newbie's thoughts

[jaysd]

I bought a box of wow a week a go and decided to install it.... i just finish installing it and watched the intro , now im dowloading the patch... omg 30 mins left ...


well anyways what can i expect from the world of warcraft?

[Rhyth]

If your using a drum stool for a seat like me, a sore ass which is not funny when it cost £50.00 and is called a throne you expect something comfortable!

[jaysd]

Well, im seatin' right now on a well made, soft leather chair especially made for 24hrs of gameplay, so i dont need to worry 'bout my ass ,

i still have 10mins before i can play..., any tips for the newbie here?

[Mblaster]

Decided on what class you want to play? The game can vary quite a lot between the classes.

[jaysd]

I want to be a mage or a hunter, but what is this profession thing?

[Mblaster]

The hunter is a great soloing and PvE class, but I prefer the mage as i like to blast stuff for loads of damage

Professions are your skills, you can choose two primary professions and have an unlimited amount of secondary professions. All the professions are described on the WoW site, so it's best to take a look there to decide what you want to have. You won't have to worry about professions until about level 10 anyway.

[Allen]

Depending on your character selection then your profession choices should be as follows if you want to create your own eq:

Warrior – Mining and Blacksmithing
Paladin – Mining and Blacksmithing
Hunter – Skinning and Leatherworking
Mage – Skinning and Tailoring
Rogue – Skinning and Leatherworking
Shamen – Skinning and Leatherworking
Druid – Skinning and Leatherworking
Priest – Skinning and Tailoring

They are only recomendations though, but there's no point in being a Mage (cloth wearer) and becoming a Blacksmith.

Herbalism and Alchemy can be used if you want to specialise in potions of all sorts which can be pretty helpful. Enchanting is an expensive profession and hard to level up, but the rewards at high level will be extreme (some enchants selling for 100+ gold as an example, perhaps more).

They are all Primary Professions and you can only take 2, but you can change them later if need be, but you will lose the level so if you have Skinning at lvl 200 and switch to Mining, you can't go back to having 200 again in Skinning.

The Secondary Professions are Cooking, First Aid and Fishing. All are useful to get but there can be cases when they're often not need and a waste of materials (like a Priest learning First Aid, a priest can already heal and that linen/wool/silk etc can go to better use.

As for which class to chose, I'd suggest using a melee fighter to start off with, I think they're easier for beginners as there's normally less chance of you dying so much. Warriors, paladins and rogues are good choices I think, then selecting your race will depend on your choice of class as some races can't have certain classes (you can't be a Tauren Rogue for example).

Hope this helps, and I hope others will add to it.

[Beach]

If you're not that fussed about making your own equipment but want to make money instead, then two gathering professions like skinning and mining can be quite lucrative. Skinning is one of the best imo, you can skin almost anything you kill and you tend to level up very quickly. Mining, on the other hand, can be very slow and you have to go out of your way to do it. Personaly, my mining skill is quite low because I don't want to spend time mining when I could be questing and killing.

[Allen]

Heh, in my marathon post I forgot about the 2 collecting professions even though one of my chars has 2, but I was gonna add it I promise!

[Beach]

Sure you were Allen, Sure you were

[jaysd]

oh ok thanks for the info, why are there so many realms? and when i started playing wow, i found very few people playing?...