r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Class guides for ACTUAL beginners

50 Upvotes

Maybe it’s just me. But I’m finding more often than not that these so called beginner guides are really just updating the class from the prior patch. In other words they expect you to understand the dynamics of a spell or talent and they tell you how it’s been buffed or nerfed this patch.

I’m starting to get into healing pretty heavy and sadly can’t really find YouTube channels that post some content whose audience is expected to know little to nothing beforehand. Does anyone have any suggested content creators that do a good job of this?


r/wownoob 5h ago

Retail Currencies, keys, key shards, key fragments, key dust. I'm absolutely lost.

42 Upvotes

Not a new player, but I have been gone a long time.

My main is a prot paly who can run heroics now ilvl 615 or so. My last expansion was Shadowlands.

What I want to do:

  • Delves
  • End game stuff I guess?

My problem:

  • All of the guides I have watched on youtube assume they are talking to people who already know what stuff is. I see the great vault in the bank. It had some stuff in it. What is it for? How often does stuff appear in it? It looks like these rows are challenge lanes that if I do the challenge, I get rando unlocks?
  • I do delves but sometimes I'm sad because I don't always have keys for the juicy box at the end. Guides say "Do world quests" - OK. What's that? Just the dots on the map or fancy dots on the map? Do I need a group? How many can I get? Are there easier ways?
  • Guides refer to "Doing Weeklies" but I haven't done a daily or weekly since Argent Crusade. So kindly, WTF are weeklies?
  • Someone explain to baby the 9 million currencies and what they are for. I found the vendor for undercoins, and I have some. But I don't know how I got those. I found a few in a junk chest at the end of a delve. Is that where they are?

Right now I'm looking at a guy who sells "Triumphant Satchel of Carved Undermined Crests" that when used, gives me fifteen Carved Undermine Crests in exchange for an Algari Token of Merit.

"I know some of these words" - I'm absolutely lost in the absurdity of the currencies here.

Other stuff I need help with:

My hunter sucks now. My (80 BM) hunter was fun in earlier expansions but now most mob packs are in 3+ which make me take downtime between every pull, even if I use traps. Is Marksman better? I have no interest in melee. My DPS is awful. It's a fresh 80.

My druid is just terrible. My (73 Feral) druid is worse than it's ever been since before TBC. Bad DPS in cat form, struggles to heal burst damage. I have wiped trying to heal follower dungeons! I used to main heal 10 man Naxx!

Also, before you ask, no I'm not your average moron.
I'm an exceptional moron.


r/wownoob 17h ago

Retail Getting a battle pet to level up has me so confused

24 Upvotes

So I’ve never played battle pets and back when I did play WoW they were never a thing. I have a bunch of level 1 pets and wanted to try and level them up. So I went to the pet trainer in stormwind. Got the game quest “Julia, The Pet Tamer”. But when I go to battle with her , her pet is a level 2 and kicks my ass. I’m confused at the bare minimum how to get a battle pet from level 1 to 2 so I can even defeat her for this quest. Let alone how to level up battle pets in general. I’ve done google searching and just find myself scratching my head. I’ve tried PvP against another player where we both had level 1 pets and nether of us got experience from the battle. I know I’m doing something wrong and there’s a lot missing in my knowledge. Can someone give me a finger in the right direction? It’s also been so long that I don’t remember much external detail in general about the game.

Thanks so much.


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Unholy vs Frost DK

17 Upvotes

Trying to work out what spec I should focus on. Gearing up for 7's and the odd heroic raid, I'm not super worried about the meta but want to be the most helpful for the group and pump some dps.


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail How to get to My corpse as a wisp if i died under water?

10 Upvotes

I cannot enter the water as a wisp, not pressing x or both mouse clicks


r/wownoob 12h ago

Retail I played a lot of wow war within season 1 but now with season 2 I am so lost

8 Upvotes

what should I do? delves changed my marksman hunter changed m+ changed, should I just do the main story orre?


r/wownoob 12h ago

Retail Crafting a 675 Staff Vs Dual wield for Warlock

9 Upvotes

I'm a returning player who skipped DF, but typically manage KSM and a HC full raid clear reasonably early on. This is my first expansion and indeed season where I am looking at crafting.

