WoW Rookie: How to learn about raiding through heroics

Posted by on 07 28th, 2011

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New around here? WoW Rookie has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the WoW Rookie Guide . WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones. We all know that you should do heroic 5-mans before you start raiding. It’s more than just a maxim or saying; you need the gear, experience, and practice. But a reader recently mailed me and asked: I’ve only been trying to do endgame for the last few months, since I didn’t have time while working a full time job. Now, I am trying to learn how to raid by doing heroic dungeons. It’s going pretty rough and I’m getting some pretty good gear but I have a question. Ignoring the gear itself, what am I getting out of these dungeons? Do raid bosses actually work anything like heroic bosses? It’s a fair question, and I can see how someone new to the endgame might feel frustrated at not being in the “real” game. The bad news is that raid bosses often do work a little differently; some tactics and maneuvers that exist in raiding have no correlation to 5-man dungeons. For example, you never swap tanks in 5-man instances because you only have one tank at a time. But all is not lost. It might actually surprise you how many raid boss tactics mirror 5-man encounters. Let’s take a look at some of the T11 bosses and which 5-mans might help prepare you for them. (We’re looking at T11 bosses because, admittedly, you shouldn’t go straight from 5-man heroics to the Firelands.) Continue reading WoW Rookie: How to learn about raiding through heroics Filed under: WoW Rookie WoW Rookie: How to learn about raiding through heroics originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink