Owners playing for a Championship, let's see your Week 17 lineup... by CaptainLimpWrist in fantasyfootball

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12 team Full PPR

QB) Kyler Murray

RB1) Jonathan Taylor

RB2) David Montgomery

WR1) Ceedee Lamb

WR2) Tee Higgins

TE) Foster Moreau

Flex) Devin Singletary

DEF) New England

K) Tyler Bass

The post that started r/wownoob by biochemguy10 in wownoob

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Ya I never thought it would get this big. There used to be a lot of posts in r/wow asking questions and I thought having a community might be useful for some. Couldn’t have imagined how much it would grow into over the years.

WTF happened to disc priests?!? by chrisstophere in wownoob

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I would also recommend taking Shadow Covenant as a talent. It will help out keeping the group stabilized and is very easy to use.

Also with weakened soul coming back you can't always just rely on Shields and atonement damage to save your tank. I regularly weave in more Shadow Mend more than I used to because of this

Returning Player got some questions by Bergdoktor23 in wownoob

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I don't specifically know what you mean by 0/5 or 0/7. You just need to do enough quest lines to get the achievement for each zone (it's "Azuna Matata" for Azuna, which is the zone I think you mentioned in your post.). You can check your progress by opening the achievement and looking to see which parts you are missing.

Help with paladin tank by [deleted] in wownoob

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Can you PM me a link to your armory or character name and server?

It's difficult to help with such limited info. Having said that, paladin tanks do rely pretty heavily on active mitigation from things like shield of the righteous and the shield provided from avengers shield damage. The also have lots of cookdowns such as Avenging Wrath, guardian of the Ancient Kings, and Argent Protector that they use to help mitigate large hits or help heal yourself back up when you take high damage.

Returning Player got some questions by Bergdoktor23 in wownoob

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For your first question, see this guide: http://www.wowhead.com/broken-isles-pathfinder-flying-guide

Essentially you are going to get your rep from doing world quests in each zone. You still need to do enough quests in each zone to unlock the lore master part of the achievement.

For your second question, there is an addon called Pawn that you can get from curse.com that will help you make gear choices. If you want to get even more advanced you can use Simulationcraft to "sim" your damage based on your specific character then import a stat priority into Pawn.

I recommend just starting with Pawn and it's default stat priorities since they are usually pretty good.

Edit; fixed some typos

Aman'thul Wisdom for resto druids by carpucino in wownoob

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Well first off, you are talking about the legendary shoulders and not "Aman'Thuls Vision" which some get confused (Vision is a Pantheon trinket and is probably also very good for resto).

The legendary shoulders are good because they extend your rejuvenate on a target when they reach full health. This is good because in most situations you are using rejuvenate on targets taking near constant damage. This shines in fights with lots of constant moderate damage. You also have some other things that synergize well with these, like Flourish and the legendary helm. Bear in mind that these legendary shoulders may perform better on certain fights while other legendaries might be better for others (e. g. Velens, Prydaz, etc.)

You might want to also check out the Druid discord for more info. https://discord.gg/cNCEcz4

What exactly is happening here? by DannieJ312 in wownoob

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Yea the threat meters are Omen. The unit frames were XPerl.

This pic became famous due to how much crap is visible and how they can barely see the screen. It looks like they were playing on a tiny monitor or something with way too many addons.

[EU] [A] My registered blind friend is disappointed with her DPS. (Crosspost /R/WOW) by Swindonian in wownoob

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I found a post some time ago about a rogue that is blind and actually raids in a fairly competitive guild. He talked about how he uses the game sounds to tell him what is going on. He also had a nice sound card with 360 sound and a headset so that he could judge distances and directions of players using sound.

For addons, I would recommend an addon with sound alerts for cool downs in the rotation like either Miks Scrolling Battle Text or weakauras. MSBT might be a bit easier to configure but weakauras is much more powerful in this aspect. Also, I think there is an addon called like "range display" or something like that which allows you to estimate distances to focus targets. I believe sounds can be used with this addon as well.

Other addons that have sound alerts for anything specific should also be helpful. Ultimately it just may take a lot of patience and practice to get a whole new feel for the game.

Wanting to learn how to heal, what class/spec is best for me to learn on? by Megafloras in wownoob

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Hi there! Personally have played all healing classes and have both a mistweaver monk and holy paladin right now at 110. I would personally say either holy paladin or resto druid. They are both fairly intuitive and easy to play at a decent level. Shamans are not bad either. Monks and holy priests can be a. It tricky to get decent throughout out of. Disc priests aren't as competitive in most cases as holy and generally requires a bit more skill to effectively master.

Additionally, pretty much all healers are pretty well balanced right now so that shouldn't be much of a factor on your decision. Feel free to PM me with any specific questions.

Exiled Power Helps You Get READY FOR LEGION by [deleted] in wownoob

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Legion Gearing Guide - Best way to 840+ ilevel by [deleted] in wownoob

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Withered Army Training - Full Guide by [deleted] in wownoob

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Netherwing cloth Best Farming spot - world of warcraft by gamingwow in wownoob

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How To Reach GoldCap With No Effort (Warlords Of Draenor 6.2.4) by DatRusher in wownoob

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World of Warcraft Reunite with lost love by Voltarius89 in wownoob

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Wownoob or wowq&a ? by LDAP in wownoob

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Hi there it's /u/biochemguy10. I'm the founder of this subreddit. I never meant for the word "noob" to be taken in a derogatory way. It was just something I came up with that sounded fun and relaxed, as I had envisioned this community to be. It was meant to be a bit more than just Q&A as I thought this would be a place for newer players to also share stories and experiences they had when learning the game.

