I've been Hooked!!! :D

[Protosschick99]

So recently I just got myself started on WoW and man am I lov'n it :D

I have a Horde Paladin Female Blood Elf! She rocks!! :D

I'm gonna create an alliance character soon cuz my homegirl wants me to join her guild.

Anybody got any pointers? I just recently learned mana tap and then something righteous....Oh what's it called? Dang I can't remember. And don't ask me what server I'm on cuz I don't know yet. I gotta check but I'm on my way to get my bf's brakes fixed--So yeah--Later! :D

Can't wait to see ya'llz on-line! :)

[Anoiktos]

Quel'thalas is an excellent starting zone; from there to the ghostlands are probably the fastest and best-geared quests of their level. Just keep going with whatever quests you get and complete them. As a paladin, you kill a little slowly, so I'd suggest trying to ensure you have decent weapons at all points, but on the other hand it's very hard to kill you.

Don't buy anything on the auction house except maybe cheap weapons - it's all overpriced and you can find better from quests most of the time. Save your money for 40, when you'll want 90 gold in order to purchase yourself a mount.

Endgame, paladins make excellent healers, good AoE tanks, and not-so-great DPSers (though you'll always find ret paladins saying 'I can outDPS such-and-such', it's generally not realistic to plan on doing so)

Plan your tradeskills early. Weaponsmithing is sometimes worthwhile if you're planning on going retribution, but other than that, for a paladin I'd mostly recommend moneymaking trades (one with radar, the other without), so 1. skinning, and 2. either herbalism or mining. Level them early so you don't get left behind in zones where your tradeskills are too low to be of any use.

Get to outland as soon as you can (at 58), as items there are vastly better than their counterparts on Azeroth.

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If you play alliance, regardless of your race, I recommend leveling from 5-20 on azuremyst and bloodmyst isles, due to the more concentrated quests and rewards. (the new zones are really just better for this sort of thing).

Questing with a purpose is usually better experience than grinding, but spending hours on a single quest is a bad idea in general. Try to pick up bunches of quests that have objectives in the same area and finish them all at once, and don't waste your time with quests that have you go to timbuktu until you're either done with the area you're in or you really like the reward.

Sell anything green you get on the auction house for 1-2g or more, anything blue for 10-20g or more. Twinks will buy them. No, you can't afford anything on the auction house usefully, so don't buy from it.

[kongurous]

Horde

Well that's not bad.

Paladin

Oh god, I know what's coming next.

Female

Wait for it...

Blood Elf! She rocks!! :D

SHUUUUUUUUN.

I don't like blood elves, sorry. As for pointers, stay in Quel'Thalas. The zones added in the expansion are so much better it isn't even funny. By the time you get out of the Ghostlands, you'll have equipment better than anything else around that level range. After that, depends on your preference/race/realm, but quests will naturally herd you around if you lack the experience or initiative to do it yourself.

Don't buy from the AH unless you've got a sugar daddy who can give you a metric ton of gold. Feel free to play it if you feel like being an economist, though.

Anoik gave good advise except for one thing: at level 40, paladins only have to pay 1 gold for their training and summon mount spell.

[BlackHawk]

I'm gonna create an alliance character soon cuz my homegirl wants me to join her guild.

Uninstall WoW.

All kidding aside, what kong and Anoiktos have said is all great advice. Don't buy from the AH is great advice, I know people in my guild always ask me how I have a bunch of gold and the first thing I say is always "don't buy equipment on the AH; use the quest items."

Other then what they said, be good to everyone you see, and as a Pally make sure to buff people as they pass, people always appreciate this and some will in turn help you out.

[Anoiktos]

Anoik gave good advise except for one thing: at level 40, paladins only have to pay 1 gold for their training and summon mount spell.
/facepalm

I completely forgot about that. Uh, yeah. Considering how easy money is to get in outlands, and that you don't have much to spend it on until 60 (when you'll need materials for your epic mount) and 70 (when you'll need to buy flight and epic flight proficiencies), you can probably be a bit more liberal with your cash, but I'd then suggest investing it in something *lastingly* worthwhile, like jewelcrafting (which can make huge amounts of money at high level, and which you'd want to twin with mining), alchemy (twin with herbalism), or armorsmithing (again, mining), for the ability to more easily collect off-spec armor sets in case you decide to change your specialization.

[IrishDutchman]

Hmm, a paladin. How fitting. :P

When I played WoW, I had a pally too. They're fun, though I never got it up to the endgame, so I'm not sure how good they are after you hit the lvl cap. You'll probably end up a healer.

