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Spells and Abilities Many of your abilities are weapon attacks or combat spells. Depending on your class you might have defensive abilities or even healing spells on your action bar. |
Bags You received a bag. Now you will be able to carry more items. Move the bag to an empty space next to your backpack. Click on a bag to open it. |
Food You can eat food to gain health faster. Right Click on food to eat it. |
Drink You can drink to regain your mana faster. Right Click on a beverage to drink it. |
Learning Talents You can learn a new talent in the talent interface. Open the talents page by clicking the pulsing talents button on your action bar. |
Trainers You can go to your trainer in your starting area and learn a new skill. You may have to search around a little to find your trainer. |
Spells and Abilities Book You can move spells and abilities to your action bar by opening the abilities page with the button in the bottom center of the screen and then dragging the ability icon to your action bar. You can also use a spell or ability from the abilities page by clicking on it. |
Reputation You can look at your reputation with different groups in the world in the character pane under the reputation tab. |
Replying to Tells You can respond to that player by hitting the R key and then typing a message, or by typing /tell <theirname> and then the message. |
Grouping You can invite another player to your group by right-clicking on their portrait and selecting the Invite option from the popup menu. |
Players That's another real person playing a character. You can tell by the blue name above their head. |
Vendors Right-clicking an item in the merchant pane will buy that item if you have enough money. While the merchant pane is open, right-clicking an item in your backpack will sell that item. |
Quest Log You can open your quest log to look at the quest by clicking on the golden chalice in the middle of the bar across the bottom of the screen. |
Friends If there is another player you have enjoyed working with, add them to your friends list! Click on the social button and add them to your list of friends. |
Chatting You can send a message by hitting the enter key and typing a message. Other players nearby will hear what you say. |
Equippable Items You can equip items by opening your character window with the button in the bottom center of the screen, and dragging them from your backpack into your character. |
Death You are now a ghost. You can return to life by either finding your corpse or talking to a nearby spirit healer. Your corpse shows up as an icon in the minimap at the upper right hand portion of the screen. |
Rested You are rested. Being rested gives you a temporary bonus to experience from killing monsters. |
Fatigue If you stay in deep and uncharted waters, you will see a Fatigue bar. If you become completely fatigued, you will begin to drown. |
Swimming Swimming is much like walking, except you can steer upwards and downwards by holding down the right mouse button and looking in the direction you want to go. |
Breath You will see a Breath bar pop up when your character becomes submerged in water. If you run out of breath, you will begin to drown. |
Resting You are now resting, indicated by your portrait glowing yellow. Time spent resting or logged out gives you a temporary bonus to experience from killing monsters. You may want to find an innkeeper and get a hearthstone which will allow you to quickly return later. |
Hearthstones You now have a hearthstone. Hearthstones can be used to transport you from your current location to the last inn you acquired the hearthstone from. You can only use your hearthstone once every 30 minutes. |
Player vs. Player Combat You are engaging in Player vs. Player combat. While you are participating in Player vs. Player combat the symbol of your alliance will appear next to your portrait and you can be attacked by enemy players. |
Jumping You can press the spacebar to make your character jump. Jumping can help you past obstacles, and can be particularly useful if you are having trouble getting out of the water and onto dry land. |
Quest Completion You have completed your first quest! To collect your reward, you should return to the character who gave you that quest. When you compleete a quest, you can see the corresponding quest giver on your minimap, provided you are nearby. |
Travel You have clicked a flight master who trains flying beasts to carry passengers from one location to another. For a minimal fee, you can swiftly travel to other flight master that you have interacted with in the past. When you discover a new city, finding the flight master will allow you to return easily in the future. |
Damaged Items The durability of one of your items is getting low. The paper doll below your minimap indicates the damaged item in yellow. Find a merchant in town to repair the item before it breaks. |
Broken Items One of your items has broken! The paper doll below your minimap indicates the broken item in red. You can get the item repaired by a merchant in town. Until you do, you will gain no benefit from the item. |
Professions Your character can learn up to two professions which will allow you to find or create items of value. To learn more about professions ask a guard in a major city for directions to the profession trainers. |
Groups You may want to invite other players to team up with you to more easily overcome your enemies. Many difficult quests can be quickly completed ina group, as quest credit is shared by the group. Moreover, groups earn bonus experience, relative to solo players. |
The Spellbook You have learned a new spell or ability! Use the Spellbook & Abilities button in your Action Bar to open your spellbook. Left-click and drag a spell or ability to move it to your Action Bar. The spellbook is organized by category, as indicated by the tabs sticking out from the right side of the book. |
Elite Quests You have accepted an elite quest. Such quests are best undertaken in a group, for they will you into areas inhabited by elite creatures. These creatures are significantly tougher than normal monsters; however they are worth more experience. You can tell an elite create by the golden dragon border around its portrait. |
Welcome to World of Warcraft! When you encounter something new, a help button will appear in the bottom center of your screen. Click the button for a brief explanation of how to interact with that part of the world. These hints will start with the basics and then progress to more advance topics as you gain in experience.
Thank you for playing, and good luck in your adventures! |
Unavailable Quest Givers An NPC with a gray '!' over its head has a quest that you are too low level to accept. Check back once you gain a few levels. |
Ranged Weapons You have obtained a ranged weapon. To use it, equip it, and then open up your spellbook and drag the Shoot or Throw ability into your Action Bar. |
Ammunition You cannot fire bows and guns without ammunition. To purchase ammunition, visit a gun or bow merchant in a city. To equip ammunition, right-click it. |
Raid Groups You have joined a raid group: a group with an increase limit of 40 members.
