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So here is the situation, I'm about to jump back into WoW and my only active toon from when I previously played is a 70 Tauren Druid who is geared enough to tank most of SSC. Thats around when I quit, my guild was in there. Leotheras and such.

Now with WOTL coming out, I'm absolutely sure that I want to get back into the game but I'm also sure that since I've spent almost all my time in WoW on the Horde side, it would be a good idea to experience what Blizzard created for Alliance and the way things work there.

My interests: Raiding, PvP

I plan on playing both my Horde Druid Tank and whatever new Alliance character I choose to roll. In distant future perhaps I will abandon my druid, but that is a long long way from now. It probably won't end up happening.

A couple things that I was mulling over and I think I need your help to answer these questions.

1) What server to roll on? I've always preferred servers with lots and lots of people. But I live in California, and as a college student I'm not sure whether I should roll on US or EU servers. (EU guilds seem to be a little more... I'm not sure what. Anyone want to clarify?) If anyone has a suggestion for a nicely populated server that has a good share of raiding guilds - OR is looking for a druid tank around the SSC gear level, please let me know.

2) What classes are needed by raiders these days? My druid is a TANK, thus I definetely do not want to be another tank. Healing sounds decent but I'm not sure how fun it actually is to try and do daily quests in healing spec... not to mention the fact that playing "keep the green bars full" doesn't seem like fun. If it is, correct me. Really.

3) If the above assumption about healing is true, then it would follow logically that the role I should be looking for is a DPS role. I'm fine with this. So which class to choose? I honestly have no idea. I suppose I'd like to be useful in Arena and Raids. And I'd like to be able to have fun while leveling (Priests were a bitch, was going to be a shadowpriest but I gave up at 35 the last time I tried)

Any tips, suggestions, or information you guys could share with me would be great

Much appreciated,

Vexir

For your first question, try wowjutsu.com

For your second question, last I researched it Shaman were the most needed, but by the time you level your Horde toon to 70, another class may be in higher demand.

If you want good raid dps, you should roll shadow priest, because my friend is one and he always beats everyone in dps when he's shadow and he knew someone that was a shadow priest in a guild that was one of the first to down Illidan and she always was top dps.

1) wowjutsu will give you guild rankings by server, which can be useful in seeing the overall progression across a server as well as where specific guilds are, so that's a good idea of where to start when looking for a guild or server.

2) I actually find healing to be more fun than ranged DPS in general, probably because in most cases it's more challenging than DPS. I have different characters for different things though, so I enjoy mixing it up.

3) If you decide to do DPS, it's pretty much totally up to you as to what class you pick. As far as desirability goes, it totally depends on what the guild needs. Personally, I find pve enhancement shaman to be very fun and good DPS (compared to my hunter, which was terribly boring) as well as giving the melee group very good buffs. But, to each his own, since you might as well do what you enjoy. I tried to level a shadow priest myself, but I found priest to be absolutely awful to level. They are desired though, that's for sure... although usually much more so for their utility than their DPS. Either way though, just level what you want.