I kinda agree with notes. Playing WoW for the first time is something really special for most people. Discovering the world and doing the quests for the first time in WoW was just the best experience I've ever had in a computer game so far. Back when I started (2+ years ago) I didn't even understand crafting and the quality color-codes on drops until maybe level 25 or something like that, on my first char. It was wonderful to be a newb and learn new stuff from experienced players every day.

I really recommend to try to catch that feeling if you can as it's about 3 months of pure enjoyment, if you succeed =)

On a side note: You might consider a team of druids. While I'm pretty sure that shamans can out-DPS druids, especially on the initial burst, Druids bring 3 things to the table that are VERY desirable if you are aiming for PvE gaming (I'll describe this from my 5-man druid teams PoV):

1. Real tanking (in bear form). Druid has group AoE aggro- and taunt-abilities. Druid tanks are viable all the way up to 70. Shaman tanks simply are not. As someone mentioned shaman can tank ok until ~40, but after that they simply fail.

2. Prowl (stealth in CAT form). You get this at lvl 20 and from that point on (if you, like me, have a full druid group) you can stealth past lots and lots of patrols and trash-groups in instances to farm bosses. <- This is just not practically possible with any other class, in an instance made for your chars levels. (sure a rogue would be able to stealth) but then you want a tank as your main! And In multiboxing melee alts (rogues) are not practical (you want casters on /follow, right?)

3. Seed of life (Combat resurrection ability). I have used this several times and Its hard to describe how powerful this ability is, when you have 5 druids in your group. Since druids are called "the only true hybrid of WoW" if my tank dies normally there would be a wipe on a boss what I have done a few times is this:

a) Shape-shift one of my DPS'es to bearform and taunt the boss aggro over to him.
b) Rejuvenate the new tank to buy a few seconds (from all other players still alive. Rejuvenate stacks so its a quite powerful HoT going on the new tank for the moment here, that works against the damage the Boss is doing.).
c) With another of my 3 DPS:ers i start seed of life (combat ress) on old tank, (while healing new tank from assigned healer if neccessary).
d) Heal up/rebuff maintank
e) Shift back to main tank and let him taunt back boss aggro.
f) Restore DPS'es to dps status and continue , the fight.

Before multiboxing I have played every single class at least a little bit to get a feeling (altoholic as you can see :-) warrior 20, mage 25, warlock 28, rogue 39 (twink), druid 43, paladin 45, priest 54, shaman 62, hunter 64, and from the experience I gained imho is that Druid is by far the single most versatile class in the game.

Keep in mind though that I'm a pure PvE player so if you intend to PvP my advice is not applicable =)


Well this was a rant, but i hope someone might find it useful.