While in a raid group, you will not earn credit towards most non-raid quests by killing creatures or collecting items. |
Totem Bar You have gained access to the totem bar! You will gain an action button on this bar whenever you gain access to a new totem element. This bar can hold one totem spell per totem element and it includes a special button to let you cast all of your totem bar spells at once. |
Battleground Queue You are not in a queue to enter a battleground. You may check your status by mousing over the icon on your minimap. |
Port to Battleground You are not eligible to join battle. Click "Join Battle" in the dialogue or right click the battleground icon on the minimap. |
Keyrings You now have a keyring to hold your dungeon keys. This keyring appears to the left of your bags on your action bar. The keyring can only store permanent keys. |
Looking for Group You can find groups using the group search interface. This is accessed from the eye button in the middle of your action bar or by using the 'I' key. |
Cosmetic Pets Congratulations, you have received your first companion. This little fellow will follow you during all o fyour adventures in Azeroth and beyond. You can see all of your companions on the character pane under the pets tab. |
Mounts Congratulations, you have learned how to summon your first mount. This mighty steed will carry you throughout your adventures in Azeroth and beyound. To see all of your mounts, look at the character pane under the pets tab. You can drag your favorite mount onto your ability bar to summon it more easily. |
Threat Warning You have attracted the attention of a hostile creature. A red glow means the creature is attacking you. A yellow glow means you are in a danger of being attacked. An arrange glow means the creature is attacking you, but may soon change targets. |
Health and Mana Bars In the upper left corner of your screen is your health bar in green. When your health bar reaches zero, you will die, so be careful. Below your health bar is a second bar representing the resource your class uses to power your special abilities, such as rage, energy or mana. Both bars will refill slowly over time. |
Enemy Health Bars Just as you have a green health bar, enemies do too. When an enemy is selected, you can see their health bar at the top of the screen and gauge how close you are to defeating them. |
Freeing Up Bag Space To free up bag space or make some money you can sell some of the items you have collected. Locate a vendor and Right Click them. Then open your bags and Right Click on any items you want to sell. Any vendor will buy any kind of item from you. |
Special Abilities Remember, your character has special abilities on the action bar on the lower part of your screen. Using those abilities will kill an enemy much faster than just swinging your weapon. |
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You can assign a Hotkey to toggle locking/unlocking your action bar. Just look in the Key Bindings options to set it. |
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You can turn off the slow scrolling of quest text in the interface options menu. |
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You can turn on slow scrolling of quest text in the interface options menu. |
If you enjoyed playing with someone, put them on your friends list! |
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If you enjoyed playing with someone from your realm, put them on your friends list! |
You can only know two professions at a time, but you can learn all of the secondary skills (fishing, cooking, riding and first-aid). |
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You can only know two professions at a time, but you can learn all of the secondary skills (fishing, cooking and first-aid). |
Use the Looking for Group interface (I Hotkey) to find a group or add more players to your group. |
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Use the Dungeons tool to quickly travel to dungeons or to find more players for your dungeon group. |
You can access the map either by clicking the map button in the upper left of the mini-map or by hitting the 'M' key. |
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You can access the map either by clicking the map button in the upper left of the mini-map or by hitting the 'M' key. The map can help you locate where you need to go to complete a quest. |
A group leader can reset their instances from their portrait right-click menu. |
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A group leader can reset their instances or change dungeon difficulty by Right Clicking on their character portrait. |
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Quest locations and questgivers can be seen on your map. |
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You can earn rewards for running random dungeons using the Dungeons tool. You can go with a group of friends or use the Dungeon tool to find a dungeon group. |
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You can change which buffs or debuffs are displayed on yourself or targets in order to get the information you need. |
Death Knight
- Role: Tank, Damage
- Heavy Armor (Plate)
- Former servants of the Lich King.
- Combines melee combat with spells, diseases, and undead minions.
- Uses runes as a resource.
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Druid
- Role: Tank, Healer, Damage
- Medium Armor (Leather)
- Shape-shifts into animal forms.
- Versatile: can fill a healing, tanking, melee, or caster role.
- Uses mana, rage, or energy as a resource depending on form.
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Hunter
- Role: Damage
- Medium Armor (Leather/Mail)
- Emphasis on ranged damage and traps.
- Gains a beast of your choice as a lifelong companion.
- Good at leveling and soloing.
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Mage
- Role: Damage
- Light Armor (Cloth)
- Deals Frost, Fire, or Arcane damage.
- Can polymorph enemies or freeze them to the ground.
- Can teleport to cities and conjure food and water.
- Uses mana as resource.
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Paladin
- Role: Tank, Healer, Damage
- Heavy Armor (Mail/Plate and Shield)
- Righteous vanquishers of evil.
- Deals Holy and melee damage.
- Has variety of defensive abilities.
- Uses mana as resource.
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Priest
- Role: Healer, Damage
- Light Armor (Cloth)
- Heals and damages with Holy magic.
- Causes damage with Shadow with Shadow magic.
- Uses mana as a resource.
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Rogue
- Role: Damage
- Medium Armor (Leather)
- Wields a weapon in each hands.
- Emphasizes stealth, poisons, and control.
- Builds up to 5 combo points to unleash a finishing move.
- Uses energy as a resource.
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Shaman
- Role: Healer, Damage
- Medium Armor (Leather/Mail and Shield)
- Invokes the power of the four elements.
- Uses totems to buff, heal, or deal damage.
- Temporarily enchants weapons with spells.
- Uses mana as a resource.
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Warlock
- Role: Damage
- Light Armor (Cloth)
- Summons demons as servants.
- Emphasis on curses, drains, and damage-over-time spells.
- Can consume a Soul Shard for special abilities.
- Uses mana as a resource.
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Warrior
- Role: Tank, Damage
- Heavy Armor (Mail/Plate and Shield)
- Deals damage with melee weapons.
- Has 3 fighting stances with different benefits.
- Uses rage as a resource.
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