I start:
was nightelf priest in vanilla at lvl 59 Rerolled dwarf. Everyone called me crazy back then, best decision of my life since i liked pvp and was insta invite to a good guild.
(another: i love troll warrior aesthetics, but dislike the racials for warrior compared to orc)
Regret going male tauren for druid, will definitely go female next time. The size is annoying (clunky and easy target in PvP) but what really gets me is the constant ass scratching.
They literally scratch their asses every 10-20s, even in combat, and if you interrupt the ass scratch with a cast then they'll keep scratching and you just get caught in this neverending loop of scratching ass.
Never again.
This is an incredibly specific answer to this very broad question. Incredible.
Undead Warrior
I always thought the concept was cool.
Warrior was the one class I never really had much experience on, however — actually, add Melee as a whole — was a caster easily 90% of my sum total playtime. And by default, I never paid much attention to them.
I thought the concept of them were awesome as well. And then, I finally made one..
I leveled one to 51. And from 25’ish onward, I couldn’t get over how much more bad ass Orc warriors were. They just work from every aspect of more lores than just WoW alone. They got the racials, and yeah just look and feel proper. (Their swings & abilities are spot on for the race/class)
Whereas I had Cannibalize, which was nice leveling at times. Was nice doing the Fear + Cannibalize combo.
But besides that. It was all just off for me. The Undead hunchback was something I did not think looked very good on a shouting, rage building, mean-machine such as the Warrior.
I especially hated the fact that I’m basically wearing ripped cut off’s on all of my leg armors to boot. Just felt totally off.
Female undead warrior is goated the combat animations with the salto is soooo good
I know this is classic, but retail just reworked frost DK on PTR and my female undead no longer does the front flip :(
Just made my first unread female, I've noticed you getting fucking stuck on steps that other Races don't, gets to me and all I have to do is press space bar to counter it, still passes me off haha
hunched and knob kneed, with one cool animation isnt enough for me tbh
Their 1h and 2h animations are both top tier
depends on pov here, i would say. Yes, as powerhouse blood crazed warrior, orcs definitly work better. But if you roleplay in your head as a relentless, creepy, ruthless, no-mercy killing machine, undead works also really really well.
Orc warrior = stereoid powered crazy man jumping on people
undead warrior = creepy mofo that walks slowly like in a horror movie yet you freeze from fear and cant get away.
Me: Cow get big weapon, big scary
I relate to this
The hunched back looks cool when dual wielding but yeah 2h is goofy
Same for me with UD warrior. I rolled one back in original WOTLK for no particular reason, other than my characters up to that point were all Orcs and Tauren and I wanted to do the Undead questing zones, and warrior was a class I wanted to try. I ended up enjoying warrior and levelling him to max, but it never quite felt right to me. In concept I think the idea of a Undead executioner is cool, but the model and animations just didn't sell it. Ended up race swapping him to a Blood Elf during Cataclysm, which might seem like an equally weird choice but I liked it.
Nah Blood Elf is totally understandable, and the racial is very worthy. The stance is confident, and they look epic tbh. I get what you mean since I sorta shit on the Undead stance and compared it with Orcs for the warrior portion. (Believe it or not UD is my favorite race is all of WoW, I actually had to edit my comment just now to clarify that)
But imho Blood Elf looks legit in its own light. For some reason they give me that FF7 vibe, the dude with the blade, Cloud I think is his name? Looks fuckin’ grand man!
yeah that's exactly it with Blood Elf, they don't have the same strength and animosity as Orcs/Trolls/Tauren, but they have a confidence and regality. I always liked the BE Swordsman and Spell Breaker units from Warcraft 3. and yeah I do like Undead, but they're better suited for casters imo, they just look off swinging a big heavy weapon and it sucks that you don't get the full covering of plate armor which is a big draw for warrior imo.
Trolls imo, are underrated for warriors. The extra regen is huge for leveling and farming. Berserking is amazing for building threat as a tank. Orc tanks shouldn't really hit blood fury especially not combined with recklessness or death wish. The +5 are still can be compensated for with edgemasters. So for tanks, troll is a solid pick
Troll is technically bis for threat anyways since you’ll likely get thunderfury and need to use edgemasters anyways.
Horde really did hit the jackpot for tanks
Trolls got regen and berserk. Orc has stun resist and +5 axes. Taurens have aoe stun and look cool. Undead.
