WoW Tips

WoW Tips - World of Warcraft Hints and Tips

This guide will give you a very basic run down of 7 of the most important WoW tips you can learn for a new player. It will help you get a lot more out of your play time.

#1. Make sure you autoloot everything you see as the grey items which look like they won't benefit you but you can always sell to make some gold by selling them to the vendor. An easy way to autoloot everything is to go into your WoW settings and check the box that says "Turn on autoloot". That way you can just right click and it will automatically pick up everything at once.
#2. Whenever you are in a new town or area pick up all the quests that you possibly can and do them all at once instead of trying to do them one at a time. This will help you out so much and will make leveling a lot faster.

#3. Get used to doing instances. By the time you hit 70 you will want to already be good at getting groups together for all the 5 man instances. Best time to start on your grouping skills is ASAP. Lowbie instances can be fun and give you some practice that you would need.

#4. Know your class. This may seem like an easy one but more often than not it really isn't. You will want to take the time to research and understand your class completely by the time you hit level 70. This is especially true on a PvP server.

#5. Make friends in-game as soon as possible. It is always more fun to do group stuff with friends and then you won't have to worry about people ninja looting items from bosses in instances. This can be dangerous to some as well since it makes you want to play more often and can sometimes lead to World of Warcraft addiction.

#6. Get two gathering professions at the beginning. That way you can sell items such as copper ore, etc. and make tons of gold that will help you along the way through your leveling and so you will always have enough gold to learn new spells/abilities as well as your mount.

#7. Get famaliar with WoW addons and macros. These will ultimately help save you tons of time and with doing repetative tasks. Also when you hit level 70 you will have to have some macros for raiding. It just makes great sense to use them and know how to use them ASAP.

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Best WoW Addon Places

WoW Addons Guide - Best Addons for World of Warcraft

Most players aren't too familiar with the thousands of addons that you can download to enhance your World of Warcraft play. To fully customize your World of Warcraft experience, you can download different addons that will enhance specific areas of your game play, such as map coordinates, auctioneer addons, enchanter addons, and much more.

Before you start downloading addons though, you need to think about what you really need to customize your World of Warcraft experience. Are you looking for a guild banker addon that will help you know who needs what?

Or are you looking for an addon that will combine all your bags into one so you can see everything at once?

How about a map addon that will give you coordinates to each instance or city? Or, maybe you want one of those fun game addons that will allow you and your guildies to play chess, checkers, or even Tetris? There are literally thousands of different addons out there, and you need to make sure that you know which ones you want before you start downloading. Keep in mind that addons do take up space on your computer and can make your World of Warcraft game time lag behind.

Ok, you've made a small list of the addons that you'd like to find. You know what you need and you're ready to search the web for the perfect addons. But, where and how do you get these great addons? Have no fear, my friend, here are some of the best places to grab what you need!
World of Warcraft main site – You can find a long list of great addons that Blizzard approves of here on the main site. You can search by type and see a list of the addons and a description of what they do to help your toons out. You will find auction house addons, map coordinates, guild bank addons, and more here. This is a great way to find addons that you don't have to worry about Blizzard banning.

Curse Gaming – One of the most comprehensive addons lists on the web is on Curse Gaming. Everything that you could possibly want for your toons, including chess and other games that you can play with other WoWers is here. Broken down by category, and then listed by name, you will find ratings for each addon from players who have downloaded it and used it.

Curse Gaming is the best place to find addons for everything you can possibly think of, from auction house addons to enchanter's helpers to in WoW games to addons that will combine all your bags into one. There are so many addons here that it might actually be hard to figure out which ones you truly want.

WorldOfWar.net – Yet another great place to find wonderful addons that will help you improve everything about your toon, guild, and quests. You can find the latest addons here, and the site does a great job of ensuring that all the addons are the latest editions and will work with new patches that Blizzard has put out for the game. You'll find a complete breakdown of all the great things that each addon does for your toons, as well as how to set it up and instructions on using the addon. You can't go wrong with this site as they provide so much information that your brain will be on overload.

There are hundreds of addon sites on the web today and if you don't find what you are looking for with these sites, you can continue to search out some of the other addon sites. Remember that there are both new and old versions of most addons, and you want to make sure that you have the most up-to-date versions to ensure that they work properly with World of Warcraft's patches that are put out each week.

There are also some addons that Blizzard doesn't like, as they consider some of them cheating, and they will ban your account for these. Most of the addon sites will tell you up front if Blizzard doesn't like these, since it doesn't do them or their site any good to get your account banned. So, if a site tells you that an addon isn't liked by Blizzard, it's best not to download it.

Also, last but not least you must pay attention to the site where you are downloading your addons from since some players make addons or implement code into an existing addon that is used to steal your account. It is recommended that you always do a virus scan with any file you download not just WoW addons. Better safe than sorry! With that said you will be fine downloading from the above sites since these sites are authority sites but it never hurts to scan a file just in case.

