by GerpzHave you just hit level 80 or are close and don’t know what to do to prepare for end-game content? Follow this guide to become familiar with preparing for the endgame content.
– This addon is mostly self explanatory once you load it. It pretty much tells you what is going on in a fight and what to do. This is only a basic outline of the fight so be sure to still read up before the attempt.
GearScore – http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gearscore.aspx
– This is a great addon to decide who to invite to a raid group and who not to. If you have been in a major city in the past month you have most likely heard this addon’s name more than once. When you hover your mouse over a character in the little screen (bottom right corner) should be their name and below that their gearscore. This addon uses the average item level of your gear to give an estimate of how good your gear is. WARNING – Do not base what gear you wear and what gear you don’t wear just to improve your gearscore. This will result in terribad performance and most likely a raid boot.
Tanks and Healers – Other than the addons above you will most likely need some others because you take on such an important role in any raid or dungeon.
– This site gives videos and explanations on what your role in the fight is so you don’t screw things up :).
Wow-pro – https://www.wow-pro.com/class_guides
– This website has many guides for specific classes and roles that you can find in the Class Guides section of the site.
Maxdps – http://www.maxdps.com
– This website is great for finding out what better gear you can get from what instances and/or what raids are available to your gear and experience.
Wow-heroes – http://www.wow-heroes.com
– Similar to the gearscore addon this website gives you a score based on the value of your gear. However, many raid organizers prefer this to the gearscore addon because of the fact that this site adds in a value for enchants and gems that are put into your gear.
WoW Forums – http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com/Forums.com
– Though this may seem obvious, this is a great place to get information on your class. I do not recommend going to the Class Roles forums section just because it is not specific to your class. Whenever you are having problems with your dps or deciding on a spec visit here and you’ll be sure to find an answer.
Tankspot – http://www.Tankspot.com
– Like the World of Warcraft forums. This place has great info not only for tanking but for all roles and/or classes of the game.
Thank you as this is my first guide that I have written. Please feel free to flame and leave comments on how to improve my guide to best fit the reader.
Thanks,
Gerpz
Totally agree with theTotally agree with the comments on Gearscore. I only really raid with my guild, so it’s pretty useless to me but I can understand how it’s generally useful in some respect for pugs.
Alternatives to DBM should probably be offered, such as Deus Vox Encounters (DVE). Also mention that to get the full use out of DBM, you really need to go through and tick off the timer bars that you won’t need for the fights, as this really adds a TON of clutter to your raid screen that you don’t need. You’ll need different ones depending on role.
Actually… That sounds like it would be a useful guide, which roles need which timers for which fights.
Anyway, spellcheck time!
“have most likely heard this addons name” addon’s
“gear you wear and what gear you don’t where” gear you don’t wear
“Other than the addons above you will most likely need some others because you take on such an important role in any raid or dungeon[Full stop here!] Please consult the forums on some of the websites listed below. ”
“- This website is great for finding out what better gear you can get with what instances and/or raids are available to your gear and experience.” – This website is great for finding out what better gear you can get from what instances and/or what raids are available to your gear and experience.
“However[Comma or semicolon here!] many raid organizers prefer this to the gearscore addon because of the fact that this site adds in a value for enchants and gems that are put into your gear.”
“Weather you are looking to PvP or PvE you will most likely do much better with a guild. I would not recommend looking in trade chat for a guild unless they ask for an application. I prefer going to the WoW Forums which were mentioned above and, looking in your realms forums NOT the Guild Recruitment forums.” Whether you are looking to PvP… looking in your realm’s forum, NOT
Pretty good guide all round
Ooo I just thought ofOoo I just thought of another type of link you might want to add – a link to boss strategy websites such as Bosskillers, WoWWiki or WoWhead (the last two have much more than boss strategies as well!). This is of course more relevant to PvE players.
Hi Gerpz!
First of all,Hi Gerpz!
First of all, thank you for writing this guide. It’s a great first guide but like all first attempts, it has room for improvement 🙂 Despite it’s shortness, you get your point across clearly and the formatting is good. So great job!
However, I definitely have some suggestions that you can use to improve the guide further.
First of all, please move DBM to the FIRST addon recommended – it’s by far the most important 🙂
Secondly, Gearscore. How I love and hate thee. You contradict yourself a little bit here saying “this addon calculates how good your gear is – but don’t gear to increase your gearscore!”. More accurately, you can say, this addon uses the average item level of your gear to give an ESTIMATE of how good your gear is. You might want to mention a few of gearscore’s little known features as well – they’ve done a great job lately of trying to make it a lot more like Elitistgroup. If you don’t know what I mean, try targeting someone and typing /gs. You’ll see a very nice summary of their gear and it will let you know if the gear they are wearing is wrong for their spec (such as a DPS warrior in tank gear, or with bad enchants or gems, etc.).
Thirdly – linking to forums instead of guides on the WoW-Pro site is not really optimal. It can be hard to find quality guides in the forums. Instead, I would go through the class guides here on WoW-Pro and find the ones you think are the most helpful, and link them from your guide. If there isn’t a guide for a specific class or spec, THEN direct them to the general forums. If possible, find an actual guide for the class/spec on the forums and link the actual forum post rather than just telling people to find it themselves.
I think you could add more detail to the guild recruitment and gearing section, but they are okay as is 😉
Like I said, it’s a very good start with excellent writing and formatting, I look forward to seeing what you do in the future!