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)
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.
I relate to this
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.
Female undead warrior is goated the combat animations with the salto is soooo good
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.
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.
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%.
None. I thankfully don't care about min maxing and will play whichever race/combo I like regardless if it's trash or not.
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!
Same, male night elf warrior, terrible choice
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.
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
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!
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
💯
male Tauren druids are like the coolest race/class combo aesthetically imo. Female tauren look goofy af
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
I have a nightelf shadow priest. You roll dwarf just for 1-2 buffs. Not worth to be so short.
Human warlock my first character ever. So boring and soulless idk what I was thinking
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 :)
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.
Troll is my favourite race in the game and I cannot stand that casting animation. Someone at Blizzard thought they were COOKING in '04
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.
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.
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
went with Orc for my rogue for the first time to mix things up. never again
Female Orc rogue is BiS
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
Same
I've always regretted making a gnome for my warlocks and mages, they're hideous to look at... But that intellect racial...
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
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
Humans and dwarves have terrible animations and are unplayable. Orcs wearing robes are also kind of ridiculous.
Everything else is pretty good.
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.
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!
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
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.
Orc Shaman. Got to 26 before rerolling to Tauren.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dwarves are objectively the correct choice.
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.
Praying for dwarf shammies in Classic+/SoD 2
For me it's
In hoof, always go tauren.
SHORT?!?
Agree with your last statement. I wish my lock couldve been a dwarf