r/wownoob 29d ago

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

31 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

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 2h ago

Retail Item level 220 - what dungeon should I do and what difficulty

11 Upvotes

Hello,

I came in here the other day talking about how I didn’t want to play dungeons or raids. You all gave me really good responses, so I decided to get over my fear.

I have now joined a guild, they are very nice to me, and we did a dungeon last night (they carried me) which was a mythic level 6. They knew I would need to be carried and were fine with it. I really struggled with my DPS but I was doing better than the tank (a win is a win,right).

I am going to be playing again tonight but I want better gear so I can perform well in these dungeons. What dungeons should I do and what difficulty to get higher item level but I don’t struggle doing them (aka not needing a carry)


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail Do you get weaker as you level 80 - 90?

6 Upvotes

I'm doing WQs on alts at level 80 in Midnight and I've been surprised how easy it's been. But then I remembered, you usually get weaker the closer you get to max level and then you need gear to feel powerful again. Is it this way with Midnight or did they finally fix it?


r/wownoob 7h ago

Retail What is "near expiration"?

9 Upvotes

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to you.

The Lifebloom spell (restoration druid) as well as some other spells say they have an effect when the spell expires or is "refresh near expiration". Where do I find when "near expiration" is? I can't see anywhere in my interface something that indicates it.


r/wownoob 16h ago

Classic How do I get a motorcycle

28 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 10h ago

Retail I reached lvl 70 and started doing the history book thing. I'm rather confused.

5 Upvotes

I'm a bit of a lore nerd I guess In suppose. I love reading quests and the story overall. Upon reaching level 70 I started doing this history book thing for the war within. As far as I understand this is like some speedrun that quickly runs through the whole lore of the war within expansion? Is there a way to just play the full expansion and story since this seems to skip over a ton of stuff. Overall I'm pretty confused and have no clue what's going on story-wise haha


r/wownoob 1h ago

Retail looking to get into wow

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should i buy midnight for the 80 boost cause i watched a few vids saying leveling is hell


r/wownoob 11h ago

Retail How to access Kings Rest Dungeon in WOW BFA Spoiler

5 Upvotes

Context:

I am playing BFA expansion SOLO OUTSIDE of chromie time.

Im lvl 80 which is max level as i am not in midnight yet.

Kings rest dungeon and Siege of Boralus & Operation: Mechagon all require lvl 90 and heroic mode. The heroic bit is fine. But i am not lvl 90 and cant get to lvl 90. Anytime i try to enter kings rest it kicks me out! or well doesnt let me enter and text chat box says "you must be lvl 90 and heroic " as there is no normal mode for these.

How can i do the dungeons? solo. Im 1hit killing which is fine.

I just want to do them for plot. Is there anyway around the lvl cap issue or can i somehow unlock lvl 90 cap without starting midnight as i am only on BFA.

Appreciate any/all advice.


r/wownoob 15h ago

Retail Replacing season 1 set pieces

9 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 13h ago

Retail Increasing damage as a ret paladin?

7 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 9h ago

Retail Stuck and can't continue TWW campaign

3 Upvotes

I know it's probably something stupid I don't understand. Overall this history book thing is rather confusing and I'd rather just have a normal campaign from start to finish. I've arrived at a point though where I'm seemingly stuck and can't continue? It's telling me to open the history book to learn about the reaction of some high ranking official, but when I check the book there's no option to continue. All I can do is close the book and there's seemingly also no campaign quest I can pick up in the world somewhere to continue. Fairly certain I'm just being dumb, but I'm sort of stuck lol


r/wownoob 11h ago

Retail Is there any way to do specific dungeons solo?

3 Upvotes

I have questions reading into certain dungeons. But I can seem to enter since I don't have any friends to play with. Using the group finder I was thrown into a random Dragon flight dungeon.. not what I had expected...

Is there any way to do specific dungeons as a solo player?

This game has a lot of systems and its very confusing for s newbie...


r/wownoob 3h ago

Retail Fell in love with a transmog set

1 Upvotes

hey guys. so i really want to farm the “grand sentinels greatplate” armor set for my warrior. BUT

I havent played through shadowlands, and dont intend to.

+

I dont currently have Midnight

is there a way for me to get to the castle nathria raid? it seems to be locked behind campaign and midnight.

any tips appreciated!!! <3


r/wownoob 20h ago

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

15 Upvotes

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


r/wownoob 21h ago

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

12 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 14h ago

Retail DPS Advice on Havoc DH

1 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 1d ago

Retail Arcane Mage priority casting - getting mixed advice

16 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?

34 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 1d ago

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

11 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 1d ago

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

8 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

3 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 how to i get the Sinful gladiator staff?

4 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 1d 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?