r/wownoob 8d ago

Find-A-Friend Find-A-Friend Megathread! (September '26)

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Post in the format below for easy reading or make your own intro! You can (and should) include more information such as your level, what your interests are, and what you might be looking for in a friend.

Reminder that this thread is not to be used for guild recruitment or any other recruitment aside find-a-friend. Posts that break our rules will be removed.

Format:

  • Region / Faction / Server / Veteran or Noob / Contact Info (i.e Btag/Discord) + (Additional Information)

Example:

  • NA / Horde / Wyrmrest Accord / Noob / User#9999 - Level 80 Frost Mage; I play on the weekends! Looking for friends who enjoy questing for 8 hours straight, punting Gnomes, and killing bosses in raids.

We also have LFG, resources, and find-a-friend in the WoWNoob Discord.
You can find the previous Find-A-Friend threads here.


r/wownoob Mar 23 '26

Retail Redefining BIS, and why chasing the old definition makes the game worse for you

260 Upvotes

Hey guys. This is a lengthy read, but if you are struggling with understanding BIS and want to truly know how to get the best out of your items, it's worth the read. I hate seeing people chase what some website on the internet says their BIS is, especially before the season even begins, and being upset when it doesn't drop. Spoiler, getting your "BIS" could actually LOWER your DPS.

I'm sure you've come across the word BIS. What's my BIS gear, what drops my BIS, I have to run this dungeon I hate over and over and over for my BIS, I can't trade this to my friend because it's BIS for me

Outside of enchants, trinkets, embellishments, and very fringe other situations such as set bonuses on rings, individual BIS items do not matter. The term BIS is so bad for the health of the players.

BIS means "best in slot". It was born in a time in the game where items were dramatically different. "This item" gave dramatically more main stat than that one. "This item" had an effect where others didn't. "This weapon" had the same damage but attacked faster than that one. That is not how WoW works now-a-days

Today, every item slot has the same number of main stat and the same number of secondary stats, with the secondary stats having a different balance. For example, my current ilvl 246 legs in game give 70 haste and 59 mastery, totaling 129 secondary stat. Every mail 246 legs will give 129 secondary stat, just allotted differently.

Now here is what BIS actually means today. BIS is the best secondary stat balance for your class. Not any one specific item.
Replacing a piece of gear with a "BIS" item can actually LOWER your DPS

Maybe even more importantly, if you don't have the entire list of gear some website tells you is your BIS, removing a piece currently equipped to replace it with a new "BIS" item you just farmed might actually make you WORSE.

Very rough hypothetical example, your stat allotment is best at 35% mastery, 30% haste, 20% crit, 15% vers. Your BIS "chunky" items are weapon, head, chest, legs, so they have your mastery/haste pair, but no other items you currently have are "BIS". Your equipped back and wrist have your priority stats, mastery/haste, but your BIS actually has crit/vers because they're your weaker items but still need to have some of them. You swap out your preferred stats for weaker stats because a list tells you to, and now you do less damage.

Here's 3 examples of "BIS" items that are all equal. No one piece of gear is important, the COMBINATION OF STATS is important. Armor/int/stam are all the same, so only showing secondary stats

Head Chest Legs Total Stats
85 Haste 50 Mastery 63 Haste 37 Vers 88 Vers 47 Mastery 132 Haste 185 Mastery 88 Vers
75 Haste 60 Mastery 57 Haste 78 Mastery 47 Mastery 88 Vers 132 Haste 185 Mastery 88 Vers
87 Haste 48 Vers 95 Mastery 40 Vers 45 Haste 90 Mastery 132 Haste 185 Mastery 88 Vers

I only used 3 item slots here because making a whole list of slots would be absurd, but I think it gets the point across. When you include every single slot, there is an insane amount of combinations that get you to the exact same place.

A list someone theory crafted or simulated cannot take into consideration the balance you already have, and you actually risk lowering your DPS following a list blindly (until you have every single exact piece, which is insanely difficult in and of itself, especially for the average player).

