noob is a harsh wordFollow

Somebody said i should try WoW when i said i was bored with my old MMORPG (FFxi). But i'm not really sure what would be a good job to start with and get use to the game also not really sure how to build up a char. I was thinking warrior but i was told it was kinda hard to tank (for me anyway). So i thoght mabye Rogue, plz help.

I have 3 friends that started playing Wow a couple of weeks ago.
They played FFXI previously, and they asked me a simmilar question.

Since thay have no want for a healing class, my advice to them was to level a druid to a decent level instead of leveling a bunch of other classes to a lower level because the power and abilities increases greatly farther you go.

This will allow you to test out 3 combat mechanincs,
Spell casting -> Mage, Ele shammy, Shadow Priest.
Kitty -> Energy and Combo point mechanics of Rogue
Bear -> Rage mechanics of Warriors.
They will have to go another route to test out DK, Pallies, Huntards and Enh. Shammy.

One really like Druid and stayed as Kitty, and the other 2 started a Rogue.
They also tried Pally and Huntard, but gave them up to focus on Rouge.

I wish I had this same advice when I was starting WoW. My first 3 toons were Hunt, War and Mage.
Started a Rogue for sh*ts and giggles and never looked back. Those 3 toons are still lvl 56, 34 and 33 respecively.

Hope this helps.
And yes....... Rogues are AMAZING.


Also, as the other poster stated, read up on what you are getting into and what is expected from you when playing any class that you choose.

Edited, Feb 3rd 2010 5:54pm by Krazman

If you like casting spells along with bashing someone's face in, then perhaps try an Enhancement Shaman. They focus mainly on melee, but uses spells such as Frost Shock or Flame Shock.

Something you may want to look into, at least.

Not a problem. Like I said, just take a look into that class, and more specifically the Enhancement tree (elemental is more ranged dps). Usually you'd pull a mob with a lightning bolt or two, use your shocks and melee them down (unless you just feel like running up to them and hitting them in the face).

Check out the Shaman forums here as well. That should help out as well.

I wish they would take some aspects of FFXI and implement in WOW. I loved Ninja, and Monks! Rogues are kind of both but it would be cool to see a 2hr CD in this game. imo

Unfortunately, no matter where you go, you'll find a lot of immature players. (Some spamming trade chat "****" jokes)

But don't let that discourage you. Wow has been catered to be easier for beginners to start the game and level up in a pretty fast pace. A lot of the stuff that I heard about FFXI (I've never played myself), was the wait times to get groups and stuff. In WoW, you can solo all the way to 80 if you wanted. Getting groups usually doesn't take too terribly long (as a dps, at most, i think I've waited 30 mintues to get a group for an instance). But like I said, you don't have to run the instances if you don't want to. You can pick up any quests that you want to do and do them yourself.

It is because we don't lose xp when we die, but dying to an idiot pull, a lack of heals or dps on the mob still pisses me off when I tank. I can live with one or two but more than that I am out.

Ya they are guilds, I can remember I hated dying in FFXI but did it MANY of times to save the party. Here you don't pull aggro and run (instant death in an instance) so you just usually take it. As a rogue you can stealth and sprint which might save you some gold on repair bills, but is not always the case. You are going to find jackasses on every MMORPG