New Player Guide: Social Features in World of Warcraft

By Wowhead Updated: 2024/09/06

Talking to Playerswhisperstellssays yellsEmotesTo All The Squirrels I've Loved Before

Happy, Polite, Friendly & Affectionate Emotes.

Neutral, Unhappy & Despondent Emotes.

Taunts, Hostile & Combat Emotes.

Reactions, Miscellaneous & Custom Emotes.

Creating A Party

If you are interested in running a dungeon and need a few more players, your party can queue up as a group.

You can see the location of other party members on the map.

By typing /party you can talk only to your group members. This chat will be light blue.

Chat Channels and Tabs

General

Trade

LocalDefense

LookingForGroup

Player Interactions

Invite: invite a player to your party

Whisper: Lets you privately message a player

Inspect: Open up a character's gear profile so you can check out their gear

Compare Achievements: See how many in-game accomplishments you both have

Trade: Open a window with another player to give or receive items and gold

Follow: Need to step away from your computer for a minute? Put a friend on auto-follow if they are going to the same place

Duel: See which player is stronger in combat

Pet-Battle Duel: If you decide to collect pets later in the game, you can challenge a player's team of pets to combat

Friends List

If you add someone’s character name, you are only notified when that particular character logs onto WoW.

If you add someone’s Battle.tag, you'll know when they're online on any World of Warcraft character, or playing any other Blizzard game.

In game, hit the letter "O".

Hit the red Add Friend button at the bottom left of your list, and then type in the character's name or Battle.tag.

Message a friend by highlighting their name and clicking on "Send Message."

Adding online friends to a group via the + icon to the right of their name. Be polite and ask first before doing so!

See what Blizzard games all of your Battletag friends are playing.

The Pending tab shows all of your own friend requests.

The speech bubble option at the top right allows you to set a status message. Looking for help? Set a status message asking for assistance and see if any friends reply.

Set your status to available (green), yellow (away), or red (busy), using the dropdown menu at the top right.

Right-click on a friend's name to bring up more options, such as setting a note so you remember details about your new friend, and viewing their friends so you can see if you share any acquaintances.

The ignore tab brings up all of the players you have muted. You will not see messages from these people.

The "Who" tab lets you query the names of players in a certain zone or guild. This is helpful if you are looking for assistance in an area, or want to join a guild and need to speak to an officer.

The chat tab brings up a list of chat channels you belong to, which is discussed below in more detail. There are several default ones you can belong to, like Trade Chat in a city, and you can also create your own custom channels to have small group conversations with friends.

The Raid tab is inactive unless you join a very large group at higher levels.

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Battletag blog

A BattleTag™ is a player-chosen nickname that identifies your Battle.net account in our games, websites, community forums, and more. Only one BattleTag can be associated with a Battle.net account.

BattleTag friends are not available cross-region. You must add friends to each region’s friend list when you log in for the first time.

BattleTags do not need to be unique. You can use any name you want, as long as it follows our Naming Policy. Each BattleTag is assigned a numeric ID to create a unique identifier (for example, FallenSlayer#3592).

To change your BattleTag, log in to Battle.net Account Management, go to the Summary page, and click Change in the BattleTag section.

Guild InformationReins of the Dark PhoenixReins of the Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent

Use Blizzard's in-game Guid Finder tool. To open this tool up, hit "J" in game.

On the Guild Finder page, you will be prompted to fill in some information about your playstyle:
Guild Interests: Questing (leveling), Dungeons (group content), Raids (higher-level group content), PvP, and Role Playing

Availability: Weekdays and/or Weekends

Class Roles: Tank, Healer, or Damage.

You can also leave any additional comments.

Active users: Find a guild that has lots of players who enjoy logging on frequently!

Size: Some players prefer a guild with a handful of players they can know personally, others want to be part of a larger community where there's always someone online to help out.

Activities: Guilds specialize in different things, based on the interests of the officers. Some guilds are designed to be social or help other players level. Other guilds focus on advanced max-level activities, such as raiding.

Reputation: Similar to real-life organizations, guilds build up their reputation based on the actions of their users. Look for guilds that are friendly and are known for being stable and reliable.

Comments

Comment by Aralnda

Who tab also helps with race/class holiday achievements. Also that area near the tab, can tell you which raids or world bosses are locked for you that week after you did them.

Comment by Lorengel

The guild finder has now been removed and replaced with battle.net communities.

Comment by Langbardr

Great guide, but it's too bad that Communities are not even mentioned. In my opinion they are the best way to find players to play and to talk with, sadly they're underused.

Guilds are server only and fits better for friends, private circle, or groups who does mythic raids progress.

For everything else Communities should prevail as character's server does not matter anymore.

Comment by TooFad3d

Why would you have someone do "/tell PLAYER-NAME" when you can simplify it to "/w PLAYER-NAME"? Same with /say (/s) and /yell (/y).

New Player Guide: Social Features in World of Warcraft

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