ULTIMATE Cataclysm Classic Class Picking Guide

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The full near 3 and a half hour journey across every single class and spec for Cataclysm Classic. If you wanted to know anything about changes for classes in the expansion, you have come to the right place.
This is - ULTIMATE Cataclysm Classic Class Picking Guide
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
00:21 - Paladin
20:42 - Warrior
40:10 - Death Knight
1:00:07 - Hunter
1:18:47 - Shaman
1:40:29 - Druid
2:09:36 - Rogue
2:24:01 - Warlock
2:41:32 - Mage
2:58:45 - Priest
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[@jaronandnat]

slept right through it. perfect

[@xxgamerxx6074]

this is awesome thank you for putting the time in to make a video like this. I like how in depth it is

[@WillEmmo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MoonTurky]

​@@WillEmmo Responding to the comments of your own alt account now i see ?

[@kattatonik2356]

Cant wait to watch this at 1.5x speed 10,000 times until classic mop drops

[@claytonmurrayguitar]

Same. Maybe then we'll have decided on a main!

[@Jsten16]

its not classic mop

[@Dualities]

Ok bott

[@MoonTurky]

The wow community: Mentally unstable men who look forward to things that have been released 15 years ago

[@EriSenshur]

​@@MoonTurky tell that to people who still play OSRS

[@MorbidBloodshed]

im not planing to play cata again, but i gotta say its really fun to level a prot warrior in the prepatch

[@Hipp1062]

9:40 Eye for an Eye does a fair amount of damage, but depends largely on the fight. Best used on fights with lots of aoe raid damage. On festergut for example, it did 64.4k damage.

[@Swedenproffessional]

I just found your channel and was gonna listen to all the videos individually at work, now I Can listen to this instead 🥰 amazing work! 👍

[@MoonTurky]

You must be a forklift driver if you have the time and brain space to digest so much useless information at work

[@SoliiD]

Propably makes more money then you😂 , what a comment @@MoonTurky

[@Riyaniwow]

When you said ULTIMATE, you meant it!

[@oldman6333]

Perfect set up. I am flipping between Hunter, Shaman and Druid and they are all lined up perfectly in a row. It’s perfectly splendid.

[@cactuss33ds]

say "perfect" again.

[@FNigslol]

That's cringe af tbh

[@Nahthatsok7]

awesome thx willie ❤

[@Nickchilla69]

Always bringing great wow content, cheers homie 👍

[@azazel673]

Thank you so much for this!! As a new player I was completely lost on classes lol

[@ChessJew]

Well. I know what my next 3.5 hours are booked for, apparently.

[@ianfacerollsyou]

perfect listen for when I'm dig dig digging

[@joshhunsaker7134]

Great vid so far at 1:16:21 is that a video of Brang? It looks like this hunter i used to watch back in the day and learned how to use a pet properly

[@XBezerkerX]

Just FYI you mentioned that hpala was the only magic cleanse in cata but rsham can also do this by default.

[@AfternoonWolf]

Interesting. Is there any laid-back classes in pve. I saw warrior need to stance dance to use overpower on passive cd. Demo-lock wants to swap pets mid-fight. Is there any smooth specs with minimum micro-management?

[@twattythirky]

unreal vid will mate nice one!

[@Aurelian57]

I remember when the first pvp season of Cata came out...I played triple DPS with 2 friends with myself a Ret paladin. They were not in a good spot, but the "last word spec" was OP. Essentially tunnel a player and have the paladin heal your team with last word. Line up kills on the paladins wings CD. Was a fun time and we got 2200 off that.

[@kyogery8927]

For fury warriors, i know not as strong as arms but i heard for single minded fury and titans grip, theres not much of a damage difference between the 2. Can anyone confirm if its true or false?

[@sahidcm]

Holy's talent "Speed of Light" is their new small sprint, only for holy. Usable every few seconds everytime they use divine protection.

[@bmdshred77]

So will raids only take one disc priest again? Thinking I may need to go disc/ holy but would rather go disc/ shadow. Holy is my favorite spec but it’s just never what people want

[@LeonDegrelle14]

Fights in the first two tiers are allegedly going to have people have to spread a lot which isn’t very good for disc’s atonement spreading and barrier CD. So if Holy is your preferred spec i’d go with that bruv. Your through put and CD’s will be alot more useful.

[@branislavmiloradovic168]

People sleep a lot on holy. If you know what are you doing holy is a beast.

[@jy5490]

I can't fault willy for talking at length to meet a time milestone for a video when he makes a 3 hour 20 minute one. Thank you for your efforts here's your like and comment

[@demirneslan3960]

after watching ur wotlk picking guide 1231231231 times i frenkly am addicted to ur guide videos of sewerl hours and im not quite sure why is that ?? xD

[@seagullphilosopher2173]

Is this just the individual videos edited together into one?

