Sections:

KeybindingsInterfaceGearingSpeccingMacrosPositioningJuking/InterruptingCoordination and TeamworkTricksConclusion

1. Keybindings and Interface
There are multiple styles of play, none really wrong but some are more effective then others. There are people who click all their abilities and make it to 2.6k+ ratings in arena, however there are much more who use 50+ bindings at those ratings. Some of you will argue and say that you click perfectly fine, and if you truly believe that then skip most of this section.

Anyway, lets talk about keybinds. The way I play is using qwes as movement keys, having bound a and d to abilities. I also use `-6, rfxcvtgyh (shift and control + all the previous) aswell as f1-f6, scroll wheel up/scroll wheel down and caps lock.

HAVING SAID THAT, I play on a laptop that has a very small keyboard where it is easy for me to reach my hand across to hit shift h effectively. When you read this don’t think oh shift + h is so easy to hit i’ll go and bind that to something I need to hit often/quickly in order to react to the situation. Shift + H is my mount, which is bound there just as a convenience.

R is the fastest button on the keyboard to hit, assuming you play with wasd keys as movement. Use this knowledge to bind it to something you have to react fast to hit, such as shadow word: death in order to sw:d polymorph, seduce, blinds, scatter shot, etc. Scroll Wheel Up (Mouse Scroll Wheel) is also incredibly fast. I bind scroll wheel up and scroll wheel down to dispel people I play with in 3s (scroll wheel up is my rogue, down is my mage). When I see that something is going to hit them I just start scrolling up or down and it comes off them very quickly.

It will take you a while to bind your keys to something that is both comfortable and functional, however it is definitely worth the trouble. Keep practicing with your new binds until you get it right, and even then look for opportunities to make your binds better.

These are currently my binds on my priest.

1 – Prayer of Mending – Easy to hit for frequent use.
2 – Greater Heal – Same as above.
3 – Renew – Same as above.
4 – Power Word: Shield – Same as above.
5 – Flash Heal – Same as above.
6 – Power Infusion – Somewhat out of reach, still easy to hit (though not spam due to CD).
F – Fear – Easy to hit, use often, need to use quick sometimes.
V – Dispel Magic – Easy to spam.
R – Focus Shadow Word: Death (Macro) – Easy to reach, fastest reaction time on this key.
X – Penance – Easy to spam.
G – Pain Suppression – Easy to hit fast.
` – Mana Burn – Easy to spam.
F1 – Target Rogue (Macro) – Easy to reach as I use VERY often.
F2 – Target Mage (Macro) – Same as above.
F3 – Inner Will – Easy to switch between F3 and F4 frequently.
F4 – Inner Fire – Easy to switch between F3 and F4 frequently.
F5 – Divine Hymn – Easy to hit but not spam due to use of once per game generally.
F6 – Hymn of Hope – Same as above.
Shift C – Power Word: Barrier (Macro) – Easy to hit fast, all my target spells (Mass Dispel, PW: B, etc.) are C, Shift C, etc.
Shift V – Leap of Faith – Easy to hit fast.
Shift R – Mind Spike – Can spam very easily then follow up with Shift + 3 (Mind Blast)
Shift X – Holy Fire
Shift G – PvP Trinket – Easy to hit bind, can do very fast but not on accident.
Shift T – Desperate Prayer – Easy to hit in emergencys.
Shift Y – Fear Ward Self (Macro)
Shift H – Mount – Simple convenience, hard to hit but don’t need to hit fast.
Y – Shadowfiend (Macro)
C – Mass Dispel (Macro)
Control C – Shadow Word: Pain
Control V – Devouring Plague
Control R – Cure Disease
Control T – Mind Control – Easy to hit, can spam frequently.
Control G – Wand
Control Y – Shackle Undead
Scroll Wheel Up – Dispel Rogue (Macro) – Very easy to spam, very fast reaction time.
Scroll Wheel Down – Dispel Mage (Macro) – Same as above.
A – Inner Focus – Easy to hit quickly, use often.
D – Dispel Self (Macro) – Very easy to hit quickly, use often.
Shift 1 – Drink
Shift 2 – Fear Ward
Shift 3 – Mind Blast – Easy to hit after Shift + R (Mind Spike) for frequent combo use.
Shift 4 – Power Word: Fortitude/Prayer of Shadow Protection (Macro)
Shift 5 – Mind Sear
T – Binding Heal
Caps Lock – Shadow Word: Death – Easy to hit for when you need to react fast to get a kill.
Shift F – Escape Artist (Racial)
Control F – Holy Nova – Easy to hit if you see a rogue/druid stealth.

I wouldn’t recommend copying my binds exactly, this is just to give you a general idea of what I bind where and why.

2. Interface
Again, there are many different ways to set this up. I personally use the default blizzard interface with a few minor changes. I do this because I find that the default interface is pretty minimalistic, so it doesn’t clutter up my screen much and allows me to see what is going on much easier. It’s also straightforward and easy to read.

