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I'm late to the party here but you mentioned leveling up defence. I picked up a neat trick back in the day when I played actual vanilla, if you taunt rats in the deep run tram without damaging them they will attack you and it's very fast and more importantly safe way to level defence. Might be worth mentioning in a future video
Don't use this leveling guide for hardcore. It constantly sends you into quests which you shouldn't do at all in hc, as they most likely get you killed because of frequent hyperspawns.
Im kinda the opposite, hearing all the bs youre gunna have to put up with from vanilla. No quality of life like you see in retail lol. Been spoiled. Namely on the rogue, stealth level, powders, safe fall at 40, vanish bugs, the list goes on. But damn how do yall have time to even play this shit xD
@@coheedmonstar33to each their own. Classic is an acquired taste for sure and I believe with hardcore it’ll be easier for me to play casually aka , take a break or roll a new class or faction when my character inevitably gets game over’d 🪦
The great thing about hardcore is you don't really have to choose. Chances are, your first character is gonna die. The 2nd one too, etc. Just don't retry the same class endlessly and before long you will have tried them all =D
@@Trinax11 Its easy if ur a coward. Try go into crowded mob places like me, thats a challenge :) But I think I will play grandmother safe when the server goes online.
WillE saw creators making 1 hour videos on what class to pick and took that as a challenge. Actually sat and watched this whole thing like a movie, what a chad! Keep up the great work man
For shaman, I like to swap to elemental around the mid to late 40's. The high 30's to low 40's has some great enhance weapons / mail gear and you get a new rank of windfury at 40 For priest, spirit is king for leveling as it compounds the more you have. Smite build > shadow when you have high spirit because of spiritual guidance (25% spirit = bonus spell power) combined with spirit tap (doubles spirit for 15 secs after landing a killing blow). You become a serious beast with a nearly unlimited mana pool by the early to mid 40's
Spirit for Priests is cringe. In normal leveling, Spirit Tap is more than necessary for your mana regen needs. Regenning mana with and without Spirit Tap is only a different of 2-3% per 3 seconds, which isn't worth speccing into. Uldaman is where I really noticed that I should be speccing spirit, around 45. Until then, Intellect first and Stamina second should be your main priorities since they have more immediate effects.
With the Druid talents, I don’t think you can ignore feral swiftness for both survivability when outdoors and for leveling speed. 30% faster from 21-30 is big.
For hardcore the move speed is kinda trash. I do like the 4% dodge late game feral lvling though. I feel like people forget how much time from 21 to 30 is spent inside an instance.
I think you really nailed paladin in this. We're slow but we're also (relatively) unkillable. What we lack in sheer damage output we make up in enabling our friends to do more stuff. I've been learning that that is my preferred play style, which is often why I play healers throughout the 15+ years of MMOs. I don't have a lot of my friends playing classic, but I def feel like a freakin hero when I Holy Light random people in tight spots from nowhere - especially in the lower leveled sections of the game. Also I took a break from playing normal classic i was leveling a priest using wands for the first time and i got really high level with it. I need to get back into it to get to max level for the first time.
Thank you so much for the video. Now I have a better idea which class to roll second after I inevitably die with my warrior to some harpies after the starting zone.
Important tips for all hardcore Paladins: *Divine Shield + Swiftness potion damn near replaces bubbleheart.* Everyone should reserve that combo ready to drop when the shit hits the fan, if you have to have some form of "use" health/mana regen, use the engineering trinkets, they don't share the same cooldowns as potions.
Just want to add if you do go holy spec you should also go with spiritual guidance, 25% extra damage from spirit might not sound like a lot but it adds up with spirit tap! Edit: For shadow leveling you usually go deeper disc until 40
I've always have fantasy and class in mind, for a healer and dps combo, I love being a paladin, especially the classic version because I love the idea of the light blessing me to enhance my capabilities, seals to improve my efficiencies and healing to aid my allies of being self sustaining For pure dps, I've always liked a Rogue, being stealth, getting the jump on my enemies, assessing what I can do like a scout or assassin (duh), controlling the battlefield through blinding, sapping and stunning
Great guide! One thing I would change for feral druid ability training: Train Rank 1 Hurricane. Engineering isn't very good for feral druids anyway so you might as well train Hurricane for split pulling and focus on other great professions like leatherworking for Wolfshead Helm or alch/herbing with ease in travel form. Just make sure you have mana to cast the hurricane, main target hit(usually low rank moonfire) and cat/bear form before you pull.
I would really like a list for best duo combos- like a rundown of all duos for each of the classrs. Since I hopefully will play mostly with my brother and I'm too casual to think about things like gear overlap or ability combos
I know I’m quite late to comment but a boar is by far the best pet early game. Tanky, has charge at level 10, which roots target and gets snap threat plus boars can eat anything. Really underrated pet.
I'm surprised no one ever seem to mention that with priests, just like the hunter, you can melee weave your wand hits. I figured this out ages ago, when wanding you, if you have a good slow staff, you can increase your dps quite a bit by right clicking, or if you have auto attack still out on your bars, every other wand hit or so depending on weapon speeds. The melee swing is instant and you can start wanding as soon as your wand GCD is done. I've managed to crit like 200 with wand hits hitting like 50. It's an amazing dps increase making priests rven more efficient.