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How To Play Private Server

World of Warcraft Private Server Guide

This guide is very helpful if you have ever wondered how people get to play World of Warcraft on a private server. Doing this will can also let you play as a GM if you know the person hosting the private server. I just found this on the internet and I have not tried it. Also, I am not responsible for the information contained in this guide and use at your own risk. With that said...here is the guide!

Have you ever wondered how you could solo MC or BWL? How about have a godly character that nothing can defeat? So... Now that I've caught your attention, I will explain how to connect to one of many WoW private servers!

1. Rename your World of Warcraft folder to anything else, for example wowow, something you won't forget is your World of Warcraft folder. For Windows users you'll find the folder "World of Warcraft" in C:\Program Files.

2. Install the World of Warcraft (again). The installer will ask you where you want to place World of Warcraft. The default is installed into C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft, but instead rename it to C:\Program Files\PrivateServerWoW (or anything else). Also, don't have it send an icon to the desktop.

3. Once you've installed World of Warcraft, DO NOT connect to the server!!! If you do this, WoW will update your game version to 1.9.0, and we don't want this! Instead, download the 1.8.0 full patch. you can download it here: FileFront

4. Run the 1.8.0 installation files and have it be installed to the Wow Private Server folder. (If it doesn't let you choose where to install it, it will automatically install in your private server folder).

5. This part is semi-optional. Just depends on if you want to have the Ahn-Qiraj stuff available in the Private Server. If you want to connect to a 1.9.0 hack server, you can download the 1.9.0 EMU patch (this is NOT the same as Blizzard's and using Blizzard's 1.9.0 will result in not being able to connect to the private server.) You can download the 1.9.0 emu patch HERE. Install the patch into your Private WoW server folder.

6. If you installed the 1.9.0 emu hack, go to your WoW private server folder and then inside the folder go to DATA, then to DBFilesClient. in the DBFilesClient folder DELETE the item "Spell.dbc." If you don't delete this, WoW will NOT work. However if you didn't install the 1.9.0 emu hack, you won't have to delete anything.

7. Now on to finding a private server to connect to. I find most of my servers at http://wowstatus.net/serverlist.php but you can find them elsewhere by doing a search. There, you'll find a list of private servers. If you want to play on a server with high XP rates and gold/item rates, choose a funserver (under the XP rate column). Click on the server's name to go to the info page. You can only play on servers that have 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, or 1.9.0 hack (which is really almost all servers).

8. To play on the server, you must make an account. Now click on the Account Signup page to register for that particular server. Most register sites will look like a login screen. Just type your desired username and password to sign up!

9. Once you're signed up for that particular server, you'll need to find the server's address. Go back to the server's info page, and you'll find the server's address In the row labeled "Server Address" (duh ).

10. Once you've found the server address, go back to your WoW Private Server Folder, and find a file called "Realmlist.wtf" It's in the regular WoW private server folder, NOT in the WTF folder. Click on the Realmlist.wtf to open it. For most, it will ask you what program you want to open it with. For window's users, choose notepad. Once opened you'll see, [ set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com ] or [ set realmlist eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com ] depending on which version you play. Now change the address to the private server you chose. (for example [ set realmlist xxx.xxx.xxx ]) Once you've done that, SAVE the file!

11. Now in the private server folder, click on the WoW icon (or WoW190 if you installed the 1.9.0 hack) and you're on! Login as usual! (you can play on 1.9.0 hack servers with just 1.8.0... but you wont be able to access the new stuff).
Things you should know before playing...

1. You CAN'T connect to any private servers by simply just altering your usual WoW realmlist.wtf file.

2. A lot of servers will have high latency! Heck, they're just FREE servers set up by regular people.

3. When you login to the server and you get connected...or even to the select character page, and you then you automatically get disconnected...it means the SERVER IS FULL. Just keep trying to reconnect until you get through.

4. Every 10-60 min, the server will do a "World Save." When that happens, you will lag for about 10 sec. Nothing to worry about, though!

Cool Stuff
1. A lot of good servers will have a level cap of 255! Yes...lvl 255!

2. Most servers have high MP and HP regen!

3. Some servers, any class/race can wield any weapon/armor!

4. If you're nice to a GM, they may transport you to the famous, GM Island .

5. Some servers have custom mounts! For example you can ride a hyppogrif, gryphon, wyvern, or even a dragon! (Normally requires being nice to GMs to get the dragon ).

6. Some servers have custom armors/weapons. On one server I play, I duel wield 2 swords that do 9,999 dps....EACH. (major MC pwnage).

7. Most servers have NPC venders for epic quality items for less than 10g each.

8. For those who aren't interested in pwning high lvl mobs that'd take an entire raid in normal WoW, try out classes you've always wanted to mess around with. On high xp servers, you can get to 60 within 30 min - an hour.

9. Most of the time, gold is plentiful! Or if gold isn't... mobs will always drop SEVERAL uncommon/common/epic depending on mob level.

10. If you notice you're not getting a TON of xp from killing mobs... do quests... some servers have uber high quest reward xp.

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