We've split out the massive DPS guides into guides for each spec for better readability--you can still find guides for the other specs linked on the right-hand side of the guide page.

Instead of putting all the information on one page, we've broken it up into multiple pages. This gives us more flexibility and space to explain basic concepts like rotations or embed a talent calculator build.

Our Classes Page has gotten a facelift, with a new layout, more links, and guides that provide an overview for Tanking, Melee DPS, Ranged DPS, and Healing.

You can find class guides by going to http://www.wowhead.com/classes which is on the navigation menu at the top of each page, and we've also added links on our talent calculator pages.

To help with better gearing recommendations, we've been adding new item features in the past few months--stat weights now have values for different gear levels (currently ilvl 630, 705, 720, and 735 for 6.2), you can quickly compare two items (including DPS trinkets) at http://www.wowhead.com/upgrade, you can see detailed Warforged/socket variations when ranking items for a particular slot, and you can pin a character via the Profiler to get alerts if an item you're browsing is an upgrade or not.

To celebrate our revamped class guide launch, we’re giving away one Spectral Tiger Mount courtesy of WoWTCGLoot! Simply comment letting us know what your main spec is for 6.2 by July 9th for a chance to win!

Guide to Ranged DPS: Gameplay Tips and Class Selection

posted 2015/01/03 at 12:53 PM by Anshlun

guide to tanks and tankingGuide to Dealing Damage and Ranged DPS.

Those who do damage mostly to nearby enemies, or, as we call, enemies in melee range.

Those who do damage to enemies usually from a far distance.

Make sure to deal as much damage as possible.

Position yourself properly to make sure to be in range of your enemies and not standing in something bad.

Unless explicit told to, avoid to stay nearby other raid members.

Kill enemies quickly so tanks and healers can have an easier time.

Warlords of Draenor Launch Guide

posted 2014/11/12 at 9:46 AM by perculia

Wowhead Class and Boosted 90 Prepatch Guides, Blizzard Video Guides, October 20th Hotfixes

posted 2014/10/20 at 1:02 PM by perculia

Warlords of Draenor Class Guidesupdated role guides

As many classes will have a different playstyle at 100 due to additional perks and talents, we've released these guides with their level 100 information so you can see how everything fits together. If something feels off with your class in the prepatch, it may be solved at 100 with additional mechanics.

The guides contain valuable prepatch information, including a summary of what's changed in the prepatch and enchanting/gem info at level 90, since you can't access the Warlords versions just quite yet.

Guides

Death Knight: DPS (Frost/Unholy) and Blood

Druid: Feral, Balance, Guardian, and Restoration

Hunter: Hunter DPS Guide (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival)

Mage: Mage DPS (Arcane, Fire, Frost)

Monk: Brewmaster, Mistweaver, and Windwalker

Paladin: Holy, Protection, and Retribution

Priest: Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy) and Shadow Priest

Rogue: Rogue DPS (Assassination, Combat, Subtlety)

Shaman: Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration

Warlock: Warlock DPS (Affliction, Demonology, Destruction)

Warrior: Warrior DPS Guide (Arms/Fury) and Protection Warrior

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Patch 6.0.2 Survival Guides: How to Play Your Class, Prelaunch Event, New Content, and Gearing Up

posted 2014/10/14 at 12:21 PM by perculia

Also do keep in mind that if you do not see 6.0.2 information on a database page or some links look odd, it is most likely due to cache. The database is updated on our end, just clear your browser cache to update the page.known bugs, hotfixes, and patch note clarifications

This guide covers all the content and system updates coming in the Warlords of Draenor prepatch--before the expansion hits.

This patch contains many system and UI changes for Warlords of Draenor--you just can’t access Draenor content or level to 100.

Here are the improvements:

View this Guide

With currency changes coming in the prepatch and an item level requirement for the special version of UBRS, we thought we’d put together a guide on some easy new ways to get gear.

We’ve also put in a refresher course on item changes relevant to the prepatch as well--including changed gem stats and removed combat perks.

Gearing up Quickly:

Gear Changes:

View this Guide

Patch 6.0.2: The Iron Tide hits with a special prelaunch event featuring the Iron Horde. This features an instance with special armor and a new Blasted Lands questline that can only be completed for a few weeks.

Completing the level 90 version of Upper Blackrock Spire rewards special ilvl 550 loot, some of which resembles popular old items. We've included loot tables and strategies in our guide.

Completing the Blasted Lands questline rewards Iron Starlette and <Of The Iron Vanguard>.

View this Guide

Class information is a crucial resource for players in the prepatch with all the spell changes, so our expert guide writers have updated their beginner class guides for the prepatch and level 100. We've gone for brevity, to give you just the core facts you need to get started, without bogging you down with hugely detailed strategies.

We also have extensive list of class changes throughout the Warlords of Draenor beta. They are organized by spell type and then what's new, changed. and removed. We've also included pictures of changed spell effects and new Tier armor.

View this Guide

Warlords of Draenor™ Beta Patch Notes: August 27 and Class Blue Tweets

posted 2014/08/27 at 7:34 PM by perculia

Warlords of Draenor Class GuidesEpicurean

Typhoon now has a range of 15 yards (down from 30 yards).

Wyvern Sting now has a 1.5 second cast time.

Silence is now available to Discipline and Shadow Priests.

Deadly Throw now requires 5 Combo Points in order to interrupt spell casting (up from 3 Combo Points).

no longer removes movement-impairing effects.