I'm 1min of the video and I see there 3hour of it, I already know this is exactly what I've been looking for over the past few days. I couldn't resist to drop instant like qnd sub. Now let's see the rest of the video haha, thqnks for the work on it anyway !
I Remember doing the Rhokdealar quest in wow classic way back when.. Soloing that one monster to get the longbow was hard but totally fun. Kited that thing for like 15 min..
@@Vektordeformacio use rockbiter always!!! just not in dungeon cuz of aggro!!!! frostbrand is better then flame tongue, but rockbiter is best on average!!! windfury is almost as good with slow slow weapons..flame tongue is the worst one
@@partizaans9597frost brand is better than flame tongue? Are you dumb? Flame tongue is better than literally everything at consistency. WF only competes on extremely slow weapons. Frost brand is the WORST, by far
I like to level my warlocks as destruction using the imp most of the time. Make the imp pull with fireball and walk a bit, then cast corruption, then shadow bolt, immolate, shadow bolt, finish with shadowburn or later conflagrate. Depending on your damage leave away corruption. I like this much better because your voidwalker doesn't hold threat anyway, your imp can take a hit or two long enough to cast a shadow bolt or put on a dot first (he also regs fast). Your damage is very bursty so stuff dies very quickly and you do great damage in dungeons. You get hit on a regular basis so your defense skill stays up to date. On the downside, this is mana intense meaning you will reg like a mage, but assuming you can afford food and drink or have a mage friend, you also reg quite fast since a warlock really has a blue and a green manabar that you can reg at twice the speed. Also don't forget the stamina buff the imp gives you. Another alternative is to go demonology until you can sacrifice your voidwalker. Then work with dots and facetank mobs with drain life. In dungeons sacrifice your succubus for more damage. You will need to reg less and your defense skill stays up to date obviously. I also like to go alchemy due to elixir of defense and troll's blood pots. They essentially buff your demon armor quite a bit (you will notice). Also herbalism/alchemy is a great moneymaker.
one thing about the wand section is that you generally want a shadow based wand especially after you respec. so instead id recommend just using the gravestone scepter until 41 and buying a blackbone wand from the vendor in any main city.
@1:50:00 Probably a boost for destruction spec, I mean it says in the text, "increases the damage done by fire spells by 17." Destruction is fire based damage if i am not mistaken.
surprises me how many people look up the priest section! i have leveled a shadow to 60 in 2019 classic wow and also got it to 70 when tbc launched - was so much fun even tho off-meta in raids, it had such an easy way solo lvling to 60 (with the usual dungeons included; done as shadow hybrid healer since you don't care swapping to a real heal specc after you hit 60 if u wanna raid in best case) i recommend mizoto's channel. as of now its a bit quite on his channel but the older videos from 2019 classic launch are still up there!
As a druid you only need two sets of gear. One for tanking. One for healing. The tanking gear can work for cat form. The healing gear can work for dps.
Can't remember if this was said in the video about the mage, but you certainly DON'T want frostbite if you choose to aoe grind. I'm sure experienced aoe farmers know this already, just thought I put it out there.
I'll be going Frost Mage with Enchanting and Tailoring. I have always loved the theme of frost mages and being able to craft my own wands/DE gear while crafting my own gear sounds like so much fun. If I die on my Frost Mage, I plan on going with Warrior (undecided on which spec to level with), but it'll be a warrior for sure with Mining and Engineering.
Beautiful video! I leveled a warrior until 26,then i just bored and reroll paladin,yes is autoattack and judgement,but is very tanky and more fast of a 2h war,i hit 17 in first day with pala,more fast than war in all situation
Really good overview and recap to all the classes. Since my mate and I are gonna be duo leveling, and he is gonna roll a rogue, I could narrow it down to a few classes I want to try. Still deciding between Mage or Warlock (I am not really interested in Priest, since I am not really interested in healing in classic).
When it comes down to choosing a class I always choose aesthetics over anything else. Which is why I always play the Warlock, the idea of being a practitionere of the dark arts just speaks to me.
Amen brother, I always picked female NE priest even though it doesn't come with desperate prayer but I also play RP servers so it's all about that fantasy
Money shouldn't be a driving factor, but I'd upload each class as a "Why you should Main [insert class] in Hardcore Classic". This is such a good in depth video, might as well just benefit more from it.
I started in tbc, so essentially I leveled through vanilla Azeroth, but tbh early vanilla is vastly different even from tbc. There's a lot of stuff I see on videos like this that is totally foreign to me. They really adjusted a lot in short order after launch, a lot of quality of life stuff
I’ve been playing this game forever it seems but I’ve never played a priest, hunter or mage to max level. Nothing seems more fun than warrior in classic especially in pvp. Shaman is also super fun for pvp.
My HC guild thought I was crazy for spending the first 15min of each level on my lock, letting mobs melee me while I melee weaponed them. I did this specifically so I wouldn't end up with so little defense that I could get 2 shot crit. And leveling a melee weapon is just good practice incase you do need to get a damage mob tag.. Dagger and melee are among the fastest swing times, and getting that tag instead of the war, or sham, just.... Feels good. I made it to 50 multiple times with this setup, and only really die from dumb things like running where I shouldn't or fear mob tagging the whole zone.