This is my interface, playing on my druid. My priests interface is nearly the exact same. I use moveanything to move my frame and my targets frame closer to the middle so they are easier to see when I’m not looking at them. I have OmniCC on to show my CD timers left on abilities at a glance. My party bars are on the bottom right, modified through blizzards default interface to show important debuffs to dispel as well as clearly showing my parties health and their pets. I have a focus frame above that with the cast bar just below it. My cast bar and my targets cast bar are in the middle between my chat log and my party frames.

Essentially everything I need to see is laid out in an easy to glance at location with clear writing. When things are getting crazy and I need to take in a bunch of information quickly I just glance around my screen to see what’s up.

3. Gearing
As discipline for gearing I’d say go for at least 3000 resilience in current gear, with more when later seasons come out. Most priests play with between 3500-4000, although it depends on what setup you’re playing. Some teams you won’t need heavy survivability due to REALLY good peels or extra healing from another healer (such as Rogue/Mage/Priest or Holy Pally/Disc/Warrior). With that much resilience you will be using almost all PvP gear, with perhaps a PvE piece here or there (such as trinkets; DMC: Tsunami and the Archaeology trinket are EXTREMELY good for mana efficiency).

A good starting set to enter into arenas with is 5/5 Mooncloth Bloodthirsty, a Bloodthirsty PvP trinket (resilience one), most bloodthirsty spirit offsets (except for cloak, this should be the bloodthirsty spell penetration cloak). This should be fully enchanted and gemmed with Cataclysm enchants/rare gems.

Stats to Aim For:
Spell Hit Rating – 4%.
Spell Penetration – 200+
Spell Power – 7000+
Health/Mana – 110k/90k+
Resilence – 3k+
In-Combat Regen – 2k+

4. Speccing

Talent Calculator

This is a common discipline arena spec.

Optional Points:

Inspiration – These 2 points can be moved to either reflective shield, improved renew, or twin disciplines. However I feel that Inspiration really helps when being trained by melee.

Empowered Healing – These 2 can be moved to improved renew if you prefer that.

Glyph Choices:

Penance – Obvious choice, 2 second less CD on our best heal.

Power Word: Barrier – 10% more healing in those desperate situations can change the game from a loss to a win.

Shadow Word: Death – An extra 8k can mean the difference between a win or a loss, really helpful for getting kills.

Desperation – VERY key, using pain suppression in a stun can be hugely game breaking versus a rogue, warrior, mage, etc.

Mass Dispel – Allows you to get off bubble/ice block a second faster, which can sway the game.

Fear Ward – This glyph is optional and can be switched with Inner Fire or Prayer of Mending. I choose fear ward because I use fear ward every game to stop a fear. This is extremely helpful against priests, affliction locks and warriors to stop their instant fears. A minute off this can sometimes change the loss into a win.

Levitate – Optional, Frees bag space.

Shadowfiend – More mana is always good.

Shackle Undead – 5 More yards to shackle gargoyles and DKs in Lichborne.

5. Macros

I will list you all the macros I use, not all of these are mandatory but most are pretty useful.

Buffs
#showtooltip
/castsequence Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection
Both buffs in one button, frees up an extra bind.

Dispel Partners/Self

#showtooltip Dispel Magic
/cast [target=TargetsNameHere] Dispel Magic
This macro is for fast defensive dispels, instead of having to target who you want to dispel and then dispel them it simply does it in one button. Can save you a second or more.

Fear Ward Self

#showtooltip Fear Ward
/cast [target=YourName] Fear Ward
This macro is pretty useful to have when playing against classes with instant fears.
Just fear wards yourself so you don’t have to do it manually. This macros really useful when you see a priest or a warlock running at you to fear. It’s pretty obvious when those classes will do it because they have to be within 8 yards of you. Just hit this button and you avoid one of their fears.

Mass Dispel
#showtooltip Mass Dispel
/cast !Mass Dispel
Power Word: Barrier
#showtooltip Power Word: Barrier
/cast !Power Word: Barrier
These two macros just make it so that when spamming Mass Dispel and Power Word: Barrier you won’t lose the highlighted circle if you hit it twice.

Shadowfiend

#showtooltip Shadowfiend
/cast [nopet,harm][nopet,target=targettarget,harm]Shadowfiend
/petattack [harm][target=targettarget,harm]
/cast [harm][target=targettarget,harm]Shadowcrawl
/cast [target=Shadowfiend] Dispel Magic; Dispel Magic
My shadowfiend macro will first summon your shadowfiend if you don’t already have a pet, tell it to attack your target if it’s hostile, if not it will go to your target’s target. Hitting the macro again will tell your shadowfiend to use its shadowcrawl, for when it gets too far away from the target. Hitting the macro a third time will dispel your shadowfiend, useful for when the other team is trying to kite it or cc it.

