@@andrewgardiner563 well I'd say leveling in classic/vanilla is the worst leveling in WoW's history and is actually bad, but ok. Not that the majority of the raids are good either.
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Damn, good stuff, mate. Personally I've struggled to get a second character past 20. Tons of alts in the 10s limbo while my rogue is stuck in STV at 43 or so.
I have leveled a paladin to 60 but dont own a second monitor. I listened to videos (like this one) or audiobooks. Mostly it was just me and my thoughts. It felt almost like falling in a trance. Seal, judge, Seal, wait 8 seconds, judge, seal, wait 8 seconds. It felt so rythmyc and safe I could do breathing exercises and enter Zen lol. Hunter I found super fun, micro managing pet, ripping aggro off it when mob is at 30%, sending it of to the next mob, while kiting the low one etc. Using traps, giving people taxi via aspect of the pack. Looking up and taming pets. I also LOVE how auto shot feels, since you need to stop and cast inbetween moving it feels really meaty and satisfying to pull off. Defintely bringing my hunter over to tbc.
The results and your experience is actually very interesting! I leveled a warrior starting day one and my experience was absolutely the opposite as you. I burned out at level 59 and never managed to get to 60 which really tells the difference we had and I've got around 15 days played. But! You mentioned that you leveled your warrior in a PVE server. I think that is the thing people say about warriors in vanilla, you are just a piece of meat there. Every class, every spec is able to kill you where ever you are and even when they are several levels below you. If I had a counter I think I've died in world PVP in phase 1 at least 1000 times. Stranglethorn vale is a nightmare, Tanaris was absolute nightmare and the Eastern Plaguelands just got the last will to live out of me as there were just ganking parties running around to kill and Winterspring was so Horde dominand that you were lucky to even manage to get there via the tunnel. It is giving me PTSD even to talk about this :D
i name them like shamankowi, druidkowi, hunterkowi im a simple man. before that i once called my main troll shaman sheldor and guess what, some years later big bang theorie stole my name -.-
My friend told me about world of warcraft at work this week , tried it today and did the free trial, I like it a lot,kinda surprised never knew if it was my kinda game but I guess it is
"100 days so pretty casual play". Classic has been out for like a year. That means you have spent 1/3 of your total time alive playing WoW for the last year. That means you play WoW pretty more than 50% of your total time awake. Casual? WTF?
It really is casual, myself and a couple of people I met VERY early on in classic had 70-80 days played by early phase 2 (about 3 1/2 months into classic I had about 60 days played around that time) every hardcore pvper that has reached rank 13-14 has EASLY put in 30-50 days played just on the grind alone
dunno about best worst is descolace, I hate that place with a passion. I only did it on 2 characters I think because some addon told me to. Never again
Having leveled multiple druids feral on Classic AND private servers I have to agree that they fall off hard around 45. They get no weapon scaling, and you start to feel it the closer to 60 you get.
Warrior 2nd quite surprising for me. You're definitely right about gear being important - warr was my main & 1st and only char on Classic. Huge fun to tank dungeons in arms spec & great in open world till around lvl 40. After that, wasn't able to scrounge gold or good gear easily so it was a SLOG (got my WW axe with help at around 38, had van cleef quest legs till 35ish, scarlet helmet and leggings on till about 55). Leveling 50-60 was spoiled though due to open world honour launch so if it weren't for that, probably 9/10 would main again.
I don't play wow but I really appreciate all the effort you did to max all accounts. It is a good feeling seeing someone putting effort to achieve a goal without taking shortcuts! Hope to see more content like this
Wrath will probably be your last chance to play classic, player base will only get lower and lower after the inevitable massive boost wrath will give player base but as with tbc it has slowly lost most players
On shaman leveling: Surprisingly the best way for me was to level as a healer. No: I did not do dungeon grinds. Instead I placed down Stonescale Totem, Went meele (Healers have decent options for meele weapons. SM Mace, Strat Staff, the works.) and placed down manaspring totem. As soon as I could I healed myself and placed down a Firenova totem, followed by magmatotem and healing. This results in me killing 3 mobs on average at the same time, with very little downtime. As soon as you get manatide: You can pretty much forget about having to drink. Also: If you want some passive killing, just go meele with a staff and windfury, while healing yourself once. Against one mob, that works fine, while you watch youtube videos :P
Hijacking this comment, for us shaman tricks best way to level usually is a super fast 1h dagger with shield on windfury build. The super fast AS of dagger and low high-end damage makes it that WF procs regulalry while having as minimal overkill damage as possible. Currently its the standarized norm to level shamans if you are autistic and want to keep up with other classes on F R E S H
jerk, beat me to it, I still need to make a pally and finish my warrior, but I've been on the HWL grind. 13 33% today and counting... BTW same thing as you, no boosting, and roughly 7-9 days on each of em... druid>mage>shaman>hunter>priest>rogue>warlock>warrior atm... rank of joy leveling... Mage>War>Priest>warlock>hunter>rogue>shaman>druid
Hold on, did you actually complained that hunter is boring leveling because all it does is sends pet in and shoots while you enjoyed priest which literally levels with combination of shadow word pain and a wand all the way to the 60? What?
I have like 5 level 30s lol i just constantly switch between then never knowing which i want to get 60 then quit because i cant handle the flashbacks from vanilla lol
Leveling a shaman was super easy for me. Windfury works as ele, resto or enhance. I was actually pretty efficient as resto with the staff from SM; enhancement was a bit better, but elemental was amazing. Lightning Boltx2 > melee to death with flametongue (yes, on a 2H.) If you're max range you can sometimes fit 3 in. A big mistake shamans make when trying to be efficient, is using shocks when it's not needed. This strat does need some changing as you level up beyond 55ish, but it worked for me fantastically. I DPS'd dungeons without needing to drink 50% of the time, and made full use of my elemental mastery > Earthshock combo (free of mana charge) with magma totem/melee. It was a long time ago that I leveled though, so my memory may be a bit hazy. To each their own, of course.