@@XZersX I saw the removed reply from you: _"hardcore official server release with all the first timers"_ Such a thing doesn't imply this video reaching 1 million views. The at the moment, the only video on this channel to reach a million views, is the Wrath class video.
Best pet for solo/questing is the boar. Sturdy, can be fed with conjured bread, it can learn charge, gore (unique to boars (until TBC), bite and dash, though I would not use the latter two. Just using charge and gore is the best way to get the most out of the boars focus. Coolest looking boar‘s are to be found in Razorfen Kraul. You can learn Gore up to Rank 8 from the plagued swines inside the Eastern Plaguelands. Rank 7 is available from the Ashmane boars inside the Blasted Lands, and Rank 4 from Bellygrub inside Redridge Mountains. Best for dps are the cats. In Vanilla Broken Tooth (fastest attack) and Lupos (before 1.9, when he was dealing shadow damage, ignoring armor) were the best overall damage dealers. In PvP Broken Tooth was a pain in the ass for casters, even w/o speccing into Beastmastery.
@@Arthur-jp6ik Get the boar when you start leveling. Boars are sturdy, do ok damage, and can be fed with conjured bread from the mages. They are great for leveling, farming and grinding. Get a cat or other for PvE/PvP, depending on the expansion.
I believe you saw the night elf hunter. Night elf hunter was my first ever toon. I actually think it was kind of hard as a noob because you do have to control your pet and your toon but I would say I’m doing good so far…
Ive tanked every dungeon pre piggie dungeon in barrens (escaping my mind atm lol) as a warlock with my void walker. Its kinda funny definitely a challenge, but possible. The key is you face tank one mob, fear second mob, have void walker tank highest damage mob, and have group primary the fourth mob. Takes some coordination, but doable.
@atacas hey bro. I have a friend that is trying to grow her channel. Any advice on how to grow? Algorithm manipulation? Anything like that? Are you still at Wicked Tuna bro? Long time no see.
I actually found windfury with the fastest 1 handed dagger you can find is really fun combined with getting as much agility as you can. Obviously you don't hit as hard but you are constantly in flurry and windfury procs a lot, also you get a lot less wasted damage on mobs.
I lvled pala as tank spec, and will do again ... love lvling pala as prot in classic - being able to happily pull 3-10 mobs (gear dependent) and face tanking them while lvling is just fun
No it isn’t. It takes your entire mana and health bar to kill 3 mobs then you have to do a full rest. Ret can do everything prot can do during leveling and DPS way better with no downtime. There is no ten mob prot pally killing in vanilla, consecrate takes like a quarter of your mana and you don’t even get sanc (which is terrible) or holy shield til 30-40
If I can add one piece of criticism/awareness, it's the colour ranking of spells to buy/avoid. It's difficult at best, impossible at worst, to discern between the green and yellow. Considering the fact that there are around 8% (~350 million) of the total population affected by colour blindness, it's an accessibility option that is shockingly seldom thought of in any media. Personally, I find it especially fun to read charts and graphs with colours that are just vague shades of the same 2-3 colours. ;) Anyways, good video. Really enjoyed the single long format instead of 9 seperate videos.
Offtopic. 1:23:28 guys what does "for what it's worth" phrase mean exactly in this case? I googled and i think that is some sort of way to downplay what you say, because you not sure if this information is gonna be useful or not, is it true for this case? I have been learhing english by myself for one year and i cant fathom it yet. thx
Do you prioritize arcane shot over multi-shot on hunter? i know multi-shot is higher mana cost, but even on single target it gets increased dmg from your weapon dmg while arcane shot is just arcane dmg, nothing to do with you weapon, i pretty much never use arcane shot after i get multi, and sometimes i even skip serpent just to regen mana for higher uptime for killing mobs, just melee weave/multi shot is the way i keep my killing speed at maximum. Not a pro hunter in any way but just because i play with slow bows all the way to 60 usually multishot is the best dmg dealing ability..
