Table of ContentsIntroduction ...............................................................................................................................................2Death Knight .............................................................................................................................................4

Strengths...........................................................................................................................................4Weaknesses.......................................................................................................................................5Stats To Get.......................................................................................................................................5

For DPS........................................................................................................................................5For Tanking..................................................................................................................................5

Gear to Look For..............................................................................................................................5Talent Templates...............................................................................................................................5Rotation Suggestion..........................................................................................................................6Major Glyphs to Get.........................................................................................................................6

Druid .........................................................................................................................................................7Strengths...........................................................................................................................................7Weaknesses ......................................................................................................................................7Stats To Get.......................................................................................................................................7Gear to Look For..............................................................................................................................8Talent Templates...............................................................................................................................8Rotation Suggestion..........................................................................................................................9Major Glyphs to Get.........................................................................................................................9

Hunter ......................................................................................................................................................10Strengths.........................................................................................................................................10Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................10Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................10Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................10Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................11Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................12Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................12

Paladin .....................................................................................................................................................12Strengths.........................................................................................................................................12Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................12Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................13Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................13Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................13Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................14Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................14

Priest ........................................................................................................................................................15Strengths.........................................................................................................................................15Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................15Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................15Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................16Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................16........................................................................................................................................................17Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................17Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................17

Mage ........................................................................................................................................................18Strengths.........................................................................................................................................18

Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................18Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................18Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................19Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................19Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................19Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................20

Rogue ......................................................................................................................................................20Strengths.........................................................................................................................................20Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................20Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................21Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................21Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................21Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................22Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................22

Shaman ....................................................................................................................................................23Strengths.........................................................................................................................................23Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................23Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................23Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................24Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................24Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................25Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................25

Warlock ...................................................................................................................................................26Strengths.........................................................................................................................................26Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................26Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................26Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................27Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................27Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................27Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................28

Warrior ....................................................................................................................................................28Strengths.........................................................................................................................................28Weaknesses.....................................................................................................................................28Stats To Get.....................................................................................................................................29Gear to Look For............................................................................................................................29Talent Templates.............................................................................................................................30Rotation Suggestion........................................................................................................................30Major Glyphs to Get.......................................................................................................................30

Resources ................................................................................................................................................31

Introduction In this guide I'm going to cover the basics of every class so that you will have a better understanding as to how to play them. I want to explain to you that I will be recommending green (uncommon) randomly enchanted gear for each character. If you have rare, epic, or other items that are not random enchant items but already have the stats you want then ignore the recommendations. They are just there in case you don't have a piece that has proper stats and need to get a quick replacement.

Below is a table of all the randomly enchanted gear we will be focusing on. When I say randomly enchanted piece of gear it will be an item that has a suffix of a name added to it. For example, Tunic of the Monkey has "of the Monkey" suffix on it. Most of the items with these suffixes will have the stats listed below in the table so it's very easy to search for the gear you want in the Auction House by simply going in there and typing "of the monkey" or whatever one matches what you're looking for.

These are not all of the random enchants, only the ones I'm going to talk about in this guide.

Random Enchant (OF THE) StatsBandit agility, stamina, attack powerBear strength, staminaBeast strength, agility, staminaChampion strength, stamina, defenseEagle intellect, staminaElder stamina, intellect, mana regenFalcon agility, intellectGorilla strength, intellectHunt agility, intellect, attack powerHierophant stamina, spirit, spellpowerInvoker intellect, spellpower, critMonkey agility, staminaOwl intellect, spiritPhysician stamina, intellect, spellpowerProphet intellect, spirit, spellpowerSoldier strength, stamina, critSorcerer stamina, intellect, spellpowerTiger strength, agilityWhale spirit, staminaIn addition to these, there are items that have direct stats applied to them and that's it. Like, "of Defense" will add + defense and that's it but it will be a lot more so watch out for those if you're lacking in a single stat anywhere.

There are Of Healing, Of Power, Of Blocking, Of Eluding, Of Fire, Nature, Arcane, Frost, Shadow Protection, Of Fire, Nature, Arcane, Frost, Shadow Resistance, Of Spirit, Intellect, Strength, Stamina, Agility, and Of Frozen, Arcane, Fiery, Nature's, and Shadow Wrath.

Death Knight

Death Knights are new classes that were introduced in Wrath of the Lich King. They operate a bit differently than the classic mana, energy, and rage bars that we are used to seeing. They have their own system of runes to generate runic power which kind of works like rage so if you've played a Warrior before you already have a head start in knowing how to play a Death Knight.

