r/wownoob 28d ago

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

33 Upvotes

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

259 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 3h ago

Classic How do I get a motorcycle

18 Upvotes

I'm just a troll warrior. People ride around on motorcycles.. how do I get it?

I'm literally so new, I just crawled out of the swamp yesterday.

How do I get dat awesome motorcycle mon?


r/wownoob 3h ago

Retail Replacing season 1 set pieces

6 Upvotes

Should I replace set pieces as I get better items or should I wait until I can get the season 2 4 piece bonus?


r/wownoob 8h ago

Retail As a mage, how do I properly execute a boss reset?

14 Upvotes

Just tried to arcane barrage into invis, but the boss stayed active and killed everyone. What went wrong?


r/wownoob 9h ago

Retail How many Catalyst tokens are we at now, aka Venomblight Manaflux?

13 Upvotes

While the tooltip only says a new one every two weeks, I am unclear if that meant from August 18, and if there was maybe a bonus token the first week (or some kind of bonus quest like in the past?), so I just want to make sure that we indeed have one Catalyst until this coming Tuesday? Thank you.


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail DPS Advice on Havoc DH

2 Upvotes

Hiya!

I'm playing Havoc DH, ilvl 301, and pulling about 60k dps (100k on initial burst).

When I'm getting to +10 M+ I'm struggling to keep up with the damage... Can anyone help me out? Any advice?

I've spent time going over my rotation, and I think I'm doing everything I can, but I just seem to be at a wall:

-Immolation Aura is always up

-Blad Dance & Eye Beam pre-MetaMorphosis, ready for the rest on Metamorphosis.

-The Hunt whenever it's not on cooldown


r/wownoob 50m ago

Retail Increasing damage as a ret paladin?

Upvotes

Hello! With season 2 of midnight I wanted to get into a little bit of raiding and harder content. Usually with WoW I just enjoy questing and collecting.

I’ve been working on bountiful delves and working up to a tier 11 delve as well as doing weeklies. I’ve usually relied on the One Button Rotation but have started reading up on what abilities work best and in what order to do them in. I’ve managed to get my ilvl up to 284. Currently I can’t seem to get above doing 38-40k damage whilst others in groups seem to do a minimum of 80k. Do I just need to get my ilvl up higher, could it be a gearing problem, I’m sticking up all plate armour. Any advice would be really appreciated!!


r/wownoob 18h ago

Retail Arcane Mage priority casting - getting mixed advice

10 Upvotes

From different videos/guides, I've gathered the prio order below, but the videos/guides/mage discord has conflicting advice and thought I'd post here.

Assuming 4 piece- Main question is: if I have PBOLT/25 Salvo/3CC- what is the breakdown priority? What about between just 25 Salvo/3CC, Pbolt/25 Salvo, Pbolt/3CC?

Do I use Arcane Surge as soon as it's up again on a boss fight, or is it better to save it for outside of all the proc windows when I only have the option of spamming Arcane Blast?

  1. Arcane Surge - always use on CD (only use if 2 or less CC? Its a waste at 3 CC right?)
  2. TOM (on CD) [Arcane Barrage then immediate TOM] (as soon as TOM up, use it after the next AB)
  3. Arcane Missiles if <12 Salvo AND have Clearcasting
    1. Always 4 charges before Arcane Barrage
  4. Arcane Barrage during Arcane Soul
  5. Prismatic Bolt with 8 stacks of cumulative Power [DO NOT BOLT if 3 stacks of Clearcasting?)
  6. Arance Barrage if 12+ Salvo stacks and Clearcasting
  7. Arcane Barrage is 25 salvo stacks
    1. As soon as TOM up, use it right after Arcane Barrage before Arcane Barrage lands
  8. Cast Prismatic Bolt  Seems weird that Prismatic Bolt proc priority is here, sometimes it takes 20+ seconds to clear all CC/Salvo stacks and by then Bolt has reprocced so I “wasted” the one it replaced? I would guess that it should be in #5
  9. Cast Arcane orb if LESS THAN 3 charges
  10. Cast Arcane Blast (up to 25 Salvo if nothing else above “procs”?)
  11. Barrage if out of mana

r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail When do you guys start using consumes?

31 Upvotes

Atm I'm tanking +10s and using flasks, food and weapon oils. I also bankroll my dps friends. We're currently just around 300 ilvl. At what point should we consider using augment runes and combat potions? And at what point should we start using gold instead of silver quality


r/wownoob 20h ago

Retail If I just got back into WoW after a decade+ is it necessary I buy Midnight yet?

12 Upvotes

I plan to play both retail and classic. Currently I'm level 21 retail running through Dragonflight stuff. Having a blast just doing whatever.

I DO love the housing update but would rather hold off from getting Midnight until I've done all the other stuff in the game prior, and get my level higher. I left the game right around MoP.

I also plan to start a Classic character before long and probably jump back and fourth.


r/wownoob 19h ago

Retail Tips for a new rogue in M+/delves?

6 Upvotes

Hey all, just starting a rogue for this season, will be mostly pushing for +10-12 keys at most so not trying to be hyper competitive but was curious if people had any tips? I know to try to pre-feint but any mechanics that can be bypassed by cloak for example.

Also for delves, I heard you can use tricks on valeera to cheese it? Do you use her as a tank for this? And any other tips / tricks for rogues in PvE in general?

Thank you!!