Female UD has flips
Undead are the coolest of them all imo
For maintank yeah trolls is superior especially since axes generally aren't fast weapons they arent ideal for tanking.
agreed as tanks troll is bis, but for pvp and even leveling orc racials are just way better imo. It feels great to have a super saiyan button as orc vs boss mobs :)
My main back in the day was a troll warrior. I was like a 10 year old so I didn’t know shit. The biggest regret was the stupid fucking helms! It bugged the absolute shit out of me
Troll is one race where so few helms look acceptable on them that I hide it 100%.
I levelled a troll warrior with mostly "of the Boar"/"of the Whale" gear, I never ate during the entire levelling process, off healed 20-25% damage infight and had maximum downtime of 6-8 seconds after multiple fights before the next fight. So much for tedious warrior levelling. :)
Berserking is also superior to Blood Fury since it's not on the global cooldown (which in the minimum is another Hamstring to fish for WF), is never a risk to yourself and on average shouldn't provide less damage than Blood Fury. Axe spec is very nice but in true endgame it won't provide any advantage since you will be offhanding The Hungering Cold anyway. So the main advantage of orc over troll boils down to the extra 25% stun resistance.
Night elf warrior
Should have rolled Night Elf Mohawk instead.
my first char as a 12 year old on my friends computer was NE warrior and they told me that's the worst choice to make lol. Felt like I hadn't played the game yet and was already losing
But, Swifty!
I've had the same Night Elf warrior since vanilla. I've never really understood the "hate" behind the combo, other than DWarrf is better.
if it's classic, pve human racials are just better, pvp dwarf or gnome, the 2h animations look awkward too I rolled human female warrior and never looked back after I retired the elf.
Same, male night elf warrior, terrible choice
Same. I leveled mine to 60 in classic, got a binding out of nowhere when our first two tanks were out that week so I stepped up. Proceeded to use edgies and tf as the 2nd/3rd tank because our RL was MT and got his a couple weeks later. If I were human I would’ve been more stoked but it was def awkward
gnome. Made a gnome warlock because that's "bis" and had to delete it by level 10 to start over. Gnomes are lame, will never make one again.
A few guildies have discovered that gnome means some crafty jumps are either:
lol no, road closed pizza boy
pixel perfect 1/11000 chance to make it
Any other race makes the jump with ease
Many of them discovered this in ZF in the low-mid 40s
I probably would have fell into the same trap had I not heard the griping about unable to make some jumps. So human mage it is!
Don't forget getting LOS'ed by large pebbles or 4 degree inclines, or swimming in 2 inch puddles
Love other people playing gnomes. Hate playing them, myself.
Gnomes can only be played ironically IMO. Who is mine.
Only Gnome I could play was a Warrior one. Just the idea of tanking like that was too funny for me.
Punt them into the stratosphere!!!!
Human warlock on a pvp server until I learned about WOTF. Instantly rerolled Orc lock.
Lmao you heard about the UD famous racial then went Orc. This guy regrets.
Doesn’t have to fight against it
None. I thankfully don't care about min maxing and will play whichever race/combo I like regardless if it's trash or not.
Tauren Druid 🤣🤣 in my early days of playing I wanted to try Druid and my husband and his friends were horde so Tauren was my only option. I think it was WotLK. I got her to 66 and couldn’t get over how ugly she was. So I deleted her because I needed the character slot 🤣🤣
UGLY???
/MOO
/MOO
rude
understandable, i like alliance. But i think female dwarfs (and gnomes) look so horrendous, i didnt want to play alliance for 6 months
I only play cute toons. So I do have a female NELF Druid now. For the Alliance!
male Tauren druids are like the coolest race/class combo aesthetically imo. Female tauren look goofy af
Tauren look like adorable stuffed animals, I will not stand for this slander
I mean, it was WotLK. I didn't like the old tauren female models either. Current ones are alright.
This is why i play as a boy tauren even though im a girl. They just did the girl tauren design dirty
💯
Completely agree. If you want female Druid go night elf. If you want male go horde.
I play a female NELF Druid now
My fiancé and his whole family are horde players. They keep begging me to play with them but I just can’t enjoy horde with how ugly the characters are! I made an orc rogue but only got it to level 10 before I gave up. Not enough good hair options.
