WoW Tricks: So your'e a Noob.

The hardest part about starting a new MMORPG is that theres a huge learning curve in the beginning. With world of warcraft the learning curve isn't too hard for the normal commands, but understanding what makes players better than other players is. In this post I will discuss things to do when first starting the game.

When you start you will be in one of the starting zones, there are tons of beginner quests to do. Do most of them unless you can't seem to find one, in which case you could skip it to save time and do something else that will get you more experience, or go to one of the wow web sites and look up the cordinates of the location of the quest. A few good WOW websites are www.thottbot.com, www.wowhead.com and www.alakazam.com . I personally always use thottbot . If you are also unsure of what cordinates are then you have to download a Addon, which gives you numbers for where your cursor is on the map(for example 43,20, think of battleship, A-7) The best modification site is www.curse.com and then go to addons. The world of warcraft interface is completly customizable but some of the addons are more complicated than then others, learning those will just take time. Okay back to where to start, so you are doing your quests and skipping the hard/too time consuming ones. If you are following a guide then follow the guide step by step and you will level in no time, but if you are just playing and doing your own thing, sometimes quests arnt the best way to go depending on what level and area you are in.
Professions- Professions are like different jobs you can do while in the World of Warcraft. You can have two main professions, and then Fishing, cooking, and first Aid. I suggest for the first 40 levels atleast get Two gathering professions so you don't waste all your gold on leveling them up instead of leveling your self up. Mining / Skining / Herblism are best for the early levels because it costs you nothing and makes you money while you grind(killing monsters one after the other) or questing.
Making Gold- Having tons of Gold is not really important in the early game, usually as long as you have enough for Food/water and new skills, you are good to go. By the time you hit 4o you should usually have enough to get your mount. The best way to make gold as a lower level(under 55 or 60) is to do the gathering professions. Stacks of Ore or herbs or leather can make very decent money. The big money comes when you hit lvl 60 and level to 70. The first time I leveled from 60 to 70 when Burning Crusade came out i had over 1500 gold when I hit 70 just from mining ore I found while questing and the gold from the quests I had done. At level 70 there are tons of different ways to make gold, including dailys, which now are abundant and easily can make you over 150 gold a day, everyday for a hour or two of questing.