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PVE WotLK Protection Paladin Tank Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Paladin Tank guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Tank.

Protection Paladins are good AOE tanks that have good damage mitigation. The take less damage than a Druid/Death Knight so mixing in a shield tank will really help your healers out.

Talents

Firstly, we have a build with just the core 56 talent points which are required as a prot paladin tank regardless.

Prot Paladin Core Talents

This 2nd build is the first “core” build filled out with Retribution talents to complete the build. The retribution talents give us better threat generation.

Prot Paladin Build (high threat)

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Insightful Earthsiege Diamond requires 2 blue and 1 red gem to activate. After you activate your meta you can either stack Solid Majestic Zircon for health or gem for stats depending on what you need/prefer.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Defense (540 is def cap / required to raid)
  2. Stamina
  3. Armor
  4. Hit rating (8% for raids)
  5. Expertise (26 is cap)
  6. Strength
  7. Dodge/Parry
  8. Block

You will need 540 Defense to be capped in raids. Keep in mind, this is 540 “Defense”, not defense rating. For raids you will need 8% hit, which is 263 hit rating. For dungeons you will need around 5%, which is 164 rating. Expertise cap is 26 which should be pretty easy to hit with the help of Combat Expertise, Glyph of Seal of Vengeance and racial weapon passives.

Rotation

Protection paladins follow the 969 rotation. This rotation contains 5 skills total. The first two skills have a 6 second cooldown and the other 3 skills have a 9 second cooldown. You use a 9 second CD skill then use a 6 second CD skill and work your way down the list alternating.

9 second skills

6 second skills

PVE WotLK Holy Paladin Healer Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Holy Paladin guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Paladin class as Holy. If you follow this build you should be topping the healing charts in no time!

The beauty of a holy paladin is their large heals combined with great survivability. When other healers may fall over dead, you will still be there, healing the tank to the bitter end. Holy Paladins make great tank healers by the way.

Talents

This is the common holy paladin build. It takes Divinity from the Protection tree to increase all healing by 5%. It also takes Conviction from the Retribution tree for the extra 5% critical strike chance.

Holy Paladin PVE Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Insightful Earthsiege Diamond requires one of each color gem to activate. This is why we need 1 red gem and 1 blue gem. Nightmare Tear is another option to activate your meta gem.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Intellect
  2. Spell Power
  3. Haste (676 soft cap)
  4. Critical Strike

Intellect is the main stat for Holy Paladins because it increases the size of your mana pool. Holy Light requires a lot of mana per cast, which is why we need a large mana pool.

You could use Flash of Light as your primary healing spell instead of Holy Light and this would change your primary stat from Intellect to Spell Power but this doesn’t work as well for end game content.

Rotation

Healing only one tank

Cast Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light on the tank and use Flash of Light, Holy Light and Holy Shock to heal everyone else.

Healing Two tanks

Cast Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light on one of the tanks and continually cast Holy Light & Holy Shock. If you are running out of mana use Flash of Light.

Lower Gear healing

If you have a lower gearscore, you are probably going OOM in most fights. You should switch to Flash of Light as your primary healing spell and use Holy Light occasionally to get the Light’s Grace buff.

PVE WotLK Destruction Warlock DPS Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Destruction Warlock guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warlock class as Destruction. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

Destruction Warlocks have two main specs. With this first build, you just stand still and cast your spells. Soul Leech and Improved Soul Leech will keep you at full health and mana the entire time. You won’t have to rely on Life Tap and will be constantly pumping out DPS.

Destruction PVE Build – Stationary

The second build works better in fights with a lot of movement. This build doesn’t take Soul Leech or Improved Soul Leech because Unholy Power is better when you have to move a lot. You will be using Life Tap to get mana back while moving.