A Death Knight gets 6 runes total, 2 blood, 2 frost, and 2 unholy, prior to talent modification. The Death Knight's special attacks will use 1 or more runes in different combinations and once a rune is used it goes on a small cool down before it can be used again.

While you are using these abilities you generate runic power which is also a requirement for some of the other Death Knight abilities.

Strengths Can wear any armor Can tank or DPS Ability to solo and grind exceptionally well Very good in PvP Can buff other members while grouped Starts at level 55 (must have a character higher than 55 to create one) Free mount and gear

Weaknesses Cannot wear shields Relies on active abilities to tank Can be hard to play

Stats To Get

For DPS1. Strength 2. Hit Rating 3. Crit 4. Stamina

For Tanking1. Stamina 2. Defense 3. Strength/Hit/Expertise

Gear to Look ForThe gear you will be after is going to be all plate armor if possible. Make sure you have high DPS weapons, stats on weapons aren't as important as the DPS, they aren't useless but don't take an incredibly lower DPS weapon because it has better stats unless it makes sense to do so. Your stat selection should be based on what role you are trying to fill, DPS or tanking.

Here are some of the green items that have random enchantments you can look for in the Auction House.

Bear, Beast, Champion, Soldier, and Tiger

Talent TemplatesThis is an example of a build you will want to use while farming or grinding. If you have more talent points to spend you can most definitely put almost all of them in the blood tree.

What you are looking for in the blood tree is anything that keeps you healed, helps you survive, or increases your damage.

Rotation SuggestionPlague Strike, Icy Touch, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Deathstrike

Glyph of Vampiric Blood

Druid

Strengths Can heal, tank, or DPS Can buff other players Ability to go into stealth and shapeshift Has aquatic form that allows for faster swimming and no breathe

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth and leather armor Shapeshifted forms are not as powerful as their counterparts Limited race selection

Stats To GetFor Cat Form (melee DPS)

1. Agility 2. Hit, Crit, Attack Power 3. Stamina

For Healing (tree form)

1. Spellpower 2. Intellect, Spirit, Mana Regen 3. Stamina

For Tanking (bear form)

1. Stamina 2. Dodge/Agility/Defense 3. Hit/Expertise

For Caster DPS (moonkin form)

1. Spellpower 2. Spell Hit 3. Spell Crit, Intellect 4. Stamina

Gear to Look ForAs a druid you will be limited to cloth and leather armor. If you are going to be tanking or doing melee DPS you will want to stick primarily to leather armor but if you are going to be doing DPS as a caster or healing then cloth is perfectly acceptable. Here are the different items that can benefit druids (it's a lot depending on your role, match up the stats to get with what you're doing to the gear below).

Bandit, Eagle, Elder, Hierophant, Invoker, Monkey, Owl, Prophet, Sorcerer, Whale

Talent TemplatesThis is an example base build of the best form I think for grinding (cat form, melee DPS). You can basically stay in the feral tree until you get the talents I recommend, once you have all 55, it's probably best to start into the restoration tree unless you really feel you're missing something in feral.

Rotation SuggestionMangle, Rake until desired combo points reached, then Ferocious Bite or Rip depending on how many hit points mob has left.

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Mangle

Glyph of Rip

Hunter

Strengths Can tame pets Long ranged damage Crowd control abilities Run speed enhancing buffs (aspects) Limited down time with pet tanking

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth, leather, and mail armor Can be hard to keep pet alive in certain circumstances Can't melee very well Has to maintain a certain range to maintain ranged damage

Stats To GetFor DPS:

1. Agility 2. Stamina, Hit 3. Attack Power, Crit 4. Intellect

Gear to Look ForFor the most part you will avoid all cloth. Leather can be okay but most leather only comes with agility/stamina and no intellect which can be a very helpful stat. For the most part you will stay with

mail armor and make sure you have a good DPS ranged weapon. Don't melee with your hunter when possible or people will make fun of you.

Here is some of the green gear you can get if you don't have anything decent:

Monkey, Bandit, Hunt, Falcon

Talent TemplatesYou will be doing all of your farming in the beast mastery tree. The beast mastery tree allows for your pet to put out a significant amount of damage while holding aggro so you can sit back on auto shoot if you want and go afk.

Stay in beast mastery for all of your beginning points, the focus here is to enhance your pet damage and avoidance so it can tank (this allows for almost no down time because you can heal your pet).

Once you get all your points into the beast mastery tree start in marksmanship and begin working on your crit and attack power.

