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WotLK PVE Arms Warrior DPS Guide (Quick)

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

Talents

This first build is for newer players with low gear scores. It assumes you don’t have any of yours stats capped. This build focuses on rage generation with Unbridled Wrath and Anger Management. It also includes Weapon Mastery to make up for not being hit or expertise capped. Slam gets excluded from our rotation making us more mobile but capable of less damage.

Arms Build (Low Gear req)

This build does the most single target DPS. It also assumes you have hit your stat caps and have close to BiS gear.

Arms High DPS 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 Rating (8%)
  2. Expertise (18+)
  3. Armor Penetration (1400 max)
  4. Critical strike
  5. Strength / AP
  6. Critical strike

You need 8% hit rating to be melee hit capped.

Expertise cap is 26, so if you have no expertise, it’s a very valuable stat. Some warriors don’t cap expertise to increase the number of Overpower procs. There is a point where having your main attacks dodged outweighs Overpower procs, so a safe bet is to stay above 18.

After you are hit capped and have the expertise you were aiming for, Armor penetration should be your next stat. You want to eventually reach 100% without a Proc but at first aim to get it to 100% while your trinket procs are up. Also keep in mind that battle stance increases your ArP by 10% and mace spec gives another 15%.

Here are a list of ArP caps:

  • 1400 rating without Battle stance & Mace Spec (Not relevant to Arms since you’ll spend most of your time in Battle Stance)
  • 1260 with Battle Stance
  • 1050 with Battle Stance + Mace spec
  • 1177 with 2p t9
  • 967 with 2p t9 + Mace Spec

Strength is always a nice DPS increase. Once you have your Armour pen sorted, you can gem for strength or strength + Crit (with a socket bonus of +6 str or more).

Rotation

Arms doesn’t really follow a rotation, you use abilities when proc’s happen.

Priority List

  1. Execute 
  2. Overpower
  3. Mortal Strike or Heroic Strike

WotLK PVE Fury Warrior DPS Guide (Quick)

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

Talents

There are two viable specs for a fury warrior and both specs are 18/53/0. One has enrage and the other doesn’t.

Fury Cleave Build

This second build has less burst on the opening but more overall damage by 2% to 3% percent.

Enrage build Fury

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.

Gem strength until you hit around 50% to 60% passive armor penetration. once you get to that point, gem the rest as armor penetration until you get to 1400 arp (100%).

At the point of arp cap, start gemming for strength or strength/crit or strength/hit.

Enchants

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

Stat Priority

  1. Hit Rating (5%)
  2. Expertise (26)
  3. Armor Penetration (1400 max)
  4. Strength
  5. Critical strike
  6. Haste

Expertise cap is 26 and Armor Penetration cap is 1400 you should not go over these.

Never gem haste.

Rotation

Fury has a simple rotation:

The key to maximizing your DPS is not interrupting you main combo with global cooldowns from other abilities.

Macros

/equipslot 16 Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand (your mainhand)
/equipslot 17 Cryptmaker (your offhand)

Weapon Macro

/equip Bloodvenom Blade (your mainhand here)
/equip Icecrown Glacial Wall ( your shield here)
/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Shield Wall
/cast Battle Stance

Shield Wall Macro

/cast Heroic Strike(Rank 13)
/cancelaura Hand of Protection
/cancelaura Divine Intervention

Heroic Strike Macro (USE THIS TO DEAL WITH TROLLS)

/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Intervene
/cast Berserker Stance

Intervene Macro

#showtooltip Rend(Rank 10)
/cast Battle Stance
/cast Rend(Rank 10)
/cast Berserker Stance

Rend Macro

BIS Gear List

Misc

PVE WotLK Enhancement Shaman DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

For a fresh 80 this build works a lot better. It has cheap shocks and you get mana regen from Stormstrike.

Enhancement build (Low Gear)

This build is for people with almost BiS gear. This build has less Mana regeneration, which is part of why you need the better gear. Your totems are also new better than a Death Knight’s Horn of winter at the cost of a little intellect.

