How to RBG

  • Know basic RBG strategies
    • Skill-Capped playlist:  Keep in mind it’s a lot easier to win a RBG when your team consists of the top players in the game.  We recommend slightly different strategies that account for our skill levels.
  • If splitting your team up, try to put together groups that share the fewest diminishing returns. Here’s a site to help.  Dr. WoW
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    • Casters should consider standing close to their healers. Lots of specs have damage spells with that will jump to nearby targets (e.g, MM hunters). This will help break your healers out of crowd control effects. Pairing up might also help you peel for each other.

Addons to consider

“REQUIRED”

  • Battleground Enemies
  • REPorter battleground map
  • LiteAssist: DPS need to be maximizing their time hitting the same target. This addon makes it a lot easier
    • Setting up LiteAssist:
      • Go to Game Menu and select Key Bindings
      • Scroll down until you get to the LiteAssist section
      • Bind a key to set your target as assist (e.g., shift-F)
      • Bind a key to set your mouseover as assist (e.g., ctrl-F)
      • Bind a key to target your assist target (e.g., F)
      • Before entering battle target your target caller and press shift-F. You will get a notification message.
      • Press F during the fight and you’ll automatically be hitting the correct target.
      • You don’t have to use F. Set up any keybind you’d like.

Nice to have

  • Don’t Cast: an add-on for people like me that can’t see damage reduction buffs
  • TidyPlates plus Threat Plates: I use these to turn friendly player nameplates to black, making them easier to see. I also make the target nameplate bigger and add emphasis so I can pick them out of a crowd. Here’s the link to where you can download my folder.
  • Shadowed Unit Frames: here’s the link to my folder
  • Details! An alternative to Recount with some interesting additional features. For example, if I’m the target caller in a RBG I use the Target Caller addin to see who puts the most damage into the same target that I am. Time Attack lets you set specific time frames for testing on training dummies.
  • PvP Tooltips  Show the PvP stat multipliers on your tooltips.
  • Talent Set Manager

User Interface