Cataclysm Classic - How In Demand Will Your Class Be? 

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Hyperlink to the class you want 1:53 priest 4:14 warlock 6:11 vending machine 8:24 druid 12:02 rogue 13:43 shaman 15:58 hunter 17:26 paladin 19:28 dk 21:32 warrior

Gave your channel a break for a few months but it was good to be back to give the cata stuff a peek - my serious playing days ended with the end of wrath back in the day so I'm cautiously optimistic about this (pally main as well this time around so it's gonna be a new world with holy power), great coverage as usual!

Thanks for all the pre-Cata content!!

Cata's difficulty and RBGs killed so many guilds. I loved it. I even farmed the stupid mounts in tol barad. The only lastingly bad idea in cata was lfr right at the end. It was a cool expansion and I actually have more max level fond memories than from wotlk or tbc. It was the start of the decline only from a trendsetting viewpoint with modernisation.

I remember disc was awesome and a must for a few bosses

the thing with feral and why paragon stacked them was actually a bug where all ferals where able to stack up their dots for each other. thats why the dot damage was so incredible high.

Great video! Love the content. I just want to put this out there. While there is a meta to the game and some classes do bring more to the table than other. What WoW needs the most is people willing to lean the mechanics and be able to be an effective raid lead, and organizer. Everything else falls apart without the one or more people putting these groups together.

Thanks for lettin us know

I played healing druid at the time and was the one of my guild designated to get Tarecgosa legendary staff, it was awesome 😊 Firelands was a good raid!

writing this before watching the vid. i noticed a lot of people started leveling an arms warri on my server... this is also one of the two classes that usually show up when you google something like "what is the best dps class in cata"... its gonna be a hard awakening for a lot of people once they realise its not as easy as playing an hunter lmao

shadow priest is actually exceptionally good in several single target fights aswell. especially those that give haste and/or crit buffs like alysrazor or majodormus in firelands additonally to the multi target fights. especially the off heal with its cooldown is incredible valueable.

Can't wait for Cata really. I still haven't decided what I want to play though, considering a bunch of classes.

So excited for cata honestly!

Keep in mind; most players will likely end up doing 10s instead of 25s, due to them sharing the same lockout and dropping the same gear. In 10 main raids, you only get ONE battle rez per fight. The biggest things you want to have covered are lust (shaman or mage) and something with a battle rez (druid, DK, or Warlock). As for the 3% damage buff, Ret is the best to fill that... your Mages will want to go fire by at least the 2nd tier, and BM Hunters don't deal nearly as much damage as SV. Ret also comes with a TON of advantages, from auras and buffs to insanely powerful CDs such Hand of Sacrifice and Lay on Hands. These CDs can and will save you from wipes, and with only a single b rez in 10s it becomes even more valuable to do so. They do fantastic damage from start to finish and cover so many buffs they are hard to pass up. SV Hunter is also another must pick IMO, simply because they can cover almost any buff your raid is missing via their pet choice. They have an interesting toolkit that makes them ideal to handle any odd jobs that a fight might present, and their excellent damage is now even LESS impacted by movement. This is a really good xpac for Hunters with nice quality of life changes and being incredible in both PvE and PvP. Ele is another spec that is hard to pass up simply with how much they bring to the table. They cover lust, the 5% crit buff, the 5% spell haste (only covered by three specs), 10% spell power buff (Demo is the ONLY other spec to provide this), and the armor buff that is only provided by the shaman totem and Devo Aura... meaning your pallies can use their other auras (and most other specs that can cover resistances have to give something else up to do so, even if it is only a glyph slot). On top of all of that, they become an actual damage dealer and have great AoE damage to boot. They are easy to play and fun. These are the big three that makes covering the buffs you need a breeze in a 10 man comp. ...and each one of them slaps.

