World of Warcraft Beginner Tutorial
World of Warcraft can be an intimidating game for the beginner. It truly is an entirely new world to experience. When you join, you will find yourself in a game world shared, collectively, with millions of other players and it is not always easy to find your place amongst them. This tutorial shall guide you on your quest to reach level 70.
When you first join the World of Warcraft you will be given many options that will drastically affect your play experience. The weight of these choices is not always known to the average beginner. After reading this you should have a better understanding of the consequences of your choices.
The first option you will face is deciding which server to play on. The first time you log in you will presented with hundreds of servers each with a varying population status. As a beginner your first choice may be the server with the population status of recommended, but don’t be fooled! This indicates that the server has the smallest population of all. Server population will play a big part in your experience of the game. A high population server means that you will have plenty of other players to play with, while a low population server means that you will have less people to compete with.
The next choice you must make is on which faction you will choose: Horde or Alliance? These factions offer their own unique races, which may be how you first make your decision, but the consequences go deeper than that. This decision will cut you off from roughly half of your server’s population as the horde and alliance are not allowed to communicate with one another in game. The consequences of this selection can be even greater when you have selected a realm with a severe population imbalance as is the case with the Black Dragonflight server. On this particular server the Horde are outnumbered 3 to 1. With such a small representation the Horde here would be the underdog in any confrontation.
One of your final choices, but one of the most important, is class selection. Druid, Mage, Warrior, Warlock, Rogue, Priest, Paladin, Shaman, and Hunter are your choices. Each one will offer a relatively unique play style, but what you aren’t told when you first start is that there are only three roles to group play in World of Warcraft. These three roles are called the Tank, the Healer, and the Damage Dealers and depending on which class you choose you will be picking your role.
The Tank is the person who is hardest to kill and it will be his job to force all enemies to attack him. The damage he does will be a pitiful amount and because of this no one likes to play as the Tank. If you decide to become a Tank you will have a very easy time finding groups on your way to level 70. The Warrior, Paladin, and Druid can all fill the role of the Tank.
The Healer is the person who stands in the back and makes sure the tank doesn’t die. This generally involves casting spells that replenish the Tank’s health. If the Healer loses focus for any amount of time then the Tank will generally die, which in a chain-reaction will cause the rest of the group to die as well. The Druid, Priest, Shaman, and Paladin can all become Healers.
Damage Dealers have one of the best jobs around because their role in group play will be the same as their role when they are adventuring alone. Their job is to damage enemies and kill them as quickly as possible. Every class has the potential to become a Damage Dealer, but they were not all created equally. For instance, if you were to choose a Paladin with the hopes of becoming a Damage Dealer you would find that at your best you would only do half the damage of the other classes. The Warlock, Rogue, and Hunter are the classes to play as if you truly want to be the best.
Now that this tutorial has educated you on the consequences of your choices you are ready to join the millions already playing the World of Warcraft. It will not be long until you are level 70 and guiding other newcomers as I have guided you.
October 01 2008 07:22 am | Uncategorized
October 29th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Good words.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I have been looking looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grateful if you will.