[GenocideAlive]

First, if your friend has a guild with lots of people on it, quit and go to Alliance. You cannot compare the game with friends vs. the game without. I burned through 50 levels with a Gnome Warlock with no friends, no help, and no serious intervention from other people. There were times when it was undoubtably more work than pleasure. Once my guild bloomed and my friend got online, it was night and day. There is help for quests, there is groups for instances, there is money if you're in a pinch, there's a gaggle of people that'll come stick up for you when you need help (PvP or uninstall), and there's everything the game has to offer.

The AuctionHouse is a great place, don't listen to these newbs. Just remember the rule of economics: buy low, sell high, comparison shop, and don't impulse buy. If you need a new weapon and they have 10 listed for 10g, 20 listed for 5g, and 100 listed for 1g, start with the 1g weapons and check them out. It's a pain in the ass to spend 10 minutes looking through them all, sure. But it pays off on the back end when you don't have to spend an extra 30s per mob. There are a lot of green weapons / armor that have great stats that are selling for 50s - 2g. If it's blue or purple, make damned sure you know what you're buying or you're probably going to get ripped off.

As for professions, start with two gathering professions like Herbalism and Mining. Sell all the stuff you get on the AH by checking others' prices and beating it by around 1g. Once you get to level 60-65, switch to the professions you plan to keep and powerlevel them with the gold and items you got from the previous professions. Do not, under any circumstances, try to level a skillbased profession (leatherworking, armoring, tailoring, etc) while leveling your toon. It will go slowly, it will be difficult, and it will be expensive.

The only exception is if you're doing complimentary leveling, with Herbalism and Alchemy, or Enchanting and Tailoring. Shit you get from Tailoring often doesn't sell worth balls because everybody and their dog is trying to sell their garbage too, but if you have Disenchant from Enchanting, you can Disenchant your shit from Tailoring for materials for Enchanting. Going Herbalism / Alchemy pays off because you have to have materials from Herbalism to pull off Alchemy. Once you get Alchemy to 350, ditch Herbalism and pick another crafting profession (like Tailoring). Chinese goldfarmers keep Herbs cheap, making it difficult to pay off as a high level and making mats for Alchemy easier to come by for you.

I could keep going, but honestly this is more effort than anybody else has put in to this point.

[Anoiktos]

As for professions, start with two gathering professions like Herbalism and Mining.
There's a reason I recommended skinning instead of both herbalism and mining; it sells for less, but I know from experience that switching constantly between radar types is irritating.


The AuctionHouse is a great place, don't listen to these newbs. Just remember the rule of economics: buy low, sell high, comparison shop, and don't impulse buy. If you need a new weapon and they have 10 listed for 10g, 20 listed for 5g, and 100 listed for 1g, start with the 1g weapons and check them out. It's a pain in the ass to spend 10 minutes looking through them all, sure. But it pays off on the back end when you don't have to spend an extra 30s per mob. There are a lot of green weapons / armor that have great stats that are selling for 50s - 2g. If it's blue or purple, make damned sure you know what you're buying or you're probably going to get ripped off.
This is viable, especially if you're not saving for a mount, but I would recommend looking up if there are any questable/droppable alternatives near your level. (www.wowhead.com, www.thottbot.com, etc)

Disenchanting is often profitable (though leveling enchanting is *not*, at least in my experience) because twinks want enchants, and need your mats to get them. Depends on your server.

[Hydralisk1337]

:o

Oh no! The WoW disease spreads! Just kidding.

[WarInSerbia]

Endgame, paladins make excellent healers, good AoE tanks, and not-so-great DPSers (though you'll always find ret paladins saying 'I can outDPS such-and-such', it's generally not realistic to plan on doing so)I'm a blood elf paladin aka (in game) gay.If you need any help ask me.
I think I'm the only ppally around here...

Just remember the rule of economics: buy low, sell high, comparison shopNever bid just nuyout (or whatever its called)

And yeah dont play more then 5 hours a day...

[GenocideAlive]

There's a reason I recommended skinning instead of both herbalism and mining; it sells for less, but I know from experience that switching constantly between radar types is irritating.
IDK, do you really need radar for mining? The giant glinting nodes are everywhere, it's hard to miss them. Herbalism is far different because it involves stupid little muddy-brown flowers on muddy-brown floor tiles and even with radar I frequently find myself scrutinizing the ground in an attempt to find the herbs.

Especially if you go through Deadmines once or twice. Sheesh.

[SolidSamurai]

Don't know about you guys, but I'd rather raid drone complexes and rat in 0 sec.

Uninstall WoW. *twitch*


/agree

[Neo]

Ok so lame.

I lose the net for 2 weeks (and wow since my month was up the day before i got net back) and pc is playing wow?!

-.-;;

For what it's worth, I found skinning to be pretty easy. Though I grabbed herbalism, dropped leather working.