Shadow Word: Death Focus
#showtooltip Shadow Word: Death
/cancelaura Power Word: Shield
/cancelaura Illuminated Healing
/cancelaura Divine Aegis
/stopcasting
/cast [@target,harm] Shadow Word: Death;
/stopmacro [harm]
/targetenemy
/cast Shadow Word: Death
/targetlasttarget
This macro will simply cancel all your absorb effects (including paladin mastery effect and all your shields) then cast Shadow Word: Death at your target if it’s hostile, or the closest enemy if your target is friendly, then switch back to your last target. This macros very useful for avoiding things like Polymorph, Scatter Shot, Blind, Hunter Traps, Gouge, and basically anything that will break on damage. DO NOT spam this macro, only use it when you KNOW that one of the spells I listed or another one of the same type will affect you as it cancels your shields, which is a large defense loss.

6. Positioning

This is one of many scenarios of good positioning for a discipline priest. I am assuming in this scenario that you are playing on Nagrand Arena against a melee/healer team. In this arena there are four pillars spread around a circle.

You are standing next to one of the pillars, your partner is between your pillar and one of the pillars adjacent to it. The melee from the opposing team is attacking your partner, and his healer is standing in the middle of the arena.

In this situation you are in line of sight of to heal your partner, as well as being within line of sight to dispel the opposing teams melee. You can also take a step out from behind the pillar to dispel the opposing teams healer well still being close enough that should they attempt to switch to you, you can go back behind the pillar to draw the melee out of line of sight of his healer. If your partner is attacking the melee this either forces the healer to run back behind the pillar you’re at, allowing you to fear them both. Or forces the melee to come back out from behind the pillar in order to recieve heals from his healer.

There are infinite different scenarios so I won’t draw diagrams for all of them. Use your imagination, but a general rule of thumb is to always stay near a pillar so that you have somewhere to take refuge behind should things get dicey. In the a scenario where you don’t have a pillar to line of sight behind, use range to your advantage. Most heals have a 40 yard range, whereas most damage/crowd control abilities have between a 30-36 yard range. You can always cast something at max range then run back a few yards to be out of range of a crowd control effect.

ALWAYS be coordinating where you are in relation to your partner. If you can’t get into good positioning tell your partner, and it’s up to him to move somewhere better.
Positioning is something you can be practicing constantly. It’s one of the basics to arenas and PvP, but it can make one of the largest impacts on the game. Most arenas are won and lost based on who has the best positioning.

7. Juking/Interrupting
Juking is the ability to fake a cast so that the opposing player uses his interrupt, allowing you to follow up with a real cast and not be interrupted. This takes lots of practice, but once you get the hang of it this can be employed very effectively.

MANY players interrupt the first thing you cast, so always juke the first cast when their interrupt is up. Begin a cast such as flash heal or greater heal, then move your character or hit escape .2-1 second in. This will make them think you are going to cast something, but when they go to interrupt you’ve stopped casting and they’ve hit their interrupt. They missed the cast which will allow you to cast your next ability without interruption. An addon that I HUGELY recommend you getting to help with this is InterruptBar (InterruptBar with Rebuke and Skull Bash : Combat Mods : WoWInterface AddOns). IB tells you when an interrupt is used and the cooldown left on it.

Juking is something you can practice in battlegrounds, duels, arenas, everywhere. Different players interrupt at different speeds, so try to notice patterns in peoples interrupts. Latency is also something that you should take into effect when juking. Sometimes you juke but still get interrupted, just remember this for next time.

Personally to practice this I would go duel a rogue, enhancement shaman, warrior or some other class with a fast interrupt just to get the hang of juking. Trying to stay alive well making them miss most of their interrupts is very good practice for real scenarios.

8. Coordination/Teamwork
Discipline priests are one of the few classes that rely heavily on their partners in order to do well. They are a VERY good support class, with good heals, good CC, strong offensive and defensive dispels well still managing good survivability, very good assisting burst when going for a kill, and extremely good multi-functionality on most of their spells.

Having said all of this, priests rely heavily on their partners to “peel” (stop using slows, stuns, crowd control, snares, etc) enemies off them. This is due to their relatively low mobility in terms of other healers. Well druids can kite melee very easily due to their travel forms, shamans can ghost wolf and paladins have freedom and plate armor.

Being vocal with your teammates is a key to victory. In arenas I call out everything using skype, which I find is much better then ventrilo. I tell my partners when I am being crowd controlled, when I’m drinking, out of Line of Sight, low on mana, helping burst, who I’ve dispelled for a switch, and when I need help to not die. The more you call out the more your teammates are aware of your situation and can react accordingly. Disc priests are a class that is supposed to take charge, tell your partners who is open to switch too and what they need to be doing. Let them do their own thing, but don’t be a voice in the background.

