Warrior or Druid tank for my 5 man instance team

[Christaphonz]

Team:
Holy Priest, Destro Warlock, Frost Mage x2

I want to go with a Druid tank but could be convinced of Warrior. I like the druid for range pulling (also DoT) and some self healing before combat to increase aoe threat gain. My priest can open with wanding for increase dps without mana drain, which should last longer on a druid who just self healed with a HoT.

So far if one character takes DE I can easily keep my casters with good wands. Druids are not weapon dependent for damage just stats. A Warriors weapon heavily affects the dps. So I believe a Druid would be easier to gear doing dungeons then a Warrior. Especially the first 35 levels which are my main focus for maxing certain professions early on.

I also believe this team might be what I chain run Scholo with but worry then a Warrior having geared in BRD would be much better to have. I have no want or need to raid just instance farm and craft.

For the first 35 levels is a Druid the way to go?

[nodoze]

Team:
Holy Priest, Destro Warlock, Frost Mage x2

I want to go with a Druid tank but could be convinced of Warrior. I like the druid for range pulling (also DoT) and some self healing before combat to increase aoe threat gain. My priest can open with wanding for increase dps without mana drain, which should last longer on a druid who just self healed with a HoT.

So far if one character takes DE I can easily keep my casters with good wands. Druids are not weapon dependent for damage just stats. A Warriors weapon heavily affects the dps. So I believe a Druid would be easier to gear doing dungeons then a Warrior. Especially the first 35 levels which are my main focus for maxing certain professions early on.

I also believe this team might be what I chain run Scholo with but worry then a Warrior having geared in BRD would be much better to have. I have no want or need to raid just instance farm and craft.

For the first 35 levels is a Druid the way to go?Long term what are your PVP goals (if any)?

Would you take one character into World PVP or take all (or a portion) of your team?

Do you plan to go for High Ranking among the 14 PVP Ranks in Phase 2?

Assuming teams are a no go for PVP BattleGrounds, would you have a main character for BattleGrounds?

[Christaphonz]

Well my main objective is to get Gold cap. I know this is kinda lame but my favorite experience in WoW was achieving gold cap in Wrath. I was an AH nut and it led me into Day trading to this day. I didn't care for the AH in TBC I just enjoyed PvP on my Rogue/Lock. (I was young okay.. 15ish?)

So this time around I am focused on doing what I love which is farming. I plan to PvP on a Mage as my main. I do not plan to Wpvp but maybe RP with them in open world. No time for Rank 14. After I level the Mage I might level a rogue but probably will have a guild by then to play with. While my other accounts constantly craft. Remember most of my goal is level 35 with the most ease. Crafting is the plan for initial Gold.

Thank you for the questions. Hope I answered them fully.

[nodoze]

Well my main objective is to get Gold cap. I know this is kinda lame but my favorite experience in WoW was achieving gold cap in Wrath. I was an AH nut and it led me into Day trading to this day. I didn't care for the AH in TBC I just enjoyed PvP on my Rogue/Lock. (I was young okay.. 15ish?)

So this time around I am focused on doing what I love which is farming. I plan to PvP on a Mage as my main. I do not plan to Wpvp but maybe RP with them in open world. No time for Rank 14. After I level the Mage I might level a rogue but probably will have a guild by then to play with. While my other accounts constantly craft. Remember most of my goal is level 35 with the most ease. Crafting is the plan for initial Gold.

Thank you for the questions. Hope I answered them fully.No problem and thanks for stepping out of the Lurking shadows as all feedback and thoughts on all goals help everyone!

PVPwise I likely don't have time for super high rank but I do want to want at least the Rank 6 'Knight' title on my Paladin and on a Warrior and it would be great to unlock at least the rare PVP gear for most/all slots (Ranks 8 & below unlocks all the slots I care most about) and think those goals are reasonably achievable. On my Paladins I really want to only wear the Tier 2 helms so I don't care that much about Rank 9+ so anything over 8 is gravy for me.

Your theory crafting and planning actually can help me as well. I am planning on taking 5 gnomes (either 5 Warlocks or 4 Warlocks and 1 Mage) to at least level 20 initially for staging N-1 Warlocks at key geographical points on the map & then using a floater Warlock a so I can double summon my team (or summon a whole World PVP raid) to those key locations. I may then take them all to level 35 for crafting purposes and if I do a mage I may swap him into my main team when I can to take him toward cap for best food/water/portals. I definitely would like any help on a plan to get my gnomes first to 20 and then to 35 for crafting.

[Christaphonz]

Well half the work is done for you already! A guy on the wowclassic subreddit has a fedex/exploration route that gets you to level 10. His profile is (u/awesometographer) Would probably be faster for those gnomes then questing them together. I will be leveling them separately and meeting them up in Mulgore at around level 8 so my kill questing path is starting there. Then around 12 or 13 pushing RFC. I am doing only a single collection quest for a decent ring. Hopefully wed can determine if it slows me down to much. I would recommend looking for odd items (rings or weapons) from quests that outshine others to get before doing dungeons should help with speed. Also if you want to try aoe farming look at wowclassicaoe . com better then guides because you make the choice on what is a really good spot or not.