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Originally posted by KarlEd:
OK, I'll start one tonight.

Karl

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I wanted to play a Paladin, so I'd vote Alliance, but I'm willing to play Horde, if it's what everyone wants.

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No way to communicate cross-server, Karl. But we can do it using AIM. We leveled it up till lvl 5, so it's not too difficult to catch-up with us.

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Yeah, that takes about a half hour to forty-five minutes for someone who has played before.

Don't worry about starting on a different continent then others, it is very easy to go to the other continent. My Orc Shaman, after level 6, went to the Undead lands and leveled there until level 27 or so. It was a pain in my case, because there are no Shaman trainers in the Eastern continent.

Fitz could easily head over to the Orc lands, or you guys could head over to the Eastern continent. Or everyone could wait until level 11 and go meet in the Barrens.

I'd like to play something which isn't being played by another hatracker as well. Looks like so far we have:

Orc Warrior
Orc Warlock
Undead Priest

I would suggest that you play a mage, Karl. Either Troll or Undead. They are the most "magical" of the remaining classes.

The roll of a mage is basically to do ranged damage, and have a great crowd control spell. At the start of most battles, they pick one enemy and turn it into a sheep for 30 seconds, making most battles a lot easier. They also make their own food and water to distribute to the group. Mages generally either concentrate on ice spells, or fire spells. They have great "area of effect" spells, though they need to use them very sparingly, or else they will get killed a lot. I prefer Ice mages myself, as I love how the ice spells slow the enemies down.

Shamans cast spells, but for the majority of your leveling up, you will be largely hitting things with either an axe or a hammer.

Druids change their form and melee a lot as well. (Plus I'd love it if none of us were cows . I don't like the Tauren.)

As for the two horde mage classes... Trolls are fun, but if you want to role-play them, get used to talking with a jamaican accent . They are also very tall and awkward, and you may get sick of watching your 'toon run funny. They also lack a capital city, but there are random troll towns throughout Kalimdor.

Undead can be fun to play, if you are okay with your character being dead. Their lands are dark and gloomy, and you'll be doing a fair number of "evil" deeds with their quests. Like I said before though, you can always leave the Undead lands. Undead probably have better "racial attributes" than Trolls do, if you care about maximizing your character. The thing I like least about the Undead is that no matter how nice your armor is, it looks all ratty and torn on your character, and your spine always pokes through it!

So assuming you play a mage, where would that leave me...

Well here were the horder characters I was willing to reroll:

Troll Shaman, Troll Warrior, Troll Mage, Troll Priest, Troll Hunter, Orc Warlock (female), Orc Warrior, Orc Hunter (female), Orc Rogue (female), Undead Mage, Undead Priest.

Taking out priests, warlocks, warriors, and mages:

Troll Shaman, Troll Hunter, Orc Hunter (female), Orc Rogue (female).

It may be nice to play as a hybrid, as we have a tank, a healer, and two DPS classes. So perhaps I will roll a Troll Shaman.

So you guys are waiting until Saturday to play again? That's a while from now. Generally Saturdays aren't very good for me either. This Saturday, for instance, I will be out of town.

Might be hard to keep us around the same level. I'll probably re-activate my account sometime this week. Perhaps I will help Karl out if he wants it. It wouldn't take me long at all to get to level 5.

Edit: Okay, so Karl is going to try a Shaman. That leaves me with some options.

As for Troll vs. Orc Shaman: The Orc racials are better for a Shaman than the Troll racials. The resistance to stuns is huge for player vs. player. One thing I don't like about male Orc toons is that their shoulder pads are gigantic. It looks awfully silly.

Other than that, it's really a matter of personal character preference. The Orcs were the original shamans in the lore, but the Shamans in the game largely depend on their totems, and totems were a Troll thing in games past. I'd just pick the one you like the look of better, to be honest.

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