Arcane shot is literally worthless in vanilla wow. Huge waste of mana for less then auto shot damage. Multi, aimed, and serpent sting are the only damaging moves you should ever spend mana on. Even then, most people will be going BM to level so multi shot isn’t even worth using til you go MM and you won’t get aimed shot til respec either. Hunters mark / serpent sting / multi only when absolutely needed is the way to go when leveling
His paladin guide was ok but he chooses mostly abilities which make you stronger Vs melee mobs when as a paladin you actually struggle against casters as you have no way to stop a cast except a stun which is a 1 min timer. I recommend to use Sanct aura as 10% DMG buff scales on everything, and you get alot of value from it when you judge SoC on a stunned target as it gives 2.5x dmg in classic. 2.5x plus 10% can be really nice. Judgement cd talents is totally necessary too, as it's the only damaging ability out of auto attacking basically.. just use a lower rank SoC if you have mana issues. Crits prov vengeance which does 15% DMG for 8 seconds and scales with sanct aura 10% DMG buff.. so, spamming judgement on cool down is a free way to get vengeance procs! Retri aura is very situational, I only use it on a dual wielding mob. And it would gimp your dungeon DPS if you go in as Ret DPS too. Imp BOM scales with everything, so it's necessary as you spend 90% of the time auto attacking you need them auto attacks to do as much DMG as possible. It helps in dungeons too. If you don't want that then get defection 5/5 for parry haste. I skip it as I would like to do as much melee DMG as possible especially to casters which is what paladins struggle against.. The other talent points are kind of common knowledge, and there are ALOT of dead talents on paladins in classic.. consc is a 11 point talent in holy so that's 6 dead talent points.. Ret has almost no decent talents after you get 31 points talent at the end of the tree.. it really needed an on use button to do instant DMG like... Every other class got.. so as a result the majority of your DMG will be auto attacks.. either white or SoC procs which isn't affect by armor! So it will cut through tanky targets like butter, especially on a crit. Something to also consider procs in classic give you vengeance, so having a wep with a proc gives huge value. And as classic like sotc debuff is just 10 seconds, 3 dodges, misses will drop the debuff.. so personally I've found 3.30 speed when leveling is fast enough to stop the debuff dropping and slow enough that your SoC is still doing plenty of dmg. Before level 20 you'd like a very fast 2h for Sotr, as it scales with speed. After 20 you need slower for SoC. It goes without saying too that don't bother with axes unless you have no other choice, 5 wep skill on maces and swords is absolutely busted in classic due to how terrible glancing blows are! So, stick to only these two when possible if always. Glancing is such a massive boost to your DMG. There is one axe heavy thorium axe that has 172 DPS and 10 axe skill which is decent at level 47 if you didn't get anything better in a while. But there's tons of decent 2h maces and swords so it's not necessary to run axe except maybe ravager as it has such a crazy good aoe proc in dungeons and if you'd like to cleave mobs. That's my 10 cents. I've played paladin Ret for years. In classic it's ruff in tbc it's so good with seal twisting and wrath its actually broken!
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I'm late to the party here but you mentioned leveling up defence. I picked up a neat trick back in the day when I played actual vanilla, if you taunt rats in the deep run tram without damaging them they will attack you and it's very fast and more importantly safe way to level defence. Might be worth mentioning in a future video
Don't use this leveling guide for hardcore. It constantly sends you into quests which you shouldn't do at all in hc, as they most likely get you killed because of frequent hyperspawns.
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Congrats, WillE. You just convinced me to roll 9 Hardcore characters in just under 3 hours.
Haha same here
Yeah for real
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".. and I will play them all at once, through multiple accounts and macros. Wish me luck!"
Really? All I heard was play mage or play retail 😒
Been playing this game for 20 years, I know everything about every class…but I will still watch a Willie video on the edge of my seat! Great stuff.
Oh you know everything? Name every spell.
Oh you know everything? Name every patch note
@@rasmusjensen4838 Smartass 🙂
Without looking what’s the difference between max level rogue and Druid sprint speed
@@HycranSaph rogue only uses two legs to sprint. EZ.
I quit WoW years ago and played Classic for 20 minutes. I still watched this entire video. Really thorough and lovely work here!
I listened to this all night at work and I feel very excited to play wow for the first time in years. Thank you ❤
Good luck on playing WoW again.
Hopefully it will be fun.
Im kinda the opposite, hearing all the bs youre gunna have to put up with from vanilla. No quality of life like you see in retail lol. Been spoiled. Namely on the rogue, stealth level, powders, safe fall at 40, vanish bugs, the list goes on. But damn how do yall have time to even play this shit xD
@@coheedmonstar33to each their own. Classic is an acquired taste for sure and I believe with hardcore it’ll be easier for me to play casually aka , take a break or roll a new class or faction when my character inevitably gets game over’d 🪦
The great thing about hardcore is you don't really have to choose. Chances are, your first character is gonna die. The 2nd one too, etc. Just don't retry the same class endlessly and before long you will have tried them all =D
I made it to 60 with my first HC char ever (warlock) :)
@@Trinax11 Its easy if ur a coward. Try go into crowded mob places like me, thats a challenge :) But I think I will play grandmother safe when the server goes online.
@@trulsnilsen2658 It's ez if youre competitive pvp player.. solod most elites, never really went safe mode
@@trulsnilsen2658Playing wow is always easy, if you think wow is hard in any kind of way you have NEVER had a real challenge lmao
Nope. My first character will get to 60 and beat every raid. Surely.
WillE saw creators making 1 hour videos on what class to pick and took that as a challenge. Actually sat and watched this whole thing like a movie, what a chad! Keep up the great work man
For shaman, I like to swap to elemental around the mid to late 40's. The high 30's to low 40's has some great enhance weapons / mail gear and you get a new rank of windfury at 40
For priest, spirit is king for leveling as it compounds the more you have. Smite build > shadow when you have high spirit because of spiritual guidance (25% spirit = bonus spell power) combined with spirit tap (doubles spirit for 15 secs after landing a killing blow). You become a serious beast with a nearly unlimited mana pool by the early to mid 40's
Spirit for Priests is cringe. In normal leveling, Spirit Tap is more than necessary for your mana regen needs. Regenning mana with and without Spirit Tap is only a different of 2-3% per 3 seconds, which isn't worth speccing into. Uldaman is where I really noticed that I should be speccing spirit, around 45. Until then, Intellect first and Stamina second should be your main priorities since they have more immediate effects.
i’ve played this game for 15 years or so, and i never knew about the beast lore - learning abilities from taming new beasts thing. wow
Omg YESSS something great to listen to while leveling!!! Love your channel and HC WOW
With the Druid talents, I don’t think you can ignore feral swiftness for both survivability when outdoors and for leveling speed. 30% faster from 21-30 is big.