My journey is 6 classes at 60, 2 with almost full phase 5 BiS (pally got gear for all specs) and the rest is a mix of 20 mans and BWL/MC/Pre-raid BiS. Completed every attunement on every class and got 4 epic mounts. Having alts really made this journey so much more fun for me and I think I might have burned out without them. Especially for gold farming, sitting at 14k raw gold, plenty of consums and mats for current raids + naxx. I would not have been close if I couldn't do a lot of different gold farms with my alts.
I leveled a warrior as my one and only class at the this point and while it is definitely boring and difficult for quite a few levels, it's in that difficulty that brings the fun. For the first time in a VERY long time playing WoW I actually had to think about how I engaged mobs in the open world and use some kind of strategy. Kind of refreshing as opposed to the AA and never die machine of hunters (which I also quite like).
What I like about the warrior, is that you have to make all the right decisions. Including your leveling path, so in the lower levels, you are fighting green mobs while leveling, which was achieved by doing both the Barrens and Silverpine. You gotta have the gear, things like sharpening stones, potions, like a real RPG.
Nice job!!! I'm working toward the same thing. I have a 60 warlock and a 57 warrior. Yeah. Took me 8mo for the first 60, so here's hoping Classic lasts YEARS to come because that's how long it's going to take me. I don't play end-game; repeating the same raid every. single. week. doesn't interest me, so dinging 60 is the goal for each toon.
I'm gonna chime in on the Warrior levelling experience by saying that in my opinion, it is VERY dependent on whether Warrior is your first character or not. If you're a fresh player coming to the game for the first time and don't know how to play, and you've decided that you just want to hit stuff in the face hard, then levelling a Warrior is a fucking *miserable* experience. Have to eat after every mob, block block dodge parry miss, if a mob ever runs away and brings back a friend, or something ever just wanders into you whilst you're already engaged in combat you're kind of screwed. The list goes on, and the fact of the matter is Warrior is an awful class for someone who doesn't actually understand the game well. If, on the other hand, you've already got a cap level character and you're rolling a Warrior ALT? That is some of the smoothest sailing you can get. Bankrolling the character with large bag space, constant gear upgrades whenever you're a high enough level for something new and having every consumable you could ever want makes all the difference in the world. And if you actually know to stick around cities at certain times to collect world buffs? You're an absolute killing machine for 2 hours. tl;dr I think Warrior is the worst levelling class for a new player, and one of the best ones for an experienced player.
Warrior is an easy mode if its not your 1st character on the server. It scales massively with gear, so if you throw some boe at it from time to time you just tear through content.
@@grabeck666 I leveled a warrior as my first toon mostly solo leveling. To say the least it was pain until I realized I had essentially a guaranteed slot in dungeons and just grinded that shit hard. I never wanna see the inside of SM, or ZF ever again
I have to say, I’m playing my first wow acc ever, yeah idk how I missed this when I was a kid. I guess I just spent too much time playing RuneScape. However I’m leveling an undead mage and yeah I all I can say is I agree with you on this one ✌🏻
Pro tips for easy shaman. Spec into sheild spec and use a 1h with flame weapon that and speccing into fire totem damage. BUT if you really want to do damage around 30 or 40 get the 2h trait and use rockbiter. Rockbiter does a ridiculous amount of damage and it's consistent compared to WF.
I was really surprised about the warrior lvling as well! Like you the only thing I heard about warrior lvling were that it was shit, I like you had a great time lvling the warrior and would have put it above even the mage in “enjoyment” :)
Warrior is so strong if you min max your gear, consumables and abilities. You can push it to the limit as long as you are above 0hp you are doing max dps unlike a mana class. Classic has a ton of healing potions, consumes, cool weapons and armor with enchants and powerful cooldowns that makes warrior levelling so much fun. People that struggled with the class you know are just bad at the game and ironically that happens to be most of the playerbase.
I got one 60 mage, several toons in the range from 10-22 and 2 warriors (gnome 30 and orc 42). With SL being out now Classic has fallen a bit behind but I want my Dagger Fury/Prot Gnome Warrior so bad, I'll have to find some time to get her to 60.
Yeah leveling a warrior is a breeze if you're like me and have a mage main. You can just buy the best blues for your appropriate level and absolutely mow down packs of mobs. I usually bought new sets from AH every 5 or 6 levels and it just ramped up the power to another level entirely.
Paladin may be slow but you won't have as many corps runs especially as a new player. Spell casters are not reliable, they suffer from massive amounts of miss rate vs a mob that is even + 2 levels and are best for non quest farming low levels. Hunter is best for overall leveling ( with quests ) because of no glancing blows and you can solo dungeon quests when they become green provided you have a high level pet so I recommend hunter as the first class. Shamans function close to Paladins when leveling but they are more luck based and with leather/mail you will die a lot until you get macros and skill for kiting, but when you kite around as a Shaman you are not really gaining anything i.e. you are loosing time but it's fun. Warrior will corps run a lot but can be decent ( once you know the areas ) and is good for leveling in dungeons with groups that don't min max to hell and back. The Rogue is the glass cannon of leveling, you don't have time to wait for stun locks on every mob and will be forced to think about your own dodge/parry rate and resets for grinding but everyone should play a Vanilla Rogue at least once, it's a unique experience. Even if you don't level the Rogue to +50 it can be fun to make a Twink and the Twink can be used to open chests and make potions for other chars.
My guild mates call me insane for having a Hunter main, but I use my first alt, a Warrior, to farm gold with. But it's just a fun class. And the more gear you drop on it, the faster those mobs melt away. Meanwhile a Hunter has that constant "don't get close to me" feeling. Which is fun (and helps you understand aggro like no other class can), but I don't find it fun to grind with. Consequently I'm terribad at soloing instances with him.
Ive recently leveled my second char, a Priest. Genuinely stunned at how good it is for leveling. I thought as a healing class it would be slow to level. But no, it does more damage than my mage did and uses about 20x less mana! PRIESTS FTW!