Enhancement build (BiS Gear)

You can also optionally change Ancestral Knowledge to Enhancing Totems.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

You could replace Windfury Weapon with one of these:

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 Rating (8% soft cap) (17% desired) (27% hard cap)
  2. Expertise (26)
  3. Attack Power / Haste
  4. Critical strike
  5. Armor Penetration
  6. Agility

Hit rating soft cap is 8% and should be your first priority. This means your special abilities will not miss. Dual wielding has a hit cap of 27% but it’s not reasonable to actually hit the hard cap. You would give up too many useful stats to hit 27%.

Due to the build relying on Maelstrom Weapon and Lightning Bolt you need 17% spell hit.

Hast and attack power give about the same dps boost so it’s more or less a personal choice.

Rotation

You should be dual wielding, it’s much higher DPS.

Windfury Weapon should be on your main-hand and Flametongue Weapon on your off-hand.

Enhance has a very complicated rotation but after a while you get used to it.

Both Feral Spirit and Shamanistic Rage should be used every time they are off cooldown.

PVE WotLK Restoration Shaman Healer Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This is the standard Restoration Shaman build. If you have another Resto Shaman or a Holy Priest with Ancestral Healing, then you can drop it for Elemental Weapons and Cleanse Spirit.

Resto Shaman Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Other viable options depending on your gear.

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. Spell Power
  2. Haste
  3. Critical Strike
  4. Mp5

Spell power is your main stat because improving it significantly increases your healing.

Haste can reduce your global cooldown to 1 second. The haste soft cap for a resto shaman is 38.7% (1269 rating). This will reduce the cast time of your Lesser Healing Wave to 1 second. You shouldn’t go over 1400 haste.

Critical Strike rating actually does a lot more than just increase your chance to crit with healing spells. It regenerates mana thanks to Improved Water Shield it also increases your chance to proc Ancestral Awakening and improves the chance of 4pT10 with Chain Heal.

Rotation

Setup before the pull

Healing during the fight

Low on mana

If you find yourself out of mana, cast Mana Tide. You can also ask a Priest for Hymn of Hope or a Druid for Innervate.

PVP WotLK Enhancement Shaman Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This first build is a max dps build.

Enhance PVP Build (Damage)

This second build is a Survivability build. This is a good build if you don’t have great PvP gear.

Enhance PVP Build (Survivability)

This third build is a support build. This build works best with (Enhance shaman + Arms Warr + Holy Pally/Resto Druid.

Enhance PVP Build (Support)

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.

Persistent Earthsiege Diamond May be viable if you are playing an Orc and want to combine this with the racial passive for even further improved stun duration reduction.

Enchants

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

You should be using either Totem of Quaking Earth or Totem of the Avalanche  though keep in mind Totem of the Avalanche can lower your DPS output if you lose stacks during a stun/fear.

Stat Priority

  1. Spell Penetration (75+, 135 max)
  2. Hit (262 max)
  3. Haste (10% or more)

Rotation

Rotation

You should be dual wielding, it’s much higher DPS.

Windfury Weapon should be on your main-hand and Flametongue Weapon on your off-hand.

Enhance has a very complicated rotation but after a while you get used to it.

Both Feral Spirit and Shamanistic Rage should be used every time they are off cooldown.

Here is a list of 2v2 and 3v3 teams for an Enhancement shaman

  • Beast Mastery Hunter (Most popular)
  • Mutilate / Combat Rogue
  • Discipline Priest
  • Balance Druid
  • Holy Paladin
  • Arms Warrior
  • Retribution Paladin
  • Frost Mage
  • Arms Warrior + Holy Paladin / Restoration Druid
  • Beast Mastery Hunter + Holy Paladin
  • Mutilate Rogue + Discipline Priest
  • Retribution Paladin + Discipline Priest

PVE WotLK Elemental Shaman DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This is the core dps Elemental Shaman build. I’ll list some options/points below.

Ele Shaman DPS 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 need to gem for hit or haste then you can use: Veiled Ametrine or Reckless Ametrine.

Enchants

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

Stat Priority

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

Like other casters shamans also require 17% hit, to always hit bosses. You can take the Elemental Precision talent which gives 3% hit rating. This will lower your hit rating requirement to 14%.