[@wigdocter]

yes

[@seagullphilosopher2173]

@wigdocter ah thought so glad I checked. No complaints about this video or anything but I miss WillE's hard hitting reports from the front lines of classic WoW!! Not so many of those videos recently. What gives?

[@Animatum]

Haven't watched the entire video yet, but i admire and respect the work that has been put into this content, i'm a huge fan, so here's my like! keep it up! ~

[@WillEmmo]

I appreciate that!

[@thesatelliteslost]

Thanks for all the time you suck into this vid, love your content.

[@silentlamb2077]

Arms becomes via!ble in all areas.. and that in itself is overwhelmingly enjoyable compared to the limitations of choice in previous expansions or vanilla.. LOVE IT, warrior becomes just THAT MUCH MORE FUN

[@clerniaz131]

Copium more, arms was better at tbc pve and pvp, vanilla pvp, lk pvp and pve early.. cata suck ass and warrior is so boring to play (thanks to retail like gameplay) don’t talk when u know shit poor kid

[@JV-ko6ov]

Iused my prot paladin to solo old raids and it took a huge hit to survivability in the prepatch. Gained a lot of offense tho, but I die super ez now

[@skeeve55]

what do you mean over 3h???

[@warfighterzas]

Cata did so many class changes perfectly right.

[@sahidcm]

The old wrath of the lich king glyph of holy light made it so holy light would heal five people around the main objective for a percentage. That's what Holy Radiance is now but better. The tier bonus seems like a complementary thing.

[@appo8557]

Need to change this to your home page on youtube, its still the WOTLK one :)

[@notalive_zombie]

I need someone to teach me how to be a warrior, I didn't understand how everyone plays with so few button keys, when there are like 50 skills and they need specific stance to use.

[@phantom0456]

The T13 Ret 2pc bonus was huge back in the day, so much so that Blizz made Judgment grant 1 holy power baseline starting with Mists.

[@dutchdragon443]

when is cata coming out i cant wait

[@furkandeniz9370]

may 20

[@blacksunshine9995]

The title for this vid is a tongue twister lol

[@TheGauloth]

Missing the streams mate come back 😢😢❤❤

[@nexusobserve]

now i can fall asleep better

[@roycejetjones5363]

Was this reposted? I couldve sworn Ive watched this video before but it says 4 hours ago lol

[@badass6300]

If it is, it's because youtube is a wonderful platform that totally doesn't copyright strike, demonetize and all the other wonderful stuff for no reason, nope that totally doesn't happen.

[@leaguescrub5696]

Its just his individual class videos in 1 big video

[@Jesus-warrior]

I watched th entire video.... il not sure whay class i want i think mage......❤

[@kakkakontent]

Video ends at: 3:22:33

[@Orgrimmar21]

Guilds thinking discs are going to be as powerful as in wotlk but they actually suck in tier 11 and 12 because of the dmg patterns in the fights and because they need tons of mastery to scale which lacks at start of the expansion.

[@badass6300]

Discs don't suck early on, they just aren't super powerful like in WotLK.

[@Orgrimmar21]

@@badass6300 it's true, they don't suck. But they clearly are not mandatory picks as the video says. Most fights in tier 11 and 12 are spready fights. targets won't get hit by the 15yds atonement smite, Barrier has pretty much no use in most of those fights, and healing is just waaaay waaay less than Holy which in fact gets the best healing cooldown because of classes being balance around 4.3.4. Discs are powerful and insanely strong in Dragon soul, where most fights do require a Barrier and Discs having tons of mastery apply insane shields. Before of that they are B healer which is not bad, but definetly not strong

[@badass6300]

@@Orgrimmar21 Yup.

[@janjan55555]

STRONGEST CLASSES IN CATA; MULTIDOTTERS!!! Anyone who played cataclysm on retails should know about this! Sorry melee but cataclysm is all about AOE and multiple targets!

[@aleksabroad]

I been playing for about 3 or so weeks, ret pally freaking is the biggest damage dealer within the game now, I mean it crazy but im hearing blood dk is busted

[@Kawabongahlive]

- Played enhancement shaman back when Cata was retail -mostly PvP - Knows will play enhancement shaman in Cata classic -mostly PvP - Perhaps a little bit of resto druid - Snaps fingers - Hits play

[@du4racing841]

Nice

[@Balloonbot]

Aight, last video before bed

[@Schon1Kevin]

every healer can dispell magic effects in cataclysm, not just holy paladins lol.

[@Beardedgnome83]

He meant that holy was the only paladin spec that gets that added functionality. It’s a talent option

[@Schon1Kevin]

@@Beardedgnome83 same as atleast for resto shamans.