Dot and wand is seriously good. Wand is treated as a ranged weapon so has a low resist chance, with talent you can munch through the mobs without using mana.
@@kaid6486 jesus i hope youre joking, cuz it took me 2 monthsto lvl to 18 my warlock... BACK WHEN I WAS FKING 11 ON ASIAN BETA SERVERS AND COULDNT SPEAK ENGLISH IN 2005
Wow I got 2 geared classes and a 39 twink and raid 4 days a week and I don't even touch the surface of some of these people that spend crazy amounts of time playing. I get about 3-4 hours on weekdays and 6 per day on weekend's
I'm 100% sure he boosted his warrior... it's usually by far the slowest to level and hardest. I only maxed all characters in cataclysm minus a shaman. I hated totems, felt like a chore. No way I could do this on classic. Congrats
I have warrior, rogue, warlock, mage, and priest. After 5y of classic game time; that's as many as I could endure this time around. I was tempted to do another but my realm has emptied out at this point and low level dungeons are almost non-existent unless you pay for boosts. I don't like boosted runs and my last char already had to rely on them just to do most of the dungeons. Burning crusade will bring life back to the lower brackets for a while thanks to the flood of space goats and anime elves. I'm really tempted to roll up a BC era shaman.
I think those five classes are the best of WoW classic. I got a 60 warrior, priest, rogue, a 48 mage, and 30 warlock, and the other classes, I am just not feeling.
Don't conform to the typical levelling methods. Totally with you on the rogue its my main class and its one of the most boring levelling classes. Playing hemo with ambush talent is my go to levelling spec. Great for world pvp and great for getting around tricky quests. Mind you i never rush levelling and love to take my time!
The classes for me and always will be is Warrior, shammy and Lock. I can never value one over the other of those 3. BTW what is the 10:17 priest shield addon name? Ty.
My human warrior alt is at 58 at the moment, and im at like 7 days and some change. That being said, i started her out from the get go with the intention of getting exalted rep with darnassus cus i want a cat. So, i've been RIDICULOUSLY thorough doing every possible darnassus rep quest regardless of how XP/Time efficient it was. That also meant i was doing a lot of flying around, taking boats back and forth to each continent. Also, i am stubborn and was determined to level as Fury because fuck Arms. Add on top of that i am a giant cheapass and i refuse to pay for ports and shit... As you mentioned, lots of AFK'ing, etc. So, if i had to seriously guess i would put it around 5-6 days of actual "leveling" to get to 60. Oh i also ground out neutral timbermaw or whatever its called rep so i could run through the tunnel to winterspring, that took almost 5 hours of just murdering, etc. To be fair i was raiding through a lot of it, and playing Apex Legends, so there were many days of sitting in a city or inn accumulating rest xp. Anywhoo, just thought i would add my experience. Warrior wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it was. You definitely have to be careful and methodical, you don't get a lot of "oh shit" buttons if you accidentally pull too many mobs. Unlike my mage or a warlock where you have all sorts of easy escapes.
I started a (my first) priest and just got it to 22. It moves reasonably fast (mostly I've played locks, so that probably helped) in solo leveling and I've had a good time with it. Laughing off disease and poisons is nice too.
I feel the same way about shaman. I started shaman when classic came out. Specced ele for the later levels and burnt out at level 52. I've tried several times going back and finishing the leveling, but it seems so punishing as a shaman. Going OOM so fast and just copping so much damage. Mage in contrast, was a blast.
ENH levelling should be faster than pretty much anything outwith AE once you know how to play it. Firstly, stop using mana. Then use a 1h and sheild, pop Lightning Shield (improved) and just watch enemies die. It does get a little soft from 35 to 40 cos of the leather but at 40 you're back into being rock solid.
Yes he stopped playing enhance at the worst time, 40 is where it really takes off especially if you get all the blue mail from SM and a big chunky weapon, preferably with a damage proc. You get agility totem which is like 5-6% extra free crit and the strength totem also starts giving 40+ strength. 1 shotting mobs with windfury becomes not uncommon, mail armor reduces damage taken significantly more, you get parry near the top of the enhance tree and you always save your mana for heals which means no downtime.
I leveled my first classic character to 60 recently, started in may, I was a unbalanced 2handed fury warrior. It took 17 days and 15 hours, regardless of the hours i did get the classic wow experience.
Interesting. I found mage so extremely boring. Cast cast cast drink ...afk.. Just wasn't the class for me. Drinking so much just did my head in. Pretty sure warlock downtime is probably the same when grinding but it satisfys the ADD with clicking alot more buttons.
Warlock doesn't have any downtime if you are smart, you can even juggle pet threat and fears to kill 3-4 mobs at a time, drainlife your mana back and use bandage, no drinking ever required. Mage is completely different, extremely squishy, extreme downtime with drinking every 3 mobs and aoe grinding is insanely stressful and I see most mages die half the time, to me mage is a huge meme and I raid it as my main, I spend most of my playtime worrying about my mana bar like I'm playing a flipping healer or if I'm going to get 1 shot, when every other dps is just so chill.
The warr community will absolutely help you get your WW axe as early as possible, just keep asking nicely. Definitely the highlight of the 1-60 experience
im currently lvling a mage and warrior same time, I'm liking the warrior so much atm I'm trying not to boost either but kinda hard to find groups atm and big gratz on every class to 60
I feel like purely questing isn't really a good representation of leveling time. For example on my war and my pally I swapped to tank and spammed dungeons from 40. Classes that have the ability to tank or heal can easily speed up the grind by dungeon spam where a pure dps class doesn't really have that option without friends. My pally was probably the fastest leveler because I could be a healer or a tank w/e the dungeon group needed to get started faster. Iunno I hear people take long on there pally and all I can think is maybe don't just play one spec.
the thing is, unless you are actually melee/spell cleaving dungeons questing is much faster but you need really good knowledge of where to quest and when
@@Shotgunz999 A good team can grind dungeons to XP faster than classic quests ever could. Makes great gold too and it's social. Solocraft is where fun goes to die.