If you aren't complimentary leveling something (ie: herbs/alchemy) the AH is an excellent way to make money in wow. Stacks of 20 herbs/leather almost always sell well.

Auctioneer helped me with that, and i'm missing it, heh.

Add-ons can be really useful to, since the default wow ui is nice but you can do so much, grab a quest thing that displays it in two panes, and even a quest helper to help you out on those quests with vague instructions, I found it more useful though since often the quests include comments on which other quests to do at the same time as quest a, y'know?

:( started on kong's server with a tauren warrior, hehe. gonna have to get playing again :O

-Neo

[Vhaeraun]

IDK, do you really need radar for mining? The giant glinting nodes are everywhere, it's hard to miss them. Herbalism is far different because it involves stupid little muddy-brown flowers on muddy-brown floor tiles and even with radar I frequently find myself scrutinizing the ground in an attempt to find the herbs.

Especially if you go through Deadmines once or twice. Sheesh.

To be quite honest, you really do. Some of the nodes are shoved up in the mountains, and you have to pay attention to find them. And the radar finds nodes a bit out of your FOV, so it's very helpful.

Way I do it is I go to a lowbie area - since I'm over 40, I hit 1k needles to find nodes - mount up and run around, looking at the minimap only. Best way to find stuff imo. That way you don't have to look around your entire WoW screen; instead you're looking at a small circle that shows you quite a big area.

[GenocideAlive]

Well, I've decided to drop leatherworking on my 70 and take up Herbalism. Why? To get to 375 is fucking stupid. I'll have to spend minimum 1k in mats to do it. Why spend 1k when I can make 1k and money besides? Time to switch to Herbalism, grab my mount, and pony that bad boy up. I made 120G on the AH in one day just cleaning out my Herbs bag on ProfesorPain.

Besides, when WotLK comes out, the only thing that's going to be worth a shit on my chars is their gold. I doubt they're even going to change the speed of the flying mounts, since 300% is already crazy high. So yeah, I'm going to concentrate on getting my chars to 70, then making gold. No point in wasting my time for 3-4 months to build up these professions so I can make items for my chars that will be bawls a month later.

As for mining / herbalism, I can only say "meh". Herbalism is worth far more, imo. Either way, I use a AddOn for skills and it spares me a lot of bullshit in trying to find herbs / ore / etc. way out in the middle of nowhere.

[Vhaeraun]

Only reason I'm mining/eng atm is cause eng always has useful stuff. Who doesn't want a set of Goblin Jumper Cables in a pinch?

And when I max eng, I'm planning to drop mining for enchanting - so much more useful imo, but horrible at low levvels cause you DE everything you cuold be selling.

[BlackHawk]

By no means did I want her to ignore the AH, it's just better to save your money and use quest items. I use the AH to make money myself (currently at just under 3000g from a start of 400g selling recipes / items). I can post the list of items I've bought and resold if you guys want.

/agree

I was more commenting on the fact she rolled an Alliance :>. FOR THE HORDE!

[Neo]

zomg but tauren druids are just so fat :(

i like my ne druid :(

-Neo

[zilver]

Tauren huntards ftw lol!

Hi my name is zilver and I'm an ex-wow addict. I've been without it for 7 months now! *hears claps*
Anyway hunters are really fast for leveling, the fastest actually. I had 2 hunters, my main had 130 days /played and raided all pre-bc instas and BC up to SC. Second hunter i powerlvled fast to 60 in 5 days ~20 hours.

Annyway what can i add.. oh yea, there's always some n00bs posting really good equipment for low prices in the AH :D Buy those and sell em high

[Vhaeraun]

Locks are quick too ;p

Blueberry can easily tank liek 3 nonelites at once, and all you have to do as a lock is dot them up and watch them fall.

[Protosschick99]

Ok so lame.

I lose the net for 2 weeks (and wow since my month was up the day before i got net back) and pc is playing wow?!

-.-;;

For what it's worth, I found skinning to be pretty easy. Though I grabbed herbalism, dropped leather working.

If you aren't complimentary leveling something (ie: herbs/alchemy) the AH is an excellent way to make money in wow. Stacks of 20 herbs/leather almost always sell well.

Auctioneer helped me with that, and i'm missing it, heh.

Add-ons can be really useful to, since the default wow ui is nice but you can do so much, grab a quest thing that displays it in two panes, and even a quest helper to help you out on those quests with vague instructions, I found it more useful though since often the quests include comments on which other quests to do at the same time as quest a, y'know?

:( started on kong's server with a tauren warrior, hehe. gonna have to get playing again :O

-Neo

Yes get on WoW and play so that we can lvl up together :D

I am just about to make myself an Alliance character....But I'll need to know what servers it is that ya'llz play on--Let me know! :D