9. Tricks
Shadow Word Deathing CC – This has been unique to disc priests for a very long time. Allowing yourself to get out of polymorph and other crowd control effects that break on damage is huge and extremely useful in a variety of situations. The backlash damage on SW: D is enough to break polymorph, scatter shop, frost trap, gouge, sap, blind and repentance. It takes practice and quick reaction time but usually you can tell when you’re about to be hit by one of those effects just from the other players positioning. For example, if a mage is in LoS of you and casting polymorph, Shadow Word: Death him just in case. If a rogues running at you well your partner is at low health, Shadow Word: Death him at about 15 yards away in order to break the blind if its hits you. Shadow Word: Death effects will no longer go through absorb effects, i.e. shields so use the macro I provided in the macros section.

Inner Focus + Mind Control – This is a little known trick that is useful against melee when they’re attacking you. Inner focus makes it so that you can’t be interrupted through interrupt effects, silenced, or dispelled. Any melee class thats in range has an interrupt to stop mind control, which is a 2.5 second cast. When using MC in combination with Inner Focus, you won’t get interrupted. Using this combination after a cooldown such as kidney shot, hammer of justice, or throwdown is used can be a guaranteed 8 seconds of not dieing. Don’t use this when you’re too low however and need to heal, as the person you’re mcing will probably want to kill you harder as soon as they get out of it.

Life Grip (Leap of Faith) – Most people will realize that life grip can easily be used in a defensive way: pulling one of your partners to you will prevent most of the damage being put on them. Say you’re playing with a warlock and you have everyone hitting you within melee range, trying to kill you. Your fear is down from having used it a few seconds ago to stay alive, but you’re still losing health fast. You life grip your warlock on top of you who then fears everyone buying you a few seconds to top yourself back up. Less will realize that you can easily use this ability in an offensive fashion as well. If you’re playing with a melee class who is trying to stay on top of their target, who gets away through something like blink, disengage, of heroic leap you can run over to the target and life grip your melee to you, bringing them much closer to the person they’re trying to sit on. You can also use life grip really well to switch to a healer. Run to the healer, life grip one of your melee (preferably) to you so they can hit the opposing healer quickly. You’re other partner (if you’re playing 3s) can use another abilitiy (i.e. blink, etc.) to get over quickly and put out lots of pressure before the other team realizes whats happening.

Hymn of Hope + Shadowfiend – Shadowfiends mana regen is based on 3% of your maximum mana per hit. Hymn of hope increases your maximum mana by 15% for 8 seconds. Use your shadowfiend first, then channel hymn of hope in order for your shadowfiend to regen you more mana per hit.

Mind Sear Stealth – Mind sear does aoe damage and so can be used to get people out of stealth easily. Casting mind sear on a friendly target and having them run up blade’s edge bridge is a good idea to force the rogue to either wait at the other end or run all the way around. You can also mind sear when a rogue vanishes to hopefully get them out.

Mass Dispel around Pillars – Mass Dispel will cause whoever it hits to get in combat. If somebody is drinking around a pillar, using innervate around a pillar, divine plea, etc. Mass Dispel with them in the radius to dispel the effect or stop them from drinking.

Some of these tricks may seem obvious or basic, but I’m guessing a few of you might have learned a thing or two from them.

10. Conclusion
I hope after reading this you’ve learned a thing or two. Take everything with a grain of salt, as there are many different ways to play and this is just one of them. I hope that I’ve explained everything clearly and as in depth as I could have. I will continue to update this as comments come in.

70-72 Howling Fjord (Completed all the quests then head to Borean Tundra)
72-74 Borean Tundra (Completed all the quests then head to Dragonblight)
74-76 Dragonblight (Completed all the quests then head to Grizzly Hills)
76-77 Grizzly Hills (Completed all the quests then head to Zul’Drak)
77-79 Zul’Drak (Completed all the quests then head to Sholazar Basin)
79-80 Sholazar Basin (Completed all the quests here and if you have not reach
level 80, go to Storm Peaks but it is unlikely that you would not be level 80)
Storm Peaks (This zone is option to level)
Icecrown (This zone is option to level)
PVP ZONE: Wintergrasp

My recommendation of what dos and donts:

Don’t go to wintergrasp its full pvp!
Don’t do really hard elite quests unless you find a group very fast and do
not try to kill it yourself (unless you feel secure)
Do not linger at cities! Do not buy at the auction house! Don’t do pvp!
Do not go to instances !!! It is useless until you get to level 80
Try leaving your character at inns!
Focus on questing and have in mind what you are going to do next (remember to
install addons, questhelper)
Do all daily quests you see except those on sholazar basin-they give a lot of
xp and are really easy to do!!!