[@phantom0456]

They’ll be more people playing Cata Classic than you can shake your WillE at!!!

[@bgizze01]

😂 whoa

[@SecondPlaceYuya]

Cata was a great expansion, people were pissed about the overworld changes, but dungeons were good, raids were good (minus dragon soul), pvp was fun, new zones were really cool and thematic, and questing became way more comprehensible.

[@clerniaz131]

Dungeons were not good, pvp meh, gameplay horrible, raid meh, leveling horrible.. overall it’s trash

[@WesleyHughston]

Get a life pal, chump KZbin troll.

[@itsAphelion.]

@@clerniaz131 opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.

[@paradigmshift7541]

Warriors cannot use Deadly Calm and Recklessness together btw

[@LeonDegrelle14]

Tool tip says its deadly calm and inner calm share a CD, not reck.

[@paradigmshift7541]

@@LeonDegrelle14 bro you can't use Deadly Calm and Reck, stop being dumb

[@LeonDegrelle14]

@@paradigmshift7541 im just saying the tool tip on deadly calm says it shares a CD with inner calm. Unless wowhead is wrong which they have been before then idk what to tell you lmao.

[@paradigmshift7541]

@@LeonDegrelle14 im not talking about the tooltip, clearly it says on the Deadly Calm tooltip that you can use it if Inner Rage is active, I'm just saying you can't stack Deadly Calm and Recklessness. That's just how the patch of Cata we're getting functions.

[@offroadturkey]

The one thing I wish you did was a focus or discussion on what the tier sets look. Looking cool is pretty important in this game!

[@itouchbuttons]

Isn't transmog in the game so that would be pointless?

[@HioshimaFried]

@@itouchbuttons Agreed - Transmog looks more important that "new gear" looks.. I mean, if it fits ya set then " ye cool" and all but transmogs > "OG"looks

[@MoonTurky]

​@@HioshimaFriedNothing more manly than playing dress up in your fantasy game

[@dontaebynes1451]

@@MoonTurky Hell yeah SWAG OUT!!! Thats why play!!

[@MoonTurky]

@@dontaebynes1451 I understand why the vast majority of the playerbase is women nowadays

[@burtonkevin32]

mana gives spellpower in cata?

[@usernameluis305]

2:09

[@lolroflstomp]

This expansion was probably the most ridiculous for power creep I think. The tier set bonuses were so overpowered, it felt like Diablo devs were working on this shit or something.

[@Tom-hn5hn]

Like this if you’ve changed mains a billion times already like me!

[@Medio2507]

I look forward to the downfall of paladins from their S+ ranking in all specs and their mandatory 3+ guaranteed spots in every raid since vanilla. No king rules forever.

[@hardy9429]

I felt that

[@birdup6684]

There are always fewer classes than I think… dunno why

[@thisonelooksangry]

Massive!

[@ImCallingBull]

Word

[@steelyphi1]

LOL every class is the same in cata what difference does it make. Paladins and warlocks have combo points, everyone gives +5% stats

[@connorsheffield6576]

You're the best! Cata 5ever

[@SoliiD]

6ever!

[@General12th]

7EVER

[@phantom0456]

I played Fury throughout Cata OG, and I was consistently in the top dps in my Heroic raiding guild, especially in T13. Fury can absolutely be good, especially later in the xpac if you know what you’re doing. You really have to maximize the CS windows since there’s no CS reset like there is for Arms, but the T13 4 set helps Fury considerably with CS uptime.

[@Valandril]

bro you're capping, fury was never ever as good as arms

[@MrHitsGame]

If you play fury or arms equally well. Arms will hit harder, but blizzard could change numbers/glyphs like ret paladin wotlk.

[@phantom0456]

@@Valandril no idea what “capping” means, granted I’m over 40 now, so there’s that, but I suppose I can figure it out via context clues. That said, fury absolutely was stronger than Arms in T12, and in the hands of a skilled player vs an average player you absolutely could out-dps an arms warrior as fury in T13, as well as many other classes. I know because I was there and I mained it at the time and as I said, raided and cleared all Heroic raids (back before there were Mythics) and never once was out-dps’d by an Arms warrior, or most any other class save rogues with the legendary daggers… point is, I’m not saying that Fury is the best dps spec in Cata, or even that it’s better than Arms, necessarily… what I am saying is that it you know your shit and you’re actually good then it doesn’t really matter. I’m damn sure going to play Fury, and I expect I’ll top most other dps classes and Arms warriors because even over a decade later I still know how to maximize Cata fury dps. Anyways, have fun, play what you enjoy, and remember that it’s just a game.

