Yes, as usual, I’ve written up Quick-Start Guides for the latest WoW Patch – in this case, the “All change!” 5.04 patch that arrives today (or tomorrow for EU people).
These aren’t your usual EJ-style walls of text – those guides are very valuable, and I’m hugely grateful to the people who write them, but we’re doing something different.
My goal is to get you up and running with the new patch as quickly as possible, without having to read 8,000 words to get there. If you want more hardcore information, we link to detailed posts from Serious Theorycrafters at the end of each article, but the Quick-Starts will get you 90% of the way.
I know a lot of people find these useful, both for themselves in the madness of patch day and for linking to their friends, guildies, and even in LFR. Basically, anywhere someone doesn’t have the time to read and digest a full-length guide!
Here they all are:
Tanks
Healers
Ranged DPS
- Arcane Mage
- Fire Mage
- Frost Mage
- Affliction Warlock
- Destruction Warlock
- Demonology Warlock
- Balance Druid
- Shadow Priest
- Elemental Shaman
- Survival Hunter
- Marksmanship Hunter
- Beast Mastery Hunter
Melee DPS
- Feral Druid
- Assassination Rogue
- Combat Rogue
- Subtlety Rogue
- Frost Death Knight
- Unholy Death Knight
- Arms Warrior
- Fury Warrior
- Enhancement Shaman
- Retribution Paladin
- Windwalker Monk
If you find any errors in these guides, please do let me know on Twitter or by comment, and I’ll fix them!
And I’d really appreciate it if you can take the time to spread the word about these guides – they’re something very different to most guides, and a lot of people find them very helpful! Patch Day is pretty busy and loud – any help getting the word out over the noise is much appreciated.
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You’re awesome for doing this, I used your last guide all expansion. Cheers!
I want to thank you for taking the time to put these together, I continuously check your site for help and I recommend it to everyone I know.
yes i want to say this as well, everyone should know about these guides, they help out alot.
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for doing this yet again. I use your guides for all my characters and they’re enormously helpful. I’m always referring people to your site!
Frost Death night link is not working from this page. Keep up the awesome work
Nevermind must have been my internet sorry
Frost DK link throws up a 404.
Try again now – it seems to be fixed.
Frost DK link on here isn’t working for me either. But ty for all the help with all the toons…you do a great job
Try again now – should be fixed.
Can’t seem to open link to Frost DK. Tried on 2 different computers.
Should be fixed – try it now.
I just clicked Frost DK and this is what i get:
The requested URL /2012/08/wow-patch-5-0-frost-death-knight-quick-start-guide-stats-talents-and-spec-glyphs-rotation-reforging-and-gems-and-ability-priorities/ was not found on this server
been like that all day for me
Should be fixed as of the 30th – let me know if it’s still borked!
just wanted to thank you for taking the time to put this all together:) ill be useing it to fix all my toons:)
No worries! Glad it’s useful.
Just wanted to say thanks, this helps enormously with my vast herd of alts!
Not seeing any wrist enchants listed for any plate DPS?
You’re absolutely right! My apologies – I’ll get that fixed just now.
I want to say thanks for putting up an excellent site for all the different classes and specs.
It is extremely helpful and I reference it often.
I was just curious as to when there might be guides for the monk classes?
Thanks!
We actually have monk class guides already, but being an idiot I apparently haven’t linked them from here! Fixing that now.
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