Now all of the sudden, my little warrior is 80, still merrily charging everything in sight, still waving those big, sharp objects around, still ruthlessly hunting hordies and exacting payback for all the times I was killed while finding my true calling: The Way of the Warrior.

As for Cata? I’m not worried. If I can charge, I’m good. I have found my way, and while it might be a rough road at times, I don’t need to pick a new class. I already have mine.

On the other hand yes, I look “which class will allow me to do what I want”, I soon realized I dislike playing dps in groups and I like playing in groups more than solo in the end. So all my chars are now tanks and healers and I still mourn the loss of my Warlock, but she simply had no future – because “always and forever solo player” didn’t sound encouraging to level that char further. I liked the class as a design, I just suck at dps.

I do some research but nothing beats testing stuff in the battlefield! I’m like a small kid who’ll jump first towards new shiny feature – but will I stick to it only time will show. I can swear I will roll a Goblin and Worgen but I can’t say will they ever pass level 20-30. I highly doubt the Worgen will, because I’m not much into werewolf mania, but who knows?

But in the end, the “main of all mains” will probably still be my old favourite, the one I have most memories of, achievements, history, vanity items and so on. My favourites gravitate towards, oh how surprising, druid and paladin. Because they can tank and heal… I like my priest, I like my death knight, but there’s always that moment when I wish they could perform the other role. For example when my death knight has to do some pvp (for achievement, honor, quest), I dislike pvp but out of all evils I’d rather stand and throw some heals than cluelessly try to “dps” some folks. Or when my priest faces lfg queues or elite quest I wish she was the one taking stuff on her face rather than being the squishy-clothy wimp in the back having nothing to say.

I’m kinda sad “hybrids” get a lot of hate recently. Sadly this game isn’t designed to have “pure healers” and “pure tanks” as classes any more, so nothing else to do…

One thing I stopped to care about is “which classes are wanted”, I know everyone wants that goddamn shaman but I really can’t force myself to play a class as a main if I don’t find it more fun than other alts.

Ultima Online: Male Swordsman, later female Mage/Tamer
WoW: Male Paladin, later female Warlock
GW: Male Warrior/Monk, later female Necromancer
LOTRO: Male Champion, no real alt or new main so far
Aion: Beta female sorcerer, release female Gladiator
STO: Federation – Male tactical officer (~DPS) in an Assault Cruiser (~Tank). Klingons – Male tactical in a Bird of Prey (My choice due to supreme cloaking and universal Bridge Officer slots, otherwise I would pick a cruiser immediately)
EVE: Male Amarr speccing in the “tank” battleships of the Amarr with energy cannons. Hate for long-range missile launchers.
Dragon Age: Male human noble knight erm warrior.

I simply cannot stand rogues in squishy armor doing wtf damage. Stealthing, backstabbing and poisoning are things that give me a feeling of guilt and treachery.
I like to play with archers/hunters in any game as I like their animal companions, but I simply cannot play them myselves. Even if their travel powers in LOTRO are so superawesome that I am always jealous. They are probably the best choice for an explorer, much like the Warden, but this one lacks the attack orientation of the Champion.

In Age of Conan, the class that stirred my interest was the “Conqueror”: a heavily armored dual wielder or two-handed fighter. But initially, they SUCKED. I dunno if they still suck, they are now better at buffing. Guardian and Dark Templar were too defensive for my liking. Rogue classes like Barbarian or Assassin… I don’t play rogues!

So I rather picked my second choice: female caster. The Tempest of Set Priest was an unique mix of DPS and healing, and in fact they were and still are tremendously overpowered and ideal for soloing and good for groups.

My dislike for rogues became pathological when I played my Warlock, unlike my Paladin she really had trouble with them.

For SWTOR, if I ever play it (I simply do not like the Star Wars universe as MMO setting, it is like a fantasy world in space sheep’s clothing to me) I might pick the Trooper class. The Bounty Hunter seems too rogueish to me.

I cannot play casters. Mage, warlock, moonkin, don’t appeal to me at all. I tried moonkin on my druid and got all frustrated. I tried several melee classes and the only ones I can play are DK and shaman, but only as soloers. I tried tanking too… No comment, let’s say I need practice…

My favourite roles are healing and hunter.

I duo-levelled my druid as resto and my priest as disc with my bf’s tanks, and I’m solo-levelling my shaman as enhance/heal. I love healers, but I can’t seem to get a grip to level a paladin. And I just don’t know how I levelled a non-healing class in the first place…

And my main character, the first I ever made on this game, is my dear hunter. This class just feels right to me. I love the dynamics, I love being ranged. I love my pet. I love all the tools this class have.

I’m a little worried about hunter’s changes in Cataclysm : what if I don’t like the gameplay anymore ? That’s why I level my healers, so I can choose. But I hope the changes will be cool and fun.

So how I choose a class to play : feelings. It’s all how I feel playing the character. I also tend to play the same races : night elves or trolls. For the same reasons. As strange as it may seems, it’s a gut feeling.

I mean, as well as wanting to maximise chances of getting a raid spot or something like that.

Another, albeit smaller, caveat is that I have to love the way the class looks. I //love// the way Shaman healers play. I heart me some Chain Heal and Riptide and Earth Shield. Unfortunately, I do not love me some Shaman armors except for Tiers 2 and 6, which unfortunately, don’t do me any good. I do typically love Paladin/Priest armor, so that area’s a toss up for me at this point.

Right now the decision is based entirely on PvP utility when equally geared and whether prevention or throughput is what I desire more in a healer.