My third alt was a warrior, just a couple of gold from your main for decent upgrades every 5-10 lvls make it so much smoother. I was pleasantly suprised as well.
I am truly curious as to what build you had if your pet couldn't hold aggro when you use aimed shot. It was never a problem for me, and if I managed to get aggro I could just feign death and keep attacking. The biggest problem with hunter is that they have mana.
The biggest mistake for levelling hunter is speccing marksmanship, your pet will be garbage and will never get agro back once you've lost it and what do you get for the spec, 10-20% more ranged damage at low levels? Not worth it. Beastmaster is where it's at, pet damage is OP from 10-40 but get broken tooth to keep the spec alive till 60. During this stage you have the skills and cooldowns to bounce threat, kite and burst mobs down before they get to you.
i levelled a rogue as sub (my own spec, I didnt follow a guide) and honestly it's faster than combat, for me at least. Daggers are cheap on AH as well (before endgame), so you always have a good weapon
He is right though, after level 45-50 it really starts to fall off. I got to 60 mostly on rested XP (although that was also because I was 52 when P2 hit...)
@@WillEmmo its quite fun. You pick an expansion and just play through it. With that I got all classes to 50 on retail and was AMAZED how fun certain specs play. For the longest time I played Hunter with the occasional disc priest in the mix. Which I will continue to. But now I also took quite the interest in frost mage, guardian druid, vengeance demon hunter and, to my biggest surprise, elemental shaman. For the last one it feels great to have 2 to 3 buttons for each element and shooting out 6 lightning bolts in the span of one GCD is a party. And if you fight multiple enemies and fire 6 chain lightnings it's a festival! Can only recommend
The speeds at which he leveled these classes is SO not commensurate with how fast each class is for the general public. Priest and warrior being too 3 and warlock being bottom 2 is NOT the experience most people will have
Alright, fair enough classic man. I'm on my 3rd and 4th 60's (priest, Druid) my first two (paladin, warrior) I also appreciate the leveling process and wandering around exploring, finding new better routes. I agree that boosting and cringy and not fun.
Congrats WillE! Now you can finally play the game!
That WAS the game, genius.
@@andrewgardiner563 /woosh
You mean now he can quit the game! 😀
@@andrewgardiner563 oof
@@andrewgardiner563 well I'd say leveling in classic/vanilla is the worst leveling in WoW's history and is actually bad, but ok. Not that the majority of the raids are good either.
Every class to level 60 huh? That ccol, but I've got every class to 10 and a priest to 30, so beat that
Done and done. Got a rogue to 33 and stopped
Relatable.
Huh preist lv 30 I got it to 40 and a paladin to 15 and 2 warriors to love 5
*Takes on 4 lions on a warrior
When I looked back at my levelling experience with Warrior I'd just be accepting death if I pulled two mobs
😂😂😂😂😂
Well, Retalilate Warrior is like "Become a Retail Character for 15 Seconds" ^^ Especially when fighting Cats, Dogs or Dual Wield.
Retaliation: 30 minutes cooldown :-D
Ah, typical British excitement at the quest turn-in. 'There it is.'
Jokes aside, congrats!
Hey after 9 level 60s im all excitemented out
@All_lives_matter, reject fabricated racism by govt lmao
@All_lives_matter, reject fabricated racism by govt lol
@All_lives_matter, reject fabricated racism by govt Hahaha
Hi there,
So FYI, theres gonna be retail models on the thumbnails for a bit, program I use isn't working for classic models currently with the updates around Shadowlands (and guess who forget to create a backup)
So big apologise the increased number of pixels your eyes have to see - very unclassic like, nochanges, reee!
Ta ta
Ty for the 20% leveling speed wille.
np boss
I disliked the video as soon as I heard him say that
@@rickyspeed1655 but you did it 20% faster than you would have before
Damn, good stuff, mate. Personally I've struggled to get a second character past 20. Tons of alts in the 10s limbo while my rogue is stuck in STV at 43 or so.
I have leveled a paladin to 60 but dont own a second monitor. I listened to videos (like this one) or audiobooks. Mostly it was just me and my thoughts. It felt almost like falling in a trance. Seal, judge, Seal, wait 8 seconds, judge, seal, wait 8 seconds. It felt so rythmyc and safe I could do breathing exercises and enter Zen lol.
Hunter I found super fun, micro managing pet, ripping aggro off it when mob is at 30%, sending it of to the next mob, while kiting the low one etc. Using traps, giving people taxi via aspect of the pack. Looking up and taming pets. I also LOVE how auto shot feels, since you need to stop and cast inbetween moving it feels really meaty and satisfying to pull off. Defintely bringing my hunter over to tbc.
I chuckled so hard on that first paragraph - a fellow paladin
Died at the "falling in a trance" lmao
I may have quit WoW years ago, but I could never quit you Wille
That's what she said... 🤭
The results and your experience is actually very interesting! I leveled a warrior starting day one and my experience was absolutely the opposite as you. I burned out at level 59 and never managed to get to 60 which really tells the difference we had and I've got around 15 days played. But! You mentioned that you leveled your warrior in a PVE server. I think that is the thing people say about warriors in vanilla, you are just a piece of meat there. Every class, every spec is able to kill you where ever you are and even when they are several levels below you. If I had a counter I think I've died in world PVP in phase 1 at least 1000 times. Stranglethorn vale is a nightmare, Tanaris was absolute nightmare and the Eastern Plaguelands just got the last will to live out of me as there were just ganking parties running around to kill and Winterspring was so Horde dominand that you were lucky to even manage to get there via the tunnel. It is giving me PTSD even to talk about this :D
Was it difficult finding 9 names you were happy with? That was the hardest part for me.
i name them like shamankowi, druidkowi, hunterkowi im a simple man. before that i once called my main troll shaman sheldor and guess what, some years later big bang theorie stole my name -.-
@@kowikowi8718 Legend
WillE: "You need to watch something while you level Ret"
Me: *Watching this video as a I level my Ret Pally"
Jokes aside... CONGRATS WILLE!!