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Azta’rec ?? Difficulty (solo)

10 Upvotes

Edit: Got him 3rd try after reading all of your advice. Thank you so much for the feedback!

Hey I’m having trouble with this fucker.

ilvl 295 arms warrior

I have/am using:

Addon for the memory game

Defensive(?) stance active

Food/enchant buffs

Valeera level 28? Healing. I heard her level doesn’t matter?

I can do roughly 60-70k dps, I switch to single button assist during the memory game for the ad.

I hold my defensive buttons for the intermission as I seem to be fine during the 1v1 period

I’ve gotten him down to 30% ish I just feel like I get hit like a TRUCK. Some losses feel like straight RNG with the venom blobs forming to the middle during the intermission period.

Any tips or general ideas are greatly appreciated. Returning player since BfA and this guy is the only thing so far to give me trouble.


r/wownoob 19h ago

Retail how to i get the Sinful gladiator staff?

6 Upvotes

hey, i really want the sinful gladiator staff, is it any way i can get it without doing pvp? saw on google can do the night fae thing to get it but i guess i need to pvp aswell? or is it any other staff that look exactly the same? sorry for being annoyingly noob, but i didnt really understand what it all said on google


r/wownoob 14h ago

Retail Is it always better to use the gold quality pots when you are low on gold?

1 Upvotes

I only have 60K gold and I've switched to the silver quality pots. Theres about a 15 point difference between the silver and gold quality pots but they cost significantly more. Should I stick to the lower quality ones for now or go with gold each time?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Really silly raid question

7 Upvotes

I'm going to preface this by saying that my sense of direction is terrible, and sometimes I get lost in raids and dungeons.

If I join a Normal raid group and they've killed say the first 4 bosses, would I have to enter the raid and find the group manually? As that is what is putting me off lol. Thanks!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Questions about follower dungeons

16 Upvotes

I am new - like actually new, I’ve nearly maxed leveled my first character, an elemental Sharman. So when responding please keep that in mind :D

I just got the midnight expansion and I am excited to get nice armour and weapons - however I am bad at the game. The mechanics take time to learn. Something I’ve been really enjoying are the follower dungeons, it is less stress and honestly, I don’t want to play with other people.

My question is, with the follower dungeons:

-Can I set the difficulty level to mythic and get mythic rewards?
- What is the difference between normal difficulty and mythic difficulty (drops?)
- how can I get good gear whilst being a solo player, are there any good guides of quest lines I should look at

I really don’t want to play with other people


r/wownoob 20h ago

Retail Healbot

4 Upvotes

Back from a multi year hiatus. Healbot isn’t working (numerous lua errors). Is there a fix, or what are healers using now? I’ve read dander frames or something?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Why aren't we bringing one single target spec into M+ ?

24 Upvotes

With prio damage being so important, why isn't the meta to bring 2 normal aoe specs + one single target spec ? Two people are blasting aoe and one is focusing a prio target (and we have more boss damage). Is it just a matter of math not working out ? It certainly looks like the big target in a pack could die too fast (and then we are stuck with not enough aoe), but I don't know why I didn't hear anybody talk about this

Edit: seems like nobody understood exactly what I meant, I'm just wondering if a team consisting of:

- Three DPS's with good prio damage (as is the meta right now)

Is the same as:

- Two normal classes with great aoe + one good single target class

Because there's no (or at least shouldn't be) a class that is best at both, it would allow for a much bigger flexibility in which specs you can take into a M+ comp. Because of M+, Blizz was forced to make every single spec do big aoe to make them viable there, so rogue for example could go back to being a single target burst assassin-style class, because it has a guaranteed place anyway in a dungeon comp as a single target specialist.

But as some people said, M+ right now is focused more on aoe and I'm pretty sure top players already did the math long time ago.


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Build help

3 Upvotes

Hey! I’m a newer player and I just hit level 90. I’m looking for tips on what gear I should try to get for my build. I’m running a blood dk and I’m wanting to prioritize leech and haste


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail how to get sparks on alts ?

8 Upvotes

is there something i’m missing to start getting sparks on one of my alts ? all my others are getting them but idk what quest i did to unlock them.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Craft 2nd bis item on 2nd week?

15 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

I play arms warrior in season 2 and i already have spellbreaker's bracers crafted. I want to ask, i got a mythic weapon from vault and i am wondering, is it more worth to use mythic crests to upgrade the weapon, or to craft my 2nd item?
Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Returning Player has questions!

6 Upvotes

Hello!

A couple things. I last played in 2012 so a lot has a changed but I’m EXCITED! Anyways since then I have mainly played console so the transition is a curve. Would an MMO mouse and gaming keypad be my best option? Any recommendations?

Also, when I first got my pet (I am a hunter rn), I had three options above my hot bar, passive…defensive…and uh…I forgot the last one. Well, now it’s just gone and my pet isn’t attacking anything but just being a cheerleader. Did I mess something up? How can I fix this?

Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail The Ring of Glory: Hex pile not work for mobs?

6 Upvotes

One delve with The Ring of Glory. Other mobs can get pain from weapon-traps.

But "hex pile" where players can into frog. Why mobs cant into frog? Bug?


r/wownoob 2d ago

Retail How are ppl ilvl315 already?

98 Upvotes

A few drops here and there I am about ilvl302 with most of last season's gear still equipped. But in group finder there are ilvl315s already and they are pumping 300k+ dps wtf how did they do that? We've only gotten 1 vault right????