Guestposter D.Q. Tran have been playing WoW for a long time. “I were looking for the fastest way of leveling but it soon turned out that most leveling guides are useless. I have found many addons that enable you to level in-game and best of all, I have spent a lot of time writing details description of every single quests in the game.” _

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Getting from 1-525 in Jewelcrafting can be a costly venture if you’re uncertain which materials you need to use. This guide is split up between the various stages of jewelcrafting and lists the materials you will need to use. You can either farm them or purchase them, though you should be aware that lots of lowbie materials carry outrageous prices on the auction house due to people powerleveling professions and alts.

Apprentice & Journeyman Jewelcrafting

• 01 – 30 Create Delicate Copper Wire using 120 Copper Bars (save as you’ll need them later on)
• 30 – 50 Create Tigerseye Bands using 20 Tigerseye & 20 Delicate Copper Wire
• 50 – 80 Create Bronze Setting using 100 Bronze Bar (save as you’ll need them later on)
• 80 – 100 Create Gloom Band using 20 Bronze Setting, 40 Shadowgem, 40 Delicate Copper Wire
• 100 – 110 Create Ring of Twilight Shadows using 20 Shadowgem and 20 Bronze Bar
• 110 – 125 Create Heavy Stone Statue using 120 Heavy Stone
• 125 – 150 ALLIANCE ONLY: Create Pendant of the Agate Shield using 25 Moss Agate, 25 Bronze Setting
• 125 – 150 HORDE ONLY: Create Amulet of the Moon using 60 Lesser Moonstone and 30 Bronze Setting

Expert Jewelcrafting

• 150 – 190 Create Mithril Filigree using 140 Mithril Bars (save as you’ll need them later on)
• 190 – 215 Create Engraved Truesilver Ring using 25 Truesilver Bars and 50 Mithril Filigree
• 215 – 220 Create Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing using 5 Citrine and 10 Mithril Bar
• 220 – 225 Create Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior using 5 Aquamarine and 15 Mithril Filigree

Artisan Jewelcrafting

• 225 – 245 Create Thorium Setting using 65 Thorium Bars (you’ll have extra that you need later)
• 245 – 265 Create Ruby Pendant of Fire using 20 Star Ruby and 20 Thorium Setting
• 265 – 280 Create Simple Opal Ring using 20 Large Opal and 20 Thorium Setting
• 280 – 290 Create Onslaught Ring using 10 Powerful Mojo, 10 Essence of Earth, and 10 Thorium Setting
• 290 – 300 Create Emerald Lion Ring using 20 Huge Emerald and 10 Thorium Setting

Master Jewelcrafting

Once you reach these Outland materials, leveling becomes significantly easier. From here, you can use any color of Outland gem to craft the recipes within your spellbook. You will always have a recipe that is orange or yellow, so the exact combination you use depends on the gems you have available to you. The Outland gems you will need are Blood Garnet, Azure Moonstone, Deep Peridot, Flame Spessarite, and Shadow Draenite.

• 300 – 350 Create gems using 50 of any color Outland gems

Grand Master Jewelcrafting

• 350 – 395 Create any gems using spellbook recipes with Northrend gems.
• 395 – 400 Create Bloodstone Band using 5 Blondstone and 10 Crystallized Earth
• 400 – 420 Create Stoneguard Band using 46 Eternal Earth
• 420 – 425 Create Northrend blue gem cuts using the cheapest available Northrend blue gems
• 425 – 450 Create green quality gems using available Cataclysm gems
• 450 – 467 Create green quality gems using available Cataclysm gems
• 467 – 475 Create Hessonite Band using 8 Jeweler’s Setting and 16 Hessonite
• 475 – 495 Create Nightstone Choker using 20 Jeweler’s Setting and 40 Nightstone
• 495 – 525 Create Meta Gems (You’ll need to do dailies in order to get the patterns, which is a time investment.)
• 500 – 525 Create Fire Prism using 3 Carnealian, 3 Hessonite, 3 Jasper, 3 Alicite, 3 Nightstone, and 3 Zephyrite

Illustrious Grand Master Jewelcrafting

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Here will be three macro’s that will put your game settings to the lowest settings in the game.
Do this:

Login into the game.
Type ‘/m’ (without quotes) into your chatbox.
Create three new macro’s and put this into them:

Macro 1

/console ffx 0
/console hwPCF 1
/console shadowlod 0
/console timingmethod 1
/console showshadow 0
/console showfootprints 0
/console showfootprintparticles 0

Macro 2

/console overridefarclip 0
/console farclip 177
/console horizonfarclip 1305
/console detailDoodadAlpha 0
/console groundeffectdensity 16

Macro 3

/console groundeffectdist 1
/console smallcull 1
/console skycloudlod 1
/console characterAmbient 1
/console extshadowquality 0
/console environmentDetail 0.5

Now, this part is very important.
If you have a dual-core processor, add this to the first macro:

/console m2Faster 1

If you have a tri-core processor, add this to the first macro:

/console m2Faster 2

If you have a quad-core processor, add this to the first macro:

/console m2Faster 3

Then put them on your action bar and click them in order. (1 –> 3)

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The catch is, if you are a class that can heal, you can easliy lvl up with the help of any macro program that is available for free online. Just make a macro to cast some kinda self heal to keep you alive, and some instant dot or dmg move to ‘tag’ the npc.

