots alot. And you got a pet. Which could be cool for you, even if its not a hunter pet.
Lock are cool to play, you'll never need to drink in LFD, and I would get a lock over a priest dps.
In demo spec, higher level, you'll be the one topping off the metter. And get big big number.
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