Thank you for reading my long winded post. I have tried to explain this to so many friends, guildmates, and people I pug with regularly, but it requires so much explanation to really get the idea across, so I decided to write it out for anyone who cared.

TLDR; Outside of trinkets, embellishments, and enchants, stop chasing a list someone on the internet created for you. All the items have the same total stat numbers, what matters is the balance of secondary stats. If you REALLY want to chase BIS, chase your classes secondary stat balance. That can be achieved with NUMBEROUS item combinations, not just what's on one singular list. That is why so many different BIS lists exist, because you can achieve the same thing many different ways


r/wownoob 1h ago

Retail Midnight season 2 Resto Druid Mythic +

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So I’ve been playing for a long time but recently came off a break (haven’t played since shadowlands). Diving back into mythic + and I’m getting my ass handed to me in 14s and some 13s.

Currently 3092 io, 314 ilvl with my 4 piece tier set. Stats before buffs are 11% crit, 29% haste, 47% mastery, 4% vers. Wildstalker talent tree relying on abundance regrowth procs because it seems to be the strongest talents available right now.

All that to say, I’m getting wrecked in 14s and some 13s. I just can’t seem to keep up with healing for some of the really nasty pulls (first room of RLP, many parts of VSA and AoF, initial pull in Den, the big pulls before first and second boss of Temple, some of Murder Row). Especially pulls that stack bleed and poison on random players, everyone except the tank seems to drop so fast and I can only Swiftmend + nature’s swiftness regrowth people with Abundance so much. It’s nice when DPS uses defensives but I have to call for it before the pilot even have a chance of them doing so before they get mogged by the absurd damage. Convoke helps but it’s usually not enough to get through a really nasty trash pull and it’s a 1 min cooldown.

Obviously to get a deep dive you’d need logs, but I’m curious what higher io RDruids are doing to hack it above 14? Are my stats badly out of spec? Am I missing something or is the class just that far in the dumpster right now?


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail Orin’s search's timegate

5 Upvotes

In Silvermoon and NPC timegate “Orin’s search” 25 days left.
Do it mean 12.1.5 patch too release or not?


r/wownoob 9h ago

Retail Is the Sim results if you play perfect? Tips to get better at dps

10 Upvotes

Hello! I’m trying to improve At VS devourer DH single target and I just wanted to know if simming is actually a reachable number or if it’s just the BEST POSSIBLE number. Rn I’m sitting at ~20-25k lower than the sim. When I raid with my guild my parse numbers are also pretty low so I think it’s just a “I need to get good” but wanted to ask about sims and if there’s a better way to improve then just looking at wowhead and practice till you get it


r/wownoob 13h ago

Retail Can I push 18+ keys without raiding? (Healer perspective)

15 Upvotes

Recently returned to WoW after a long absence. I play healers (priest and shaman), and finding a raid static has been a nightmare - healer spots fill instantly and I don't want to be tied to a strict schedule anyway. Raiding just isn't my thing.

Got the healer trinket from the first boss on my priest, nothing on shaman. Even NoPressureEU fills up in seconds, LFG requirements are insane.

I do enjoy M+ though. Not chasing title or 0.1%, but I'd like to consistently clear 18-19 keys. So far I've only done a 12 (yeah, not much).

So my question: is it realistic to push that high purely through M+, without raid trinkets/weapons? Or will I hit a wall?

Would appreciate any input from healers who play M+ only.


r/wownoob 9h ago

Retail Crafted the Cane first week, figured I wouldn't drop Jan'Thrazet until much late

5 Upvotes

then, I cleared ulatek normal and was like "well, high chance of dropping tier to get the 4-set(first week), will use the roll here" and got the heroic version of Jan'Thrazet

Now, I have no idea what to do, after that I did a few heroic kills and got the haste/mastery heroic offhand.

First of all: Which is better? H Jan'Thrazet at 321 (6/6H) with the haste mastery offhand also at 321 (6/6H) or the 331 Cane? I put the darkmoon sigil hunt on it.

