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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

PVP WotLK Combat Rogue Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Combat Rogue guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Rogue class as Combat. With this setup you should be king of the Arena in no time!

Talents

This build is Combat/Sub, it utilizes Riposte and Ghostly Strike. This build has improved stealth.

You can choose Utility or Crit. If you need Crit you should take Serrated Blades. If you have lots of Critical Strike you can take Setup, Sleight of Hand and Elusiveness. Ruthlessness is another talent worth considering.

This build can be tweaked to fit your character.

Combat 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 to your gear.

Cast Instant Poison IX on your Main hand and Wound Poison VII on your offhand. Also, you should be using Swords as Combat.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (5%)
  2. Attack Power
  3. Agility / Crit
  4. Armor Penetration
  5. Haste
  6. Resillience
  7. Expertise (26)

You need at least 700 Resilience to not get melted the first time someone switches to you.

PVE WotLK Combat Rogue DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

There are two primary combat specs with very similar damage outputs. The first one requires less Armor Penetration due to Rupture ignoring armor.

If you are going to take Vigor for the extra 10 energy, you should drop Ruthlessness or Improved Poisons.

Combat Rupture Build

This Eviscerate build works better once your Armor Penetration is capped but it works better when changing targets.

Combat Eviscerate Build

This build is built around single target DPS. Your haste is increased resulting in more poison procs.

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 to your gear.

Cast Instant Poison IX on your Main hand and Deadly Poison IX on your offhand. Also, you should be using Daggers as Assassination.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (315 rating)
  2. Expertise (26)
  3. Attack Power
  4. Haste
  5. Critical Strike

As a freshly geared Assassination Rogue hitting 4k attack power is more important than stacking haste. Hit cap is 315 and expertise cap is 26.

Rotation

  • Start off in Stealth and open with either Garrote or Ambush.
  • Pop Hunger For Blood and keep it up the entire time.
  • Use 1 Combo Point to activate Slice and Dice.
  • Stack up to 4 or 5 combo points using Mutilate
  • at 5 stacks use Envenom (This is the Assassination finishing move.)
  • Slice and Dice will be renewed thanks to Cut to the Chase
  • Use Cold Blood with Envenom for big crits. Use it every time it’s off CD.
  • Envenom gives you a buff. Keep this buff up at all times it significantly increases your damage.

PVE WotLK Assassination Rogue DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This is the popular Assassination Build. you can tweak it by picking up Vigor if you need to target swap a lot.

Assassination PVE Build

This build is built around single target DPS. Your haste is increased resulting in more poison procs.

Haste Assassination 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 to your gear.

Cast Instant Poison IX on your Main hand and Deadly Poison IX on your offhand. Also, you should be using Daggers as Assassination.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (315 rating)
  2. Expertise (26)
  3. Attack Power
  4. Haste
  5. Critical Strike

As a freshly geared Assassination Rogue hitting 4k attack power is more important than stacking haste. Hit cap is 315 and expertise cap is 26.

Rotation

  • Start off in Stealth and open with either Garrote or Ambush.
  • Pop Hunger For Blood and keep it up the entire time.
  • Use 1 Combo Point to activate Slice and Dice.
  • Stack up to 4 or 5 combo points using Mutilate
  • at 5 stacks use Envenom (This is the Assassination finishing move.)
  • Slice and Dice will be renewed thanks to Cut to the Chase
  • Use Cold Blood with Envenom for big crits. Use it every time it’s off CD.
  • Envenom gives you a buff. Keep this buff up at all times it significantly increases your damage.

PVP WotLK Marksmanship Hunter Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Marksmanship Hunter guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Hunter class as Marksmanship. With this setup and some dedication you should be king of the arena in no time.

Talents

This is the popular Marksman Battleground Build. you can tweak it to your liking or wear a little PVE gear to increase your damage more.

Marksman BG PvP build

This build is for Arena’s and includes a CD reduction for Disengage.

Marksman Arena 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 to your gear.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (5%)
  2. Resilience (700 min)
  3. Agility
  4. Armor Penetration
  5. Critical Strike
  6. Attack Power
  7. Haste

For PVP you need 5% hit and at least 75 Spell Pen (130 is the cap). At least 700 Resilience is required to not instantly melt.

Agility is the primary DPS stat for Survival hunters. Agility has no cap and just keeps ramping up your damage as you add more. 

Rotation

PvP & Survival doesn’t have a “rotation” in the typical sense. This is the priority list.

  1. Aimed Shot
  2. Hunter’s Mark should be on the target at all times.
  3. Serpent Sting should be used if everything else is on CD.
  4. Chimera Shot
  5. Arcane Shot
  6. Steady Shot if everything else is on cooldown.

Pets

Spider

Spider is the most commonly used Survival / Marksmanship hunter pets. The spider has a root with a 30 yard range. This root is probably a huge part of why it’s considered the best pet for everything except BM. The spider isn’t as tanky as the crab, so you may have to call it back to keep it from dying in certain situations.

Cunning Talents

Ravager

This pet uses the same build as the Spider. Ravagers can immobilize and silence the target for 2 seconds but it’s a melee range ability and ravagers are not tanky.