Spell power is your primary stat as increasing it gives you the biggest DPS boost. Don’t ignore hit cap for spell power, there is no point in having hard hitting spells that never hits.

Haste is our second strongest offensive stat. Only after you get extremely high amounts of haste does critical strike start comparing. You should gear for haste and let your critical strike increase as your gear gets better.

Rotation

  1. Flame Shock 
  2. Lava Burst 
  3. Elemental Mastery
  4. Lightning Bolt

Everything else will be used when it comes off Cooldown.

Also, if there are multiple mobs then you can use Chain Lightning to increase your DPS.

Also, don’t forget to place your totems before the fight.

PVE WotLK Fire Mage DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This build is designed for new players and primarily uses Frostfire Bolt.

Fire Mage Build (Frostfire Bolt)

Fireball is the main ability used in this second build. This build is higher DPS and works better with high level gear. This build picks up Torment the Weak from the arcane tree. Torment the Weak still works even if the boss can’t be snared, it only cares about the debuff being on the boss.

Fire Mage Build (Fireball)

If you would like, with either build you can take a point ouf of Master of Elements and put it into Blast Wave.

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.

1st Build

2nd Build,

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)
  2. Spell Power / Critical Strike
  3. Haste
  4. Spirit (Increases crit rating)
  5. Intellect

Mages need 17% hit, 446 rating, to always hit bosses. Precision gives you an extra 3% hit rating. This lowers your cap to 14%, which is 368 rating.

Spell power and critical strike rating are your primary stats for this build. The more often you crit, the more consistent your DPS will be.

This spec relies heavily on Hot Streak so your crits are super important. You will need 45% crit for this spec to even be viable. You will need 71% critical strike chance to have a 50% chance of procing Hot Streak after casting a Fireball. 

Haste is really a secondary stat with this build. Just let it increase as your gear upgrades and don’t try to gem or enchant for it.

Spirit is an unusual stat that is very beneficial to a Fire Mage. Molten Armor converts your spirit into Critical Strike Rating.

  • Regular Molten Armor  converts 35% spirit to critical strike rating.
  • Glyphed Molten Armor  converts 55% spirit to critical strike rating.
  • Glyphed + T9 set bonus, Khadgar’s Regalia, converts 70% spirit to critical strike rating.

You can also use the Khadgar’s Regalia set bonus to buff with improved Molten Armor and then swap back to your regular gear.

Intellect is only useful when you first hit 80 and have mana problems still.

Rotation

  1. Scorch
  2. Living Bomb 
  3. spam Frostfire Bolt (first build) or Fireball (second build)
  4. Pyroblast after Hot Streak procs

PVP WotLK Arcane Mage Guide (Short)

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

Arcane gives up a lot of survivability that frost has in exchange for really high burst damage. I only recommend arcane if you have good gear otherwise you end up being squishy and not doing much damage. With good gear though, you can delete people.

Talents

This is the core arcane mage build.You get all of the damage & burst from arcane and icy veins from frost for the casting speed buff.

Arcane 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.

Enchants

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

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (4%)
  2. Spell Penetration (110-130)
  3. Spell Power (3k-3.3k)
  4. Haste (900+)

You need at least 4% hit rating to reliably hit players. 130 is the ideal amount of spell penetration for enemies with high resistances. 110 is ok most of the time.

Rotation

There really isn’t a rotation for this spec, you will spend most of your time trying to stay alive and then bursting when you see an opening.

You should stay near pillars, This will allow you to line of sight spells and kite melee classes around the pillar.

Fake casting is an important skill to have, this allows you to bait out the enemy silences/interrupts and will get you a window to burst. If you do get interrupted you can switch magic schools and cast a different type of spell.

Ice block can be used to break CC or prevent yourself from dying. Make sure you absolutely need to cast ice block when you do because it’s your best defensive CD. Make sure to stay in the ice block until your healer gets a heal off.

Arena Teams

2v2 Arenas

  • Mutilate Rogue
  • Shadow Priest
  • Demonology Warlock
  • Balance Druid
  • Elemental Shaman

3v3 Arenas

  • Discipline Priest + Rogue
  • Priest + Restoration Shaman
  • Warlock + Restoration Druid / Shaman

PVP WotLK Fire Mage Guide (Short)

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

Fire sacrifices a lot of survivability that frost would normally have in exchange for stuns in exchange for higher damage. I only recommend fire if you have great gear otherwise you end up being too easy to kill.

