@@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.
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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
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 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.
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 -.-
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
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
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
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
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 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 ✌🏻
Finally, the face behind that silken voice. Was not dissapointed, such a handsome buggar. Careful they don't get you to make reaction videos now... Srsly though, what a great video, again. Now I sentimental-watched/listened "was it any good though?" series a dozen times, this hits that nerve also, with so much love for this game. I always get my wowclassic news from WillE in between ironman/hardcoring.
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.
Will honestly I know that you say you did not want to air grind but honestly it's so so fun once you get into it and learn pulls it becomes addictive to want to get the pull better and better until you are perfect I know many many people who agree
@@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 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.
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.
Currently started my first character in preparation for TBC launch, and im finding your points regarding the hunter class which is what im lvling 100% true. everything is good but just the same old auto attack with maybe 1 other button rotation all the way up. keeping myself sane by mixing in a bit of gold farming and world exploration between leveling!.. Great Video man!
I leveled a warrior on fury and while it is undeniably worse than arms... it was still tons of fun to play. Warrior levelling really is a blast in classic.
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...)
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.
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
Both Warlock and Hunter get way more interesting to play when you begin to test the actual limits of the class. Especially as a warlock using a VW you can manage insanely large pulls with little to no downtime. The only problem with leveling a warlock that way is that it requires so intense concentration that it can be quite exhausting. I like leveling Hunters and Paladins precisely because its so laid back. I can think all sorts of things and focus on social activities while playing because all I need to really do is auto attack and the occasional heal. It's also easier to absorb the atmosphere of the game as a paladin due to the fact that leveling doesn't take that much focus and you can stop and smell the roses so to speak even while grinding. Also, managing bigger pulls with pushback immunity is quite fun. With paladin the most fun comes out of, again, testing the limits of what you can survive, something that is lost in TBC. Warrior leveling doesn't really deserve its bad reputation, although I'd really level as a DW fury because fury is so much less vulnerable to the whole miss miss parry miss dodge block miss - song. Perhaps my least favorite class to level is either Shaman or Rogue, I just hate playing those classes.
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
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.
i only have played 1 class troll mage u made my experience so much better thanks! i literally knew nothing about the game and just joined classic :) now i rank 14 without picking undead xd cheers man
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.
instead of the buff you could say: if you sub you will be aware of every new video and listening it while leveling makes the experience feel 30% faster, chilling in a frozen lake each moment feels eternal, chilling with willie eternity becomes a moment good work
Welcome to the club Wille . I've got a 60 of each class plus a bonus Mage ( why run ZF only 5 times per hour when you can run it 10 times per hour ) and another level 58 Hunter ( one for pvp and one for pve in TBC ) that should be crossing the line today .
10:10 Ok I never once thought of scaling an obstacle by jumping over it again and again to delay the mob running to you while you're shooting it. That's cool I'll try that
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.
[edit] DRUIDS: if you are leveling a druid, get a wolfshead helm immediately! I wish I knew this leveling up, but ya, Wolfshead + Furor + Natural Shapeshifter + powershift macro will totally change your leveling experience! This will allow you to keep doing huge burst and easily solo all the way to 60. [/edit] I was a little surprised druid was so far down the list, because druids are a blast to play, but ya, your explanation makes total sense. The last stretch is a bit of a slog. Once you get a weapon that gives 150 or more feral attack power and start getting gear, it makes a big difference. Also devilsaur set immediately! this helps. Definitely drops off in power, but the plethora of abilities you have as a feral still makes it pretty fun
I levelled every class and every character years ago, it was a great and unforgettable experience u should of rated every starter zone from best to worse
I was the 2nd warrior on my server to hit 60 and I had a lot of fun leveling it. Admittadly I probably would have been 5th or so but all the rest did a MC raid at 57-59 and I power leveled instead and they wipped multiple times. I have taken a long break from classic due to health problems, but I am back and gearing my warrior and leveling my Druid now. I found (pre world buffs mind) that Arms warrior was the way to go to 50 and 50-60 I swapped to Fury. Arms really tappered off for me and I was struggling to kill level 46 mobs as a 50. Swapped to Fury and I was mowing down mobs 1-2 levels above me again.
Well GZ mate :D my Progress in Classic is the following. 4x lvl 60's on Stonespine Horde, Shaman/Rogue/Warrior/Hunter all 4 is MC/BWL/ZG/AQ20 near full BiS, and 1 lvl 42 Mage. Gehennes 1 lvl 46 Rogue and Noggenfogger 1 lvl 35 mage :D and all this also without boosting.
