Here are some good social guidelines to follow whenever you play WoW:

Speak well

Use completely sentences and spell words correctly. Unless you’re with people you know well, don’t use “txt-speak” when you type. Most importantly: don’t use curse words. You never know if you’re playing against a 10-year-old whose mother is sitting beside him ready to report you to the Game Masters.

Learn WoW’s terminology

Start with our article on WoW abbreviations. Don’t be afraid to ask people what they mean; most people are quite nice and are flattered when they are asked for advice. (If someone calls you a noob/nub, just turn and walk away. They are not going to be nice to you.)

Don’t yell

If you type “/yell” in chat, whatever you type after that will be broadcast across the entire area where you are. It’s really annoying. People will even put you on Ignore if you continue to do it. Know that there are more appropriate ways to get your message to the right people. If you want to sell something, use Trade Chat. If you want to join a group, use /LFG. If you want to ask for quest help, just use “/say” near any town’s bank.

Don’t leave people in the lurch

If you join a group to run a dungeon, make sure you have 1 – 1.5 hours to devote to finishing it. Otherwise, at the very beginning, let the group know you need to leave early. It’s extremely rude to leave an instance in the middle. You leave everyone in the lurch and they will probably wipe (all die) without you.

Roll “Need” only on items that are upgrades

If you’re in a group, make sure you discuss how loot will be rolled on before you get to an instance boss. Typical rules are that everyone can roll on green items, but blue items should be “Needed” only by those who can benefit from them. (For example, a warrior should roll Greed on a blue-level cloth robe, but the Mage and Priest can roll Need.) Doing otherwise will get you branded as a “ninja” and it will be very hard to make friends that way.

If you need more help, sign up for our new eCourse! Of course, simply following the rules of everyday life are a good guideline, no matter where you are. Especially remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Add-on Review: Bagnon

As I’ve said before on this blog, anything that makes questing in World of Warcraft less frustrating and more fun gets a big thumbs-up in my book. To make things easier in the game, you can find lots of add-ons at places like Curse and WoWInterface. Add-ons are little programs (Blizzard-approved) that you can install to make your WoW life more enjoyable.

Bagnon – A WoW bag organizer

One of my favorite add-ons is called Bagnon. It takes the place of all your different bags and merges them into one big bag so that you can see everything at once. You can even find items with a search box — which comes in very handy at higher levels when your bags are large and you can’t find those pots you need! This add-on is also handy because you don’t have to click multiple times to open all your bags at once: just hit one key (”b”) and you get a window that shows every item you’re carrying. Bagnon even works at the bank, too!

Quest help

I definitely recommend searching for add-ons that will enhance your WoW gaming experience. There are even add-ons that can help you with questing, like pointing you toward the monsters you need to kill or optimizing the order in which you finish your quests. I’ll be reviewing more of these types of add-ons in weeks to come. In the meantime, happy questing!

Well, there’s a reason why some WoW players are so different from each other. A man named Richard Bartle discovered that different gamers have different types of psychological responses to games. He developed a test called the Bartle Test which helps people figure out what their gamer type is.

The four main gamer types are:

• Explorers - Like to discover new places and see all the sights in the game.
• Achievers - People who want to level quickly as well as rack up Achievement points and gear.
• Socializers - Prefer the human interaction of Guilds and chat, or hanging around in an Inn.
• Killers - People who enjoy beating either monsters or other players.

I’m an Achiever/Killer, which means, basically, that I like to level fast and kill lots of monsters. Of course, because I’m an avid WoW player, I like the social and exploring aspects of the game too, which I enjoy much more now that I’m a high-level player. But the Bartle Test was pretty good at predicting which parts of the game I like best. Cool, huh?

What did the test say your gamer type is? Tell us in the comments.

In my opinion, these WoW guides are geared for entirely different types of people. Zygor is definitely better for people who wish to power-level, while Warcraft Pros is more for people who wish to experiment with different kinds of classes.

Bottom Line: My opinion is that Warcraft Pros is more of a guide for people who like PvP or want to try a new class that they’ve never played before. On the other hand, the Zygor guide can help people of any class power-level faster and does it easier because the in-game add-on points the way for you, rather than flipping the pages of a book next to your monitor.

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Some people who play World of Warcraft like to level — but I’m not one of those people. Leveling is called “grinding” because it feels like a chore that will never end. Yes, there are some quests with good storylines that should not be missed. However, for each one of those quests there are ten more that involve grinding out kills — dozens of boars, gnolls, murlocs, or demons.

At first leveling is okay because you have goals to aim for: new powers at level 10, faster travel at level 20, a mount at level 30… But it really starts to drag between level 30 and level 58. Many gamers use power-leveling guides to help them through this grinding period. These guides do not play the game for you, they just help you find your quest objectives faster. You can get to higher levels in the game so you can experience the most interesting content.

Blizzard announced that for upcoming Patch 3.2, more quest help will be built into the game. Larisa at The Pink Pigtail Inn is saddened by World of Warcraft’s trend toward power-leveling. I feel the opposite way. I believe that anything which makes the game funner, less frustrating, and less of a grind is a good thing.

I think the new patch will help with frustrations, but it won’t make a significant difference in your leveling speed. If you want to level faster, you need to be organized and optimized in the way you approach quests. Even if you’re new to the game, you can level faster than most people and avoid grinding if you know the right tricks.

Joana’s Horde Leveling guide is the one that seems to be dominating the internet right now. The most popular leveling guide on the internet is Joana’s Horde Leveling guide. It has outstripped all competition in the market today. Joana has the fastest leveling record on several servers

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It’s natural that if you have played long enough to reach a stage where you know there are still many more levels to go and the thought that even after your superb performance you still have many more levels to overcome overwhelms you with despondency. It is like you’ve hit a wall and there’s no way of climbing over it. The thought of that many more levels left to overcome makes you cringe.

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1. Get a bigger bag.
Nothing is more frustrating then when you are about to leave for a quest or when you find yourself far away from town discovering that your bag is full. So as soon as you get a chance make sure you get a bigger bag this really helps cut down on the amount of trips back to town just to empty out your bags.

2. Consider add-ons that will save you time.
Some of the best add-ons available include the carbonite quest, auctioneer and my favorite auto profit. Auto profit is very useful as it sells the items which you would have classified as gray junk to the vendor and it does all this in just one click. This is extremely useful, as it saves a ton of time, which can then be spent leveling. The carbonite quest works more or less like a quest helper with better mini maps and a really good quest tracker.

3. Get your mount as fast as you can.
It is important to remember that traveling on a mount increases your travel speed thus cutting down on wasted travel time. So even for those players in the higher level zones’, upgrading your mount is just as effective for over over level 60 players as getting your first mount was at level 40

Of course there is a lot more World of Warcraft leveling tips but there just isn’t the time and space to cover all those in just one article. I suggest to learn more visit our site we cover a lot more WoW leveling tips as well review many of the leveling aids out there, so that you can reach level 80 faster then all your friends.

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