>>502307838NTA but play hunter first, seems like you haven't played vanilla before from your post. nothing wrong with that but I'd start with hunter cause they're self reliant and can do a lot of content without relying on groups. if you can manage your pet well and have a strong gun/bow you can punch way above your weight class on mobs and blazing through quests. Aspect of the cheetah is no joke.
experience all the content you can on the hunter and get to 60 fast, then do the slower, more boring priest levelling as shadow (it's just putting a dot on your enemy, shielding yourself, then spamming wand). you can heal dungeons fine as shadow. respec holy at 60 and you'll be getting a lot of raid spots ESPECIALLY as dwarf priest.
On the priest get Benediction if you can and Rhok-delar on your hunter if you can get the leaf drop from molten core. cool items with cool quests. don't ever raid as shadow, wpvp as shadow is cool and cancerous for enemies so there's your shadow fix. you're surprsingly tanky and disruptive and Undead have a good racial to break CC abilities in pvp.
>>502308013classic fresh, more players and likely to last longer since people arent deleting after they die at level 20. HC is just some weird streamer thing to farm death clips and for retail players to play during arean/mythic wait times.
>>502308221everything feels unfinished in vanilla, but it's still good. I'm not a Sod fag but I do wish with all the specs were viable in pve OR pvp. there are so many dead specs like balance, enh, ret, prot, and disc, full feral and arcane mage. it just feels like such a waste of potential and we could have had a more fun game with more variety in how you can play.
same goes for a lot of gear, quest rewards, and zones. like the Winterspring blue dragonflight quest, the theramore varian wrynn chain, MC having so many shit epics, and shit like cloth bracers that give spirit and agility.