Now I play alliance, all human except one night elf Druid and one dwarf hunter just in case I feel the urge. My fiancé and his family can’t wait for TBC because they know I can’t wait to be a blood elf, and I’ll finally be horde with them 😂
I can't bring myself to play a Tauren just because of how absolutely hench they are. It makes me insecure because I want to be as absolutely SWOLE as a tauren irl
had tauren druid when I was "all horde", prev playthrough - I liked it in tauren form, and bear form, but that ugly horned lion, with goofiest face ever, made sure I never really took that druid anywhere :D
None. If you aren't playing for visuals then what's the purpose?
To post purple/ orange numbers on a 3rd party site
Or, at least, it feels like everyone is playing for that and not much else these days
Purple?! It’s all in the pinks and whites bayBEE /s
Purple? What an insult
The fashion (and in retail tmog) is the real endgame of wow🤌
I exclusively play dwarf. Any time I make a character that isn't a dwarf I feel weird. Occasionally a Tauren slips in.
That's what she said
I have a nightelf shadow priest. You roll dwarf just for 1-2 buffs. Not worth to be so short.
I've always regretted making a gnome for my warlocks and mages, they're hideous to look at... But that intellect racial...
Never have because worrying about meta races is stupid imo. I’m happily human on my rogue in anniversary and happily undead on my mage from classic through cata.
Human warlock my first character ever. So boring and soulless idk what I was thinking
That's what soul drain is for! Also, you have to see the irony if your soulless creation uses soul link.
I have some regret rolling my Troll Mage. I just love Undead too much. Did it for raiding but man the extra haste is pretty lackluster, or at least feels that way.
Ah well.
THIS. I wanted to go undead and I let my husband talk me I to troll and Its such a slim difference in the two I feel like.
I also feel like im one of the only troll mages EVERYONE went undead 😩
It may be dumb but it's mostly the aesthetics for me. The troll kamehameha-like casting animation is so boring. Something about the arms to the side swagger cast really does it for me.
My wife plays an UD Priest so when I'm on my Mage it just looks wacky. I'm trying to encourage her to work on her Mage because if her Priest dies I know she won't handle it well lol.
Of all things to not like kamekameha casting animation is crazy? It's the main reason I picked troll.
It's the feet that bother me, casting animation + crazy Mohawk balance it out but if I could change something it would be the feet.
Troll is my favourite race in the game and I cannot stand that casting animation. Someone at Blizzard thought they were COOKING in '04
I always thought they female troll was such a cool character model as one of the only ones on the horde side without a hunch back.
And I like that for a mage as I feel mages stand straight up like they're better than everyone else.
Also being unique is cool. Female trolls are awesome. Cute Lil tusks too and the best piercings.
The haste is huge but w/e
y berserk is less good in classic than people assumed it to be. I have a troll shadowpriest, love the aesthetics but only use berserk for quick healing when low hp. I dont bother even in raids, should still make a macro xd
Any small races tbh. I mained a dwarf paladin during Wotlk and hated how my gear would look so squished.
Changing to human was the best decision.
I have created dwarf on vanilla, got bored and didn’t fancy the look of it at 36, rerolled rogue female human. During Wotlk I have created another warrior, female human this time, got her to lv 80.
Y dwarf look is a hate/ love relationship. They may not be the best prettiest, but they are authentic and strong racials :)
went with Orc for my rogue for the first time to mix things up. never again
Female Orc rogue is BiS
Same
Why? It's objectively the best race. Stun resist, damage cooldown, armor looks good, and good swing animations.
have you seen an undead rogue? there's a reason there's so many orc warriors, undead rogues and troll hunters. bis class/race combos
Same
Orc Shaman. Got to 26 before rerolling to Tauren.
In which way it felt better?
Because Warstomp is for playmakers
Plus Tauren character style is just way cooler. Orc felt goofy to me.
Orc Warriors and Rogues all day though.
regreat lvling my rogue as a nElf male.. that shit looks gofy as fuck
aside from dwarfs, every race in ally looks way better as females
nelf male is the most bankai
Nelf male is the worst out of all the races. If you have to be nelf, girl model is the only way to go
NE male is the goofiest class model in the whole game, IMO. Dumb looking proportions and they look like they are flopping around all the time
I guess I like ugly races, my favorites are night elf male and troll male heh
I’m a troll fan.
Bro female dwarfs are THick!