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 are nearly indestructible, 2 bubbles, cleanse, cheap heals and if all else fail lay on hands for that second life. Also one of the key things about playing a character with extra hit procs like enh shaman/paladin or sword spec warrior/rogue is using a weapon with a big bonus damage proc, it gives you a big boost to DPS and can proc off every single hit, even judgement on paladin.
Spirit build and arms for warrior was some of the most fun leveling, just auto healing between every mob. runnin around being a staffs only warrior till 60 and i'm still a staffs only warrior with onslaught.
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.
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
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
I may have quit WoW years ago, but I could never quit you Wille
That's what she said... 🤭
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
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.
*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.
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
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 :)
*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.
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
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
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.
This is not the face I was expecting, looking good mate
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
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.
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
Really cool video, was over before I knew it :D Super interesting to hear your thoughts on each class while levelling
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
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
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
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
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
Congrats on getting all of em to 60. Best classic wow youtuber out there. Keep them vids comin
Wow that’s a huge accomplishment! Congrats Wille! 🥳🥳
I thought I was alone on this server lol.
Can never get a group for dungeons because I ain't paying.
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.
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 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 ✌🏻
Wille:
"I Have Leveled Every Class To 60 Without Boosts!
"
everyone else:
Why tho?
This video made my come back and lvl my shaman to 60, even though I play very casual. And I'm loving it again
As someone who despises leveling and questing the mere idea of having to do this makes me faint. Ur a machine. A dark, mysterious machine.
The voice doesn't match the face though, i was expecting a gnome-looking person or something😂😂thanks for the video m8, very nice!
Finally, the face behind that silken voice. Was not dissapointed, such a handsome buggar. Careful they don't get you to make reaction videos now...
Srsly though, what a great video, again. Now I sentimental-watched/listened "was it any good though?" series a dozen times, this hits that nerve also, with so much love for this game. I always get my wowclassic news from WillE in between ironman/hardcoring.
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.
Congrats mate, you can get yourself outside now. I started in phase 1 and have a lvl 43
WillE: "...and can actually hold threat, unlike that other pet class."
Me, Warlock main: "..... painful but true"
Will honestly I know that you say you did not want to air grind but honestly it's so so fun once you get into it and learn pulls it becomes addictive to want to get the pull better and better until you are perfect I know many many people who agree
every class to 60 and doing good content on weekly basis? ballin
Wow, I just subscribed and my levelling times were drastically reduced, it really works!! :o
You look hungry to me. Tell you what -
Have a bread roll on me.
~Sandwich Lady, Circa 2005
Getting back into wow after being gone for many years. Hope it's as fun as I remember lol.
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
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.
This video is a perfect example of the phrase "to each their own." I shook my head to about 80% of what was just said. However, congrats man!
I'm leveling my paladin while watching this, but i'm not giving up. Leveling a paladin is a struggle for sure.
was not expecting u to look like that, well done mate!
What a great channel, nice content, loved the vid man
My dream still remains to finish leveling my Paladin, doing Nax and getting Ashbringer. Though that's a pretty lofty dream
I just say, I was NOT expecting mage to make the top of your list. Great video regardless. I liked the format!
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.
Very informational, and all-around great video as always. Thank you, and congrats!
Currently started my first character in preparation for TBC launch, and im finding your points regarding the hunter class which is what im lvling 100% true. everything is good but just the same old auto attack with maybe 1 other button rotation all the way up. keeping myself sane by mixing in a bit of gold farming and world exploration between leveling!.. Great Video man!
Congrats !!! this many years later and this is still a dream in classic for me
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
Nice video Willie! Really enjoyed it!
I leveled a warrior on fury and while it is undeniably worse than arms... it was still tons of fun to play. Warrior levelling really is a blast in classic.
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...)
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.
congratulations! This was plan early on, but I only managed to get two to 60.
If warrior isnt your first char, then it is pretty quick. Having max level bandages throughout the process is huge
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!
Drain Tanking Warlock has been my favourite way to play, so much fun and once you get the hang of it can just keep on rolling
Both Warlock and Hunter get way more interesting to play when you begin to test the actual limits of the class. Especially as a warlock using a VW you can manage insanely large pulls with little to no downtime. The only problem with leveling a warlock that way is that it requires so intense concentration that it can be quite exhausting. I like leveling Hunters and Paladins precisely because its so laid back. I can think all sorts of things and focus on social activities while playing because all I need to really do is auto attack and the occasional heal. It's also easier to absorb the atmosphere of the game as a paladin due to the fact that leveling doesn't take that much focus and you can stop and smell the roses so to speak even while grinding. Also, managing bigger pulls with pushback immunity is quite fun. With paladin the most fun comes out of, again, testing the limits of what you can survive, something that is lost in TBC.