As a druid, I just make the macro to:

Cast lifebloomTab targetCast insect swarmRepeat

depending on your hp/mana, you might need to increase the time from each action or repeat 2 & 3 a few times before needing to heal. I also found the best spot to be on the right side of the exit, where theres 2 npc. Just stand on the farther one so all the mobs will be in front of you to ‘tab target’ them.

This can get you a lvl in 30minutes from 66-70 if you mannually grind this. For the lazier people (like me), you can have the macro lvl you till 76 or so.

1. Picking your racials
Horde:
Blood elf is the optimal race for Horde. Arcane torrent in pve is by far the most useful racial in the game currently for horde, it gives you mana, and can aoe silence mobs.

Alliance:
Draenei – Basically useless, has nothing compared to the other two races.
Dwarf – Dwarfs have an ability called stoneskin ( Removes all Poison, Bleed, and Diseases from the Paladin and reduces damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds ) on a two minute cooldown. This may not be used in every fight, but it is great for reducing damage in certain situations.
Human – Humans gain a 3% increase in spirit, and a free pvp trinket as their racial, which makes Human the ideal choice for a holy paladin in PvE.

2. Speccing
31/5/5 is my personal spec that I use, but one point can be substituted somewhere for an extra point in Paragon of Virtue ( reduces the cooldown of divine protection by an additional 10 seconds, reduces the cooldown of hand of sacrifice by 15 additional seconds, and reduces the cooldown of avenging wrath by an additional 30 seconds)
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft – Link to the spec on Wowhead. ( Includes glyphs, which I will explain next )

3. Glyphs
Prime Glyphs:
Glyph of Holy Shock ( Increases holy shock crit by 5% )
Glyph of Word of Glory ( Increases the healing done by Word of Glory by 10% )
Glyph of Seal of Insight ( Increases all healing done by 5% while seal of insight is active )

Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Divine Plea ( Increases the mana gained from Divine Plea by 6% )
Glyph of Divinity ( You gain 10% of your maximum mana when using Lay on Hands )
Glyph of Light of dawn ( Light of dawn heals one additional target )

Minor Glyphs: ( these really don’t matter much )
Glyph of Blessing of Kings
Glyph of Insight
Glyph of Blessing of Might

4. Stat Priority and Reforging
Stat Priority:
Intellect: This is your primary stat, it gives you more spell power, crit, and more mana, which is always great.
Spirit: This gives you your mana regeneration, this is just barely under Intellect
Haste: Healing faster means your target lives longer, this should be used over crit.
Crit: Increases your crit of course, but as a paladin you gain crit from intellect as well.
Mastery: This is your worst stat, try to get gear without this, or reforge it into Spirit or Haste.

Reforging
Int > Spirit > Haste > Crit > Mastery
So if you have Mastery on an item, you want to replace it with spirit first, if the item already has spirit, you want to put Haste on the item.

5. Gemming
Brilliant Inferno Rubies ( 40 intellect ) – in Red sockets
Purified Demonseye ( 20 int / 20 spirit ) – in Blue sockets
Reckless Ember Topaz ( 20 int / 20 haste ) – in Yellow sockets
Brilliant Chimaera’s Eye ( 67 int ) – Red sockets ( for jewelcrafters )

These should be the only three gems you use.

6. Enchants
Gloves: Enchant Gloves – Haste ( 50 haste )
Boots: Enchant Boots – Lava Walker / Enchant Boots – Earthen Vitality. Either will be fine. ( 35 Mastery / run speed | 30 stam / run speed )
Rings: ( If you are an enchanter ) Enchant Ring: Intellect ( 40 int )
Belt: ( If you are an engineer ) Nothing is really super beneficial, since rocket boots can fail in raids now, it is not optimal to use them.
Helm: Arcanum of Hyjal ( Revered with Hyjal – 60 Int / 35 Crit )
Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone ( Exalted with Therazane – 50 int / 25 haste )
Weapon: Enchant Weapon – Power Torrent ( chance to proc 500 int ) / Enchant Weapon – Heartsong ( Chance to proc 200 Spirit ) for the cheaper folk.
Shield: Enchant Off-Hand – Superior Intellect ( 40 int )
Cloak: Enchant Cloak – Greater Intellect ( 50 int )
Bracer: Enchant Bracer – Mighty Intellect ( 50 int )
Chest: Enchant Chest – Peerless Stats ( 20 stats )
Legs: Sanctified Spellthread – ( 95 Int / 55 Spirit )

7. Spells
Holy Light: This is one of your major spells, that should be spammed on high health targets that need healing, or tanks that are not taking a large amount of damage.
Divine Light: This should be used when any target is at very low health and needs a heal, also used for healing tanks taking large amounts of damage
Holy Shock: Should be used on anything not at full HP on cooldown.
Holy Radiance: Used to aoe heal while everyone is near you, one of your highest healing spells.
Light of dawn: Also used to aoe heal while targets are in front of you.
Word of Glory: Mostly used on non aoe intensive fights, heals for a large amount with only the cost of holy power.
Judgement: If you are not healing at the time, use this every time you can, it grants a large amount of mana.
Divine Plea: Use this on cooldown, after you need mana of course.

