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Choosing Your Main for the War Within: What Will You Play?

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Find out what others are planning to main in the War Within expansion!

With just 40 days until the War Within early access launch, players have been sharing their main class choices on Reddit, generating over 900 responses!

What class are you maining in War Within and why?
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We've taken the data and created a bar chart illustrating the number of comments for each class (or spec) mentioned in the Reddit discussion and here are the results!

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Most Popular Classes:

  • Hunters: 121 replies
  • Paladins: 103 replies
  • Druids: 101 replies
  • Mages: 96 comments
  • Shamans: 58 replies
  • Warriors: 49 comments
  • Priests: 44 comments
  • Rogues: 28 comments
  • Warlocks: 25 comments
  • Monks: 18 comments
  • Evokers: 12 comments
  • Death Knights: 10 comments
  • Demon Hunters: 7 comments

The most popular classes are Hunters, Paladins, and Druids and the least popular class people plan on playing in the War Within is the Demon Hunter.

  • Hunters are the obvious choice because they are easy to play and have unparalleled survivability. With two pets out, there's barely a chance enemies will ever touch you before they die. The class has good mobility because most spells can be cast on the move.
  • Paladins are favored for their ability to both tank and heal. Many players also love the class fantasy and armor.
  • Druids are often picked for their versatility. You have the whole package in 1 class. They also bring a lot of utility in both Mythic+ and raids.

Maybe you're thinking, "Stan, why should I choose my main based on what most people pick according to Reddit comments?" That's a valid question—you don't have to. This post is just here to give some ideas, like when you're looking up names for your WoW character. If you're truly interested in what the pros have to say, check out our recent Mythic+ tier lists from the Beta, created by Petko!

Which class do you plan to main in the forthcoming expansion? Let us know in the comments!

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I know it's not the whole of the playerbase but I'm honestly surprised at the number of people planning to main rogue given how almost every rogue change, ie the hero talents, have been almost universally lampooned by players. As for myself, I'm thinking of maining monk because I've always loved the WW playstyle of never pressing the same button twice in a row but their scaling has always been terrible due to having so much of their damage tied to touch of death. Hopefully the rework they got is as good as the beta videos make it seem.

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Hunter

Truly, warlock is my first love I would like nothing more than to be a warlock main again some day, but until they decide to stop double and tripling down on ****ing Malefic Rapture, that's not likely.

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I'm an arms warrior.  It's too dang hard for my one track slug brain to learn a class and get all the macros and keybinds and mousebinds set up for it.  It's a freakin' enormous endeavor and time investment for me.  I can't just up and choose a different main. It doesn't work like that.  So, yeah, I'll remain a warrior and hope to adjust easily to whatever class/spec changes they've made.

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Demo lock.

I've mained a prot pally for a long time, but have been running a demo lock and a beast hunter as seconds. Prot pally is fun enough to play, and it's damn hard to die with one, but tanking has lost its luster the last few years. Beast hunter is super easy to play, but it is also boring as can be, in PvE at least. Demo is not necessarily a challenge or even unique, it's just a lot of fun to play for me and going back to dps is a nice change from the stress that is tanking these days.

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Hunter. My real life has too much going on so I need something easy to play, where I don't need to think too much :)

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For Raiding: Unholy Deathknight or Frost Mage 

Keys: Demonhunter and possibly Devastation Evoker

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Been a druid for almost 20 years, with my beginning of being a Warlock as main during vanilla - but still having my druid tight after.
So, I will stick to Mamabear ^^

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It is funny how the classes that were introduced in a new expansion are the least anticipated to play classes. 

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