[@Valandril]

@@phantom0456 an arms warrior that uses sweeping strikes well, will absolutely obliterate any fury warrior. the most important fight in t12, ragnaros, was such a perfect fight for arms, not a single class can get even close to their dps. Basically all singletarget fights are equal but all multitarget fights are a landslide victory for arms.

[@stevenwienold7241]

hi

[@Kelltuhsatt]

MM Hunter still good for ragnaros. tier set gave good aoe blast for ragnaros adds, thats why a lot of ppl will still play it if they cant play 6 boomkins

[@pppoopoo4514]

FF8 hater here. I've beat the game, I know how junctioning works, I've even gotten Lionheart at the beginning of disc 2, I know how to be overpowered. Here's my reasons: Drawing is ass. Yes I know I can get magic from morphing cards, that sucks too. Nobody wants to sit there and cast Draw 30+ times per character. This also makes junctioning ass. Better not cast any fire spells or my melee strength will go down, that makes so much sense! Level scaling is a terrible idea. I know it was to combat grinding, but grinding is what makes it possible for bad players to brute force a boss. Never mind the fact that it feels bad that you never get relatively more powerful. The story is absolute garbage. The minute you introduce amnesia into your plot, you've lost. Squall is boring. At least when Cloud is uninterested you can chalk it up to PTSD, mako poisoning, or just generally being in the military. Squall hasnt seen any combat until after you control him, and he's already a dick by that point. Triple Triad is overrated. Its not bad, but its not crazy good. Put a card down in such a position that its number is higher than the adjacent card. How groundbreaking. The music is good. The cutscenes look good for their age. Thats the best I can say.

[@Caelum_NLD]

This is just the earlier vids stuck together. Next, do all the baseline changes parts only stuck together, then only the talents stuck together, then only PvE performance of all classes stuck together, then only pvp stuck together :) = even more videos :D

[@zeusGTR]

my OCD hates that you didnt put the classes in alphabetic order

[@reckneps]

its by armor type

[@trashew]

Wil-late

[@DreuuRose]

101 different ways to post the same videos

[@Ovrlol]

Glad someone said it. Same shit different video

[@jessikat6692]

1 way to not click it to find a reason to whine because they don't like it.

[@Dualities]

Ans using botts

[@James-sj1us]

He compiled all the videos into one big guide for easier viewing? Grow some brain cells.

[@Thegooderstuffs]

@@James-sj1usthey can’t grow brain cells, they’ve been retarded since the game released.

[@mattifreshfan9111]

friends, are there gonna be any FRESH servers?🎉

[@MoonTurky]

No, they begin cata halfway into 4.2 and you will get free catch up gear so you can skip the first raid tier entirely

[@Dekoan01]

3 f ing hours??? :D wtf

[@SpaseAbuser]

CATA XYNTA

[@fourlokojr3463]

Another same video great

[@shadewen]

Horde=Dislike.

[@konstantinpospelov951]

Why in the hell did you make a 3 hour video for this? I only clicked here to post that this is ridiculous.

[@dennismeinschein4396]

Love your videos. But. This was way to fast. I couldn't keep up. Maybe break it up by role. Tank Melee Ranged Heals. This is not a bash. Your videos are awesome and i appreciate your work.

[@jonathanhughes8679]

I hate the holy power pa,lied. Just catch. The others up. Even healing needs it and that’s a. Big change

[@yonosepe7491]

resto druid sucks plays pretty much like retail

[@sviatoslavyakobchuk2702]

Blizzard, please give us only 3 Classic versions, we don't want Cata and so on.

[@Ovrlol]

Milking content.

[@MoonTurky]

Its not like he reads half of the spell abilities wrong or anything. You can tell these video's just exists so that Wille can live rent free. I have never seen so many shameless errors in a video, he didnt even check, he just edited it, uploaded it and called it a day

[@Ovrlol]

@@MoonTurky you’d think he would check since its the 2nd time uploading all the videos lol.

[@toveribob1621]

Ultimate milking, sell the same game twice

[@MoonTurky]

Well, the problem is people are looking forward to shit that came out like 10 years ago lmao

[@rundown132]

No one wants to watch 3hours of you fam

[@JPJgamer]

What class should you pick? The uninstall button, Cacapissm will never be classic.

[@DanielWells-wv3wz]

OK doomer

[@fastbacksekunde1]

Who hurted you?

[@cactuss33ds]

you come up with "cacapissm" all by yourself?

[@metallica5252]

cata sucks, you guys are wasting your time. go back on the sod servers they are dying rn because you guys are trying the worst expansion ever made!

[@jessikat6692]

metallica5252: "cata sucks to me, you guys are wasting your time because I want you to agree with me. go back on the sod servers they are dying rn because I'm all alone in my Narcissism, worst expansion ever made because I don't like it so you shouldn't either." Fixed it for you idiot.