My lazy side is making me lean towards............

[Mek]

Mages can AoE level if they do it correctly.

[janana323]

1-60 is far easier and quicker as a mage. Hunter is nice though, with a couple of macros it's send pet/pewpew/win/loot/continue watching film on second monitor.

Do you have any links to macros like this? I'm a big hunter fan, though I never played in Vanilla, and I know the Vanilla macro stuff is a bit different.

Send pet is something like petAttack(); rather than /petattack iirc

[Orcduck]

How is leveling as a shaman?

[alucard001]

How is leveling as a shaman?

I don't know, but i think is pretty easy as enhance

[ohgr]

How is leveling as a shaman?

I don't know, but i think is pretty easy as enhance

No class is hard - just different kinds of boring and enhancement is pretty fucking boring but that's just a personal preference.

[DeeMarie]

Mages can AoE level if they do it correctly.

This. If you know where to AoE you can pretty much grind to 60 faster than other classes on most private servers. Nos, however, might be somewhat different.

Do you have any links to macros like this? I'm a big hunter fan, though I never played in Vanilla, and I know the Vanilla macro stuff is a bit different.

Send pet is something like petAttack(); rather than /petattack iirc

Yep. You can use something like:

/script CastSpellByName("Auto Shot"); PetAttack();

Replace Auto Shot with your ability of choice.

There's also:

/script if UnitExists("Pet") and not PlayerFrame.inCombat then CastSpellByName("Feed Pet"); TargetUnit("Pet"); PickupContainerItem(0, 11); end

Nice macro to feed your pet

[mike1097]

Mage has food and water all the time, blink and good damage.

This facts make the mage very interesting... but I really dont like to play range dps. Hunter is the exception

[skylen]

1-60 is far easier and quicker as a mage. Hunter is nice though, with a couple of macros it's send pet/pewpew/win/loot/continue watching film on second monitor.

Do you have any links to macros like this? I'm a big hunter fan, though I never played in Vanilla, and I know the Vanilla macro stuff is a bit different.

Send pet is something like petAttack(); rather than /petattack iirc

I using now just

/cast Feed Pet
/script PickupContainerItem (x,x) (x=numbers)

I just click on it and it feed pet

and

/script PetAttack(target)
/cast Auto Shot

Attacking with bow + pet attack in one click.

[Membraniac]

How is leveling as a shaman?

Leveling one right now, it has its definite ups and downs. First off, water walking and water breathing make questing, especially in STV much less painful. Ghost wolf is nice before you get your mount, and ankhs save you a corpse run every half hour. You bring a lot of utility to groups with your totems, and can double up in groups to give both windfury and agility for example. Windfury itself is the definition of RNG, but the big chains of crits/procs/stormstrike vaporizing enemies never get old.

On the minus side, you gotta give something up for all of that, and in my experience what shamans give up is being completely vulnerable to ganks/ surprise fights. Your totems take a bit to lay out, no defense against DoTs, few gap closers, heals get pushed back and aren't very good unless you're resto which comes with a whole other set of issues, etc.

I haven't stepped into BGs yet since the queues were so long every time I tried, but dungeon grinding and solo questing are great as a shaman. When I get into the high 50s/hit cap I plan to go resto and grind BRD all day every day until that bores me.

[ninjacarldk]

1-60 is far easier and quicker as a mage. Hunter is nice though, with a couple of macros it's send pet/pewpew/win/loot/continue watching film on second monitor.

What macros do you use?