tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46026953213382072012011-11-27T23:21:55.625ZStop being a noob and more.Brother Paxtonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602695321338207201.post-78801494161024268602009-03-31T00:50:00.003+01:002009-03-31T01:10:05.693+01:00

Case in point: this guy posts that WoW tourists (people who briefly switch from WoW to another MMORPG and back) are bad for new online games (such as Darkfall, EVE Online etc.). Then, this guy says it actually is good because said tourists bring in $50M. To top it off, this other guy says it's actually bad because $50M isn't enough for allowing a vast mass of idiots into new games who cannot

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Addons are third party software that can greatly enhance your World of Warcraft experience. The easiest way to install them is to go to wowmatrix and install their client software which will let you select pretty much any addon and install it for you. Then, you will sometimes need to configure the addon from WoW itself.Some interesting addons and what they can do for youomen - you are basically

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During your travels through Azeroth you will often come across the topic of gold buying, meaning buying WoW gold for real money.What you really need to know is that there is no way to buy gold for real money that will not get you banned. So don't or if you already did and thoght it's legal, stop and don't tell anyone you ever did.Gold buying is considered not only by Blizzard but by many WoW

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In WoW, your character can pick up professions, theoretically to make money, but more often than not to lose it. Read on.There are several types of professions in WoW: primary and secondary. You can only have two primary professions at any one time per character. Everyone can learn the secondary professions, even if they don't have primary ones.Primary professions are sub-divided in two types:

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A WoW guild is like a club of players. There are many types of guilds, depending on what they aim forsocial guilds - focus on socialisingleveling guilds - focus on helping each other level characters fasternational guilds - focus on various activities between players of the same non-British/non-US nationalityhardcore guilds - focus on helping each other get better and better gear, high

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Your WoW character is like a toy that you play with. Like any toy it's got the equivalent of buttons that you can press to get some effects (actually those are the buttons on your action bar in WoW).There are several basic concepts you need to grasp about your character to further your understanding of it on your own.ClassYou need to know all the abilities of your class and their effects. First

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This is the most complex point you will need to understand in WoW, but one that will make your life much easier and your grouping experience much more enjoyable.Threat - in order to understand what each person does in a group, you need to understand 'threat'Threat is a measure of how much a creature is 'threatened' by a player. Each creature, while engaged in combat has a list in its head with

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You may at some point want to participate more actively in the trade chat, it can be fun and profitable. To do that you need to know a couple of things.First, the lingo used: WTB means "want-to-buy" and WTS means "want to sell"; you'll be seeing this a lot. Some other stuff you may hear and explanations:WTB 20x[Healing Potion] - means want to buy 20 healing potionsWTS [Healing Potion] 50g/stack -

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If you want to not feel completely alone in a game like WoW you need to talk to others, right? In order to talk to others you will need to use the in-game chat (which can be confusing).I'm going to assume you are familiar with chatting in general and need pointers just on WoW specifics.WoW groups player to player communications based on purpose in several channels:the General channel is for '

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Items in World of Warcraft are colour-coded, their title is either gray, green, blue, purple, gold or orange. These are indications of the quality of the item, quality meaning rarity. The developers were smart to put these in but the notice of what these colours actually mean didn't make it in to the game in a very prominent place.So.. for weapons and armour:a [Gray Item] is called "vendor trash"

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In World of Warcraft, trading of items between players is made easy by an in-game Auction House. You can access this AH by going to an 'auctioneer' NPC in any major/capital city.To get to one such auctioneer, you can follow the directions WoWWiki gives (btw excellent site, check it out to stop being a noob).Here's how it looks:Here you can search for items by category, level required to use etc.

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First of all: what is a bank alt? An alt is a character you create that isn't your first or main character. A bank alt is such an alt that you create only for doing your business at the AH and storing stuff in a bank.You may be wondering why not use my main for such business and make a character just for it? Suppose you got something from your adventures that you need to auction on the AH for

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In World of Warcraft, like in real life, you need money. In WoW, money is not quite as necessary, but still required to enjoy yourself.. and it is called 'gold'. If you are at your first character, you need to have gold in mind or you will be almost stuck at some point, like not being able to afford training at the class trainer or not being able to buy yourself a cool horse of flying mount.So...

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The character you create is something who's butt your are going to look at for hours, every day, given how you are going to get addicted by WoW. So it's important what you choose here.The NameYour character's name would better be typable. If you want to be SuperNinja and that is already taken, do not go for SúperNínja, because people will not be able to type that on a normal day and therefore

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So, you bought WoW and want to create your first character? But what is this thing you need to choose, called 'realm'?Realms are completely different worlds that Blizzard (the guys who make the game) use to keep people in separate groups. They do this becauseits expensive to keep all eleven million players they've got in one place (if it is possible at all technically)to keep players with the

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There are 11 million people playing World of Warcraft in the world, most of which are noobs, or M&S.Given how much better the world (of Warcraft) would be if said noobs would learn to play (l2p), the author of this blog decided it's a worthy investment of his time to try and answer the questions that are never asked about this wonderful game. This site will try to cover the absolute most basics

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