I'm very excited for all the changes for Cata. It seems like, how you said, with Cata being less solved, we're going to likely see more exciting pop-offs. Who knows, maybe someone will finally discover that the Rockbiter Weapon change allows Shaman Tank to be a real thing. We saw a few discoveries during Wrath of all things, so maybe we'll see something new and exciting in Cata.

prot pallys will definately be highly looked after due to the utility and the raidwide mitigation. also a pro tip for all the blood dks in cata: keep your hands onto your sindragosa trinket. paired with the res trinket from tol barad you can cheese baloroc in firelands and tank him solo which is only possible for blood dks and only with those 2 trinkets.

For boomy, its actually much more fun where you want to plan out Eclipses, certain fights you will want to sit in Solar Eclipse and spam Sunfire on adds/dotting fights

One thing to mention about demo lock is that, yeah it can do top DPS but from experience on Apollo wow cataclysm private server, it's typically considered one of the most difficult specs to play and min max rotation wise. You have to do alot of pet management and you have alot of CD's to pop at the right time and your meta is not on a fixed CD and will naturally not align with your demonsoul or trinket CDs after the first cast, making it pretty tricky. It also requires a pre-pull mastery item set u use to pop meta and swap back to normal gear just before the pull.

@6:30 "will you stop" in the corner made me giggle.

Combustion in Cata is the hardest hitting ability in the expansion if you can timing it properly. Especially if combined with impact talent.

I was mt as prot warrior and did manage just fine back in the days. And will play prot now aswell.

Thanks Wille

What's the raid comp site you use?

Thanks a lot for this very good guide.

I asked the people at Blizzard to do classic cata because i never played it back in the day. And i wanted to play it like it was back then. Im glad theyre doing it just for me 😊

My pre-cataclysm checklist (these items will no longer be attainable): 1 - Darton's Rod of Transformation (Alliance only toy) 2 - Light of Elune (Alliance only good luck charm) 3 - Linken's Boomerang (trinket that surprisingly never got nerfed for targets over lvl 60) 4 - ZG mounts 5 - Dungeon set 1 & 2 (for transmog fashion) 6 - Skull of impending doom (gimmick offhand that lets you sprint) 7 - Nifty Stopwatch (sprint trinket but has long cooldown)

May you can link the raid comp Tool with cata raidbuffs which you show in the movie? Thanks!

Really excellent overview. Thanks WillE. I really hate the holy power mechanic. HPal has been my main all along and now I'll have to think about switching, just like I did in the original run.

TL;DR you want a resto druid, resto druid and holy pally are flavor of the month in cata. Mained a holy priest in cata, regen was really bad compared to the other healers I played. Chakra strips you of versatility and you make the other healers OOM more because you can barely help on the tank without OOMing. You still have a niche - prayer on spread out ranged - but arguably resto druids do it better and their lifebloom on the tank is much more help than you can provide. Holy might be a mess but Disc is still very solid, being the only disc priest in a 25 is an absolute treat to play.

I’m planning to level my shaman up for Cata Classic. I really liked elemental and restoration that expansion.

Whats the raid conb calculator you are using ?

What website was that you used to make a raid comp that shows all the buffs/debuffs?

Would you link me the page for the Raid Comps Catalysm? Can't find it.

I recall balance Druids being very strong every tier of Cata when raiding during live content. The eclipse mechanic, mushroom placement and multi dotting give the class a very high skill cap. Don’t sleep on the boomchickens.

just a quick note that I'm surprised wasn't mentioned, fire mage has god tier burst aoe dmg. When you pop a phatt combustion you can spread it to other targets with your fire blast proc. There are a few fights that make your dps sky rocket higher than Mike Tyson on a handful of shruuumz. not always the easiest to time, but it's one of those little things.

Cata Hype! I'll play about all the classes, want to make so many Goblins! Can't wait!

What is that buff spreadsheet you’re using?

Hey WillE, what is the tool that you used during the video for the class buffs/debuffs? I'm planning to play Cata with my friends and I wanna set up a good raid comp. Thank you!