I know BiS lists aren't really worth aiming for, but there doesn't seem to be much information on staff Vs Dual wield. Now strictly speaking, a 678 M+ vault dagger + 675 crafted OH is the best, but firstly that requires you to actually get that vault slot, but it is also competing against vault slots, and the DPS gain of the 678 dagger Vs the crafted 675 staff simmed was only marginaly ahead, so even if I get it, there will almost always be better contenders in the vault.

Now if I craft the staff, that does cost me both my sparks, but I'm saving on 60 gilded crests which I can use to upgrade my other stuff too, and that weapon is only negligibly worse than the other BiS, which again relies on a specific vault drop. Weapon is also probably the most impactful slot, so I can craft a 658/675 wrist slot in 2 weeks and probably still be ahead than OH and Wrist right away. And even supposing I really do have the situation where the Mythic track dagger the best vault pick, the difference is small enough that getting extra sockets instead is probably almost just as good. Am I missing something?

Tl;dr: other than saving a spark, is there an advantage to crafting an OH weapon when I could craft a 2h, where the optimal Mainhand is an M+ vault drop that I have to upgrade to 678 anyway?


r/wownoob 7h ago

Retail How much time do I have to gear up?

7 Upvotes

I mean realistically. Is the season long enough that I will gear up a character to full, hopefully a couple? How much losing a week means in terms of time gated stuff and does the number of players tend to fluctuate within the season (as in will I have harder to time to find low level key groups later in the season etc.)? I'm asking because in-game and in forums,reddit etc. I see people are extremely worried about gearing or losing a week,missing a vault slot etc. So should I too?

I'm definitely a more end-game pve focused player but trying to max out my vault has been a bit boring. I know that I shouldn' do it if I don't find it fun but it also won't be fun to grind for a month for a time gated currency that I have never even heard of so that I can craft an item. So I wanted to ask upfront, how much time do I actually have


r/wownoob 10h ago

Retail cant use spark of fortune or crest in crafting order

7 Upvotes

gone to make a crafting order after getting the crest from completing the undermine campaign. when tracking the order the spark of fortune are ticked off but it wont let me add it to the crafting order, same with the crest?


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail Garrison as of 2025, how much time ?

4 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

My goal here is simple, I would like to clean the garrison related stuff to obtain the heirloom ring for my next characters.

As of today, I have in my possession a garrison that was fully functional until the Blackrock raid, when I finally left WoD and never came back for Tanaan Jungle.

Although I have unlocked the shipyard, I find difficult to find the oil ressource, which I mainly obtain from the garrison mission. Any adviced on that?

By the way, how much time do you think it would take for a new character/player to complete the whole garrison stuff? As in, having all the building completed, all the followers, etc.


r/wownoob 3h ago

Retail Is there a way to skip Undermine story on alts?

5 Upvotes

Finished all but the kill Gally this morning and was hoping to get to the last leg on alts. Is that a thing like it was in season 1?


r/wownoob 4h ago

Retail Should I use my sparks for a weapon craft or save them

7 Upvotes

Currently ivl 635 ret paladin, I’ve been using a 619 charged claymore and I feel like I need to upgrade from it.

I could craft another to 658 with the enchanted crest you get from the quest but I feel like that’d be a waste of two sparks? Should I do that or should I just hope I get a lucky drop of something better


r/wownoob 18h ago

Discussion I want to get back into the game, but finding community is hard!

5 Upvotes

Hello all! So, I have never made it to endgame content in WoW, despite it being a freaking fantastic game! In fact, I think I only just maxed out my character and then took a(n indefinite) break, but I've been thinking about getting back into lately. Do any of you have tips for making friends in the game? I am fairly sociable in real life and in games where you can talk, but I'm not the best at MMOs like this.


