Well I have say that this forum has been a delight to find - I have been living in here for the past few weeks! I am in the (lucky?) position that I am leading a relitively new guild on The Venture Co, and we have now got ourselves up to Nefarian. In some cases we do significuntly 'better than expected' and in others worse. I have come to the conclusion that this is down to the fact that in a raid we are attentive and organised, but, as individuals not everyone is min\maxing thier output or raid contribution as far as gear\builds\specs\playstyle. Or in otherwords we are shortchanging ourselves with the DPS, or Healing etc we could output with the same people as we currently have.
So this has led me to start looking into the (basic!) theorycraft of all class's (I play a hunter for reference). And this leads me onto the search for information.
As far as hunters go I use input from Lactose as known 'good' information for the basis of discussion and exploration, however what about the other classes out there ? If somone had to pick trustworthy Guru's from each class, or any especially good resources what\who would you choose ?
Thanks in advance for any information\links that become a help!
The nice thing you'll find about this forum is that (most) people are willing to put out information and then correct it based on input from others. There's no one Guru, but the collective experiences and research of a lot of people get pooled together quite nicely here. Its like a WoW think-tank. Only none of us are getting paid for it. =(
There are many "gurus" around here, although some are more experienced than others. For basic theory, there is a thread on basic combat mechanics, and there should be a thread dealing with about every class if you look hard enough.
The search function works well, good luck!
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