Where did you find the Wow Raid Comp Cataclysm tool?

Arcane mage in cata was my favorite with the slow arcane blast got later in the tree.

What is the tool shown around the 1:20 mark that lets you plan raid comps?

Omg.. i remember gurthalak 2h sword from dragon soul on my arms warrior in pvp... getting kited, but then i spawn up to 3 on a player and they just absolutely EAT them by themselves and me just loving it! Cant wait for that. Way more fun than lego daggers to me

I’m definitely going to give this expansion a shot. Retail isn’t fun anymore and SoD seems to be full of bots and is boring to me.

Guess ill try survival in cata. Thx for the video!

Where can I find the raid comp builder you used?

Holy paladins mastery in cata applies a shield for 10%(maybe 15, don't remember the exact base number) of amount healed, or am i missing something ?

Love your videos but if you could section them on the timeline like other channels so i can skip to the couple classes i play that would be awesome. Regardless keep up the good vids, big fan. You and scottyj are my goto for wow classic

Im looking forward to Cata, though I will say Im a little worried for it's longevity given how quickly Wrath died once the raids had been out for a few weeks.

can you share the link of the raid comp website you used?

cant wait for Cata !

19:53 doesn't look like UH DK boosts shadow priest's disease damage any longer in cata. The tooltip says 'increases damage taken from YOUR diseases by 30%". I assume that's deliberate wording. And as a shadow main I'd be glad about it too if we're not dependent on having an UH DK in the raid anymore.

Oh the times. I remember having bis gear on my warrior and getting #1 parse on deathwing. Those were the times.

I'm not sure if I'll play it to the extent I did with wrath but ill defo give it a go, at least get to max level and try a couple raids. Think I'm gonna go with demo lock because I've heard some good things about it in Cata

Hi WillE, i'm new at WoW, i started playing late Wotlk because of the influence of my grandson. I'm 64y old and my sight it's not what it used to be and i liked the UI you show at the minute 20:39. Can i ask you how did you got it or where can i find it. The display is very good and i think it should work for me. I got addicted on thhe game i and i like to keep up with the other players. Thank you for your attention and understanding.

im so excited to play holy pally radiance is so damn good

Please start the series about classes🎉

Gonna play Prot/Ret pally because that’s what I played when Cata first came out

I remember that rogue was awsome

I never play cata i am looking forward to it as i want to play wow after seeing boss guides for cata boss and got to play in mist I do want to play balance druid and maybe shadow priest

I mained a frost mage for pvp in cata and I remember going Frostbolt, Deep freeze, ice lance, ice lance, ice lance. Dead. It was so op

I do not know why so many peoples hate on Cataclysm because there are a lot of fun classes/specs to try out while there is also so much stuff to do especially PvE wise so i do not know about others but i will definitely have a blast playing this version of the game. The fact that we will have the beta/gamme catch up mechanic for 5mans will also make it so much more fun for alts.

This will actually bring me back to the game.

Where is warrior in this video? xD

Can't wait for Cata

To be honnest I really enjoy SOD for the moment and I didn't thought of playing cata because I never did this expension. But after seeing that video maybe I'll think about it and make a warrior with a cool 2x2H because me too I love to play seeing my badass armor and weapons when I beat the shit out of my ennemies ! Can I start level a character on any wrath server to prepare for cata ? Ty for the video Rascar

"What class should i go with" Just... play with the one you enjoy. I always changed my class and turned out that i just can't enjoy the game unless i'm playing with a class i really like regardless how it's doing in the current meta

Speaking of Blood DK being able to take care of themselves, my favorite part of it was using lichborne back then so that I could heal myself with death coil. Can't tell you how many times that saved me. lol.

I don’t think cata was bad but it does mark the beginning of the end of my enjoyment for the game I actually loved cata at the time but nowadays I think I’ll stick to my vanilla flavor. I’ll come see the sights and ding 85 for sure tho

At the end of the day, play what YOU enjoy playing. King honor frens❤

surv def the go to for hunters but i remember MM being pretty good once you got your haste and load up on the crit.

