Lordaeron's Most Needed Classes
For anyone who's thinking about joining Lordaeron or going to make a new character:
Lordaeron is in need of these specific classes:
Most Desired
- Top of the list sits Restoration Shamans. While being capable of solo-healing everything, being one of the best healers in the game, even a restoration shaman that's learning the game can do sooo much. It's hard NOT to find a raid spot as a resto shaman. Although shaman dps is mid-tier at best sadly.
- Paladin: Due to recent trends in "prio" on gear, most pug raids will disallow paladins from attaining the gear they need, and this has disincentivized players from playing paladin, but make no mistake every paladin talent spec is playable. Prot pala is the best wrath tank, Holy paladin is the best tank-focused healer in the game, and retri paladin is also often in high demand.
Extremely Desired
- Warlock: Every raid needs a demonology (demo) lock and if there's an over-supply of demolocks then affliction lock is a top-tier progression class that only is outscaled by firemage as they approach bis. Warlocks are ALWAYS in demand
- Hunter: Huntards are always a necessity wherever you go. Ranged dps in general is a much desired role that needs to be filled and hunters are no exception. They have some responsibilities but are quite easy to learn
- Mage: Fire mage, the pivotal ranged dps class, big damage numbers, much crits, much fun.
- Chicken Druids: Balance Druids aka BOOMYs are really high in demand, most compositions want 2 atleast but the more the merrier. Although the dps is a bit low, the raid utility of a boomy is unmatched, with mana provisions for healers, combat ressurection, typhoon displacement, raid buffs, etc
Desired:
Priests: Both discipline priests and Shadow priests are often quite desireable, while not being pivotal to a raid group (most raids take 1 disc priest and that's it for priests), shadow priests give off-healing and solid raid dps. A good ranged dps candidate, although not many raid buffs to provide.
Rogue: Subtlety is the go-to pvp spec, assassination is a good spec to play at lower gear levels, but Combat rogue is the true go-to spec for Rogues. Combat rogues are HIGHLY desireable for melee classes, being able to sprint, tricks of the trade, having massive dps early on, scaling decently/good, and having good raid utility, rogues are an amazing addition to any raid.
Cat: Feral cats are really solid dps but are difficult, though they provide tons of raid utility as a druid.
Bears: While not as popular as a blood dk tank, a bear tank can provide a raid with mangle, meaning the raid can replace the cat spot with a frost dk. This is a slightly inferior comp due to the volatility of the frost dk dying losing a pivotal buff the tank could provide, alongside the bear being locked in combat often not being able to provide innervate/res