So basically anything is funner than ret
A ret paladin is like a fork when youre trying to drink soup 😂 just go holy and level from dungeons bro
@@jackychen6261 I’m actually enjoying it so far. Definitely feel comfortable healing in Ret when needed.
That's hilarious, I'm lvl 51 prot pally questing right now while watching this on my dual screen monitor. Like hey man get out of my room lol.
@@jackychen6261 prot is the real redpill
*Paladin with the worst time of 9 days*
Willie: yeah so I was really slow.
Me: *13 days with a shaman* O.O
Play at your own pace ❤️
It took me 30 days to level my warlock to 60 but i wish it took longer because i hate raiding and pvp in wow classic.
My friend told me about world of warcraft at work this week , tried it today and did the free trial, I like it a lot,kinda surprised never knew if it was my kinda game but I guess it is
"100 days so pretty casual play". Classic has been out for like a year. That means you have spent 1/3 of your total time alive playing WoW for the last year. That means you play WoW pretty more than 50% of your total time awake.
Casual? WTF?
It really is casual, myself and a couple of people I met VERY early on in classic had 70-80 days played by early phase 2 (about 3 1/2 months into classic I had about 60 days played around that time) every hardcore pvper that has reached rank 13-14 has EASLY put in 30-50 days played just on the grind alone
It was released August 26/27th, 2019, that's closer to one and a half year, than one year, 456-ish days ago.
Yea thats not casual thats pure nolifing
Would love to hear your best/worst zones on the journey
dunno about best worst is descolace, I hate that place with a passion. I only did it on 2 characters I think because some addon told me to. Never again
@@WillEmmo it’s actually not as bad for horde since their village is on the coast which isn’t so desolate lol
Having leveled multiple druids feral on Classic AND private servers I have to agree that they fall off hard around 45. They get no weapon scaling, and you start to feel it the closer to 60 you get.
haha yes it s so true :)
Warrior 2nd quite surprising for me. You're definitely right about gear being important - warr was my main & 1st and only char on Classic. Huge fun to tank dungeons in arms spec & great in open world till around lvl 40. After that, wasn't able to scrounge gold or good gear easily so it was a SLOG (got my WW axe with help at around 38, had van cleef quest legs till 35ish, scarlet helmet and leggings on till about 55). Leveling 50-60 was spoiled though due to open world honour launch so if it weren't for that, probably 9/10 would main again.
I thought I was alone on this server lol.
Can never get a group for dungeons because I ain't paying.
I don't play wow but I really appreciate all the effort you did to max all accounts.
It is a good feeling seeing someone putting effort to achieve a goal without taking shortcuts!
Hope to see more content like this
Wrath will probably be your last chance to play classic, player base will only get lower and lower after the inevitable massive boost wrath will give player base but as with tbc it has slowly lost most players
On shaman leveling: Surprisingly the best way for me was to level as a healer. No: I did not do dungeon grinds.
Instead I placed down Stonescale Totem, Went meele (Healers have decent options for meele weapons. SM Mace, Strat Staff, the works.) and placed down manaspring totem. As soon as I could I healed myself and placed down a Firenova totem, followed by magmatotem and healing. This results in me killing 3 mobs on average at the same time, with very little downtime. As soon as you get manatide: You can pretty much forget about having to drink.
Also: If you want some passive killing, just go meele with a staff and windfury, while healing yourself once. Against one mob, that works fine, while you watch youtube videos :P
Hijacking this comment, for us shaman tricks best way to level usually is a super fast 1h dagger with shield on windfury build. The super fast AS of dagger and low high-end damage makes it that WF procs regulalry while having as minimal overkill damage as possible. Currently its the standarized norm to level shamans if you are autistic and want to keep up with other classes on F R E S H
5:20 Shaman
6:38 Paladin
7:00 Rogue
7:53 Hunter
8:44 Druid
9:31 Warlock
10:08 Priest
11:06 Warrior
12:32 Mage
Wille:
"I Have Leveled Every Class To 60 Without Boosts!
"
everyone else:
Why tho?
jerk, beat me to it, I still need to make a pally and finish my warrior, but I've been on the HWL grind. 13 33% today and counting... BTW same thing as you, no boosting, and roughly 7-9 days on each of em... druid>mage>shaman>hunter>priest>rogue>warlock>warrior atm... rank of joy leveling... Mage>War>Priest>warlock>hunter>rogue>shaman>druid
ah still have paladin to "look forwards to!" enjoy!
Hold on, did you actually complained that hunter is boring leveling because all it does is sends pet in and shoots while you enjoyed priest which literally levels with combination of shadow word pain and a wand all the way to the 60? What?
And here I am with my 38 lvl Rogue I have been leveling since September 2019.
same
I have like 5 level 30s lol i just constantly switch between then never knowing which i want to get 60 then quit because i cant handle the flashbacks from vanilla lol
grats! I quit playing quite some time ago but still here following the updates and news
Leveling a shaman was super easy for me. Windfury works as ele, resto or enhance. I was actually pretty efficient as resto with the staff from SM; enhancement was a bit better, but elemental was amazing.
Lightning Boltx2 > melee to death with flametongue (yes, on a 2H.) If you're max range you can sometimes fit 3 in. A big mistake shamans make when trying to be efficient, is using shocks when it's not needed.
This strat does need some changing as you level up beyond 55ish, but it worked for me fantastically. I DPS'd dungeons without needing to drink 50% of the time, and made full use of my elemental mastery > Earthshock combo (free of mana charge) with magma totem/melee.
It was a long time ago that I leveled though, so my memory may be a bit hazy. To each their own, of course.
My journey is 6 classes at 60, 2 with almost full phase 5 BiS (pally got gear for all specs) and the rest is a mix of 20 mans and BWL/MC/Pre-raid BiS. Completed every attunement on every class and got 4 epic mounts.
