r/wownoob Aug 02 '26

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

32 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

258 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 42m ago

Retail Possibly the dumbest q ever?

Upvotes

Okay, so, when I look stuff up, it tells you what coordinates to find things at.

How the heck am I supposed to find those coordinates once I have them?


r/wownoob 6h ago

Retail Getting to Exodar in Legion as hoard? Horde

7 Upvotes

There's a step in Legion where khadgar finds a shiny rock, which gives him a vision and thusly sends us to Exodar... I do not what Exodar is. And now I fear I never will because he just kinda didn't teleport me.

How do I get to Exodar?

Okay it turns out I spoke to the wrong kadghar.. there are apparently two of him...


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail Is Khaz Algar Blacksmithing worth it, or did I waste my gold and my time?

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I’m completely new to World of Warcraft. I don't own the new Midnight expansion yet, so I am currently locked at level 80. I've been grinding hard doing world quests, campaign quests, and delves, but I hit a massive wall.

Right now, most of my armor and weapons are around item level 100+ from those quests. I also spent a ton of my gold leveling up Khaz Algar Blacksmithing, thinking I could craft myself some epic purple gear. I just found out that because I don't own the expansion, I can't get any Sparks to drop anymore. I feel like I completely wasted all my gold as a new player.

I have a few questions:

-As a level 80 player, is there any way to use Khaz Algar Blacksmithing to craft good armor that beats my current iLvl 100+ quest gear?

-should I just abandon it?


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail Can someone explain BfA assaults and the mounts how to farm

5 Upvotes

So there are these rare mounts in Uldum and MoP, but according to my research one is always available (north winds mount in Uldum) regardless of major/minor/assault and you don't even need to unlock the zone, you can just take any alt there and wait for the rare like any other rare.

The MoP mounts seem like they only can be farmed if you have gotten far enough in the campaign to unlock it AND it has to be a Mogu assault which from what I can tell there is no way to really tell?

The Uldum rares with mounts only seem to appear during specific assaults?

It is all very confusing, I just want to know when I farm the rares and what I need to do to even make the rares show up.


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail PVP - can't farm mount under 1000 rating?

4 Upvotes

I would ask in the pvp reddit but they are so aggressive and nasty...

Trying to get back to PVP - To farm the pvp mount through solo shuffle. I am stuck under the rating 1000 because i struggle to win matches (MW monk).

Now the issue is i don't get points toward the pvp mount under rating 1000 - Is there a point where i would magically move above 1000? I notice i mostly face teams with 1800 rating players.


r/wownoob 12h ago

Retail Upgraded midnight on the sale, only received 500 tenders

14 Upvotes

I understand that as I got the initial base game, I got 500 and I'm limited to 2000 total, but going to get the tenders after upgrading, the chest only gave me 500? Shouldn't I receive an extra 1000?


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail Just started retail. Any tips?

2 Upvotes

Probably get downvoted. But just started playing retail as wanted to give wow a chance.

I'm still in the forest and level 10. But finding it a bit janky

Finding the controls a bit tough and graphics a bit rough. I'm used to playing games on a console

Any tips for me? Or is it just a case of keep playing.

I'd like to enjoy it more and learn it as I know it's an incredible game


r/wownoob 6h ago

Retail Curse of Ula'tek skip?

3 Upvotes

Title says it all really, I've completed the full 6/6 campaign for the curse of Ula'tek on my main and don't want to have to do it for all my other characters. Is there a quick skip similar to the main campaign skip? Edit - it seems like Soridormi only skips the first chapter


r/wownoob 6h ago

Retail Has Blizzard said what the plan is for heirlooms?

3 Upvotes

If I'm understanding things correctly, they only go to level 70, so haven't been upgraded since TWW? Any word on what they're planning to do with them?


r/wownoob 12h ago

Retail How do I know when to start ramping as Druid for mobs?

8 Upvotes

Hey guys! Could I ask how do you decide when to start ramping regrowths in trash mob pulls?

For bosses I generally know that within 10 seconds I should start ramping

But for trash mobs, sometimes their cast times (like blood sacrifice in AOF) only last for a few seconds and I don't have much time to ramp before damage starts to hit haha

I try to "guess" when they may be casting and ramp up but it's punishing when I ramp too early and have to re-ramp when the cast actually starts


r/wownoob 11h ago

Retail Newbie playing legion. How to get to Dalarna?