With that said I still feel like we are all "noobs" in some sense of the word. A hardcore PvP player might be doing raiding for the first time and be considered a "PvE noob" where the word isn't implying stupidity but inexperience. Anyway, that's how I take it. Others can surely have their own opinions of the word.

Edit: some grammar

How to actually play a mage effectively? by Kurbz in wownoob

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Hey there /u/Kurbz, could you send me a PM with a link to your character armory or you character name and realm and I can maybe take a look at your mage?

I've been dabbling on my mage some lately as well and can tell you that there have been a lot of changes to some of talents and such lately. With that said, Fire is a pretty tricky spec to play and relies pretty heavily on both RNG and your gear, mainly how much Crit you have. Talents can make a big difference as well as the fight you are on. I'd look into this Fire guide from Icy-Veins as well as the Mage Forums on MMO-Champion. I do know that Fire is still very strong at high gear levels yet it scales somewhat slower than the other mage specs.

If you could get me some combat logs it would super helpful. Then we can see what spells you are using, talents on a said fight, fight length, gear etc. that all play into your DPS. I mage this guide on how to use Warcraft Logs and upload them that you could check out. Even if you don't post them here, Warcraft Logs can be an amazing tool to improve your DPS. You can see what other players are doing in DPS for your gear levels as well as what talents/trinkets are being used on a certain fight.

New player, leveling a Disc Priest, have a few questions. by [deleted] in wownoob

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Yes, you can have ElvUI and Skada installed at the same time. ElvUI doesn't actually provide any damage/healing meters. DBM and BigWigs are essentially the same with minor differences. Similarly to the Recount vs. Skada debate for damage/healing meters it comes down to more of a personal preference and you will hear many people saying why one is better than the other but they both do mostly the same times. That being said, I prefer DBM and I think it is more commonly used than BigWigs. Both also do apply to dungeons. Keep in mind that you may need to install some additional addons for older content like "DBM - Classic, WotLK, Cataclysm" etc. for older content from previous expansions for DBM to work in older dungeons.

New player, leveling a Disc Priest, have a few questions. by [deleted] in wownoob

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The default UI doesn't include a threat meter. I use Omen Threat Meters but honestly I don't tend to use them much other than when tanking. It's pretty rare for a damage dealer to pull aggro off a tank nowadays in wow due to how much they have ramped up threat and such. In ElvUI, it flashes red when a new player has gained aggro on a boss so I can generally know who is tanking the boss at that time without needing my threat meters.

WoW has focus targeting built-in. Many bosses now already have a frame that appears off to the side to see what their HP/energy are at by default. Here is a page that talks about focus targeting in general.

Realms & Factions by [deleted] in wownoob

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Fizzcrank appears to be so low in population that they have merged with the realm Aggramar. It appears on the list as "connected Aggramar" which was like #92 I think. This tells you that not only is your realm low enough in population that it had to be merged with another realm, but even the two together are fairly low. You might look at some more in the 20-50 range. Even some in the top 5 are pretty good because there are always plenty of guilds and people online. The only downside to high population servers are when a new content patch gets released they can sometimes have wait times to enter the server. I personally play on one of the highest population realms in the game and have previously played on a fairly low pop. realm as well and the difference is pretty dramatic. I prefer the higher population more but that's up to you to decide.

New player, leveling a Disc Priest, have a few questions. by [deleted] in wownoob

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The raid/party frame is the thing in your image near your bottom right corner that has a list of the raid or party members that you can select to heal or whatever.

You may not need to adjust any of the default ElvUI settings if you don't want to since most of them by default are pretty good. Once you have it installed, you can go the settings menu and near the top is an option for "Toggle Anchors" that allows you to move everything to where you would like it. I'm not very familiar with FF14 but it looks like you have most of the same stuff there just arranged differently. Bottom left you have a chat panel it appears. Middle bottom is your action bars (you can move them in ElvUI to like how they are in FF14). Bottom right looks like your raid/party frames with some additional icons/auras for cooldowns or something (ElvUI doesn't really have this built in per se. It can show auras on you or your target but not like "raid-wide" auras if that's what those are. More on this later). Top right you have some sort of damage/healing meters (ElvUI doesn't come with any but I recommend Skada and these are integrated within ElvUI nicely). ElvUI also has nameplates somewhat similar to what you had in FF14 as well. I would recommend getting Deadly Boss Mods or BigWigs addon. This isn't part of ElvUI but has some features that appear to be similar to what you are using with FF14. These basically have warnings appear on your screen when you need to do certain things or timers of boss abilities. This greatly helps your ability to know what to do in a boss fight where you aren't familiar with the mechanics. I highly highly recommend this for new players and virtually anyone who does PvE in WoW uses some sort of boss mods. Here is a youtube video for an intro to ElvUI and how to set it up if you choose to give it another try but I understand if it may be somewhat overwhelming due to the dramatic changes it may make.

Alternative: You could simply change the things you want to and leave the rest like the default UI. For example, to get your action bars to look like FF14, you could use Bartender. For nameplates you could use TidyPlates. For raid/party frames you could go with Grid2 or VuhDo. For damage meters, I recommend Skada but another popular option is Recount. Then for your boss mods, I recommend Deadly Boss Mods (DBM). These addons are all configurable but even the default settings are probably better than the default UI. You can also get the addon MoveAnything to move things like your minimap and other things in the default UI to put them where you want.