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Post by Rankkor

Shamans.

They provide the best support in the game. Strong buffs for casters, strong buffs for melee, very good healing, and if you are enhance, you can use your maelstrom stacks to keep yourself, or your friends alive. Good mobility (ghost wolf) great variety of defensive buffs (Elemental Totem, Stoneskin totem) one of the best universal buffs in the game (Bloodlust) and a jack-of-all-trades when playing enhance.

Druids can do everything too, but not at the same time, when you are boomkin, you do ranged magical DPS, on resto, you heal, on feral you either tank on bear mode, or do melee DPS on cat form. and all of those must be done in their respective specs.

Enhance Shamans on the other hand, got a very strong melee DPS (Specially at lower levels windfury is INSANE), and thanks to Maelstrom weapon they can shoot nukes, or heals depending on the situation, totems on demand for the required emergency, can dispell debuffs, and with the feral spirit you are near-inmortal for 45 seconds (at least before 85).

Their number of buffs is unparalleled by any other class in the game, and their multi-tasking ability to melee, heal, and use magic nukes AT THE SAME TIME, makes them the ultimate support class.

Post by cefm

Just to check if I got this right - you're an experienced player, and you want to assist your friends while they're leveling?

I think that the answer to that question will depend a lot on what class/spec your friends choose, and whether as a group you want to mostly explore/quest, do dungeons, or PvP.

If you want to do dungeons, then you will likely help most by choosing a tank or healer for shorter wait-times. Plus those roles are the hardest for beginners to pick up, esp. with their lack of gear.

I'd recommend Druid or Paladin, because they offer all three spec options (tank, dps, healer), making you able to tank or heal a dungeon but also play "normal" for world quests, and work fine in a BG. You can also provide nice buffs to stats for everyone (that last even after you log off or go somewhere else) Mark of the Wild (Druid) or Blessing of Kings (Paladin) both last an hour, unlike Shaman buffs that are only around as long as the totems.

If they choose DPS, you choose tank. If one of them really wants to tank, you choose healer. Eventually you'll probably all spend most of your time NOT in the same group, so make sure you all choose something you'll like playing.

Other recommendations - make sure they choose gathering professions (crafting sounds cool but sucks for a beginner with no money), give them some $ and get them to use the AH to help gear up. Get them some enchants, or level your guy as an enchanter to help out.

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Post by myt362450

i have been running the new starting areas and low level quest chains for a whille and i can asure you that it doesn't really matter what you choose it is virtually impossible to be killed by npc's in these areas. Everything can be 2 shotted solo so if there is 3 of you only 2 need to shoot. Afaik the only way to die is aggro and afk for 10 mins.

Getting in the low level dungeons will require some focus but nothing too taxing that 3 of you wont be able to handle. You are not really going to have any difficulties until you start to get to around level 50. Even then you wont find things hard but you will be starting to feel some of the benefits of the class you chose.

The best support class is going to be druid, shaman, paladin not neccessarily in that order. Personally i would go with the paladin but im biased having played a pala from day 1 but druid and shaman have there benefits. If you are looking to tank, dps more than heal then paladin certainly is the best option because of the plate armour but if you going to be a group of 3 you will need 1 tank, 1 healer and 1 dps so see what class your friends choose.