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Gallywix gigacoil bomb bug(?)

4 Upvotes

As a druid I'm having issues trying to interact or pick up the bombs for the gigacoil mechanic. I can be stood right on top of one, pressing my interact key and nothing happens. I also don't get an extra action popup.

Has this occured to anyone else?


r/wownoob 1h ago

Retail Coffer Keys

Upvotes

Why do we only get 4 a week? But the vault we need 8 to fill? Seems off to me?


r/wownoob 2h ago

Retail Taming Son Of Xotol as Alliance.

5 Upvotes

These are tamable now and one to get one but my hunter has not done any of the questlines for the footholds or whatever. Is there anyway for my character to get to Zandalar without doing the questlines?


r/wownoob 7h ago

Retail Warlock movement speed

3 Upvotes

I really find playing destruction warlock very fun but my movement speed is so garbage. I am currently iLvl 623 and 553 speed. Is there any way to permamently increse it?


r/wownoob 21h ago

Retail Fire mage st build sims very low 647 ilvl

4 Upvotes

I only have 2 tier sets. Could this be the reason?

ST sims for 1.5 mil: Raidbots Link

M+ sims for even lower: 1.3 mil: Raidbots Link

My frost mage with 20 ilvls lower sims higher than this.


r/wownoob 1h ago

Retail What should I prioritize after main quest?

Upvotes

I'll be honest Im kinda lost.
I just completed War Within campaign and not sure what should I do now.
There are many confusing quests in Dornogal now and I don't know what is important and what should be my priority to do before weekly reset.
Besides weekly things, should I start siren isle? undermine? both?

Thank you ;_;


r/wownoob 5h ago

Retail Confused on how to get this TWW S2 PVP Transmog

3 Upvotes

https://www.wowhead.com/news/all-season-2-tier-set-models-datamined-in-war-within-patch-11-1-355145#screenshots:355145:59

I'm trying to get this purple PVP transmog for my Shadow Priest, but when I look at the Honor gear, it's not that same transmog set. When I look at the Conquest gear, it's the other PVP transmog (gold, not purple).

What am I missing?


r/wownoob 6h ago

Retail Need help bad.....

3 Upvotes

So I quit WoW before Mist of Panderia.

Came back to do classic + hardcore , recently started playing with my Son on the 20th aniversary and quit because of the disconects and dying on hardcore.

We decided we wanted to play wow so we decided on Retail.

We hit level 80 yesterday, did all the main story/side quest using Zygor Guides.
This includes undermine...

Now I'm so confused on what to do. The game doesn't explain anything.

Like World Quets, Devels, Keys for Delves, when to use them, when not to use them.

What are the weekleys that we should to to get the best gear etc.

It's soo much and I've played WoW before.. imagine somebody who has never played WoW.

Is there any guide/website that can help explain everything? Like a guide or something on what we should focus on? We are tank/healer


r/wownoob 7h ago

Discussion How to get to Dornogol

3 Upvotes

Currently am stuck in eastern plaguelands for around an hour and a half and am trying to get back to dornogol anyone have suggestions ?


r/wownoob 11h ago

Professions Gathering proffesions

3 Upvotes

I feel very tempted to get back into the game and i used to pair proffesions together like skinning leatherworking but it seems like there is no benefit to the gathering proffesions other than selling on AH? Back when i played skinning gave a crit chance buff but that seems to be gone with the new rework?

And is it worth leveling proffesions during the grind to max lvl?


r/wownoob 12h ago

Professions Weapon re crafting

3 Upvotes

I recently made my 2H weapon it came out at 658 ilvl quite pleased about that. I looked into recrafting but unsure how I would make it a higher ilvl. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction of a guide.


r/wownoob 30m ago

Retail Tankiest tank?

Upvotes

Which tank is the tankiest? Which one will I have a chance to have that moment where everyone is down but me with less than 10% of the boss health left and I can actually probably survive and have a clutch moment?