Rotation SuggestionPet attack, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Arcane Shot, Mutli-Shot (auto shot fires automatically)

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Bestial Wrath

Glyph of Multi-Shot

Paladin

Strengths Can wear plate armor Can heal, tank, and DPS Can use shield Uses auras to buff other players Has abilities to go completely immune to all damage for a period of time

Weaknesses Dependant on mana Limited ranged abilities Lower base hit points than Warriors

Stats To GetFor Tanking:

1. Stamina, Defense 2. Strength, Agility, Hit, Expertise, Dodge, Parry, Block 3. Intellect

For Healing:

1. Spellpower 2. Intellect, Mana Regen 3. Stamina

For DPS:

1. Strength, Crit 2. Agility, Hit, Expertise, Attack Power 3. Stamina

Gear to Look ForYou'll be wearing plate all the time except when you are healing then it's okay to use any armor you get with good stats. Sometimes you can go down to mail armor if your plate armor slot is bad but it's not recommended.

Here is some gear to look out for:

Bandit, Bear, Beast, Champion, Eagle, Elder, Hierophant, Invoker, Monkey, Owl, Prophet, Sorcerer, Tiger

Talent TemplatesMost people use the retribution tree to grind for at least the first 30 levels, but the build template I'm going to give you is for the protection tree. I wouldn't use it till you pick up Judgment of Light at level 30 though. The reason I choose protection for grinding is that you can solo really really hard bosses in this spec or you can AoE grind (pull multiple mobs at a time) and burn them down. The 1on1 DPS is not the greatest but it's manageable, your focus should be to pull multiple mobs always.

Rotation SuggestionAvenger's Shield, (when you have it), Holy Shield (when you have it), Hammer of Righteousness (when you have it), Consecration, Judgment of Light

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Consecration

Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous

Priest

Strengths Can heal and resurrect other players Can DPS Can mind control Can significantly buff other players

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth armor Low hit points Requires quick reflexes to play and heal others

Stats To GetFor Healing:

1. Spellpower 2. Intellect, Spirit, Mana Regen, Spell Crit 3. Stamina

For DPS:

1. Spellpower 2. Intellect, Spell Hit, Spell Crit 3. Stamina, Spirit, Mana Regen

Gear to Look ForYou will be limited to cloth unfortunately. The good thing is, if you're lower level or farming you won't really have to change out your healing gear for DPS gear because it will have identical stats besides hit obviously, but less hit will be needed if you aren't raiding.

Eagle, Elder, Hierophant, Invoker, Physician, Owl, Prophet, Sorcerer

Talent TemplatesShadow is the easiest tree to farm from as a priest. It has the highest damage and good survivability.

Rotation SuggestionShadow Word: Pain, Mind Blast, Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch, Mind Flay, Mind Blast

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Shadow

Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain

Mage

Strengths Powerful AOE abilities Long range damaging abilities Ability to escape enemies Can port self and other players

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth armor Almost no melee capabilities No healing

Stats To Get1. Spellpower 2. Spell Crit, Hit, Intellect 3. Spirit, Mana Regen, Stamina

Gear to Look ForYou will be wearing only cloth and since you only have one role as damage, your gear will not vary except if you need hit to hit higher level mobs.

Here's some gear you can look for:

Eagle, Elder, Hierophant, Invoker, Prophet, Sorcerer, Owl

Talent TemplatesThe frost tree is the best talent tree to play in for leveling, grinding, and surviving. There are a ton of escape and damage mitigation talents and you can slow the run speed of enemies.

Rotation SuggestionFrost Nova, Blink, Blizzard Repeat for AoE'ing

or Frostbolt a mob down while kiting it or freezing it in place

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Iceblock

Glyph of Frost Nova

Rogue

Strengths Can stealth Can add poisons to weapons Very high melee damage Can escape most battles and circumstances Has the ability to pick lock and pick pocket

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth and leather armor Can't buff other classes Can't heal

Limited ranged abilities

Stats To Get1. Agility 2. Hit, Attack Power, Expertise 3. Crit, Stamina

Gear to Look ForBandit, Monkey

Talent TemplatesWhat rogue builds are best for anything is a highly controversial topic. I'm not going to tell you that combat swords is the best farming build, what I am going to tell you is it's what I use to farm, I like it the best because it seems to have good survivability and allows for you to fight an enemy toe to toe easier.

Rotation SuggestionSinister Strike till full on combo points, then either Slice and Dice if the mob has enough health left or just Eviscerate. You can also get a head start on combo points by Cheap Shotting out of stealth.