8. Cooldowns
Divine Protection: 20% reduced damage for 10 seconds, on a 40/50/60 second cooldown. Should be used whenever you know damage is incoming.
Divine Shield: When you are about to die, this is your OH SHIT button.
Hand of Sacrifice: When you know your tank is about to take alot of damage, throw this on them with your divine protection to reduce damage to you and him.
Hand of Salvation: If someone is high on threat, give it to them, dps pulling generally means they are going to die.
Divine Favor: This is great to use coupled with Avenging wrath to increase your haste / crit / healing output in desperate times.
Avenging Wrath: As stated above, it is great coupled with Divine Favor to increase healing output.
Guardian of Ancient Kings: It is a great spell, but on a HUGE cooldown, so you want to use it carefully. I suggest using it when the tank is getting massively owned, or when the raid needs extra heals ( by healing people near that person, since it also aoe heals )
Lay on Hands: If someone is near death and still taking damage, Lay on hands them, it gives you 10% mana and heals them to full, and should be up nearly every attempt.
Rebuke: Throw an interrupt in here or there.
Aura Mastery: Should be used with Resist aura during any high elemental damage times.
Hand of Protection: Should be used on a person who has a bleed on them, or someone taking massive physical damage ( i.e. a non tank tanking something )

9. Professions
Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting are the top professions for most classes, as well as holy paladins at the moment.

10. Addons
As a healer, you are probably going to want some form of healing addon instead of standard blizzard frames.
Grid / Vuhdo / Xperl / Healbot are all decent addons to help you in your healing.
Bartender – makes your bars smaller, and makes your UI less cluttered.
Power Auras – Great addon to help with buffs and debuffs for certain fights and abilities.

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Generally, what I do to give me a better chance to get an instance in progress is that I know, as a healer, the queue will pop within a minute.

What you need to do is sit there and wait for the queue to pop and accept it immediately, and if you enter the instance immediately there’s a good chance the instance is in progress. However, if you accept it and others in the group have yet to accept it, the instance is most likely a fresh instance (of course, if say 2-3 people left an instance in progress, you this goes against this philosophy but it generally holds true).

What you need to do is log out if you see someone has not accepted the queue and just start over. This is not a guarantee to get an instance in progress but it gives you a better chance.

In steps, cause I know you guys love steps.

Queue for a heroic as a tank or healerWait for the queue to pop, and be ready to accept it immediatelyIf you get ported to the instance right away, chances are the instance is in progressIf you need to wait for the dps or tank/healer to accept the queue as well, log out and try again.

Attempt at your own risk, the healer or tank may have left for a reason

Here i’ll show you how to make up to 17k gold a day with fishing. This guide 100% works, I showed my friend irl how to do it and he’s already making gold by the thousands.

1. Profession
2. Product
3. How to Gather Product
4. How To Sell
5. Profit

1. Profession – Fishing

Fishing is a secondary profession which allows players to fish various objects, primarily fish, from surfaces of water (or lava). Most raw fish are edible directly or can be fed to Hunter Pets. Many can be cooked to improve their properties. (Raising Fishing and Cooking skills together is a good synergy.) Fish have value and can be vended (for a pittance, at low levels, but look at Goldenscale Vendorfish) or sold in the Auction House. Deviate fish caught both within Wailing Caverns and from the oases in The Barrens can fetch a good price, for example. A few fish are used as reagents for Alchemy, these will have a steady demand. Occasionally, fishing may also yield lower-level equipment, fish-related offhand items, locked chests, gems and herbs. Rogues can train up Lockpicking with locked containers they or others have fished. However, the Fishing Profession is often neglected, as it provides little opportunity to improve a character’s stats.

from WoWWiki Information

2. Product – Cataclym Fishes, Volatile Water, etc

First of all, with the release of cataclysm we get new food from cooking that gives really great buffs for raids, etc. Now fish for this amazing food is pretty expensive(up to 400g per stack with certian types of fish).

We’ll be fishing for these types in this guide:

Deepsea Sage Fish - Deepsea Sagefish – Item – World of Warcraft
Lavascale Catfish - Lavascale Catfish – Item – World of Warcraft
Albino Cavefish - Albino Cavefish – Item – World of Warcraft

As well as :

Volatile Water - Volatile Water – Item – World of Warcraft

Now, though I listed three types of fish, the main ones we’ll be selling are the Deepsea Sagefish and the Lavascale Catfish.

