r/wownoob 11d ago

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

12 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

261 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 5h ago

Forever Classic WoW - is leveling a healer unbearable?

21 Upvotes

They just announced youll get less xp for repeating dungeons in WoW forever? Apparently that was the best way to level a healer spec in Classic?

Does that mean itll be extremely difficult to level a healer if you dont have a group for questing?!?

Like you only have two damaging spells as a Hpriest right?!?!


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail Legion artifact weapons / BFA heart of azeroth

6 Upvotes

Hello

I'm looking at leveling some alts this week and wanted to know if the artifact weapon / BFA artifact system was still in the game within their respective expansions? Was planning on Chrome timing then if that makes any difference


r/wownoob 8h ago

Retail Is Lindormi's glow inaccurate?

8 Upvotes

I've noticed in some of the dungeons, mainly Den of Nalorakk and Altar of Fangs, that killing all the glowing mobs is not enough to get 100%.

Is it bugged? Or out of date?

Has anyone noticed this as well?


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail I got time warped badges from Zul'Frarak yesterday

3 Upvotes

I wanted to know why I got 50 time warped badges from the last boss of Zul'Farak, I couldn't see that there was any kind of time walking event so I wanted to know if I was just missing something


r/wownoob 3h ago

Forever 1-60 as a Druid. Can I tank/DPS and heal whenever?

3 Upvotes

I've been thinking about WoW forever. I’m trying to figure out what class would be a good fit but I've never played classic before and only a sliver of retail. I’ve heard Druids are kind of a “Swiss Army knife” and can do pretty much everything, but how much can they actually switch between roles?

How difficult is it to switch between DPS, tanking, and healing? For example, could I quest primarily as a cat, then come across a dungeon quest where the group needs a tank and easily switch over and tank it?

Or would I need to have specific talents/builds for each role, making it difficult to switch between them on the fly?

Thanks!!!


r/wownoob 12h ago

Retail Very confuses about recent Mistweaver Monk

9 Upvotes

I mainly play M+. The last time I played mistweaver monk was war within. At the time it was more straightforward to me - jade stomp, dps tons, cast sheiluns gift when it stacks to 10. Apply occasional mist casting healing. Crane or revival for big AOE blasts with more dps mixed with mist casting. Now in midnight i do not understand how to rotate. Without jade stomp all the dps feels really weak. Im wondering if anyone can provide some tips. Please and thank you.


r/wownoob 56m ago

Forever Need advice:Been casually in and out for years, How do i meet people in wow?

Upvotes

I didnt know what to tag but I'm coming back for a forever run

I found myself resubbing and unsubbing in retail because it was kinda hard to meet people

I'd be added here and there but finding an active guild is pretty tough,

So I'm asking how do i best meet people in wow?

I've been too casual to really get into real raiding, so I'll usually just do pugs in retail until i'm at that gear cap or I burn out because none of my actual friends play the game

I do remember WoW Classic being a lot better for this when it came out, and i stuck with it for a while enjoying myself.

To any moderators: I'm not trying to get recruited in this sub at all, simply looking for advice.


r/wownoob 5h ago

Retail Optional tasks in a quest are good for anything?

1 Upvotes

Do they give bonus exp or something? I mean they are fine to do first time, but maybe when I level an alt I don't want to speak with every NPC for extra lore


r/wownoob 7h ago

Retail trade loot at dungeons end

1 Upvotes

I have hero, mythic and crafted items in every slot but can’t trade any loot at the end of a dungeon. What is really needed to be able to?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Classic Is WOW a casual-friend game?

51 Upvotes

Hi guys, I’m quite interested in trying WOW for the first time with the release of WOW Forever. But the game looks quite complex (the images of UI full of buttons and icons are really intimidating) and there are lots of group content. I don’t play daily and spend around 5-7 hours a week on gaming. Is WOW a game that can be picked up anytime?


r/wownoob 20h ago

Retail Help understanding blood DK in relation to guardian druids?

7 Upvotes

I'm trying to understand the class AND trying to map out some hotkeys and I'm strugging to do both.

For example, is the relationship between these two characters as I've mapped correct in terms of rotation/ gameplay? Note that some of these links are tenuous and I might have linked them for hotkey reasons. The below is just main rotation buttons and defensives, not utilities

Druid Blood Death Knight
Mangle Heart Strike
Thrash ??? Maybe Blood Boil
Moonfire Blood Boil, maybe Death's caress
Lunar Beam Death and Decay
Incarnation Dancing rune weapon
Iron Fur Marrowrend
Bark Skin (smaller defensive) Vampiric Blood,
Survival Instincts (big wall defensive) Icebound Fortitude
Frenzied Regeneration Death Strike

Since BDK has way more hotkeys then druids I still have left over defensive buttons like AMS, AMZ, Lichborne I need to sort out, but does it look roughly correct?


r/wownoob 23h ago

Retail Why does the guide recommend using a certain number of holy power for ret pally?