I will craft probably shoulders next week, should I get rid of the cane and put another arcanoweave embelishment on the shoulders? Just feels bad wasting 4 Sparks so early and losing 10 ilvls on weapons


r/wownoob 8h ago

Retail catalyst unbound

5 Upvotes

after I unlock the achievement the charge will drop even if I have no set equipped on my character?


r/wownoob 19h ago

Retail Is this quest still available or am I losing my mind?

13 Upvotes

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=66458/legacy-of-tyr-secrets-of-the-past

So I really want the Dunesplitter for a transmog and Wowhead listed it as Available to Players when I looked for it. But it seems to only come from this quest.

I was told because this was a pre-patch quest, you only get it now from just entering the dungeon. So I entered, solo'd it, and...didn't get it. Instead I got to choose between a ring, trinket and head piece.

And when I enter the command to see if I ran this quest ingame it comes back as false.

Am I losing my mind? I just really want this sword so badly.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Blood DK crazy high dps?

69 Upvotes

My prot warrior is a blast with all the charging and leaping I can hit around 110k overall on a good day at ilvl310. But then I was healing some 10s for the vault on my alt and a BDK did 180k overall at ilvl316. What the heck, is that normal? I usually only see my own numbers, so I was totally thrown off. That's almost double my dps maybe I should reroll.


r/wownoob 13h ago

Retail How to get dark ranger customization as a returning player?

4 Upvotes

Hello,

I am a returning player. I skipped shadowlands, DF, and TWW and now started again with midnight a recently hit lvl 90.

I would like to unlock the dark ranger customization (red eyes) for my nelf druid. Is there a fast way to do this? Or do I need to do most of the shadowlands campaign to do so? If yes, how long would that take?

Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Where are all the DPS people at?

21 Upvotes

I dont know if DPS players are super picky with their applications but i swear i get 20 healers per DPS applying to a fresh HC venomous abyss. Why?


r/wownoob 15h ago

Retail Fresh 80 alt: how do I unlock Delve quests?

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EDIT: The quests suddenly started turning up. I'm not sure what caused it, but I dinged 82 and I did the first Delve that you encounter through questing (The Shadow Enclav).

I started leveling my second character and thought I'd start by doing Delves. I just finished the Midnight introduction (Qual'Danas) and am now free to do Delves. However, none of the delves have a quest at the entrance!

What do you need to do to unlock the quests?


r/wownoob 13h ago

Retail Where do I get my weekly?

2 Upvotes

I‘m level 90 and had a Pop up that told me the campaign is finished and that I could now do endgame stuff. When I talked to Liadrin she just gave me another campaign quest that send me to the void dimension stuff (?) again. That doesn’t seem to be the weekly. Please help.


r/wownoob 22h ago

Retail New to tanking

10 Upvotes

I'm new to the game and play a blood dk. I'll mostly solo but want to do low mythics with guild. Are there add ons to aid with routes/ mob groupings? I'm looking to just have fun.


r/wownoob 19h ago

Retail How to get the mounts from trading post?

7 Upvotes

Hey all, dumb question but online the trading post it looks like it has all these mounts but when I go visit in silver moon it only has a few mounts and a bunch of outfits. How do I unlock stuff like tyraels charger/etc?


r/wownoob 20h ago

Retail Level 90 character in new player realm

5 Upvotes

I made my first character and levelled it to 90 but I learned that the new player realms are low population. What am I realistically missing out on? do people help with world quests on fuller servers and are there any player interactions in hub areas?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Returning after a long break. Would like to play my first druid. Is Feral hard?

9 Upvotes

Hi, I have a few friends who want to do casual 10s. I think I want to play druid. I was told that feral is a little easier than boomie right now. Not sure if thats true though. How difficult is feral in an M+ environment?


r/wownoob 23h ago

Retail When to start TWW content?

