We asked you which class you want to play in World of Warcraft Classic. One class is significantly more popular than all the others.
A few weeks ago, we asked you, which class you would like to play in WoW Classic as soon as the servers go live. The release date of WoW Classic in August is approaching.
You participated actively in the survey and also left some comments, providing us with a fairly good picture of which classes are popular and unpopular among our community.
Not surprisingly, the epitome of a classic MMORPG tank has landed in first place – the Warrior. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the list is the Paladin, who could attract only a few fans.
The three most popular classes in WoW Classic
Let’s start with the three classes that made it to the podium and seem to have left a good and positive impression on many players.
The most popular class is the Warrior: With 15% of the votes cast, the Warrior clearly landed in first place. This is probably mainly due to the fact that Warriors in Classic were synonymous with the word “Tank” for most players. When searching for a solid tank, most would have automatically envisioned a Warrior.
Because there was no dungeon finder at that time and there were always too few tanks, Warriors were very popular and often had a server-wide reputation if they were solid players. Apparently, many WoW fans wish to see this return and hope to fill this role.
Rogues sneak into second place: Rogues can be found in second place. In Classic, they were particularly feared in PvP. They could take down many squishies with one or two hits while the latter were regenerating in the battleground. In dungeons and raids, their damage output was also quite solid, making them an excellent choice for quickly chewing through the opponents’ health bars.
Besides, everyone needs at least one good rogue friend to send lockpicks to, right?
Mages land in third place: Close behind the rogue is the Mage. With 13% of the votes, the spellcasting glass cannons landed in third place. Mages were the epitome of damage in Classic. Whether it was big fireballs or frostbolts, Mages could deal significant damage.
But even outside of “pure damage”, Mages were useful and had extremely many abilities that could ease the life of a group. They couldn’t just turn enemies into helpless sheep, but thanks to counterspell, they could also disrupt enemy spellcasters. Plus, they saved the group’s wallet since they could conjure food. Oh, and then there were portals that allowed for quick travel around the world.
Mages could do many things. So many that a large part of our readers wants to play Mages again.
The three least popular classes in WoW Classic
The survey seems to confirm the general perception of Classic regarding the classes.
Shamans in third last place: With only 9% of the votes, Shamans land in 3rd place, although many of you wrote in the comments that you want to play a Shaman. This outcome is likely primarily due to Shamans only being available on the Horde side, making them uninteresting to nearly 50% of players.
At least, Shamans are still significantly ahead of Paladins, who received far fewer votes.
Druids are even less popular: With 8% of the votes, Druids landed in second to last place. There are several reasons for this. Druids are severely limited in their choice of races – if you don’t want to play a night elf or a tauren, you’re out of luck.
Druids also had a hard time in Classic. While they could do everything, they didn’t excel at anything. In raids, they were often included merely to provide mana to “real” healers or to have a battle rez available. By the way, that was the only resurrection that Druids could provide. If a player met their demise, the Druid couldn’t revive them. A significant issue for a healer, which prolonged dungeon visits.
Druids were hybrids and could do a little bit of everything – but in every area, there was at least one class that was significantly better at specialized tasks. Many Druid fans apparently have not forgotten this.
Paladin is the least popular class: In the last place, the Paladin ended up with only 6% of the votes cast. There are likely many reasons for this. One of the critical problems might be that the Paladin can only be played on the Alliance side, making it immediately unappealing to all Horde fans. However, there’s still a large gap compared to the Shaman fans, who are significantly more represented. This could be related to the fact that Paladins in Classic were a class with (from today’s perspective) rather absurd mechanics.
It was not uncommon for Paladins to wear a mix of cloth, leather, chain, and plate armor to achieve the best possible stats as healers.
At the same time, it happened that Paladins “couldn’t do anything right” – in some raids, they were merely buff machines that provided their group with enhancement spells.
Did the outcome match your expectations? Or did you think a certain class would turn out to be more popular or unpopular?
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