For hardcore the move speed is kinda trash. I do like the 4% dodge late game feral lvling though.
I feel like people forget how much time from 21 to 30 is spent inside an instance.
I think you really nailed paladin in this. We're slow but we're also (relatively) unkillable. What we lack in sheer damage output we make up in enabling our friends to do more stuff. I've been learning that that is my preferred play style, which is often why I play healers throughout the 15+ years of MMOs. I don't have a lot of my friends playing classic, but I def feel like a freakin hero when I Holy Light random people in tight spots from nowhere - especially in the lower leveled sections of the game.
Also I took a break from playing normal classic i was leveling a priest using wands for the first time and i got really high level with it. I need to get back into it to get to max level for the first time.
Thank you so much for the video. Now I have a better idea which class to roll second after I inevitably die with my warrior to some harpies after the starting zone.
Not even planing to play hardcore but this class guide is just so good I can't stop rewatching it
Every paladin should end their hardcore journey with a divine intervention. It's the most satisfying class fantasy thing you can do in all of wow.
Honestly if you know it's a wipe and you're going to die, saving one member of the party will make their whole month.
Important tips for all hardcore Paladins: *Divine Shield + Swiftness potion damn near replaces bubbleheart.*
Everyone should reserve that combo ready to drop when the shit hits the fan, if you have to have some form of "use" health/mana regen, use the engineering trinkets, they don't share the same cooldowns as potions.
Thanks for the hunter macro! I did not know this and will definitely use it.
Just want to add if you do go holy spec you should also go with spiritual guidance, 25% extra damage from spirit might not sound like a lot but it adds up with spirit tap!
Edit: For shadow leveling you usually go deeper disc until 40
Yeah, Holy oddly has very bursty damage compared to Shadow. If you can chain kills you'll keep on chaining until you run out of mobs.
I've always have fantasy and class in mind, for a healer and dps combo, I love being a paladin, especially the classic version because I love the idea of the light blessing me to enhance my capabilities, seals to improve my efficiencies and healing to aid my allies of being self sustaining
For pure dps, I've always liked a Rogue, being stealth, getting the jump on my enemies, assessing what I can do like a scout or assassin (duh), controlling the battlefield through blinding, sapping and stunning
Nice to see a more deep dive (longer) video. great job :)!
Great guide! One thing I would change for feral druid ability training: Train Rank 1 Hurricane. Engineering isn't very good for feral druids anyway so you might as well train Hurricane for split pulling and focus on other great professions like leatherworking for Wolfshead Helm or alch/herbing with ease in travel form. Just make sure you have mana to cast the hurricane, main target hit(usually low rank moonfire) and cat/bear form before you pull.
Great content, I appreciate what you do! 🔥
Amazing work mate, love the long form videos. ❤❤❤
EPIC long and amazing hardcore wow hype drip. Thank you!!!
I would really like a list for best duo combos- like a rundown of all duos for each of the classrs. Since I hopefully will play mostly with my brother and I'm too casual to think about things like gear overlap or ability combos
Pretty much any caster/melee or heal/ DPS combo is good.
paladin with smite priest, shaman with warrior, druid with rogue are especially fun together.
Duo mage and duo hunter are lit
Insanely well-done video with so much helpful information for a new player. Thank you!
I know I’m quite late to comment but a boar is by far the best pet early game. Tanky, has charge at level 10, which roots target and gets snap threat plus boars can eat anything. Really underrated pet.
Can i feed boars their own meat? They always drop meat when i kill them. Or does it have to be food like hp regen food?
@@SoFasT99 When he says everything he means everything, boars will happily cannibalise on uncooked boar meat
45:50 a tauren druid wearing an Alliance quest reward, now that is truely hardcore!
I'm surprised no one ever seem to mention that with priests, just like the hunter, you can melee weave your wand hits.
I figured this out ages ago, when wanding you, if you have a good slow staff, you can increase your dps quite a bit by right clicking, or if you have auto attack still out on your bars, every other wand hit or so depending on weapon speeds. The melee swing is instant and you can start wanding as soon as your wand GCD is done. I've managed to crit like 200 with wand hits hitting like 50. It's an amazing dps increase making priests rven more efficient.
I'm 1min of the video and I see there 3hour of it, I already know this is exactly what I've been looking for over the past few days. I couldn't resist to drop instant like qnd sub.
Now let's see the rest of the video haha, thqnks for the work on it anyway !
Great video! I’m sure this took tons of time and effort and I really appreciate it. You rock.
This is great stuff. Thanks WillE!
I Remember doing the Rhokdealar quest in wow classic way back when.. Soloing that one monster to get the longbow was hard but totally fun. Kited that thing for like 15 min..
I keep pet on defensive while solo leveling for disconnect protection.
for shaman use rockbiter for leveling.. its whay better and more consistent
What about flametongue daggers with shield?