Human priest in SoD. I fell for the "all races will get fear ward" lie (..which they eventually did, but I had already quit by that point).
Should have just been dwarf from the beginning.
Humans and dwarves have terrible animations and are unplayable. Orcs wearing robes are also kind of ridiculous.
Everything else is pretty good.
Any time I rolled belf. Everyone is playing a chad monster person then I'm over here eating with my pinky out and exfoliating. It makes me too embarrassed to go on for more than a few levels
None, really. I've had fun with almost all of them.
Dwarf warrior in classic. Made it to 55 before I realized weapon skill was a thing and I was a min maxer.
Worg Druid. It is supposed to be more optimal but I just can’t look at this fucking furry all the time. Too bad I was healing during cata, the only expansion I could not resolve that issue with shape shifting,
Undead female mage during classic 2019, I regret it so much... Was generally a pain to learn the bridge jump in ZG as the model was slightly smaller than other races. Never again.
First toon in 06 was a night elf warrior - i had no idea what i was doing but had fun. Got to 63 in TBC and quit.
Just came back to vanilla back in May of this year. Got orc warrior and undead rouge.
Neither of them are super aesthetic per se but fun to play. Have serious fomo on not going Troll Rouge - those geared out look clown world butt cheeks insanely awesome.
Level 60 Orc rouge. Orc is sick for warrior and shaman, but rouge does not fit whatsoever.
Flipped from tauren warrior to orc warrior.
Orc hunter I thought the pet damage buff would be significant. Still love hunter so I may purchase a race switch to troll for the berserk and bow crit
I’m an Orc Rogue in Anni and I wish I just went Undead as usual. Gear sets look better, and I can never really use the racial in case I need heals. Bollocks!
Gear looks way better on Orc imo (especially shoulders) and you should use Blood Fury on literally every raid boss available atm, it's like a free extra trinket. The only Rogue in my guild without a pink parse is Undead, the rest are Orcs and got several. If you main pvp and plan on doing arenas in TBC you picked poorly tho.
Yeah true I picked it with PVE in mind and I think it’s just because of the AV grinding so far. Maybe I’ll feel better once I get into more pve!
My main, actually. As of late, I have enjoyed Beastmastery Hunter a lot and now I wish that my Troll Warrior had been rolled as a BM Hunter and Roleplayed a Raptor Trainer. The reason I regret it is because I started to avoid tanking somewhere in Pandaria but did not go all out DPS until Battle for Azeroth.
So, anybody got a time machine I can borrow so I can whisper in the ear of a new WoW Player back in TBC?
Tauren warrior instead of orc. The stun resist alone in pvp. Atleast armor looks cooler on me
as an avid hunter player, Night Elf Hunter was my biggest regret.
I have lost the count of times I have leveled a dwarf hunter, and 1-2 times I also leveled an orc hunter.
Then thinking it would be so awesome to have shadowmeld for once, I leveled Night elf hunter. it was indeed very effective and fun, but man i could not stand the animations. I rerolled dwarf after like 2 weeks.
For hunter, I vastly prefer the alliance options. I know troll is probably the best but I just feel Dwarf or Nelf look better.
I played a NE rogue mainly so I could name him Poppasmurph. Didn’t even pay attention to the racial bonuses.
Although he looked awesome, I’m quite content with my female human rogue currently.
I switched from undead warrior to orc and just couldn't stand looking at my char with it's huge shoulders etc. The racial is nice, but I'll always be undead....paid to change back a week later.
I lvled a NE Hunter as my primary alt, and for preraid gear I farmed rank 11, AV rep, good gear, cheap mount, why not?
I only raided on it a couple of times before dumping it, so now my rank 11 hunter is just rotting up. I wish that effort has been spent on another class or TBC prep
It is not classic wow but SoD and I regret that my paladin was not a dwarf.
I play dwarf 90% of the time because dwarfs rock!
Dwarf hunter didn’t take me very far until wrath came out.
why u didnt like d0rf huntard? :)
Skill issue. I Found it very Hard to put out any good amount of dps back then. When survival got explosive shot and black arrow in wrath that’s when I was able to pump but before that I wasn’t doing Jack shit.
Anything troll - idk about the racials, gear just looks dumb on trolls, boots, half the helmets
Rolling any race on alliance as a priest if you're not a dwarf, dwarf is the coolest and their unique priest racial actually matters a ton
Tauren - feel slow always
My first ever character made back in TBC was a Blood Elf mage. I still regret it.