Crab

Crabs can be used to lock an opponent down. Crabs pin ability requires them to be in melee range… Which would be an issue but crabs are associated with the Tenacity tree which makes them very tanky.

Tenacity PVP Build

PVP WotLK Survival Hunter Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Survival Hunter guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Hunter class as Survival. With this setup and some dedication you should be king of the arena in no time.

Talents

This is the popular Survival PVP Build. you can tweak it to your liking but this is a solid core build.

Survival 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 to your gear.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (5%)
  2. Resilience (700 min)
  3. Agility
  4. Attack Power
  5. Spell Penetration (75)
  6. Stamina
  7. Intellect
  8. Critical Strike Rating

For PVP you need 5% hit and at least 75 Spell Pen (130 is the cap). At least 700 Resilience is required to not instantly melt.

Agility is the primary DPS stat for Survival hunters. Agility has no cap and just keeps ramping up your damage as you add more. 

Rotation

PvP & Survival doesn’t have a “rotation” in the typical sense. This is the priority list.

Pets

Spider

Spider is the most commonly used Survival / Marksmanship hunter pets. The spider has a root with a 30 yard range. This root is probably a huge part of why it’s considered the best pet for everything except BM. The spider isn’t as tanky as the crab, so you may have to call it back to keep it from dying in certain situations.

Cunning Talents

Ravager

This pet uses the same build as the Spider. Ravagers can immobilize and silence the target for 2 seconds but it’s a melee range ability and ravagers are not tanky.

Crab

Crabs can be used to lock an opponent down. Crabs pin ability requires them to be in melee range… Which would be an issue but crabs are associated with the Tenacity tree which makes them very tanky.

Tenacity PVP Build

PVP WotLK Beast Mastery Hunter Guide (Short)

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Welcome to our PVP Beast Mastery Hunter guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Hunter class as Beast Mastery.

Talents

This is the popular BM PVP Build. you can tweak it a little but this is a solid core build.

BM 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 to your gear.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (8%, 263 rating) 5% should be your first goal.
  2. Attack Power 
  3. Agility
  4. Critical Strike
  5. Armor Penetration

You need 8% hit cap for raids. you should first shoot for 5% for dungeons and work your way to that 8% number.

Attack power is the main stat  because your pet benefits from your attack power as well.

Agility increases both your attack power and critical strike rating, so it’s also a solid stat.

Rotation

This is your skill priority, since players don’t usually allow you to run through an entire rotation.

Kill Shot ->  Aimed Shot -> Arcane Shot -> Serpent Sting -> Steady Shot

Pets

Pets are very important to Hunters. One of the hardest choices a hunter has to make is which pet to use. The popular pets for PVP are: Chimaera, Core Hound or Worm. I’ll go over each with a build below.

Chimaera

Chimaera has an ability called Froststorm Breath which makes it the best Exotic PVP pet. The Breath is a ranged attack that slows the target by 50% for 5 seconds. The CD is rather low, so you can keep the enemy slowed most of the time.

Chimaera build

You can swap between Cornered & Bullheaded or Grace of the Mantis and Roar of Sacrifice.

Core Hound

Core Hounds have high DPS and an ability called Lava Breath which is great for bursting down enemies. Lava breath also applies a debuff on the target reducing their casting speed by 25%. Core Hounds are a bit squishy which makes them better for Arena than Battlegrounds.

Core Hound Build

Optionally, you can swap Bloodthirsty and Heart of the Pheonix for Culling the Herd. This will increase your damage output.

Worm

Worms are the go-to pets for Battlegrounds. They are really hard to kill and apply an armor debuff to their targets. Worms have great abilities too, Charge, Intervene, Roar of Sacrifice and Last Stand.

Tenacity Build

PVE WotLK Survival Hunter DPS Guide (Short)

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

Talents

This is the most common Survival hunter build. It goes deep into survival to get Explosive Shot and then gets Aimed Shot from the Marksmanship tree.

Survival 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 to your gear.

Stat Priority

  1. Hit (8%, 263 rating) 5% should be your first goal.
  2. Agility 
  3. Armor Pen
  4. Critical Strike (60% while buffed)
  5. Attack Power
  6. Haste

You need 8% hit cap for raids. you should first shoot for 5% for dungeons and work your way to that 8% number.

To start off with Agility is the primary stat for Survival hunters. Agility has no cap and just keeps ramping up your damage as you add on more. 

Rotation

Survival doesn’t have a “rotation” in the typical sense. There is more of a priority list.

Pets

Pets are very important to BM Hunters. One of the hardest choices a hunter has to make is which pet to use. These are the popular raiding pets.

  • Wolves have less damage but buff you with Furious Howl
  • Wasps can provide Sting which is a really good debuff. (It doesn’t stack with similar effects.
  • Raptors and Cats have lower DPS but are still viable.

The Ferocity talent tree is the way to go. Here is a build to get you started.
Sadly, we don’t have the extra 4 talents Beast Mastery does nor can we tame exotic creatures.

Hunter Pet Build – Survival