@@Vektordeformacio use rockbiter always!!! just not in dungeon cuz of aggro!!!! frostbrand is better then flame tongue, but rockbiter is best on average!!! windfury is almost as good with slow slow weapons..flame tongue is the worst one
@@partizaans9597frost brand is better than flame tongue? Are you dumb? Flame tongue is better than literally everything at consistency. WF only competes on extremely slow weapons. Frost brand is the WORST, by far
I really look forward to and love these videos WillE does.
love the guides WillE keep it up
I love classic wow era videos the most ❤
dang you really know the specs! thank you for taking the time to explain
I like to level my warlocks as destruction using the imp most of the time. Make the imp pull with fireball and walk a bit, then cast corruption, then shadow bolt, immolate, shadow bolt, finish with shadowburn or later conflagrate. Depending on your damage leave away corruption.
I like this much better because your voidwalker doesn't hold threat anyway, your imp can take a hit or two long enough to cast a shadow bolt or put on a dot first (he also regs fast). Your damage is very bursty so stuff dies very quickly and you do great damage in dungeons. You get hit on a regular basis so your defense skill stays up to date.
On the downside, this is mana intense meaning you will reg like a mage, but assuming you can afford food and drink or have a mage friend, you also reg quite fast since a warlock really has a blue and a green manabar that you can reg at twice the speed. Also don't forget the stamina buff the imp gives you.
Another alternative is to go demonology until you can sacrifice your voidwalker. Then work with dots and facetank mobs with drain life. In dungeons sacrifice your succubus for more damage. You will need to reg less and your defense skill stays up to date obviously.
I also like to go alchemy due to elixir of defense and troll's blood pots. They essentially buff your demon armor quite a bit (you will notice). Also herbalism/alchemy is a great moneymaker.
affliction with dark pact while the imp stays passive (so it keeps its out of combat regeneration) is the easiest farmer ever :) Giga underrated
Awesome guide. I learnt i need to play every class at once.
Thank you ! your video help me i will chose paladin!
one thing about the wand section is that you generally want a shadow based wand especially after you respec. so instead id recommend just using the gravestone scepter until 41 and buying a blackbone wand from the vendor in any main city.
you NEVER take shadow before 40 besides spirit tap. Disc is used for healing and shadow, so always level disc for mana regen and survivability.
Yeah some form of disc/holy is much more effective below 40. Even post 40 it's solid providing you keep your wand updated
@1:50:00 Probably a boost for destruction spec, I mean it says in the text, "increases the damage done by fire spells by 17." Destruction is fire based damage if i am not mistaken.
Was going to go watch Oppenheimer this weekend but, now will be watching WillE talk about all the classes for WoW instead.
Stat Breakdown per class
Shaman 22:24
Druid 40:19
Rogue 55:27
Priest 1:14:18
Warlock 1:33:30
Mage 1:54:35
Warrior 2:11:10
Paladin 2:28:54
Hunter-None Present
surprises me how many people look up the priest section! i have leveled a shadow to 60 in 2019 classic wow and also got it to 70 when tbc launched - was so much fun even tho off-meta in raids, it had such an easy way solo lvling to 60 (with the usual dungeons included; done as shadow hybrid healer since you don't care swapping to a real heal specc after you hit 60 if u wanna raid in best case)
i recommend mizoto's channel. as of now its a bit quite on his channel but the older videos from 2019 classic launch are still up there!
As a druid you only need two sets of gear. One for tanking. One for healing. The tanking gear can work for cat form. The healing gear can work for dps.
Watching this again because why not, its an amazing video 💪🏻
Can't remember if this was said in the video about the mage, but you certainly DON'T want frostbite if you choose to aoe grind. I'm sure experienced aoe farmers know this already, just thought I put it out there.
Thanks for this info. Love that you used ALT-Z tu hide UI, that way more concentration in what really matters.
I'll be going Frost Mage with Enchanting and Tailoring. I have always loved the theme of frost mages and being able to craft my own wands/DE gear while crafting my own gear sounds like so much fun.
If I die on my Frost Mage, I plan on going with Warrior (undecided on which spec to level with), but it'll be a warrior for sure with Mining and Engineering.
Beautiful video! I leveled a warrior until 26,then i just bored and reroll paladin,yes is autoattack and judgement,but is very tanky and more fast of a 2h war,i hit 17 in first day with pala,more fast than war in all situation
Very nice video! Altough i still cant figure what i want to play yet :( sadge
Note for hunters, intimidation is not the only way to interrupt a spell, you can concussive shot as well
lost a priest at level 29 to logging in to stitches standing in the inn at darkshire, that was fun
Really good overview and recap to all the classes.
Since my mate and I are gonna be duo leveling, and he is gonna roll a rogue, I could narrow it down to a few classes I want to try.
Still deciding between Mage or Warlock (I am not really interested in Priest, since I am not really interested in healing in classic).
Mage is the always the Rogue's best friend
IF i die on hardcore server can i transfer that character to a normal classic era server or its gone and deleted ?
you can transfer
@@xaviercoronado154 And I think its a free transfer at that. Though don't quote me on that, I just seem to remember that being the case.
Amazing video! I've been playing since Vanilla and didn't really have much interest in going back. I think your break down has changed my mind.
Great video! I'd love to see a follow-up on recommended professions, addons, Weak Auras and race/class recommendations :)
MASSIVE video, love it.
