So your friends finally convinced you to play a MMO with them, and you want to be helpful, huh? Let’s get you all settled up.
When raiding in World of Warcraft, specially in the harder difficulties, you need to keep in mind the roles of all your party members. Lacking a crucial role can lead to your whole party being wiped at the entrance! In this article, I want to help you pick a class that properly fills a role that your friends and allies might need.
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Summary
To raid you need a really well put together team, depending on the raid itself your team will consist of up to 30 in the retail version and up to 40 in classic and players need to be split into the many roles that the raids need. These consist of:
- Tanks
- Healers
- Ranged DPS
- Melee DPS
Without any of these roles in your party, you are in a disadvantage, and it can cost you the entire raid, which can take a long while to complete! Now let’s give some examples on the best classes for these roles.
Tanks
Protection Warrior
Currently, the top pic when people are looking for tanks in their raids. Their kit revolves around strong active mitigation, incredible mobility, and solid group utility. Abilities like Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and Last Stand allow them to reduce incoming damage effectively, especially physical. Their Rallying Cry provides a group-wide health boost, which is often a lifesaver during raid-wide damage phases.
Blood Death Knight
Blood Death Knights offer a unique tanking style focused on self-healing and damage absorption rather than traditional blocking or dodging. These damage absorption abilities let them survive even the stronger spikes of damage without dying. Abilities like Death Strike, Vampiric Blood, and Dancing Rune Weapon allow them to heal through lethal damage and remain a threat.
Healers
Restoration Druid
Their heal-over-time abilities and incredible mobility make them a top pick for raids. They can preemptively spread heals using Rejuvenation and Regrowth, ensuring no everyone is ready for any upcoming fight, and then use their stronger healing abilities when anyone needs to be healed a big amount. They can even heal while they’re in the move, ensuring that they can dodge big AOE attacks and quickly get to any teammate nearing death.
Holy Paladin
This class has very strong healing but mostly at melee range, so they work best with teams that have to stick together and have low mobility. They’re also really good at healing tanks and priority players due to their high single target heals. They themselves have pretty good health and defense and low cooldowns that ensure that you always have a heal ready for a player in need.
Preservation Evoker
These are burst healers with excellent group utility and mobility. They have the unique ability to empower abilities for each situation, making them extremely versatile. Spells like Reversion, Dream Breath, and Rewind are incredibly useful to handle a sudden spike of damage to he party.
DPS
DPS is a crucial part of the raid, whether you’re ranged or up close. What’s more important is that you have a steady output of high DPS, have useful utilities, and good survivability to remain a useful part of your team. A healer can’t just stand by your side when they have so many others to take care of!
Melee DPS
Retribution Paladin
Paladin shows how diverse it is by showing up yet again in this list. One of the most well-rounded melee DPS specs. They do good damage to groups and provide large bursts of damage to single targets. They’re very durable thanks to Divine Shield and Shield of Vengeance. Blessing of Sacrifice and Lay on Hands add further value. Paladin is an all around great class for newer players thanks to how easy they are to learn, so this is definitely a good pick for anyone!
Enhancement Shaman
This class brings fast high damage with totems, bloodlust, and even AOE damage, they’re very versatile in their utility to the group and a safe pick for DPS if your party needs it. Their totems can give other DPS players a much-needed damage boost, among other things!
Ranged DPS
Shadow Priest
This class is great at both single target and multiple target damage. They can even bring passive heals to the team with their ability Vampiric Embrace, which is great if you’re facing enemies with strong AOE attacks. Not only that, but they can also get rid of debuffs with Mass Dispel. There are very few things this class can’t do!
Balance druid
They shine in multi-target and sustained AOE fights. Starfall and Sunfire provide excellent cleave, and their defensive and utility toolkit is unmatched among casters. They also have a big health pool, making it a DPS that’s also pretty tanky.
In conclusion
Raids are very high stakes, high rewards activities. Some are so long, they can take around 4 hours! So there’s a lot of pressure to be very efficient and useful for your team. This isn’t all that there is to it, tho. You can be handed an account with the best character in the game, but it will only take you so far if you don’t know how to play it. It’s useful to look up guides on YouTube that tell you how to play to properly help your team. The best classes are subject to change as updates roll out and change the game’s meta, so it’s useful to keep an ear to the ground as to what changes are coming and what is played the most. Now go out there and help your team, warrior!