Having alts really made this journey so much more fun for me and I think I might have burned out without them. Especially for gold farming, sitting at 14k raw gold, plenty of consums and mats for current raids + naxx. I would not have been close if I couldn't do a lot of different gold farms with my alts.
I leveled a warrior as my one and only class at the this point and while it is definitely boring and difficult for quite a few levels, it's in that difficulty that brings the fun. For the first time in a VERY long time playing WoW I actually had to think about how I engaged mobs in the open world and use some kind of strategy. Kind of refreshing as opposed to the AA and never die machine of hunters (which I also quite like).
What I like about the warrior, is that you have to make all the right decisions. Including your leveling path, so in the lower levels, you are fighting green mobs while leveling, which was achieved by doing both the Barrens and Silverpine. You gotta have the gear, things like sharpening stones, potions, like a real RPG.
This is not the face I was expecting, looking good mate
Nice job!!! I'm working toward the same thing. I have a 60 warlock and a 57 warrior. Yeah. Took me 8mo for the first 60, so here's hoping Classic lasts YEARS to come because that's how long it's going to take me. I don't play end-game; repeating the same raid every. single. week. doesn't interest me, so dinging 60 is the goal for each toon.
I'm gonna chime in on the Warrior levelling experience by saying that in my opinion, it is VERY dependent on whether Warrior is your first character or not. If you're a fresh player coming to the game for the first time and don't know how to play, and you've decided that you just want to hit stuff in the face hard, then levelling a Warrior is a fucking *miserable* experience. Have to eat after every mob, block block dodge parry miss, if a mob ever runs away and brings back a friend, or something ever just wanders into you whilst you're already engaged in combat you're kind of screwed. The list goes on, and the fact of the matter is Warrior is an awful class for someone who doesn't actually understand the game well.
If, on the other hand, you've already got a cap level character and you're rolling a Warrior ALT? That is some of the smoothest sailing you can get. Bankrolling the character with large bag space, constant gear upgrades whenever you're a high enough level for something new and having every consumable you could ever want makes all the difference in the world. And if you actually know to stick around cities at certain times to collect world buffs? You're an absolute killing machine for 2 hours.
tl;dr I think Warrior is the worst levelling class for a new player, and one of the best ones for an experienced player.
And here's to me, with my level 38 undead warlock since release
43 priest lol, i quit ages ago. just not the same.
min-maxing and anti-social people killed the game.
@@lawlestest i agree i killed the spirit of the game, there is a lot of non min maxer guilds out there though
@@phdotsco Questing and dungeons with others i found more fun then end game vanilla content honestly lol
Leveling is the best part of Classic WOW. Grats Wille
"20% faster, no really!" I unironically believe this. Congrats WillE!!!!
Omg your Face is so different from your voice! 😭 and since I’m subbed I definitely level 20% faster lol
Lol
Thats harsh
You are already a legend for leveling a warrior to 60. As for the other classes, it's just an extra. ;D
Its all about that axe for 10 lvls.
Warrior is an easy mode if its not your 1st character on the server. It scales massively with gear, so if you throw some boe at it from time to time you just tear through content.
@@grabeck666 I leveled a warrior as my first toon mostly solo leveling. To say the least it was pain until I realized I had essentially a guaranteed slot in dungeons and just grinded that shit hard. I never wanna see the inside of SM, or ZF ever again
I have to say, I’m playing my first wow acc ever, yeah idk how I missed this when I was a kid. I guess I just spent too much time playing RuneScape. However I’m leveling an undead mage and yeah I all I can say is I agree with you on this one ✌🏻
Pro tips for easy shaman. Spec into sheild spec and use a 1h with flame weapon that and speccing into fire totem damage. BUT if you really want to do damage around 30 or 40 get the 2h trait and use rockbiter. Rockbiter does a ridiculous amount of damage and it's consistent compared to WF.
Does anyone know what mod or weak Aura they are using in the priest sections that show how much damage Power Word Shield has left? Thanks.
Really cool video, was over before I knew it :D Super interesting to hear your thoughts on each class while levelling
I was really surprised about the warrior lvling as well! Like you the only thing I heard about warrior lvling were that it was shit, I like you had a great time lvling the warrior and would have put it above even the mage in “enjoyment” :)
Warrior is so strong if you min max your gear, consumables and abilities. You can push it to the limit as long as you are above 0hp you are doing max dps unlike a mana class. Classic has a ton of healing potions, consumes, cool weapons and armor with enchants and powerful cooldowns that makes warrior levelling so much fun. People that struggled with the class you know are just bad at the game and ironically that happens to be most of the playerbase.
@@cattysplat Idd :)
Oh wow, I had no idea Wille was actually Ricky Gervais with a beard :-O
the question is whether you have ever actually made a male character
He mains a male gnome warlock, so i guess so.
I got one 60 mage, several toons in the range from 10-22 and 2 warriors (gnome 30 and orc 42). With SL being out now Classic has fallen a bit behind but I want my Dagger Fury/Prot Gnome Warrior so bad, I'll have to find some time to get her to 60.
What do we do now...?
Now we play the game.
The voice doesn't match the face though, i was expecting a gnome-looking person or something😂😂thanks for the video m8, very nice!
WillE: "...and can actually hold threat, unlike that other pet class."
Me, Warlock main: "..... painful but true"
Yeah leveling a warrior is a breeze if you're like me and have a mage main. You can just buy the best blues for your appropriate level and absolutely mow down packs of mobs. I usually bought new sets from AH every 5 or 6 levels and it just ramped up the power to another level entirely.