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Eviscerate

Glyph of Sinister Strike

Shaman

Strengths Can heal Can melee or caster DPS Can shapeshift into ghost wolf for faster run speed Can walk on water Has Ancestral Recall (second hearthstone basically) Buffs players via totems

Weaknesses Can only wear up to mail armor Totems are easy to destroy

Stats To GetFor Healing:

1. Spellpower 2. Mana Regen, Intellect 3. Stamina, Spirit, Crit

For Caster DPS:

1. Spellpower 2. Crit, Spell Hit

3. Intellect, Stamina, Mana Regen

For Melee DPS:

1. Agility, Hit 2. Expertise, Intellect 3. Stamina, Crit 4. Spellpower (part of melee DPS will be magic attacks)

Gear to Look ForBandit, Eagle, Elder, Falcon, Hunt, Hierophant, Invoker, Monkey, Owl, Physician, Prophet, Sorcerer

Talent TemplatesThe talent tree I've chosen as best for grinding is enhancement. You can do it in elemental if you want but I seem to have problems surviving when fighting multiple mobs there or I run out of mana and there's down time. With enhancement you have all kinds of tools that are at your disposal to help with multiple mobs, like ghost wolves, and there's not much down time with Shamanistic Rage.

Rotation SuggestionStormstrike, Flame Shock, Lava Lash, Maelstrom Proc or Auto Attack then repeat (don't forget to imbue your weapons with Windfury and Flametongue)

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Lavalash

Glyph of Lightning Shield

Warlock

Strengths Can summon pets to help fight Creates health stones and soulstones Can summon other players by summoning a summoning stone Can heal itself by draining the health of enemies Capable of causing high amounts of AoE and single target damage

Weaknesses Can only wear cloth Cannot melee well Certain spells require the use of soulshards

Stats To Get1. Spellpower 2. Crit, Spell Hit 3. Intellect, Stamina 4. Spirit

Gear to Look ForSince you will be wearing only cloth and you'll only be casting you will be using caster type gear.

Eagle, Elder, Hierophant, Invoker, Owl, Physician, Prophet, Sorcerer

Talent TemplatesMost people feel comfortable stacking points into demonology so they can buff their pets like hunters do. While that is a viable option for grinding, the most fun and efficient way to farm mobs is through the affliction tree.

Rotation SuggestionShadow Bolt, Haunt, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, Curse of Agony, Shadow Bolts until you have to renew DoTs

Use Lifetap to keep mana full

Use Drain Soul on mobs with low health instead of Shadow Bolt

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Haunt

Glyph of Corruption

Warrior

Strengths Have higher HP base than some of the other tanks Can tank with shield Can wear plate Can use all weapons except wands Can tank or DPS

Weaknesses Can't heal Very limited ranged abilities Limited party buffs

More activity required to control threat than some other tanks

Stats To GetFor Tanking:

1. Defense, Stamina 2. Expertise, Hit, Dodge, Parry 3. Agility, Strength

For DPS:

1. Strength, Hit 2. Expertise, Crit, Agility, Attack Power 3. Stamina

Gear to Look ForBandit, Bear, Beast, Champion, Monkey, Soldier, Tiger

Talent Templates

You can farm effectively in any of the three trees, however, if you do protection it is slow in the beginning levels, but protection is king for soloing bosses, hard mobs, or even AoE grinding at the higher levels. But for farming only purposes, I have selected fury.

Rotation SuggestionBlood Thirst, Whirlwind

If Bloodsurge procs make sure to throw in your instant Slam. Use Heroic Strike or Cleave for rage dump depending on what you are fighting.

Major Glyphs to GetGlyph of Whirlwind

Glyph of Bloodthirst

Resources Below I've placed some resources that I have found to be very helpful when playing my characters. I encourage you to check them out.

Resource Description

Leveling & Class Guide

Both Horde and Alliance 1-80 Leveling Addon included to point you in

the right direction at all times Talent Guide with Leveling Talent Builds

for Every Class Talent and Gear Guides for Every Class

PvP Guide

Developed by a 2200+ Rated Arena Player Includes PvP Macro Guide Includes PvP Video Tutorials Detailed instructions on how to fight every

class from any of your characters Includes recommended PvP Talent Specs

Profession Guide Fastest and Cheapest Routes to Level Step by Step Instructions Both Horde and Alliance

Introduction Death Knight StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetFor DPSFor Tanking

Gear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Druid StrengthsWeaknesses Stats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Hunter StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Paladin StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Priest StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Mage StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Rogue StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Shaman StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Warlock StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Warrior StrengthsWeaknessesStats To GetGear to Look ForTalent TemplatesRotation SuggestionMajor Glyphs to Get

Resources