Talents

This is the core fire mage build.You get all of the damage, burst and utility from Fire and then Improved Counterspell & Arcane Shielding from arcane.

Fire Mage PVP Build

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

Living Bomb is better if you gem for Critical Strike. It works a lot better in Battlegrounds and world PVP where your enemies have bad PVP gear. Scorch works better in the arena where you will have less crits due to enemies having better gear.

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 (4%)
  2. Spell Power (3k-3.3k)
  3. Haste (900+)
  4. Resilience (1k+)
  5. Spell Penetration (110-130)

You need at least 4% hit rating to reliably hit players. 130 is the ideal amount of spell penetration for enemies with high resistances. 1k+ resilience is ideal, you really need a decent amount of resilience to avoid being burst down.

Rotation

There really isn’t a rotation for this spec, you will spend most of your time trying to stay alive and then bursting when you see an opening.

You should stay near pillars, This will allow you to line of sight spells and kite melee classes around the pillar.

Fake casting is an important skill to have, this allows you to bait out the enemy silences/interrupts and will get you a window to burst. If you do get interrupted you can switch magic schools and cast a different type of spell.

Ice block can be used to break CC or prevent yourself from dying. Make sure you absolutely need to cast ice block when you do because it’s your best defensive CD. Make sure to stay in the ice block until your healer gets a heal off.

Arena Teams

Here are some 2s & 3s partners that work well with a Fire Mage.

2v2 Arenas

  • Mutilate Rogue
  • Shadow Priest
  • Demonology Warlock
  • Balance Druid
  • Elemental Shaman

3v3 Arenas

  • Discipline Priest + Rogue
  • Priest + Restoration Shaman
  • Warlock + Restoration Druid
  • Elemental Shaman + Discipline Priest
  • Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin

PVP WotLK Frost Mage Guide (Short)

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

Frost is generally accepted as the best all around PVP build for mages. You have high burst, great sustainability and really good survivability. You can also take on any class 1v1, some are just a little more difficult (Hunters/Warlocks).

Talents

This is a solid build for arena & battlegrounds. You can move points around based on preference and team setup but this will definitely get you started as a solid core build.

Frost Mage 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.

Enchants

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

Stat Priority

  1. Spell Power (3k-3.3k)
  2. Hit rating (120)
  3. Spell Penetration (110-130)
  4. Critical strike (17-20%)
  5. Resilience (1k+)

You need at least 120 hit rating to reliably hit players. The ideal amount of spell penetration for enemies with high resistances is 130. 1k+ resilience is ideal, you really need a decent amount of resilience to avoid being burst down. Critical strike chance really helps with your burst damage and is important.

Rotation

There really isn’t a rotation for this spec, you will spend most of your time trying to stay alive and then bursting when you see an opening.

You should stay near pillars, This will allow you to line of sight spells and kite melee classes around the pillar.

Fake casting is an important skill to have, this allows you to bait out the enemy silences/interrupts and will get you a window to burst. If you do get interrupted you can switch magic schools and cast a different type of spell.

Ice block can be used to break CC or prevent yourself from dying. Make sure you absolutely need to cast ice block when you do because it’s your best defensive CD. Make sure to stay in the ice block until your healer gets a heal off.

Arena Teams

Here are some 2s & 3s partners that work well with a Fire Mage.

2v2 Arenas

  • Rogue
  • Demonology Warlock
  • Balance Druid
  • Feral Druid
  • Shadow Priest
  • Discipline Priest
  • Retribution Paladin
  • Survival Hunter
  • Frost Mage

3v3 Arenas

  • Rogue +Priest
  • Rogue + Restoration Druid
  • Demonology Warlock + Restoration Druid
  • Elemental Shaman + Discipline Priest
  • Balance Druid + Restoration Shaman
  • Survival Hunter + Restoration Shaman / Druid
  • Death Knight + Restoration Shaman / Druid
  • Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin