World of Warcraft MEGA-FAQ

There are many ways in which you can get help for playing this game. First is to use a website like wowwiki.com, thottbot.com, or many others, but I use wowwiki because I just do.

There are other exterior ways to help. One is by using add-ons, and don’t  ask me how to install them or what they are, I just know they exist. Second is to buy a guide, or use this one! I found an auction on eBay for both a base game and Burning Crusade guides for just about $5. They aren’t walkthroughs  or help with all my problems, but they have maps and some nice info.

For in-game help you have chat. Below I’ll outline the many kinds of chat, but all you need to know is that there is nothing wrong with asking a question to your fellow gamers. This is half the reason to join a guild, so familiar  players can help you play. Trust me, at level 50 I was still learning lots, and there are many things I still don’t know.

Quest logs, tutorials, scroll-overs, and guards can also offer help. Quests  will always at least point you in the right direction, although later they do become less and less helpful. Scroll-overs are when you put your pointer  over something and sometimes text will appear to help you use it. Guards in most cities and other places can tell you where to find all the major NPC’s you need, such as your trainers, and other locations.

You can also use the tracking button near your mini-map to find certain things in town. This is the same tracking hunters have to track enemies. Even some professions like mining allow for tracking of things.

Social

Friends ——-

Be sure to be picky with who you add to your friends list. It’s okay to add  someone nice and helpful after a dungeon or group quest, but most of the  people you add that way will never come into contact with you.

You can add friends by selecting their portrait, opening your social tab, and  selecting add friend, or select add friend and type their name.

Friends will appear to you with light blue name tags when you see them.

Who —

The Who tab in your social menu is used to find someone who you can’t see or  have not seen in chat. This is really only used to find someone that a group member says to add, or maybe for other obscure reasons.
LFG/LFM ——-

Chat channel /4 is for when you open the group tab and select that you are  looking to run a dungeon. Of course few use this because advertising in trade or general or guild chat is easier.

Chat —-

You can open chat from social and see who is on a channel, even make your own channels.

You have different commands to enter to go into different chats, just press ENTER and the following, then SPACE:

/s – Say, the base chat where you speak to anyone nearby. /y – Yell, yells your phrase to people with a large area, not always the  entire map. /1 – General, the chat for the map you are in. /2 – Trade, for the only channel that connects all your cities, but can only be entered from within a city. /g – Guild, join your guild’s chat channel. /p – Party, talk to only people in your party. /bg – Battleground, used when in a PvP battleground. /raid – Raid, talk within your raid.

Be nice in all chat, don’t pick a fight with anyone, trust me, it’s much easier to ignore someone than argue with them.

Whenever speaking, make sure you are not confusing or saying something off- color, you’re speaking to many different kinds people, not just a bunch of  hip 20-somethings.

One nice tip is that when anyone uses chat you can shift click their name to  find out their level, where they are, class, and what guild they are in.  Useful for getting around having to find things out through asking them.

Party —–

A party is formed by right clicking on someone’s portrait or their name in  chat and selecting “Invite”. You can have five players in one party, and  with a group you can beat any quest. With a party of 3 DPS, 1 tank, and 1  healer you can clear any dungeon – of course your levels must match whatever you are doing.

Groups are temporary and disband shortly after the quest is done. If a party breaks up before then someone has not been a good team-player.

Always check the looting of a group, and keep your eye out for people that try to take all the rewards.
Raid —-

You won’t these much until you raid the other faction’s cities or attack the  end-game dungeons. The raids in Azeroth and Outland are out-dated and not  required or wise other than for achievements, rep, and the experience of  doing them (not XP however).

Raids can be 10, 25, or 40 large, and you can only complete “RAID” quests while in a raid.

It’s best to join a raiding guild, or if your guild will lead a raid. Joining random raids is not wise because they tend to not form, fall apart upon  formation, or someone will be a loot ninja or not follow directions and ruin the whole raid.

You have a raid tab in your social menu, and this will help you see who is  in your raid and see if you’re raid is balanced.

Looting ——-

Group looting is the base looting system, where everyone gets a turn to loot a corpse alone. Once you open and close the corpse without taking all the loot it will become open to anyone.

Loot Master requires someone of trust and honesty, so it’s not seen very  often. With a master looter that person decides who gets what. This is mostly best in raids when people may NEED things they can’t use, so that master can determine who gets what, usually by rolling manually (the /roll command).

Free-for-all is not wise because then you allow someone to skip fighting and  go loot. It’s also bad for anyone with laggy connections. Ffa looting should only be done when it’s a two-person party and one person needs none of the  loot. Even with 3 people, someone may get left out.