What is this raid comp website?

Dealing with Chronic Pain, wonder what classes are the easiest on hands.

1.Pala(heal, tank) 2.Resto shamy 3. Blood DK as a tank 4. Spriest(shadow spd aura+ as a role of battery for mana regen)

Burn out got me hard in ICC but im tempted to come back for cata, maybe as fury warrior or demo lock. Not sure if ill have time to raid while im raiding in ff14 tho, we'll have to see

Ebon Plaguebringer is not the only way to get the magic damage debuff across lots of mobs. Affliction warlocks have AOE Curse of Elements

You missed a lot on elemental aka Machinegun lightning bolt. In cata the mastery gave us the procc from spells. Creating 7 lightning bolts out of 2-3 feels amazing.

I remember playing arenas back in 2012 on my fully geared warrior just for an arcane mage with legendary staff to pop all cooldowns and crit me 50k three times in like 1 second without me even dismounting and dying on the spot lol, arcane mages are gonna be OP

Warrior, mage, paladin, warlock. Can't wait for Cataclysm!!!

Oh the amount of players I have griefed with that leap of faith ability as priest

Will they drop a big XP buff soon to prepare? or will it stay at 50%?

I quess it's a good time to start playing wrath now?

Never forget the time Riggnaros chewed out a Disc priest for using Atonement heals

Glad to hear Blood DK is super good!

I did love playing sub rogue in the early raids before I quit the game. Too bad I never had the chance to get legendary daggers

im curious how holy radiance will be handled,until dragon soul it was a cd not a spamable aoe,depending how they do this holy pally will feel very different than originaly

One thing to mention about priest is with how expensive your power word shield is, you won't be putting it on everyone constantly. Especially at the beginning of cata. It's going to cost almost 10% of your mana...

More classes will be in demand than now. It will become much more interesting to play.

Blizzard just needs to re release WoW on a 6 year cycle Vanilla-TBC-WotLK with 2 years per expansion and they will never go out of business

Where can i find WoW Raid Comp ? Google don't help me :(

I relember sittning in there for hours day after day, eventuellt flooding the AH with epics and prices dropped by a shit ton, but boy did I make ALOT of gold in firelands, and i will again in Cata classic, hands down the best farm early on solo 👌🏻

I loved playing Enhancement Shaman from naxx to rs, but by ICC the massive DPS fall off due to mediocre scaling, as well as being less relevant than Elemental Shamans truly made me reconsider what I want for Cataclysm. I'll probably still do the first tier as Shaman but I already have plans to go for Fire Mage and some sort of Hunter lmao. Those seem to be always busted and stackable as hell.

I'm hoping we get naked shockadins twinking in low-level pvp. Getting one-shotted from 40 yds away was such fun. Especially when I was doing it.

Lived my time in cata back in the day, maybe ill come back but giving wow a miss lately, its dry, its old. However one thing i did like on launch, 4 piece t10 shadow priest haste stacked and destroying everything insanely fast, i started hours after my whole guild and still beat them to 85

did they make enhance stop using spellpower items? in cata?

shadow isnt just a 1 off at least for 25mans... they are like top 3 dps depending on the fight. Up there with rogues

Thanks for helping me decide which class I'm going to level to 85 and then never login to Cata Classic again with!

Cata is the first expansion I am excited to see in Classic. I loved Cata. I personally can't wait for people to come up with the things we invented way back in the day. Again. For the third time. Shame I won't be playing hunter this time.

I recently played on a Cata private server and was surprised at how much fun I had. The gameplay was so fun and dynamic for every class. Give it a try if you’re on the fence. Also feel free to ask questions on which class to roll.

Arms warriors with Gurthalak in 4.3 just owned the game. PvE, PvP, doesnt matter, you're gonna slap and are gonna tank anything coming your way