WoW Guide Series; GET SMART! "Starter Tips".

[Willzy]

***THESE GUIDES ARE 60% REPOSTS OFF JCHICKEN IPHONE APPS, EDITED AND MADE CLEARER TO READ, POSTS SAYING THIS IS REPOSTED WILL BE IGNORED***
WoW Guide 1;
Starter tips:
1. Right clicking stuff in your bag uses them.
Such as eating, equipping, using key items, and so on. It's also how you can track objectives.

2. The shift key and holding the mouse or clicking something usually does something.
Shift + number changes bars, holding shift over an item compares it to what you're currently wearing. Clicking a chat name will display where that person is, and so forth.

3. For the fashion crowd, CTRL Clicking something not equipped will display it on you.

4. Under options you have many things to change, such as display, user interface, video, and audio settings. Under display you can set it so you don't see your helm or cloak. You can also change the number of action bars set up for your abilities professions etc.

5. Items that have white names are usually useful in some way, enough so that it may be worth checking what it's for online on thottbot, wowhead, and more. But items in grey can always be tossed, not picked up, or sold for a small penny at vendors. Be careful to toss some. Some greys from daily rewards could be worth gold.

6. No one needs the ammo pouches or quivers anymore thanks to a patch, but don't think that because you have a gun you need an ammo pouch. Just fill your bag slots with normal bags and put your ammo in there; if a hunter then you still don't need an ammo bag because you get a speed bonus without one. You also don't need to carry special bags that carry certain items, those are probably best to put in your bank.

7. Though you may think you can sell anything you aren't using atm, you may find you need those same items later, so to a degree it may be better to hold onto certain mats for a time, It may even be worth it to set up a bank alt to send all the stuff you won't want to give up and can't use.

8. Items of green quality and up will bind to your character once you put them on. If you are an enchanter then you can disenchant them, but everyone else can only sell them to vendors once they are replaced.

9. There are two useful ways to find things without asking other players. Guards in cities will tell you the locations of certain people and even give you a map marker for them.
Then there is a small tab over your mini map that you can toggle to locate any number of things, including stuff you can track if you are a hunter, herbalist, or miner.

10. Figure out how you want to use your abilities. Aside from knowing how they work, you have two ways to use them: clicking them on the action bars of through key bindings. I started with key bindings, but that limited my scope of thinking how to use all of them. It is nice to have some of your more powerful and most-used abilities on a few keys, but for most cases you'll use more of your abilities through clicking them on action bars. Under Options & Interface you can add action bars all around your screen. (Of course addons do work much more efficiently depending on your use around them.) One addon you really will need is Recount. If you're a healer I also suggest X-Perl Unit Frames.

11. Find out early what direction you want to take your character in. Randomly building your toon early will lead to wasted money and maybe getting buffs for stats you really shouldn't be using.

12. Keep an eye out for item bindings and which hand they must go in. A few items can only be held in the main hand. So never get two of such weapons.

13. Check the AH for glyphs for your class of character, even if the glyphs are above your level but at a good price, consider picking them up if you see that ability being useful to you. You put on glyphs in your talent page and the nodes open as you level.

14. Be sure to change your video settings so that the game runs smoothly. Beautiful graphics should give way to smooth frame rates, and less lag, both of which can get monitored on the computer icon on your tool bar.

15. If you lag, meaning there is a delay in your connection, think about making a hunter, caster, or lock so that you don't have to know exactly where your enemy is or be within 5 yards in order to damage him. A healer with lag is not wise tbh. Since I have experience with high latency, it's actually possible to anticipate some things, but there's nothing you can do to avoid the cooldown of items.

16. Always wath what a new piece of equipment is offering. Sometimes a better quality item may offer more things, but not always does it boost your base stats, It's all situational, but I like boosting base stats rather than special stats like crit, hit, haste, rating and so on. At 80 it's all a great balancing act. Hit and haste are very important for dps.

17. If you don't figure it out, you get more abilities by going to a class trainer. Ask a guard or use the mini map tracking to find them in towns/cities. On a similar note, not all abilities are essential, and if you really know your class and your end-game expectations, you could save gold by skipping some.

18. If you have the TBC expansion, it may be worth while to quest in Azuremyst and Bloodmyst isles. These two zones are very circular around the towns, meaning that unlike every other "starting" zone you don't have to go far from quest givers. Not to mention that once you figure out the rotation of quests, you can zip right through them and not get the same distraction quests like in other zones.

