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Rogues have 3 talent trees, the first is assassination, the second is combat, and the third is not subtlety, its “utility”. And, since “utility” doesn’t show up on the meters, you are left with 2 choices for DPS.
 Table of Contents:
1 – Stats.
2 – Gems & Enchants.
3 – Specs and Glyphs.
            3.1 – Combat.
            3.2 – [...]

Categories: Raiding, Rogue
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(Written by Sudhee) (Write for us!)

“DK’s can tank in all 3 specs.” Tired of hearing that without knowing why? Well, read on…

Starter DK tanking gear for heroics.
Tanking stats.
Blood tanking spec.
Frost 2h tanking spec.
Frost [...]

Categories: Death Knight, Raiding
Posted by Jason Cox 9 COMMENTS

This guide covers the basic information you will need

Categories: Addons, Raiding, Shaman
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(Written by Karch) (Write for us!)
For mages looking to improve their DPS, there are 3 basic questions you should ask:
1)      Are you spec’d right?
2)      Are you geared/gemmed/enchanted right?
3)      Are you using the right rotation?
Today we’re dealing with the first of those questions.  While there are a handful of proper PvE builds and mages can debate [...]

Categories: Mage, Raiding
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(Written by Nicholas) (Write for us!)
This guide will provide a general overview of how to best use a paladin tank, and the gear requirements and stats that you require to tank successfully in the level 80 raids.
1.Gear Requirements
A paladin tank needs to have gear with a minimum of 540 defence rating for Naxx and subsequent [...]

Categories: Paladin, Raiding
Posted by wowconfidential 31 COMMENTS

The following article is a WoW Confidential readers guest submission, I’d like to thank Karch for this fantastic guide on PvE raiding for Mages, you can visit his new blog at http://magekarch.wordpress.com/ which is a site devoted to mage PvE discussion.

The two guides below are designed to help mages who are just getting into raiding, or [...]

Categories: Mage, Raiding, WOTLK
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 Macros may seem really complex when people are listing all the code and variables that go into creating this simple piece of code. Well Blizzard has just come out with a new guide to make it easier for those who want to start incorporating macros into their game play.
Macros take away a lot of the [...]

Categories: Leveling, Misc, Raiding
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In order for your guild to progress to higher end content, you must not only have well geared members and the right strategies, but those members must also know their classes and excute them properly. 
While most of us use SWSTATS to track our DPS, HPS and various other metrics to see whose lacking or which [...]

Categories: Addons, Raiding
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There are many ways to increase your dps as a caster:

Gear -> Spell damage, Spell hit, Spell Crit
Talents
Player Skill -> Spell sequences, reaction time, ability in situational encounters

However, as you progress as a DPS caster class, there starts to become a ceiling to your dps, something beyond the control of the 3 points above. That [...]

Categories: Addons, Raiding