Warrior leveling doesn't really deserve its bad reputation, although I'd really level as a DW fury because fury is so much less vulnerable to the whole miss miss parry miss dodge block miss - song. Perhaps my least favorite class to level is either Shaman or Rogue, I just hate playing those classes.
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
Wille, great content. keep this up you will be getting a ton of subs as TBC comes out. Good luck mate
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.
i only have played 1 class troll mage u made my experience so much better thanks! i literally knew nothing about the game and just joined classic :) now i rank 14 without picking undead xd cheers man
love your videos man! thanks for always having good content!
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.
Omg your Face is so different from your voice! 😭 and since I’m subbed I definitely level 20% faster lol
Lol
Thats harsh
instead of the buff you could say: if you sub you will be aware of every new video and listening it while leveling makes the experience feel 30% faster, chilling in a frozen lake each moment feels eternal, chilling with willie eternity becomes a moment
good work
Welcome to the club Wille . I've got a 60 of each class plus a bonus Mage ( why run ZF only 5 times per hour when you can run it 10 times per hour ) and another level 58 Hunter ( one for pvp and one for pve in TBC ) that should be crossing the line today .
10:10 Ok I never once thought of scaling an obstacle by jumping over it again and again to delay the mob running to you while you're shooting it. That's cool I'll try that
you. are. insane.
love to see it.
Glad to see that someone else enjoys levelling in classic like I do. I'm.on character number 12 right now.
Grats on having pulled it off. I finishied with 8 60s myself early August (no paladin).
"20% faster, no really!" I unironically believe this. Congrats WillE!!!!
Congrats ! Wow i thought you look completly diffrent.
lol that flex. I think we all have by now. I had 2 60s in the first month
Warrior lvl 30 spike of WW axe + sweeping strikes is probably the single biggest power spike while lvling with any individual class.
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.
[edit] DRUIDS: if you are leveling a druid, get a wolfshead helm immediately! I wish I knew this leveling up, but ya, Wolfshead + Furor + Natural Shapeshifter + powershift macro will totally change your leveling experience! This will allow you to keep doing huge burst and easily solo all the way to 60. [/edit]
I was a little surprised druid was so far down the list, because druids are a blast to play, but ya, your explanation makes total sense. The last stretch is a bit of a slog. Once you get a weapon that gives 150 or more feral attack power and start getting gear, it makes a big difference. Also devilsaur set immediately! this helps.
Definitely drops off in power, but the plethora of abilities you have as a feral still makes it pretty fun
Loved that video!
I levelled every class and every character years ago, it was a great and unforgettable experience u should of rated every starter zone from best to worse
Deffinetly didn't expect the priest to be THAT fast compared to some other classes. Very interesting
What a great accomplishment! Congratulations Willie.
What do we do now...?
Now we play the game.
I was the 2nd warrior on my server to hit 60 and I had a lot of fun leveling it. Admittadly I probably would have been 5th or so but all the rest did a MC raid at 57-59 and I power leveled instead and they wipped multiple times. I have taken a long break from classic due to health problems, but I am back and gearing my warrior and leveling my Druid now. I found (pre world buffs mind) that Arms warrior was the way to go to 50 and 50-60 I swapped to Fury. Arms really tappered off for me and I was struggling to kill level 46 mobs as a 50. Swapped to Fury and I was mowing down mobs 1-2 levels above me again.
Well GZ mate :D
my Progress in Classic is the following.
4x lvl 60's on Stonespine Horde, Shaman/Rogue/Warrior/Hunter all 4 is MC/BWL/ZG/AQ20 near full BiS, and 1 lvl 42 Mage.
Gehennes 1 lvl 46 Rogue and Noggenfogger 1 lvl 35 mage :D
and all this also without boosting.
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.
grats! I quit playing quite some time ago but still here following the updates and news
Oh wow, I had no idea Wille was actually Ricky Gervais with a beard :-O
tnx for playing almost 2000 hours to bring us this 14 min video mate !
Only one I can stand leveling to max is a Warrior. In retail, I somehow managed to struggle leveling 3 other classes to max, but that was it.
Paladin may be slow but you are nearly indestructible, 2 bubbles, cleanse, cheap heals and if all else fail lay on hands for that second life. Also one of the key things about playing a character with extra hit procs like enh shaman/paladin or sword spec warrior/rogue is using a weapon with a big bonus damage proc, it gives you a big boost to DPS and can proc off every single hit, even judgement on paladin.
Congrats, that's quite a feat!
Spirit build and arms for warrior was some of the most fun leveling, just auto healing between every mob. runnin around being a staffs only warrior till 60 and i'm still a staffs only warrior with onslaught.