How to Play WOW

World of Warcraft is a game that is simple to pick up and play but can be quite difficult to master. The core gameplay techniques and concepts are fairly intuitive and easy to grasp but to help you start out in the world of Azeroth and beyond, here is a little starter guide to help you out.

Characters

In WoW you can choose to be a mighty sword swinging Orc Warrior or a tiny Gnome Mage, there are ten playable classes to choose from, although you can only play as a Death Knight if you have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and have a character over level 55.

Each character has a different look and each has many unique and different abilities to make every class unique and special. The best way to choose a class is simply to play them all for a little bit and see which one you love the most.

Your new characters will start out with only a few basic abilities and will slowly get stronger and gain access to more abilities over time.

Quests

The world of Azeroth is a dangerous place to live and many of its citizens are in need of help from a hero just like you. If an NPC’s (Non Player Characters) has a quest for you then they will have a big yellow exclamation point over their head. Quests are the main way of telling the story in WoW and the main way to level up your character. There are many types of quests available from simple ones like killing an infestation of rats, to group dungeon crawls where you will need to join a party of other adventurers such as yourself to team up and kill increasingly dangerous enemies.

Once you have completed the quest, you will be able to turn it in to the NPC with the giant yellow question mark above their head for Gold, experience and often shiny new equipment.

Don’t be afraid to ask people to join a group or to ask for help, the WoW community in general is a very friendly helpful community.

Inventory

You come ready for your adventures with a backpack that is ready to be stuffed with loot or different types of equipment so that you are ready for any kind of monster. You will only start out with one single bag but you will soon find more in your adventures or from other people so that you can hold many more items at once.

If you find that your backpack still isn’t big enough for you, each capital city has a bank where you can stash anything that you don’t need right now. All the banks are connected so that you can access your items from any bank in the world.

Each city also has an auction house where you can buy and sell items to and from other players. You will often find items that are no good for your class or hero, but perfect for another player somewhere else in the world of Warcraft, so put it up on the auction house and see if you can’t make a little gold from it.

Social

World of Warcraft is a social game above all else, and there are a number of ways for you to talk to other people from all around the world. There are millions of people just like you from all around the world playing WoW, so join a guild, talk to people, and make some new friends along the way and above all else have fun.