Not for any other reason than it ruining mages for me. I sucked really bad and leveled an arcane mage that casted fireball until level 50ish. I didn’t really realize how to play (I was just a 12 year old when I played it) and I sucked really bad. It took me forever to level, that character is still top 5 most played characters on my account with almost 25 days play time from 1-80 (I didn’t hit max level until WotLK). When wotlk released I made a DK and I loved it. But when wotlk released people hated on death knights a lot calling them “noob easy classes” and all this crap so I pressed on with my mage.
Interesting to hear. I level a mage in Vanilla (3rd alt) and picked arcane spec cause I love that one. I did try frost and fire but preferred arcane. And stuck with arcane to this day on retail.
Yeah some expansions its lower on DPS charts but I still love arcane missiles lol
In tbc it’s leveling was just way worse than frost, when you’re very unfamiliar with the game it’s helpful to play a spec that’s at least somewhat better at what you do. I didn’t really understand kiting at all, i never casted frost bolt. I just would cast fireball on an enemy, and frost nova when they were meleeing me. I died 100’s of times.
I've seen a lotta troll hunters rerolling/alting orc hunter this go around. The normal advice was that troll was far superior in PvE, but people underestimated orc a lot in pve. They're way more fun to min/max compared to troll imo, on top of being op in pvp. Lowering HP and begging healers not to heal you for zerking is a pain.
Gnome mage. I wanted to have a bigger mana pool then i realised for farming gnome is terrible bc of hard jump spots. Now i will use it as dps and level another human mage
Dwarf priest. Started late in vanilla and while slowly leveling my nelf hunter (lol), I constantly saw “LF1M dwarf priest” in the global LFG chat.
So I rerolled but didn’t hit cap until TBC when draenei came out with arguably even better pve racials (FW plus +hit and mana regen). Teenage me couldn’t help but chase the meta and I regret not just playing what I wanted.
Worgen warrior. I liked the idea at first, but the armor always looked ridiculous. So he is a dwarf now. I also once tried a worgen warlock, but a wolf in a robe looked ridiculous. So I scratched that. Then I had an epiphany. Worgen druid was the way to go. My bear always looks good.
I can’t do gnomes or female dwarves. Undead have grown on me over the years but for undead I can’t get past for warrior. Part of me for RP feeling is cool with torn armor but sometimes it’s weird to think an undead, bone exposed and rotted flesh warrior is supposed to be a strong and powerful tank wearing heavy armor
Druid bear tank because no tier gear and a warrior always preferred at 60 in most situations
Troll warriors make the best tanks
They do! but i prefer dps and pvp, not tanking :)
Not exaclty regretting but in a hate/love relationship with my NE hunter.
Reason was mostly bcause i prefered stutter stepping with bow over guns.
Honestly think female dwarf has much more flavor, but at the Same time movement and jumps are just so fucking smooth on NE that Im coping myself into Not regretting my decision.
Come tbc i will realize what ive done in Arena
Uhh for retail pretty much any draenai. They sound awful.
You can turn their voice off. Some races sound terrible everytime u have no rage/ man y 😂
Dude juat try this.
Male draenai with a dk voice.
Human warrior in classic. I've always played a dwarf warrior since vanilla.
Also Human paladin for TBC classic.
In short, always go dwarf.
in "short" i understood that pun
Praying for dwarf shammies in Classic+/SoD 2
How's he got so many totems put? Oh don't worry, I was counting the shammy as a totem xD
I regret rolling the dwarf warrior. I know you should play what you want but the whole min max thing is hard not to get caught up in. The weapon skill thing is big.
Nothing a pair of gloves can't fix.
A pair of gloves that takes 40h+ to farm enough gold to purchase.
Or you go for gold and hit up aged core leather + deaths sting!
More like 10
Theres a warrior farm that generates that kinda gph? I know if you have an alt that can boost you can prolly hit that, but most won't have that.
Well, I see you're horde so idk if there's a similar option like SFK maybe, but on alliance, Stocks runs are 15/5, so 60g/hour. On Alliance Dreamscythe, edgies are around the 600g mark.
Nothing a double leg can’t figure out b
Dwarves are objectively the correct choice.
SHORT?!?
For me it's
In hoof, always go tauren.
Agree with your last statement. I wish my lock couldve been a dwarf