Used to be a draenei priest. Now a dwarf priest. I'm too much of a goody goody to be anything else! I'd recommend having a look at each race and the bonus you get to different stats/profs and decide what class to go for from that. Yo ucan always change to a different class if you don't get on with casting/melee/ranged combat.

I love being a healer/caster so priest class works well for me. I enjoyed being a mage and warlock as well but nothing beats healing for me.

I loved just making a toon and enjoying the class. I think my favorites were priest, hunter and mage but really each class has a lot to offer and I didn't play any that I hated. I know I am in the minority but each time I got my toon maxed it was kinda a bummer because I am not much for end game content, so I would create a new toon and start over. I did find I preferred Horde to Ally

I've leveled everything to 85 but they've made things quite a bit easier now such that basically ANY class will be easy to level up.

While this isn't what you asked, let me mention this: the biggest recommendation I can give you would be to learn to keybind your abilities. There's a keybinding option in the esc menu so that you can assign a keystroke to each ability. Do this from level 1 on. You will move with your mouse and use q/e to strafe. Your left hand will then use keystrokes to activate abilities. (This is opposed to clicking on the icons to activate them).

I chose a class based on the classes I usually play in RPGs. So I choose a Blood Elf Rogue first. I loved it. That is a DPS class if ever there was one. Eventually, I moved onto a Night Elf Druid. (I'd be a Troll Druid now, but they didn't have that class/race combo back then.) There's so much you can do with a druid. You can melee dps in cat form, tank in bear form, heal in the resto tree, and spell caster dps! There are literally so many different play styles with a druid that it never seems to get old. When I was tired of cat, I'd go bear. When I was tired of dps, I'd heal. When I got tired of running around after all the bosses and bad tanks as melee dps, I'd go spell caster dps. So it incorporated aspects of a rogue in cat form and gave me all these other choices. I loved it.

But some people try every race/class combo at some point. Some stick with the one race/class combo they really enjoy. I'd say go with the race you like the look of best, as this matters when you're running around looking at it for 85 levels. Then pick a class that seems interesting and go from there. By about level 10, you can tell if you're interested in pursuing the class.

Currently gaming on Holy Pala and feral druid... and sometimes on my afflilock and disco priest, I find healing interesting, as well as tanking. But when it comes variaty of things you can do, I'd recommend druid ^^

My most sincere piece of advice regarding WOW.... if you have even a little bit of OCD, or addictive personality, quit now!!


WoW consumed me for years. Literally. I ran a business and such, but was nowhere near productive.

I first tried a Dwarf Pally and got bored quick. So I went the other way and did an Undead Warlock. IT's been my main ever since. I've got a goblin shammy and a cow druid too that I'm leveling. I have a maxed DK, fun to level but I've not tried him in dungeons yet. FOR THE HORDE!!!

Healing is awesome if you get some good add ons. I mainly play a priest healer human. My other alt that I really enjoy is my Resto Shaman. The only other toon I have is my Holy Pally. These three all heal.

Just Started A few weeks ago!!!
I'm playing as a Shadow Priest

I've played for a few years, it depends what type of character you want to be, I've got a 85 Druid, 85 Hunter and 85 Mage. Mages are good fun if I was to roll another character I'd probably do a rogue.

I currently have 4 85s, 2 priests, a mage, and a warlock.

One of the priests is my main although I used to raid with the mage for several years.

I played spriest for many years, but am now healing for the most part.

My fav though is probably mage.

I quit about a year ago. I was so obsessed it was ridiclous. However I did make some lifelong friends.
I played Horde. Alliance just seemed like it was full of kids. Find a nice adult guild to play with.

I was a warlock back when we were seriously overpowered. I was a f'ing dps bomb. It was sick.

I have an alliance dwarf priest, kid :laugh: I quit around the time Firelands came out and now I play SWToR (Star Wars) with a Jedi Consular Sage. :bigsmile: