Category Archives: Gameplay

Guides relating to the overall gameplay, such as how to use the game’s features or to interact with other players.

Healing and Add-ons

Healing used to be a complicated beast, and while it is still by no means simple, World of WarCraft has been updated to ensure that all those characters who are capable of healing can do so with a uniform set of … Continue reading

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Level 80 Gear

The level 80 ‘endgame’ allows us to upgrade our characters’ armour quite significantly, through the emblems we earn completing dungeons, raids and daily and weekly quests. Characters may collect raid armour sets and PvP sets, while extra items are offered … Continue reading

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Emblems & Level 80 Gear

Sadly, as much as we try to avoid gearscore prejudice, and running dungeons for their loot rather than for an overall fun experience, there comes a point when your character hits 80, random heroic dungeons open up and you are … Continue reading

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Mage

Travel Brochure I know I’m not alone in enjoying an action bar full of teleport destinations; but sadly since I tend to dock Hearthstones and trade links in the same spot, it can be hard fitting them all in. Here, … Continue reading

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Warlock

Summon Demons You can set four demonic summons to one button: useful for all specs. as a means of bundling the imp, voidwalker, succubus and felhunter or felguard: #showtooltip /use [nomod]Summon Imp;[mod:alt]Summon Voidwalker;[mod:shift]Summon Succubus;[mod:ctrl]Summon Felhunter Equally, now that infernals and … Continue reading

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Shaman

Enhancement Shock Melee Because the melee damage output is so high, we shaman can basically just run up to stuff and start whacking it without having to cast spells or drop totems – but it helps to get a shock … Continue reading

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Priest

Levitate in a Bind I’m always more confident in my engineers for having a parachute button bound to my UI, with a keyboard hotkey to boot. When it came to playing a priest, I simply had to add one for … Continue reading

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Hunter

Sic! It’s often useful to add a ‘sic‘ function to one of your abilities if you prefer to keep your pet passive. You can add it to abilities like Hunter’s Mark but it’s far safer on a sting ability or … Continue reading

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Druid

Balance Mana Restoration One thing is true for all caster druids: a self-Innervate button is nigh on essential, as it means you won’t have to deselect whatever it is you’re fighting. /cast [@party0] Innervate The ‘@’ function could just as … Continue reading

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General & Professions Macros

Some macros are useful regardless of class, and there are some unique to professions too. Targetting Macros Crowd Control It can be quite useful to set a crowd-control macro if you play a rogue, mage, priest or paladin. Abilities like … Continue reading

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