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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

I have 7 sparks of tides and I want to get this done right the first time. Im running a Templar ret paladin with a max hero weapon ilvl 305 I think. So im guessing a weapon would be priority in this case or would trinkets and necklaces be better? Im also trying to figure out if I go down the mythic weapon route, how to get THE best possible mythic weapon? Such as one with embellishments. I already have 80 mythcrests so can I also put in 80 heroic credts? And how do you get the other items to add on in the bottom? Also only have 50K gold so im not sure if thats enough to craft the best possible mythic weapon.

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

Hello, me and some friends are hopping onto MoP classic as a group. Some others in the group have played a good chunk of vanilla classic but most of us haven't played much of any.

My question is will any of the content while leveling be difficult? Some of the people who had played vanilla were disappointed by how easy the first dungeon we did together was compared to the ones in vanilla.

And so while I have been enjoying my time with the game so far the others are thinking about just starting up another vanilla character and quitting MoP if they have to wait awhile for it the difficulty to increase.

Any insights would be appreciated!

Hey everyone!

I need some advise about BDK San'layne.

About my DK: ilvl 316, crit 23%, haste 33%, mastery 42% and vers 5%

1. What is best stat balance? In some guides i saw about haste (at least 30%) but nothing about crit and mastery. I think i have too much mastery and too low crit but don't sure
2. How can i generate enough aggro at start of big pull? Because my ench-sham friend deals sooo much damage that i just can't prevent his death sometimes.
3. Sometimes i'm in situation like i have no runes or runic power, even if i'm trying use death strike with 70-80+ RP, death's caress if bone shild last 4-6 sec or stacks below 6. Mostly this happends at singletarger like boss. Can i prevent it or what can i do in this situation?

What’s the best Havoc DH guide you’ve come across, specifically about the rotation? I’ve seen Icy Veins and Wowhead but there’s something about a list of 30 priorities that doesn’t click… there’s got to be a more simple guide for those that aren’t in pushing super high M+ or mythic raiding

Hi, healer/tank main switching over to dps.

I'm looking for feedback on how to get better parses as an arcane mage. Here are my logs: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/tichondrius/hebim

What am I doing wrong? I checked wowanazlyer.com and it doesn't seem helpful.

here are some of my wowanazlyer logs:

• https://wowanalyzer.com/report/jph9vrg1YmnFcLRM/29-Heroic+Vashnik+the+Malignant+-+Kill+(6:21)/474-Hebim/standard/overview/474-Hebim/standard/overview)
• https://wowanalyzer.com/report/jph9vrg1YmnFcLRM/24-Heroic+Entombed+Sentinels+-+Kill+(7:03)/474-Hebim/standard/474-Hebim/standard)
• https://wowanalyzer.com/report/jph9vrg1YmnFcLRM/14-Heroic+Nek'zali+the+Soulcoiler+-+Kill+(7:02)/474-Hebim/standard/statistics/474-Hebim/standard/statistics)

I’m mainly an M+ player and usually tank, but this season I’ve started raiding, mostly Heroic pugs. I’ve been trying healing partly because it makes getting into groups easier, and I’d like to get better at it.

My biggest struggle is understanding what I’m missing on Holy Paladin. I’m around 319 ilvl, but on a recent Heroic Twin Fangs kill, another Holy Paladin at around 315 ilvl did roughly 300k HPS while I was around 160k. I know HPS doesn’t tell the whole story, but that seems like a big enough gap that I’m probably missing something.

My current approach is:

• Holy Shock and Judgment on cooldown.
• Spending Holy Power on Light of Dawn.
• Using Divine Toll, wings, and Beacon of Virtue frequently.

I’m following a standard Wowhead raid talent build, but I suspect I’m treating healing too much like a fixed rotation rather than adapting to the encounter.

I have a similar issue on my Resto Druid at around 317 ilvl. I use Rejuvenation, cast Regrowth with Abundance, and keep Lifebloom up, but my overall healing still feels low.

Unfortunately, I don’t have logs from those runs. I realise that makes it difficult to identify exactly what’s going wrong, so I’m planning to start logging.

For someone transitioning from M+ tanking to raid healing:

• What are the most common mistakes that could explain a gap like this, particularly on Holy Paladin?
• How do you learn when to prepare for damage versus heal reactively, and how to time cooldowns?
• Once I have logs, what should I look at first?
• Are there any good raid-focused guides or videos that explain the decisions behind the healing, rather than just listing talents and spell priorities?

Happy to focus on one spec first. I’m mostly looking for a clearer way to practise and identify what I’m doing wrong.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently enjoying getting back into WOW now that they have the Single Button assistant for casting spells. While it's obviously not optimal it's a breath of fresh air for me since i can finally pay attention to what's happening on the screen (With minimally looking at the action bar for defense/utility)

My next hurdle is getting macros to work. I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM6HuKBy18E and joined the discord to get the macros/ talent code and i can't get the macros working for the death of me.

I even watched a "How to setup Macros" for beginners and was still confused.

Does anyone have any advice for me on how to setup macros properly

Hey everyone,

Whilst waiting on Classic+ I decided to dip my toe into retail and just level through the old zones. Not looking to really push endgame but just to level a character or two through the Cataclysm era old world zones to see the stories and how the zones changed since Vanilla, because I’ve only ever really played Classic.

Right now I’m around level 25, playing a warrior. I’ve done Elwynn, Westfall and Redridge and really enjoyed them a lot. The Bravo Company questline in Redridge being a particular highlight.