On my server Deepsea Sage Fish sells for about 150g a stack, while the Lavascale Catfish sells for about 300g a stack and Albino Cavefish sell for 15g a stack(not much but eh’, it’s gold).

3. How to Gather Product

I personally have been using a fishing bot called “Bl1zz4rDs FishY Bot” by Endecs, a member here. Here’s a link for the bot.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7ZML3SRI

It seems to be always up to date with the latest patch.

Download it, Open it with Administrator Privilege, and start the bot. It’s pretty easy to use.

1. Go to Settings > Keys and configure to your liking; Set MouseOverKey in your key binds from going in game > ESC > Key Bindings > and Set MouseOverKey to whatever you want. Set the Rod Key to whatever you want; Rod Key = Fishing, and if you use Lures/ any kinds of buffs set that too.

2. If you want it relog, alert you on whisper, stop after x amount of fishes go to extras and configure that to your liking.

3. When your done go to Main > select your WoW Proccess, and click on Standstill Fishing to start fishing, and stop to stop fishing.

First we’ll fish for Deep Sea Sagefish - Deepsea Sagefish – Item – World of Warcraft

The best place so far is in Uldum under the Throne of the Four Winds; there should be a reef sticking up ontop of the water for you to stand on and fish.

Next, we’ll fish for Lavascale Catfish - Lavascale Catfish – Item – World of Warcraft Albino Cavefish - Albino Cavefish – Item – World of Warcraft and Volatile Water - Volatile Water – Item – World of Warcraft

The best place so far that I’ve found is to fish these are Deathwing’s Fall in Deepholm, on
top of the rock formations where your too high for the monsters to attack you, and yes you’ll be fishing in the lava).

4. How To Sell

Once you get your fish let’s go to the Auction House.

Now, so the prices on fish do not go under, I usually sell the Deepsea Sagefish at
about 25-30g per 5 stack.

Now 30 * 5 = 150 gold.

People will sell stacks for high, while you sell them in small amounts for a few gold less, but will more then likely sell because they’re cheaper, and prices won’t go under because your not selling them in stacks of 20.

Now for Lavascale Catfish, and Albino Cavefish however, I usually sell them in stacks of 20, though i’ll probably change that after this guide.

Lavascale Catfish are about 300g on my server per stack, and I usually sell them for about 100g cheaper, though this may look stupid, it is very profitable because it’s way cheaper, and you will sell the fish faster, which comes in handy because you will get ALOT of lavascale Catfish in Deepholm.

Also, Volatile Water;
These sell for about 12g per unit.
So, 12 * 200 = 2400g per stack(Maximum Stack Size is 200 for Volatiles).

I usually sell them at 50g per stack of 5, so the same method as above, Cheaper but will sell insanely fast, and prices will stay the same.

5. Profit

Now if you fish all day, all night which I have been doing for a month straight now, you so should be making a lot of gold.

I get about 25 stacks every few hours getting Lavascale Catfish;
100g * 25 = 2500g every say 3-4 hours.
Next,
I get about the same amout of fish getting Deepsea Sagefish in Uldum, so
150* 25 = 3750g every say 3-4 hours.
and finally,
I get about 200 Volatile Water while gathering the fish above, so
200 * 12 = 2200g every 3-4 hours.

Now let’s calculates;

If you ONLY sell Lavascale Catfish; you’ll get about 7.5k a day.
If you ONLY sell Deepsea Sagefish; you’ll get about 11.2k a day.
If you ONLY sell Volatile Water; you’ll get about 6.6k a day.

Now obviously you’ll be selling the fish and water at the same time so add that and you’ll get between 14k to 17k gold a day from straight fishing.

So far i’ve bought a new Mechano-Hog Mount, and 22k gold worth of epics from the AH for my new dps spec.

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“I don’t know if anyone has pointed this out already, but there is a fortune to be made in Holiday pets. Jingling Bell, Red and Green Helper, and Snowman kit are all being dumped on the market this weekend and the undercutting brings these pets to very low prices. I’ve been buying them at anything under 100g, as they typically go for 300+ over the course of the year. Half my stock I bought at 40-50g, which is going to yield a nice turnaround over the course of 2011. Also, Preserved Holy sells well!

Just thought I’d pass it along, as your advice has made me almost 40,000 gold in the last couple weeks. ”

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I think this is an excellent way to make gold down the road, and shows your how inflation and supply vs demand works. Right now, there is a high supply, but a very, very low demand for these pets, as people will be getting them from the gifts, they will most likely simply use their own pets instead of going to the auction house. The pets are selling anywhere from 30-100g, and come 6 months down the road, during mid summer the pets will fetch 300-400g, like you said.

I suggest you buy as many as you can under 50g, and store for a later time to sell.

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