WoW Tips and Tricks

World of Warcraft Tips for All Players

Here are just a few WoW Tips and Tricks to get you all started. Our aim is to expand this section over time to create a great resource. Follow this link for our Gold Guide Tips..

Tip 1 - The Horde has the best hub city

The best city to do business with NPCs in is the Undead Undercity. If you are Horde and have a choice of heading to one hub city, this is the one to pick.

Tip 2 - Everyone loves a Human Priest

Help a human priest hold their own in combat and they may just return the favour. You will also level quicker.

Tip 3 - The Alliance is popular but crowded

The Alliance has a lot more quest-based content than the Horde due to the fact that players like to alliance races like Night Elves, Humans, Dwarves and Gnomes). This can cause crowding in popular regions. 

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 Tip 4 - Get friendly with the City Guards

Apart from the quest journal, the other thing that clogs up the chat channel is people in the hub cities asking for directions. Blizzard has a simple solution - just ask a city guard. They will give you directions to everything in the city.

Tip 5 - The Num Lock key is your auto run

This should be obvious, but you'd be surprised how many players forget to use their auto run. Auto run is your best friend, though. During long runs you can be checking your quest log, futzing with your inventory, or chatting with friends. Use it!

Tip 6 - Don't restrict yourself

Quests are not restricted by race. If your a new player and your character is human you don't have to follow the himan quests, they can take any reasonable quest.

Tip 7- Keep your pets under control

Remember your pets are tools and used for specifics tasks so don't leave them on "aggressive" as they may draw the wrong attention to yourself and your group.

Tip 8  - The Barrens is a fact of life

During the beta phase, the area that everybody complained about the most was the Barrens. Unfortunately they are just a fact of life. Get in there do what needs to be done, and get out.

Tip 9 - Going it alone?

A Warlock or Night Elf Hunter can generally tackle the opposition if properly kitted out. But creature will attack in groups if you're pounding their buddy  This is where pets come in handy. Any "Pet" class can use their animal (or demonic) companion can pick em off one at a time.

Tip 10 - Read the Quest Journal

If you didn't know the 'L' key on your keyboard opens up your quest journal which gives you all the information you need to solve your quest. It also gives you directions. So make sure you read it regularly...