Destruction PVE Build – Mobile

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (17% cap)
  2. Spell Power
  3. Haste
  4. Critical Strike

Rotation

  1. Life Tap before the pull
  2. Curse of the Elements (or Curse of Doom)
  3. Immolate  (Keep the debuff up at all times)
  4. Corruption (Keep the debuff up at all times)
  5. Conflagrate (This should be used every time it’s off CD)
  6. Chaos Bolt  (This is your primary spell)
  7. Incinerate (Use this when everything else is applied or on CD)

Keep Curse of the Elements or Curse of Doom on the target at all times. You use Curse of Doom if you have an Unholy Death Knight or Moonkin in your group. Otherwise you use Curse of the Elements.

Imp is your best pet. He deals the most damage and the builds above both have Empowered Imp which gives us a 100% chance to crit after he crits.

PVE WotLK Demonology Warlock DPS Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Demonology Warlock guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warlock class as Demonology. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

This is considered the highest DPS spec for Demonology Warlocks. It comes with an extra 5% chance to crit on the target. It also gives an additional spell power buff to your entire raid. You can tweak it to your liking but it’s a great place to start.

Demonology PVE Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (17%) (14% with talents or raid buffs)
  2. Spell Power
  3. Critical Strike
  4. Haste

Rotation

Demonology relies on a priority system instead of a skill rotation.

Core Abilities

Curses

Other Spells

PVE WotLK Affliction Warlock DPS Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Affliction Warlock guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warlock class as Affliction. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

This is the standard/core Affliction Warlock Build. You can tweak this to your liking but it’s a good base build.

Affliction Warlock Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (17%) (14% with Suppression)
  2. Spell Power
  3. Haste
  4. Critical Strike
  5. Spirit (Increases spell power)

Rotation

  1. Corruption
  2. Unstable Affliction 
  3. Haunt  (Mostly for the buff)
  4. Curse of Agony
  5. Drain Soul (When the boss is below 25%)
  6. Shadow Bolt 

Be careful not to re-apply DoTs earlier than necessary as this will lower your DPS.

PVE WotLK Discipline Priest Healer Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Discipline Priest guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Priest class as Discipline. If you follow this build you should be topping the healing charts in no time!

Discipline is amazing at clutch healing/shielding. If you ever wanted to make someone think they were going to die and then save them… This is the class for you! You may not be the most mana efficient healer in the raid but you have really good survivability and bring a lot of utility to the table.

Talents

This is the standard Discipline priest spec and it works well with just about any gear setup. The beauty of Discipline is the increased survivalibity with talents such as, Spell Warding and Desperate Prayer.

Discipline PVE Build

This second build focuses on using Renew. Make sure to pick up Glyph of Renew if you go with this build.

Disc Renew PVE Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

If you are running out of mana, you can mix in Royal Dreadstone, Luminous Ametrine and Purified Dreadstone to increase your mana regen until you get better gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

If you have mana problems, here are some other enchants you could use:   Arcanum of Blissful Mending, Enchant Chest – Exceptional Mana or  Greater Inscription of the Crag

Stat Priority

  1. Spell Power
  2. Intellect
  3. Spirit (until you aren’t going oom during fights)
  4. Haste
  5. Critical Strike
  6. Mp5

Guidelines

You don’t have a rotation as Discipline, so instead I’m going to mention some general guidelines and tips.

Your role in raids is to shield and heal. Not just shield nor just heal but to shield AND heal.

Rapture will keep you from going OOM. Use it on your tank before he takes heavy damage, the shield is destroyed and you gain mana. It’s pretty simple.

Power Infusion Doesn’t stack with Bloodlust or Heroism. If things get out of hand, you can cast Power Infusion on yourself.

If things get out of hand, Desperate Prayer and Pain Suppression are great tools to keep someone alive.

PVE WotLK Holy Priest Healer Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Holy Priest guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Priest class as Holy. If you follow this build you should be topping the healing charts in no time!

The beauty of a holy priest is their ability to adapt. You can completely change your rotation when the situation demands it. You have access to HoT’s, Single target DPS and AoE spells. 

Talents

This is the common holy priest spec and it works well with just about any gear setup.