Paladin may be slow but you won't have as many corps runs especially as a new player. Spell casters are not reliable, they suffer from massive amounts of miss rate vs a mob that is even + 2 levels and are best for non quest farming low levels. Hunter is best for overall leveling ( with quests ) because of no glancing blows and you can solo dungeon quests when they become green provided you have a high level pet so I recommend hunter as the first class. Shamans function close to Paladins when leveling but they are more luck based and with leather/mail you will die a lot until you get macros and skill for kiting, but when you kite around as a Shaman you are not really gaining anything i.e. you are loosing time but it's fun. Warrior will corps run a lot but can be decent ( once you know the areas ) and is good for leveling in dungeons with groups that don't min max to hell and back. The Rogue is the glass cannon of leveling, you don't have time to wait for stun locks on every mob and will be forced to think about your own dodge/parry rate and resets for grinding but everyone should play a Vanilla Rogue at least once, it's a unique experience. Even if you don't level the Rogue to +50 it can be fun to make a Twink and the Twink can be used to open chests and make potions for other chars.
My guild mates call me insane for having a Hunter main, but I use my first alt, a Warrior, to farm gold with. But it's just a fun class. And the more gear you drop on it, the faster those mobs melt away. Meanwhile a Hunter has that constant "don't get close to me" feeling. Which is fun (and helps you understand aggro like no other class can), but I don't find it fun to grind with. Consequently I'm terribad at soloing instances with him.
Now do it without dying. Also congrats that's an amazing effort!!
Ive recently leveled my second char, a Priest. Genuinely stunned at how good it is for leveling. I thought as a healing class it would be slow to level. But no, it does more damage than my mage did and uses about 20x less mana! PRIESTS FTW!
Dot and wand is seriously good. Wand is treated as a ranged weapon so has a low resist chance, with talent you can munch through the mobs without using mana.
every class to 60 and doing good content on weekly basis? ballin
I also loved warrior. They do great damage and are so much fun when strategizing how to take down enemies--not to mention a great a rotation as arms.
Damn and here I am with no classes even passed 20 lol congrats WillE!
did you only play for 2 days?
Same
@@Treaxvour i played for 2 months as a ret pally and only made it to 18 lmao
@@kaid6486 jesus i hope youre joking, cuz it took me 2 monthsto lvl to 18 my warlock... BACK WHEN I WAS FKING 11 ON ASIAN BETA SERVERS AND COULDNT SPEAK ENGLISH IN 2005
Wow I got 2 geared classes and a 39 twink and raid 4 days a week and I don't even touch the surface of some of these people that spend crazy amounts of time playing. I get about 3-4 hours on weekdays and 6 per day on weekend's
absolute respect man i gave up after my 3rd 60
I'm 100% sure he boosted his warrior... it's usually by far the slowest to level and hardest. I only maxed all characters in cataclysm minus a shaman. I hated totems, felt like a chore. No way I could do this on classic. Congrats
I'm currently on my 3rd with no boosting at all period. Mage, warlock, druid. Rogue will be next. Fk boosting.
I have warrior, rogue, warlock, mage, and priest. After 5y of classic game time; that's as many as I could endure this time around. I was tempted to do another but my realm has emptied out at this point and low level dungeons are almost non-existent unless you pay for boosts. I don't like boosted runs and my last char already had to rely on them just to do most of the dungeons. Burning crusade will bring life back to the lower brackets for a while thanks to the flood of space goats and anime elves. I'm really tempted to roll up a BC era shaman.
I think those five classes are the best of WoW classic. I got a 60 warrior, priest, rogue, a 48 mage, and 30 warlock, and the other classes, I am just not feeling.
Don't conform to the typical levelling methods. Totally with you on the rogue its my main class and its one of the most boring levelling classes. Playing hemo with ambush talent is my go to levelling spec. Great for world pvp and great for getting around tricky quests. Mind you i never rush levelling and love to take my time!
The classes for me and always will be is Warrior, shammy and Lock. I can never value one over the other of those 3. BTW what is the 10:17 priest shield addon name? Ty.
My human warrior alt is at 58 at the moment, and im at like 7 days and some change. That being said, i started her out from the get go with the intention of getting exalted rep with darnassus cus i want a cat. So, i've been RIDICULOUSLY thorough doing every possible darnassus rep quest regardless of how XP/Time efficient it was. That also meant i was doing a lot of flying around, taking boats back and forth to each continent. Also, i am stubborn and was determined to level as Fury because fuck Arms. Add on top of that i am a giant cheapass and i refuse to pay for ports and shit... As you mentioned, lots of AFK'ing, etc. So, if i had to seriously guess i would put it around 5-6 days of actual "leveling" to get to 60. Oh i also ground out neutral timbermaw or whatever its called rep so i could run through the tunnel to winterspring, that took almost 5 hours of just murdering, etc. To be fair i was raiding through a lot of it, and playing Apex Legends, so there were many days of sitting in a city or inn accumulating rest xp.
Anywhoo, just thought i would add my experience. Warrior wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it was. You definitely have to be careful and methodical, you don't get a lot of "oh shit" buttons if you accidentally pull too many mobs. Unlike my mage or a warlock where you have all sorts of easy escapes.
Congrats William :D
I have no idea how priest was the fastest. Its so slow before 40
I started a (my first) priest and just got it to 22. It moves reasonably fast (mostly I've played locks, so that probably helped) in solo leveling and I've had a good time with it. Laughing off disease and poisons is nice too.
I feel the same way about shaman. I started shaman when classic came out. Specced ele for the later levels and burnt out at level 52. I've tried several times going back and finishing the leveling, but it seems so punishing as a shaman. Going OOM so fast and just copping so much damage. Mage in contrast, was a blast.
ENH levelling should be faster than pretty much anything outwith AE once you know how to play it. Firstly, stop using mana. Then use a 1h and sheild, pop Lightning Shield (improved) and just watch enemies die. It does get a little soft from 35 to 40 cos of the leather but at 40 you're back into being rock solid.
Yes he stopped playing enhance at the worst time, 40 is where it really takes off especially if you get all the blue mail from SM and a big chunky weapon, preferably with a damage proc. You get agility totem which is like 5-6% extra free crit and the strength totem also starts giving 40+ strength. 1 shotting mobs with windfury becomes not uncommon, mail armor reduces damage taken significantly more, you get parry near the top of the enhance tree and you always save your mana for heals which means no downtime.