Pillar of Frost now increases Strength by 15% (down from 20%).

now increases attack speed by 20% ~~35%~~ (down from 45%), and haste by 5% (up from 0%).

now increases the damage of Obliterate by 50% (up from 40%) and melee damage by 35% (up from 30%) while wielding a two-handed weapon, and increases the damage of Frost Strike by 50% (up from 35%) while dual-wielding.

Razorice now deals 4% additional weapon damage (up from 2%), and increases Frost damage by 2% 4% per stack (down up from 3%).

now increases all damage dealt by 15% ~~20%~~, instead of increasing rune regeneration rate.

now increases your ~~critical strike chance~~, Multistrike chance, haste, and Stamina by 10% (up from 9% to Stamina only), reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%, increases the damage of Death Strike by 100%, and grants 1 Runic Power per second while in combat.

Conversion no longer has an initial tick, and now costs 30 15 Runic Power/second for Blood, 10 Runic Power/second for Frost, and 20 Runic Power/second for Unholy.

Barkskin's ~~no longer provides pushback protection~~, but its cooldown has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Nature's Vigil, while active, increases single-target damage and healing caused by healing spells by 30% (up from 25%), and all single-target damage spells also heal a nearby friendly target for 40% of the damage done (up from 25%). Its healing now targets allies within 40 yards of the Druid (instead of within 40 yards of the target).

now has a 20% chance to trigger (up from a 15% chance), but now only grants 1 charge each time it triggers (down from 2 charges).

's effects have been incorporated into .

's cooldown is reset if it is dispelled.

now has a 6% chance to trigger for every 10 Focus spent (instead of a flat 30% chance). ~~has a 20% chance to trigger (down from 30%).~~

We've changed the combat rotations of each Hunter specialization (primarily through Ability Pruning) with the goal of them being a platform to build upon with talents. To facilitate this, we've modified several talents to add additional rotational depth. Hunters had many talent options which added abilities to their rotation, but most of them had quite simple usage, with little interaction with your rotation or other abilities. Now, there should be more of a variety; still some simple talents, but also some talents that create a more engaging combat rotation.
Barrage now has a 20 second cooldown (down from 30 seconds), costs 60 Focus (up from 30 Focus), and its damage has been increased by 100%.

Murder of Crows has been changed. Its duration, cost, and cooldown have been reduced by 50%. It no longer has a shorter cooldown when used on low health targets. Instead, its cooldown is reset if the target dies.

Fervor has been replaced with a new passive ability, Steady Focus.
Steady Focus increases Focus Regeneration by 50% for 10 seconds after using or twice in a row, or after using .

Survivalistthe chance to Multistrike by 10%Hunter

can no longer be used to heal the Mage's Water Elemental.

The Brain Freeze effect now increases Flurry's damage by 25% ~~15%~~, and can now stack up to 2 times. It also no longer triggers from the Bomb Talents, and instead has a 10% chance to trigger from casts. Each Multistrike of Frostbolt increases that cast's chance by an additional 25%. (Total of 60% on double-Multistrikes).

Power Strikes now triggers every 15 seconds (up from every 20 seconds), and also triggers from Effuse (for Mistweavers only), but no longer triggers from Crackling Jade Lightning.

Selfless Healer no longer causes to apply to Flash of Light. For Holy Paladins, it now increases the healing of Flash of Light on others by 35% per stack (up from 20%). For Retribution and Protection Paladins, the effect on Flash of Light remains unchanged.

Beacon of Light now has a small Mana cost.

Beacon of Light's effects have been changed and merged into baseline Beacon of Light.
Beacon of Light now causes Flash of Light and Holy Light on a Beacon of Light target to refund 40% of the spell's Mana cost instead of generating 1 Holy Power.

Shadow Word: Pain's initial damage is now considered direct damage, not periodic damage.
Shadowy Apparitions and Shadowy Insight are no longer able to trigger from this initial direct damage.

25%.

now grants Sinister Strike a 25% chance to generate an extra Combo Point (up from 20%) ~~deals 20% more damage~~, but no longer advances .

now causes Elemental Blast, Lightning Bolt, and Chain Lightning damage and multistrike damage to always generate an additional charge, up to a maximum of 15. Earth Shock will consume any charges beyond 1, dealing their total damage to the enemy target.

Magma Totem's damage has been increased by 100%, and now ticks faster with Haste.

's chance to trigger has been reduced by 20%.

Searing Totem's Searing Bolt now has a 2-second cast time (up from 1.5 seconds), but casts faster with Haste, and its damage has been increased by 120% ~~65%~~.

Healthstone's cooldown will now not reset until the player leaves combat. Healing from this ability is now a flat amount (instead of a % of maximum health) and can no longer be a Critical Effect.

Haunt now increases periodic damage by 30% (down from 35%).

Mastery: has been slightly changed. It now passively increases all damage by 6% regardless of form. While in , it further increases the damage of , Chaos Wave, , Immolation Aura, and while by 12%.

now increases all damage by 30% (up from 20%) while using one-handed weapons.

now increases damage by 10% (down from 15%).

Protection: Heavy Repercussions: Shield Slam deals 50% additional damage while Shield Block or Shield Charge is active.

We also expanded to affect all damage, not just Physical damage, and increased its duration slightly so that it can cover burst windows like Colossus Smash adequately.

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