World of Warcraft MEGA-FAQ

#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 with what you are 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 to set up your abilities.

#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 and such. But items in grey can always be tossed, not picked up, or sold for a small price to  vendors. Grey items are of no use to anyone.

#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 the 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 at the moment, 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.

#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 or through key bindings. I started on 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 and  Interface you can add action bars all around the screen.

#11. Find out early what direction you want to take your character in. Randomly buliding your toon early will lead to wasted money and maybe getting buffs for stats you 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 auction house 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 graphis 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 getting 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.

#16. Always watch 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.

#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.