Holy PVE Build

As your gear gets better you can take Blessed Resilience otherwise I would use Improved Healing. Lightwell is also worth considering although most people don’t get it.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

If you are running out of mana, you can mix in Sparkling Stormjewel, Luminous Ametrine and Purified Dreadstone to increase your spirit until you get better gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Spell Power
  2. Intellect
  3. Spirit (until you aren’t going oom during fights)
  4. Haste
  5. Critical Strike
  6. Mp5

Rotation

Normal healing rotation

  1. Circle of Healing
  2. Prayer of Mending
  3. Prayer of Healing

Binding Heal costs a lot of mana, so use it wisely.

Tank healing rotation

  1. Prayer of Mending 
  2. Renew 
  3. Binding Heal

When possible, instead of Binding Heal, you can use Flash Heal until you get two stacks of Serendipity.

When the tank is taking a lot of damage

If you have Serendipity cast Greater Heal, otherwise use Binding Heal. Afterwards revert back to the standard rotation.

Don’t forget about Guardian Spirit if things get really scary.

Healing when you are Out of Mana

OOM Situations should be avoided as much as possible. As you become more experienced they won’t happen as often. If you are OOM use this rotation:

  1. Guardian Spirit
  2. Prayer of Mending 
  3. Renew

If you have the talent, Lightwell works great in these situations.

PVE WotLK Shadow Priest DPS Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVE Shadow Priest guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Priest class as Shadow. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

This first spec works well with any gear setup. Definitely the way to go if you just hit level 80.

Shadow PVE Build

This build requires the 4/5 T10 set bonus. Thanks to the set bonus we don’t take Improved Mind Blast and we get those points back. We can then use those points on Improved Vampiric Embrace to give the raid group better survivability and ourselves 16% less threat generation.

Shadow PVE Build (4/5 T10)

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (11%) (10% if Draenei)
  2. Spell Power
  3. Haste (1269 Soft cap, 1400 hard cap)
  4. Critical Strike
  5. Spirit
  6. Intellect

Rotation

Shadow priests have a variety of openers and then they follow a priority list. I’m going to break this down for each build.

Normal (1st) Spec

Opening

  1. Vampiric Touch
  2. Devouring Plague 
  3. Mind Blast 
  4. Mind Flay 
  5. Shadow Word: Pain

After you stack Shadow Weaving use cast Shadow Word: Pain

Priority List

After the opening you want to keep Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague, Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Pain on the target at all times and cast Mind Flay as a filler.

4/5 T10 Spec

Opening

Your opening with the 4/5 T10 Build should be:

  1. Vampiric Touch 
  2. Devouring Plague 
  3. Mind Flay 
  4. Shadow Word: Pain

Priority List

After the opening you want to keep Vampiric Touch,  Devouring Plague,  Shadow Word: Pain on the target at all times and cast Mind Flay as a filler.

You don’t need to use Mind Blast in this spec because Mind Flay does more damage at the same time and also we have dropped the Mind Blast Talents.

PVP WotLK Subtlety Rogue Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Subtlety Rogue guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Rogue class as Subtlety. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time.

Talents

This is the popular Subtlety PVP Build. It can be tweaked based on your play style but this is a great starting point.

Subtlety PVP Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

If you use Resilience (PVP) gear, take armor penetration. If you are using DPS (PVE) gear, gem Attack Power.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants to your gear.

Cast Wound Poison VII on your Main hand and Crippling Poison  on your offhand. Also, Daggers are your friend. Ideally, your main hand is 1.8 attack speed and your Off-hand is 1.4 attack speed.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (5%)
  2. Resilience (700+ to not get instantly killed)
  3. Attack Power
  4. Armor Penetration

PVP WotLK Assassination Rogue Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Assassination Rogue guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Rogue class as Assassination. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time.

Talents

This is the popular PVP Assassination Build. It can be tweaked but is a solid foundation.

Mutilate PVP Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Optional Glyphs

Minor Glyphs

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants to your gear.

Cast Wound Poison VII on your Main hand and Deadly Poison VIII on your offhand. Also, you should be using Daggers as Assassination. Ideally your main hand is 1.8 attack speed and your Off-hand is 1.4 attack speed.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (5%)
  2. Attack Power
  3. Agility / Critical Strike
  4. Armor Penetration
  5. Haste
  6. Expertise