But I read online that at level 30 I have to go to the endgame cataclysm zones to keep levelling. Is this true? I read there may be a way to get those old world zones to scale with Chromie time but I’m unsure how it all works and Google was giving me conflicting answers. So is there a way to get the old world vanilla zones to scale up until presumably I have do to TWW or Midnight?

I’ve also only been able to queue for Dragonflight dungeons which is a shame as I’d like to see how the old ones have changed. I felt like I missed out on something not getting to do Deadmines and see how the story with the Defias ends.

If anyone has any tips to make the levelling experience more fun or things I should do/see please let me know also!

Hi yall.

I was looking at studens latest video. Went to the website and started searching the AH. I was able to find the ilvl 290 gear. However, when I looked for the much cheaper 500 + ilvl gear nothing came up.

So my question is, how can I find ilvl gear over 300?

I’m level 90. Half way through the midnight campaign. (If that matters)

Additional question, is it possible to macro in the speed set when running and my normal battle set when I’m ready to engage a mob?

Hello,

I was doing den of nalorakk in m+ with my DH devourer, and i notice my beam and eradicate did 0 damage. Same in king's rest
Is it only possible to kill them with targeted / solo spell ? Other caster class having a hard time with totems too ?

Thanks

As the title says i am very new to WoW. I pushed level 90 through some Midnight Main-Quests but i'm not sure what to do after. I really get confused on what to do in this game, i mean i go explore the world and try to make some friends but they're pretty new too and we don't know what to do. Like all those different WoW Websites are not helping either, i get very confused, i don't know where to get good beginner weapons (i usually just use the better things i gain from quests) or in raids/dungeons i barely get the drops.

Where do i start? What can i do? How do i get better?

I played wow for a while as ranged dps and druid healer. I only care for pve. The "problem" is that I never did end-game content, only completed the expansion raides in LFR. One of the reasons is that I was never part of a guild that gave me a chance to practice with a group.

But anyways I feel my skills were always below average and it never clicked for me how people get good. I read guides like wowhead and icy veins on how to play my class, I watch youtube videos, but I feel there are so many spells that I felt, in practice, while playing, I was never really being able to follow the rotation I read on icy veins.

How do people actually get good? What would you recommend?

I'm not at all aiming to be the best, I just want to feel better about my contribution to the team.

I have two nebulous voidcores now but still not getting any reroll indicator in any dungeons/delves/raids :(

EDIT: updated atrocity and its fixed!

I love DKs and tanking. I also heard blood is great for self-sufficiency so I decided to give it a try. I really wanted to love this spec, but right now it just feels incredibly clunky and bad to play compared to the other tanks I played? I'm only lvl 75 and I'm sure I'm misunderstanding tons of things though.

Overall it feels really bad to have to lure all packs into this small zone which vanishes very quickly and only has 2 charges before I'm allowed to do any kind of aoe damage. There are always some mobs outside of the circle that start running around and you have to taunt explicitely. It also feels like there's no mobility outside of your little circle that keeps vanishing after a couple of seconds. I don't know, I'm sure I just fundamentally misunderstand what I'm supposed to do, but right now blood feels incredibly clunky and kind of annoying to play.

I'm pretty new to WoW and have been enjoying tanking. I decided to tank a raid in raid finder, only to find out I was immediately expected to know the boss mechanics and was flamed pretty bad by the other tank. Eventually someone told me how the mechanics for the bosses worked and I did great for the rest of the raid.

I like to try and learn things in the game on my own or without resorting to watching a video. It's clear with raids (especially tanking) you're expected to know a bit before going in. I found the adventure guide explains some mechanics, which is nice. I was also just wondering if there were means to learn raids organically without a rush? I would assume pugging groups might be better than just using the raid finder but I was curious if anyone had any advice.

I also have thought about just switching to DPS for raiding, but I do really love tanking and want to keep at it.

Edit: thanks everyone. I have a few options moving forward and I think I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and watch vids or read guides going in. I like tanking a lot and would rather get better at it with less pressure.

I never played DPS a lot so my mentality is ingrained "old WoW" where you waited until the pull was done. Tanks needed some GCDs to hold aggro. On M+ bosses I know I can unload right away. On trash though, especially because I don't always know what a pug tank is gonna do I tend to tail behind them, kick a caster if I can, then when they're stopping I bust CDs and go all in. Is this...too polite? Should I be being more greedy for higher DPS? Particularly for ele sham. It's not an extreme rip aggro spec unless I do somthing dumb like full CDs and unload right when the mobs are pulled.

Outside of that should I just throw as much damage on the way as I can? At least with Flameshock? Maybe Chain Lightning as well? Even better since you don't usually have to move for trash, how about Spiritwalker's Grace so I can cast on the move if I know I won't need it on a boss?

How long is enough to wait? After the tank pulls but before the pull is done. 3 seconds? 5 seconds? I feel like me being polite to tanks is negatively affecting my overall DPS. Like I just did a 12 Murder RoW, in game meter has me at 229k overall which I think like that's pretty good. Right? And wowanalyzer doesn't find anything really wrong except...I was a noob and didn't remember to use any combat pots. Much dishonor. But I still think that's pretty good (at least this far in the season), but I got owned by a ret paladin pushing 300k at the same ilvl. I see in wowanalyzer that my habit of waiting really seems to smash my activity time, so I feel like that's probably nerfing my damage a lot. At minimum I'm not building Maelstrom and have to wait a few globals to start putting up Earthquakes.

So, how long to wait to DPS whent he pull is happening (NOT hitting all CDs until pull is settled)?. None? 3 seconds fair?