When it comes down to choosing a class I always choose aesthetics over anything else. Which is why I always play the Warlock, the idea of being a practitionere of the dark arts just speaks to me.
uhhhh so dark much cool
What does it say to you?😏
"practitionere of the dark arts" cringe
Amen brother, I always picked female NE priest even though it doesn't come with desperate prayer but I also play RP servers so it's all about that fantasy
Reminds me of my old AIM screen name darkdeath606 😂
Money shouldn't be a driving factor, but I'd upload each class as a "Why you should Main [insert class] in Hardcore Classic". This is such a good in depth video, might as well just benefit more from it.
Wow. What a video! Thank you so much WillE
100% Incredible video!!! 🤘🏻💯
Just did the paladin weapon quest and you were discussing it. Joined a guild of all paladins and we got 3 people the weapon tonight.
I started in tbc, so essentially I leveled through vanilla Azeroth, but tbh early vanilla is vastly different even from tbc. There's a lot of stuff I see on videos like this that is totally foreign to me. They really adjusted a lot in short order after launch, a lot of quality of life stuff
Such great insights in this video. Thanks!
I’ve been playing this game forever it seems but I’ve never played a priest, hunter or mage to max level. Nothing seems more fun than warrior in classic especially in pvp. Shaman is also super fun for pvp.
My HC guild thought I was crazy for spending the first 15min of each level on my lock, letting mobs melee me while I melee weaponed them. I did this specifically so I wouldn't end up with so little defense that I could get 2 shot crit. And leveling a melee weapon is just good practice incase you do need to get a damage mob tag.. Dagger and melee are among the fastest swing times, and getting that tag instead of the war, or sham, just.... Feels good. I made it to 50 multiple times with this setup, and only really die from dumb things like running where I shouldn't or fear mob tagging the whole zone.
This is smart
this guide will have at least 1 million views at least, mark my words^^
It's really great and nothing like that exists on yt
1000 000? When do you think it could reach that? And why?
At the moment it is about 48 thousand.
@@pyktukasplays4945 hardcore official server release with all the first timers
no, it's not 2019 and not the classic class picking guide. there is not THAT much interest in hardcore. Great video nonetheless
@@XZersX I saw the removed reply from you:
_"hardcore official server release with all the first timers"_
Such a thing doesn't imply this video reaching 1 million views. The at the moment, the only video on this channel to reach a million views, is the Wrath class video.
Best pet for solo/questing is the boar. Sturdy, can be fed with conjured bread, it can learn charge, gore (unique to boars (until TBC), bite and dash, though I would not use the latter two. Just using charge and gore is the best way to get the most out of the boars focus. Coolest looking boar‘s are to be found in Razorfen Kraul. You can learn Gore up to Rank 8 from the plagued swines inside the Eastern Plaguelands. Rank 7 is available from the Ashmane boars inside the Blasted Lands, and Rank 4 from Bellygrub inside Redridge Mountains.
Best for dps are the cats. In Vanilla Broken Tooth (fastest attack) and Lupos (before 1.9, when he was dealing shadow damage, ignoring armor) were the best overall damage dealers. In PvP Broken Tooth was a pain in the ass for casters, even w/o speccing into Beastmastery.
Okay i was thinking what pet to go with when i start playing with night elf hunter, but should i go with the cat or should i try get a boar or a owl
@@Arthur-jp6ik Get the boar when you start leveling. Boars are sturdy, do ok damage, and can be fed with conjured bread from the mages. They are great for leveling, farming and grinding. Get a cat or other for PvE/PvP, depending on the expansion.
I'm new, don't judge me but what Race is the Hunter at the beginning of this video and is it a good combo for a noob?
I believe you saw the night elf hunter. Night elf hunter was my first ever toon. I actually think it was kind of hard as a noob because you do have to control your pet and your toon but I would say I’m doing good so far…
Ive tanked every dungeon pre piggie dungeon in barrens (escaping my mind atm lol) as a warlock with my void walker. Its kinda funny definitely a challenge, but possible. The key is you face tank one mob, fear second mob, have void walker tank highest damage mob, and have group primary the fourth mob. Takes some coordination, but doable.
I find it funny that you didn't mention the DC issue: Any pet class has the best chance to survive in that event ^^
Not true at all, as non-braindead people do not use defensive setting.
~ love these kind of videos ~
As someone who hasn't really touched the game since the end of Wrath of the Lich King what version is the better to get into?
Literally every version of wow that is out right now is quite good.
LoFi WillE class guides to relax/study to
Do you just say LoFi because you think it sounds cool?
@@kermitthefragg Yes.
I don’t have time to play, but I’ll watch this entire video.
Retarded ass comment fer sure
Every class: Ooooo that’s what I want to main!
I’ve never played hardcore and I’ve been playing wow since tbc. Question on end game content - it’s still 1 life at lvl 60, right?
Yeah
@atacas hey bro. I have a friend that is trying to grow her channel. Any advice on how to grow? Algorithm manipulation? Anything like that? Are you still at Wicked Tuna bro? Long time no see.
Hunter I always thought was easiest to learn the basics, but hardest to perfect.
I actually found windfury with the fastest 1 handed dagger you can find is really fun combined with getting as much agility as you can. Obviously you don't hit as hard but you are constantly in flurry and windfury procs a lot, also you get a lot less wasted damage on mobs.
By any chance, will you stream WoW HC?
I spinned my race and class. Makes it interesting
I will be rushing Ritual of Doom as a Warlock, and putting it down every single raid until the ritual is complete.