4 Upvotes

My quests lead up there but there but it's in the sky. All guides say to use your flying mout. I don't have a flying mount yet. How can I get up there. Demon hunter lvl 25


r/wownoob 6h ago

Classic Is there a way to separate your wow and battlenet account

0 Upvotes

Ridiculous I know but posting on behalf of my sister who doesn’t want her (shithead) 12 year old to have access to her credit card information


r/wownoob 6h ago

Retail Can I send my friend gold so they can buy tokens for game time?

1 Upvotes

I'm not sure what accounts without game time are able to do. Would they be able to log in, collect their mail, then buy a token? Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail What is the best way to level up a character without a lot of hassle?

16 Upvotes

I created a second character and want to level him up quickly, but without putting in too much effort


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Doing low dps as dev dh in keys not sure whats wrong

16 Upvotes

Hi i recently did a +15 and +14 and i feel like my dps was very low for the key. I was doing 60-70k less than the two other DPS. Im playing Dev DH. I did an overall of 177k. I used to play mage in shadowlands and just returned to the game. I enjoy both Void-Scarred and Annihilator but i feel like Annihilator is better because you dont need to go in melee.

Logs of the murder row and VSA: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/BKGDpPYL7FZzdV3A?fight=last&type=summary


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Why cant I unlock tier 4 delves?

11 Upvotes

Title.

I have already done tier 3 delves - a couple of different ones, without dying. Ive even done them with extra challenges and all that, but it never unlocks tier 4. Is there something I’m missing?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Delves, DPS and half-health shots

13 Upvotes

I'm trying to figure out how much is clearly I'm a bad DPS or if the damage output on delves is just high?

T11 delve (the boat one, if it matters) with a 293 ilvl havoc DH. Things die before I can get thru a fraction of my rotation most of the time, but I feel like most mobs hit me for half my health. Most of my stuff is still last season (no drops despite running content).

I know the nemesis mobs eat you unless you're Valeera. But even the regulars are nailing me to half health. Is this just how it is now? I did not have this problem in TWW.


r/wownoob 23h ago

Retail Hunter professions?

5 Upvotes

I haven't played since og vanilla, shortly before Burning Crusades.

Life's slowed down enough that I've gotten back in and wow, I got a lot of catching up to do!

I originally had a Dwarf hunter, I was curious if engineering was still a fun and whacky profession?

(I still remember blowing my self up with my Gnomish deathray!)


r/wownoob 15h ago

Retail Tier set idem lost?

1 Upvotes

Hi all,

I,m pretty sure i Loted last week an Tierset idem for my holy priest at normal difficulty.

Today i wanted to equip it, But i didn't find it in my inventory. I also tried the recovery Tool of Blizzard, but didn't found it there either.

Now my qeustion is, is their a way to See a loothistory or something like that somewhere present(because now i troubled me mind if i really have loted it)^^

Thanks and love you all♡


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail How does chromie time work exactly or why do I need it?

7 Upvotes

I just use it to get the opening quest for a zone or expansion, but what would happen if I would just go quest in northrend in the current timeline or why do I need to enable chromie time exactly to go quest in northrend beyond simply receiving the starting quest?


r/wownoob 1d ago

Retail Husbands character thrown out of Shadowlands Timewalking Campaign?

10 Upvotes

My husband and I started playing Shadowlands timewalker campaign together. He started with a characer that he had a few levels in already, wheareas I started a new one.

We've been questing together using party sync, and just arrived in Revendreth. He apparently hit lvl 81 (I'm lvl 49) and then he got thrown out of the campaign. We tried to party sync, but then he can't do quests. He tried to just meet me back here, but then we can't see each other as he's no longer in a timewalking campaign.

I've been reading through Blizzard forums and reddit posts, but we can't seem to find a fix. He's tried logging onto a character of lower level, entering Shadowlands through timewalking and then syncing with me, which then locks ME out of my quests.

Is our only two options either me continuing on by myself, or him having to do ALL quests again?? I am absolutely heartbroken now as I've been having such a good time as a new player, following the story and reading everything with him through Shadowlands. Please help us, dear Redditors.


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Help!

2 Upvotes

Hi. How come all my logs have bad parse is it gear, ilvl, spell queue or something else and no matter what dps classes I play it’s all the same. I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with how I play or spell queue thing. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you!


r/wownoob 1d ago

Classic what’s wrong with my macro?

9 Upvotes

#showtooltip
/equipslot 16 (enter swords name)
/cast Sinister Strike
/startattack

this macro will either work for the first 5 minutes-1 month, then just stops doing anything. when i click on the keybind, my guy just stand still without targeting or pulling out the sword. i always just copy this and paste it to a new macro, works fine for a little, then nothing. Always breaks at the works times too (in the middle of a boss fight or pvp).