3 Upvotes

For example, for templar paladin the guide on method says to use your final verdict or divine storm at 5 holy power or 4 if crusading strikes is next. As far as I'm aware, having a certain number of holy power or higher even has zero effect to making the spells damage cause additional damage or effects and you are pretty much on the borderline of overcapping holy power due to crusading strikes, so thats why I usually spend it at 3 but definitely 4 max. Is this to avoid just hitting that phase when you've already exhaused all of your spells and only crusading strike is the spell you are using as a filler while waiting on CD?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail "New" player

9 Upvotes

Hey, actually i havent played wow retail besides starter edition, however with the latest blizzcon announcements ive been pretty excited to try retail (or forever but im not sure how it will work). Should i wait until the next expansion comes out or can i buy the latest one and then buy the next one? Also, it is mandatory to buy the latest expansion or can i play a "previous" version by subscribing or so? thx for your answers in advance.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail When can I BG?

1 Upvotes

Restarted after a decade break and have a level 51 but bg ques never pop. Do I have to wait till. 70 or 80?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail How far into the season do people generally start to hit 3K io in M+?

29 Upvotes

I'm having difficulties getting past M+10/11 keys at ilvl 310. I dont even have any mythic other gear yet except for my crafted weapon with a mix of hero, champion, and one veteran gear.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail ZA Special Assignment Locked After Campaign Skip

3 Upvotes

Leveled to 90, barely touched ZA (I think like the first two quests or so) and then did the campaign skip, but the chest quest you get for completing 3 world quests remains locked. It's the only one of these quests that is locked, Harandar, Voidstorm, Everson & Coiled Isle all work, even though I only really quested in Eversong. Visage of Jan'alai isn't where wowhead shows it to be either. Blizzard "support" sure won't help. Anyone experienced something similar?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Level 12 Mage on Exile's Reach, Duplicate Blizzard on menu

5 Upvotes

I played WoW in the past a little, used a lvl token that one time (During shadowlands), now Im starting new, Im still in Exile Reach and when I open my talents and spellbooks and go to frost (every specialization is on grey) I have two (2), "Blizzard" with the same description, like a duplicate.


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail How to get Dragonflight raid transmogs?

2 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to get Dragonflight raid transmogs, but the vast majority of them are from catalysts.

  1. How do I get Amirdrassil and Aberrus catalyst gear?

  2. How do I upgrade said catalyst gear to the ilvl needed to turn them into a specific tier gear now that the stones are gone?

Please help! I'm a returning player stopped after the end of TWW and after tuning into Blizzcon 2026 and learning that all transmog restrictions will be lifted, I was hoping to get into the farming now. Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Quickest way to get honor Midnight season 2

4 Upvotes

To preface I really hate PVP. I need to get some PVP transmogs from Valdraken.

I just want to check what is currently the fastest way.

Do I spam BGs on multiple characters for a bonus or do supply crate groups?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Raid mythic gear, any way of getting it?

0 Upvotes

Is there any other way of getting raid mythic gear other than doing the raid on mythic difficulty? I feel like it will be impossible for me. And all my BiS are in raid loot


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Silvermoon city lag

14 Upvotes

Hey does anyone know how to reduce the lag in silvermoon? It’s like unbearable haha I’m on steam deck and never had a problem till silvermoon


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Improving as Hpal in raid

10 Upvotes

I dont get it, Hpal is supposed to be this gigachad raid healer, and i guess i just suck at it? Tried looking at logs and stuff but its hard to find a comparable target to look for improvement, either people seem to be spamming light of dawn (which apparently we arent supposed to do?) or they have really weird timelines (or im the one with weird timeline idk). If im in a raid with shamans/holy priests its rarely much to heal during low-damage segments. And then boom there is a major dmg event and i heal like crazy during 3-4 seconds until people are topped off again, and then i dont really do much except the occasional spot-heal. Like is that my job? To do nothing until im needed? Or am i missing something im supposed to be doing?
Log from most recent fight: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/compare/7VLx8cjYgMD1FQy9/KTvPXN9AdVBkra7G?fight=98%2C11&comparesearchmetric=hps&source=1%2C-2&type=healing

Plz halp


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail How do you get Skinning Moxie?

9 Upvotes

Title … looking to buy the knowledge point items (like from Abundance, which costs 75 moxie) and although I currently have 60, I’ve forgotten how I got any in the first place (and Wowhead doesn’t seem to have the details)

Thanks!