Superb Quality content I dont even know then i subbed haha
I lvled pala as tank spec, and will do again ... love lvling pala as prot in classic - being able to happily pull 3-10 mobs (gear dependent) and face tanking them while lvling is just fun
No it isn’t. It takes your entire mana and health bar to kill 3 mobs then you have to do a full rest. Ret can do everything prot can do during leveling and DPS way better with no downtime. There is no ten mob prot pally killing in vanilla, consecrate takes like a quarter of your mana and you don’t even get sanc (which is terrible) or holy shield til 30-40
If I can add one piece of criticism/awareness, it's the colour ranking of spells to buy/avoid. It's difficult at best, impossible at worst, to discern between the green and yellow. Considering the fact that there are around 8% (~350 million) of the total population affected by colour blindness, it's an accessibility option that is shockingly seldom thought of in any media. Personally, I find it especially fun to read charts and graphs with colours that are just vague shades of the same 2-3 colours. ;)
Anyways, good video. Really enjoyed the single long format instead of 9 seperate videos.
What is the addon for the talent screen having the character displayed on the side? It looks very clean
Thanks!
Based Willie dropping an almost three-hour long video. What a legend
Solid guide. I feel you missed a point with Shaman not mentioning the best HC weapon, Big Stick.
Offtopic. 1:23:28 guys what does "for what it's worth" phrase mean exactly in this case? I googled and i think that is some sort of way to downplay what you say, because you not sure if this information is gonna be useful or not, is it true for this case? I have been learhing english by myself for one year and i cant fathom it yet. thx
Do you prioritize arcane shot over multi-shot on hunter? i know multi-shot is higher mana cost, but even on single target it gets increased dmg from your weapon dmg while arcane shot is just arcane dmg, nothing to do with you weapon, i pretty much never use arcane shot after i get multi, and sometimes i even skip serpent just to regen mana for higher uptime for killing mobs, just melee weave/multi shot is the way i keep my killing speed at maximum. Not a pro hunter in any way but just because i play with slow bows all the way to 60 usually multishot is the best dmg dealing ability..
Arcane shot is literally worthless in vanilla wow. Huge waste of mana for less then auto shot damage. Multi, aimed, and serpent sting are the only damaging moves you should ever spend mana on. Even then, most people will be going BM to level so multi shot isn’t even worth using til you go MM and you won’t get aimed shot til respec either. Hunters mark / serpent sting / multi only when absolutely needed is the way to go when leveling
question.... why paladin? I thought it's going to be Classic HC, not WOTLK HC? Am I wrong? :)
note on warrior.
Piercing howl is REALLY good for escaping
His paladin guide was ok but he chooses mostly abilities which make you stronger Vs melee mobs when as a paladin you actually struggle against casters as you have no way to stop a cast except a stun which is a 1 min timer.
I recommend to use Sanct aura as 10% DMG buff scales on everything, and you get alot of value from it when you judge SoC on a stunned target as it gives 2.5x dmg in classic. 2.5x plus 10% can be really nice.
Judgement cd talents is totally necessary too, as it's the only damaging ability out of auto attacking basically.. just use a lower rank SoC if you have mana issues.
Crits prov vengeance which does 15% DMG for 8 seconds and scales with sanct aura 10% DMG buff.. so, spamming judgement on cool down is a free way to get vengeance procs!
Retri aura is very situational, I only use it on a dual wielding mob. And it would gimp your dungeon DPS if you go in as Ret DPS too.
Imp BOM scales with everything, so it's necessary as you spend 90% of the time auto attacking you need them auto attacks to do as much DMG as possible. It helps in dungeons too. If you don't want that then get defection 5/5 for parry haste. I skip it as I would like to do as much melee DMG as possible especially to casters which is what paladins struggle against..
The other talent points are kind of common knowledge, and there are ALOT of dead talents on paladins in classic.. consc is a 11 point talent in holy so that's 6 dead talent points.. Ret has almost no decent talents after you get 31 points talent at the end of the tree.. it really needed an on use button to do instant DMG like... Every other class got.. so as a result the majority of your DMG will be auto attacks.. either white or SoC procs which isn't affect by armor! So it will cut through tanky targets like butter, especially on a crit.
Something to also consider procs in classic give you vengeance, so having a wep with a proc gives huge value. And as classic like sotc debuff is just 10 seconds, 3 dodges, misses will drop the debuff.. so personally I've found 3.30 speed when leveling is fast enough to stop the debuff dropping and slow enough that your SoC is still doing plenty of dmg.
Before level 20 you'd like a very fast 2h for Sotr, as it scales with speed. After 20 you need slower for SoC.
It goes without saying too that don't bother with axes unless you have no other choice, 5 wep skill on maces and swords is absolutely busted in classic due to how terrible glancing blows are! So, stick to only these two when possible if always.
Glancing is such a massive boost to your DMG. There is one axe heavy thorium axe that has 172 DPS and 10 axe skill which is decent at level 47 if you didn't get anything better in a while. But there's tons of decent 2h maces and swords so it's not necessary to run axe except maybe ravager as it has such a crazy good aoe proc in dungeons and if you'd like to cleave mobs. That's my 10 cents. I've played paladin Ret for years. In classic it's ruff in tbc it's so good with seal twisting and wrath its actually broken!