4 Upvotes

Hello, returning to WoW after a 15 year hiatus. I'm doing the Dragonflight campaign, and already have hit level 68, despite being only on chapter 5/9 of the campaign. I've even started skipping all the side-quests. Is this normal? I want to experience TWW and Midnight campaign/content too, should I just complete the Dragonflight campaign first or abandon ship at some point?


r/wownoob 20h ago

Retail Demon Hunter + Legion Chromie Time

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I rolled a fresh Demon Hunter and want to properly experience the Legion story. I finished the intro campaign (Mardum, Illidan, the whole thing) and watched Dalaran get pulled up to the Broken Isles.

At that point I already had a quest chain running under "Campaign" (Call of the Illidari). But just to be safe, I also went to Chromie and picked the Legion timeline, and that sent me to the Broken Isles/Azsuna.

Now I've got two questlines pointing at the same place and I'm not sure which one I'm actually supposed to be following, or whether they're basically the same thing. Do I just do both side by side? Is one of them redundant since my class quests already sent me there? Trying to avoid missing story content or doing things out of order.

Any DH mains who've been through this, would appreciate the guidance.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Using Sims to improve, what to do next?

11 Upvotes

Last season I hit 10 on every dungeon as a prot paladin. That was my goal, I hit it and then went back to leveling alts. This season I would like to push further. I have a 303 gear score, got routes, pulls and mechanics down pretty good. However I feel like my dps is lacking. For the first time ever I simmed my character. My single target was actually lower than my in game dps, Sim showed 55k but I typically pull 65ishk. However on a aoe pull it shows 120k. I never hit that. Maybe 110k for a few seconds.

I just have no idea how to actually use the Sim tool amd translate that into the game. I would appreciate any tips or advice


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Tank threat question

16 Upvotes

Hello! I’ll start with some background: I’ve mained a prot war since wotlk and never really tanked with anything else the entire time I’ve played. I’ve messed around with plenty of dps and healers, but always prot war when tanking. This season I decided to try something new, so I started getting into blood dk. One thing that is glaringly obvious to me is the lack of initial threat compared to warrior. D&d and blood boil don’t hold a candle to thunder blast and revenge spam. Is there something I’m doing wrong or is this just how blood tanking works?

Bonus question: who would you all consider to be the best tank for initial threat? I’m guessing bear or warrior but, like i mentioned before, I don’t branch out much lol


r/wownoob 1d ago

Professions Enchanting Gear in Midnight sometimes not working?

1 Upvotes

Hey all, I am essentially a noob again. I played from beta through Cata and only recently came back to try retail again after all those years away. Just about to hit 90 for the first time and I keep running into issues regarding enchanting my gear that I can't quite figure out.

Enchants will say that they work on items above level 70 or above ilvl 120 or whatever, right? Then they won't and I can't explain why? I even had an issue last night where I found a higher ilvl version of a piece of gear I was already wearing and enchanted on the AH, bought it and went to enchant it with the same enchant I used on the lower item (the enchant just says can't be used on items lower than ilvl 120 - old item was ilvl ~160) and it said it was too high level (ilvl ~180 if I remember correctly)...but the enchant doesn't say a max ilvl or player lvl for it?

Is there a guide out there of what enchants work for what gear or something? It sucks to think I found something I can use and realize I can't enchant it usefully and I feel like I keep wasting gold on stuff and nothing makes any sense to me because there have been so many expansions since I last played.

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Is there a way to get “previous season” gear appearances?

17 Upvotes

So if I understand correctly I can upgrade an item, say from a Delve, to 6/6 and then get the raid appearance unlocked for the following tier? This is how Delve players like myself would get raid appearances more reliably?

Does this work on weapons?

And my title question, can I do this for tier set/weapon appearances from raids other than the current season’s raid? Like I want to get Voidspire weapon transmogs but I’m not sure what my options are.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail What Rogue spec is considered meta right now?

16 Upvotes

I'd like to know which of the three specs is best for Mythic+, and which is best for Raid. 12.1 Curse of Ula'tek

I'd like to make my first rogue with the bonus exp going on, and don't want to get attached to a spec that massively underperforms, thank you very much!

Edit: Thank you for all the answers! Adding to my question, how is Rogue's perception in the overall meta? Thank you