I leveled my first classic character to 60 recently, started in may, I was a unbalanced 2handed fury warrior. It took 17 days and 15 hours, regardless of the hours i did get the classic wow experience.
My dream still remains to finish leveling my Paladin, doing Nax and getting Ashbringer. Though that's a pretty lofty dream
Interesting. I found mage so extremely boring. Cast cast cast drink ...afk..
Just wasn't the class for me. Drinking so much just did my head in.
Pretty sure warlock downtime is probably the same when grinding but it satisfys the ADD with clicking alot more buttons.
Warlock doesn't have any downtime if you are smart, you can even juggle pet threat and fears to kill 3-4 mobs at a time, drainlife your mana back and use bandage, no drinking ever required. Mage is completely different, extremely squishy, extreme downtime with drinking every 3 mobs and aoe grinding is insanely stressful and I see most mages die half the time, to me mage is a huge meme and I raid it as my main, I spend most of my playtime worrying about my mana bar like I'm playing a flipping healer or if I'm going to get 1 shot, when every other dps is just so chill.
I'm leveling my paladin while watching this, but i'm not giving up. Leveling a paladin is a struggle for sure.
The warr community will absolutely help you get your WW axe as early as possible, just keep asking nicely. Definitely the highlight of the 1-60 experience
Wow that’s a huge accomplishment! Congrats Wille! 🥳🥳
"I Have Leveled Every Class To 60 Without Boosts!
" or what i call it " Help Me!"
I think my rogue was the real mental call for help
im currently lvling a mage and warrior same time, I'm liking the warrior so much atm I'm trying not to boost either but kinda hard to find groups atm and big gratz on every class to 60
Fresh classic private server (Darrowshire) is launching July 30!
in my experience the optimal or fast leveling build is in many cases the least fun.
Now you need an alliance shaman!
I feel like purely questing isn't really a good representation of leveling time. For example on my war and my pally I swapped to tank and spammed dungeons from 40. Classes that have the ability to tank or heal can easily speed up the grind by dungeon spam where a pure dps class doesn't really have that option without friends.
My pally was probably the fastest leveler because I could be a healer or a tank w/e the dungeon group needed to get started faster. Iunno I hear people take long on there pally and all I can think is maybe don't just play one spec.
the thing is, unless you are actually melee/spell cleaving dungeons questing is much faster but you need really good knowledge of where to quest and when
@@Shotgunz999 A good team can grind dungeons to XP faster than classic quests ever could. Makes great gold too and it's social. Solocraft is where fun goes to die.
lol that flex. I think we all have by now. I had 2 60s in the first month
You look hungry to me. Tell you what -
Have a bread roll on me.
~Sandwich Lady, Circa 2005
I really think you got the hunter wrong. You used wrong spells/playstyle.
I’m currently leveling a warrior and all the crap about it being hard is bullshit. Pretty fast killing if you keep up with weapon upgrades
My third alt was a warrior, just a couple of gold from your main for decent upgrades every 5-10 lvls make it so much smoother. I was pleasantly suprised as well.
I am truly curious as to what build you had if your pet couldn't hold aggro when you use aimed shot. It was never a problem for me, and if I managed to get aggro I could just feign death and keep attacking. The biggest problem with hunter is that they have mana.
The biggest mistake for levelling hunter is speccing marksmanship, your pet will be garbage and will never get agro back once you've lost it and what do you get for the spec, 10-20% more ranged damage at low levels? Not worth it. Beastmaster is where it's at, pet damage is OP from 10-40 but get broken tooth to keep the spec alive till 60. During this stage you have the skills and cooldowns to bounce threat, kite and burst mobs down before they get to you.
Disappointed by the world buffs. Otherwise, great work.
Yes...but were these levelled in Classic? On live he could have done all classes in 24 hours. Just saying, that's not that special
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Congrats mate, you can get yourself outside now. I started in phase 1 and have a lvl 43
i levelled a rogue as sub (my own spec, I didnt follow a guide) and honestly it's faster than combat, for me at least. Daggers are cheap on AH as well (before endgame), so you always have a good weapon
Good! Now pay $35 each to copy each character to TBC Classic!
congratulations! This was plan early on, but I only managed to get two to 60.
I thought druid would be higher upon the list, I had so much fun leveling it :D
He is right though, after level 45-50 it really starts to fall off. I got to 60 mostly on rested XP (although that was also because I was 52 when P2 hit...)
congrats i have done it also but in 11april 2020
Meanwhile, on retail it takes 8 to 12 hours to get a char to max level lol
yeah, not quite the same is it? Thought i've heard a lot of peopel say good things about the leveling rework there
@@WillEmmo its quite fun. You pick an expansion and just play through it. With that I got all classes to 50 on retail and was AMAZED how fun certain specs play.
For the longest time I played Hunter with the occasional disc priest in the mix. Which I will continue to. But now I also took quite the interest in frost mage, guardian druid, vengeance demon hunter and, to my biggest surprise, elemental shaman. For the last one it feels great to have 2 to 3 buttons for each element and shooting out 6 lightning bolts in the span of one GCD is a party. And if you fight multiple enemies and fire 6 chain lightnings it's a festival!
Can only recommend
That's Willy. I want to see billy. I don't like this video...
The speeds at which he leveled these classes is SO not commensurate with how fast each class is for the general public. Priest and warrior being too 3 and warlock being bottom 2 is NOT the experience most people will have
Congrats on getting all of em to 60. Best classic wow youtuber out there. Keep them vids comin
I Have Leveled Every Class To 60 Without Boosts are u ok affer that ? xd
Now you have to do it again when blizzard does vanilla fresh.
Alright, fair enough classic man. I'm on my 3rd and 4th 60's (priest, Druid) my first two (paladin, warrior) I also appreciate the leveling process and wandering around exploring, finding new better routes. I agree that boosting and cringy and not fun.