05-23-2005, 10:34 AM
Having only played the EU Final Beta for a week or two and without any previous MMORPG experience, I feel confident in calling myself a casual (WoW-)gamer.
I played the following characters:
NE Druid to lvl 22
Dwarf Paladin to lvl 6
Human Priest to lvl 6
Tauren Shaman to lvl 6
Undead Warlock to lvl 6
and Troll Mage to lvl 3 or 4.
Maybe I am confusing a "new"/"inexperienced" player with a "casual" one, but I would like to say that I would NEVER recommend the paladin as a first character. Due to the lack of a ranged attack at these first few lvls (up to 6 at least), you have a very difficult time early on (relative to all of the other classes I played at least). It is just so easy to get into fights with more creeps than you can handle if you can't pull them one by one from a distance. I think my dwarf died at least 10 times in those 6 lvls, while my other characters died maybe once (if that) in those same lvls. (The druid died a lot more, but that was mostly around lvl 18, trying blackfathom deeps in vain, IIRC).
Of the characters I played, the Shaman definitely felt both the "easiest" and the most "powerful". I played the druid the most, simply because I liked them in Warcraft 3 and was especially attracted to the shape-shifting and wanted to see as many forms as possible in the limited time I had.
I played the following characters:
NE Druid to lvl 22
Dwarf Paladin to lvl 6
Human Priest to lvl 6
Tauren Shaman to lvl 6
Undead Warlock to lvl 6
and Troll Mage to lvl 3 or 4.
Maybe I am confusing a "new"/"inexperienced" player with a "casual" one, but I would like to say that I would NEVER recommend the paladin as a first character. Due to the lack of a ranged attack at these first few lvls (up to 6 at least), you have a very difficult time early on (relative to all of the other classes I played at least). It is just so easy to get into fights with more creeps than you can handle if you can't pull them one by one from a distance. I think my dwarf died at least 10 times in those 6 lvls, while my other characters died maybe once (if that) in those same lvls. (The druid died a lot more, but that was mostly around lvl 18, trying blackfathom deeps in vain, IIRC).
Of the characters I played, the Shaman definitely felt both the "easiest" and the most "powerful". I played the druid the most, simply because I liked them in Warcraft 3 and was especially attracted to the shape-shifting and wanted to see as many forms as possible in the limited time I had.