19. Repairs are essential once beyong 25 or so. Just click the repair option when you meet someone before you do anything else. Late in the game repairs become very expensive, and death could also result in more repairs and more gold loss. For this it's better if you ensure that your raid group is ready for the task at hand. A rogue with T4 gear with intellect is something you want to AVOID. If that means you must be more vocal, feel free to help others help you not die. (Of course deaths in hard heroics and raids should be expected, it's just part of the territory.) You can track repairs on your mini map.

Part two will contain 20-30 on the guide, there's still about 53 more guides, I'll release a full guide each week. I just felt that I needed to contribute more for the community. Please don't rush me in making this because it's raw writing for about 3 hours.
EDIT;
Had 2 hours of spare time so I went ahead and wrote guide part 2. If you want to read part 2 click here.:wave:

[EcHoEs]

amazing tips..
/sarcasm off

Seriously now, anyone who has played wow for a week or below knows these. On top of that, I doubt people who just start WoW will come to MMOwned to read this.

[Ql1max]

Anyone who ever played any kind of rpg knows this, sorry mate, i know you tried :]

[Willzy]

ATTN: CLEARLY you didn't read the title of the thread possibly not half of it's contact...If you didn't read the whole thing Ill explain... This is 50% leeched off an iPhone app.. I'm re-writing the guides and publishing them here... I need to publish ALL guides, even the starter tips to give them credit, if you don't like it, it's not my problem, but the other guides will be written later. So read before commenting, especially read the title of the thread before opening it and flaming.

[bagnagjames]

tl;dr
read first tip, seemed bad.

[EcHoEs]

You don't NEED to leech them.. Post the useful guides, not useless shit like this. Seriously, it's shit and everyone knows it. Even them who haven't visited MMOwned.

[Kazin420]

Stop trolling the poor guy. This is actually some pretty useful info! I for one never knew that right clicking on items in your bags will allow you to use them, or that equipping green or better items makes them soulbound.

I'm sure this guide will drastically improve the gameplay and fun factor of anyone who reads it, veteran or newbie alike!

I'm super excited for volume 2 of the guide. 11/10 would read again!

[Willzy]

You don't NEED to leech them.. Post the useful guides, not useless shit like this. Seriously, it's shit and everyone knows it. Even them who haven't visited MMOwned.

Alright. If we're going to troll Ill be ****ing happy to make you look bad.
First of all, this ****ing guide is 100% off an iPhone app and also their first guide. I WILL give them credit for ALL their guides, unlike you, I ****ing care about the community, and if you think this guide is useless then don't ****ing read it. If you're going to be a troll so be it, no one likes an Internet tough guy. Some people in mmowned actually are new to WoW and join just because of it, and I'm writing this guide to contribute and/or help those who've recently joined. If you're such a smart ass why do you even waste your time looking in a guide section?
@Kazin420 Sarcasm doesn't make you sound cool. So just troll instead, I'll be happy to laugh at some 11-13 year old sitting in front of his computer. Really, why do you even bother wasting our time?

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Anyway Ill just ignore haters till I have time to write the "Useful" guides. Cya.

[Ql1max]

Calm down son. Someone give him a warning.

[Two Sheds]

Stop trolling the poor guy. This is actually some pretty useful info! I for one never knew that right clicking on items in your bags will allow you to use them, or that equipping green or better items makes them soulbound.

I'm sure this guide will drastically improve the gameplay and fun factor of anyone who reads it, veteran or newbie alike!

I'm super excited for volume 2 of the guide. 11/10 would read again!

This guy is a sarcasm pro

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Some people in mmowned actually are new to WoW

this is completely wrong

unlike you, I ****ing care about the community

who the **** are you to say anything about the community

[wdave]

Son, I am disappoint.
I read get smart so i automatically assumed shoe phones and a 1965 sunbeam tiger...
/sigh

[yaroslavdv]

+ million rep!

[Fyzzikz]

Just because something exists, doesn't mean it should. You can get all of this information in the handbook that comes with wow. I for one didn't know you should change your video settings to make the game run smoothly! This must have taken you forever to transcribe, good job trying, but maybe next time you should leave the bad parts out and just transcribe the useful bits.