Thinking of starting WoWFollow

It is easy to join up and tackle hard quests (noted as "Elite" in your quest log). For normal exping, it isn't common, but it can definitely happen. It is easy to make money if you scroll through the "Trade Skills..." forum here; there is a lot of advice there. For a new player, take up skinning and mining, that's usually the best advice. And maybe fishing. As for dying, yes, you lose 10% durability. At 0 durability, your item is "broken" and you get no stat bonuses from it. You can repair your armor with the "repair" command at any vendor who sells weapons or armor, be it cloth, swords, or plate.


If you like to deal magic damage, a Gnome Warlock or Mage is great )though any race works, Gnimes have a 5% Intellect boost, which gives more mana and spell crit chance). If you like to deal melee damage, a rogue is the best at low levels, and a Hunter is a close second (although they are "ranged"). A Warrior is also good. If you want to do both, try a Shaman or a Druid.

As for instances, try Ragefire Chasm in Orgrimmar or the Wailing Caverns as Horde, or the Deadmines (aka Van Cleef) as Alliance. These can be done in your teens.


Now, the main question YOU need to answer: do you have enough time to play this game? It starts out easy, but once you start getting involved with guilds, can you set aside enough time to play? If you let it, WoW can easily control your social life. You'll find yourself doing less outside, thinking about the game a lot, and becoming a bit more distant from friends and family. If you have played any online games before (be it Everquest, FFXI, or even something smaller like Ogame) and know your own addiction limits, do NOT tempt fate and start this game. Stick to something that has a clear ending (console games) so that when its over, you can go out and restart real life... the ultimate "game".

Not too hard as long as you're on a fairly well-populated server and play during the times a lot of other players are on as well. It's not necessary to group for most quests but it can make them a lot easier.




It's not too hard if you do some research to find out the best ways to make early gold. You tend to make enough off of regular questing to get by but if you want to spend for better gear or save up, you will probably have to spend game time actively doing something to make gold. There are a lot of good guides for making gold around.



Oh yes, gear can be repaired pretty much by any NPC selling armor or weapons and some other NPCs as well. The cost goes up gradually as your gear and level improves.



Druids, Shamans and Paladins come to mind as the main classes that have strong magic and melee capabilities. Races with those classes are Tauran, Orc, Troll, Dwarf, Human and Night Elf.



Instances are special dungeons that are set especially for the group. If two groups go into Wailing Caverns for example, each group will not encounter the other and each will have the full complement of mobs to defeat. There are instances for all levels starting from around 15 for horde and a little higher for alliance. Most instances are limited to 5 man groups. Most instances can't be solod unless the player is a lot higher level than the instance was designed for. Raids are special high level instances that require large parties of up to 40 people to complete but with much greater rewards as well.

Controllers for WoW is not advised (I dont know if they are even supported), they do have a keyboard for the WoW enthusiasts, but honestly you use too many buttons to be able to play with a controller.

Sorry.

Controller Thread

I have a controller on the PC but I haven't tried this little app to see how well it works. WoW does not come with default support for a controller.

I use a gamer mouse and it does ok, though even there half the buttons aren't supported by WoW (defualt).