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WoW Rookie: How to get back into WoW if you’ve not played since Wrath

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New around here? WoW Rookie has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the WoW Rookie Guide. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

Welcome back to WoW! So, you’ve not played the game since some time in Wrath of the Lich King, right? All right, let’s start at the top with the key lore changes you need to know. The Lich King is dead. A bunch of heroes got together to watch Tirion Fordring kill him. It was sad, and it became even sadder when Bolvar Fordragon stepped up to be the new Lich King.

Since then, basically, dragons have been going to nuts all over Azeroth. Deathwing went on this long flight across Azeroth, changing up zones and radically altering talents for every class. He also flapped his immense wing and littered new loot all over the place.

Of course, now that you’re back to the game, you want to get up to speed right away. Here are the things you should make sure to hit along the way.

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WoW Rookie: How to gear up for Raid Finder

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The Raid Finder’s been out for a week now, leading hundreds (perhaps thousands, millions?) of players to finally get their own, personal bite-sized piece of endgame content. This week, Raid Finder groups are now able to lay low Deathwing himself. It’s a very exciting time.

Of course, for players who are just coming back to the game, gearing up alts, or just now considering the idea that they can finally take part in a raid, there’s a single obstacle that must be overcome. In order to take part in a Raid Finder group, you must have achieved an item level of 372.

That number isn’t terrible. It’s somewhere just shy of Firelands gear, though it’s well above the drops you’d get from Blackwing Descent and such. The number is high enough that just randomly doing all the things won’t get you there; someone who’s hit item level 372 presumably has some idea of what the hell they’re doing.

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WoW Rookie: How to fight the doldrums and not get bored

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New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated.

We featured Wowcrendor’s How Not to Be Bored in WoW. Like most of Wowcrendor’s work, the video had plenty of satire and community introspection. It also managed to kick off some unexpected discussion.

Both patch 4.2 and Cataclysm as a whole are getting a little long in the tooth for some players. If you’ve been playing WoW long enough, you may find yourself getting a little bored. Short of enumerating all the reasons for that, it’s simply fair to say that people sometimes need a little help getting through the doldrums.

We have some tips to help you get through those blues and keep enjoying the game.

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WoW Rookie: How to pick a good name when all the good ones are taken

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New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated.

Especially on old servers, it can feel like all the good names are already claimed. Creating a new character with a strong, iconic name is one heck of a challenge, especially if you want to avoid joke and parody names like McDoomChicken. You can give up your dreams of finding real-world names like Stephen or Michael; the only way you’ll grab a straightforward name is to grab it on a brand new server (and we’re fairly unlikely to see a brand new server any time soon).

With Mists of Pandaria careening toward us with all the excitement of a monk rolling along in a fuzzy ball, now’s the time to get your unique snowflake name reserved. Rest assured that every variation of Jack Black you can create has already been taken. Let’s talk about how you can create a unique, interesting name without resorting to all the special font characters WoW will allow.

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WoW Rookie: How to choose your realm type

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New around here? WoW Rookie has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the WoW Rookie Guide. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

Picking a realm is the first choice you will make after installing World of Warcraft on your computer. Folks have plenty of different opinions about which realm type provides the best WoW experience. It’s almost a personal religion for some players. The final decision about what you prefer will, of course, be up to you.

In World of Warcraft, there are four different kind of realms for you to choose from: PVE, PVP, RP and RP-PVP. Confused? Don’t worry, that’s why we’re here to help. You can choose to play all four ream types, if you’d like, although each character can only belong to one realm at a time. Plenty of players have characters on multiple realms; these players go to a PVE realm when they’re in that mood and flip over to a PVP realm when they want a tussle.

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WoW Rookie: So you know nothing about WoW

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New around here? WoW Rookie has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the WoW Rookie Guide. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

With BlizzCon 2011 only a little more than a week away, we got hit with an odd request. A reader is bringing a completely non-WoW -playing friend to the Reader Meetup. This is awesome; we’d like to see friends and family of all shapes and sizes at the meetup. But still, this friend knows nothing about the game. She knows the game exists, of course, but she doesn’t know anything at all about it. So the question of the week is: What is WoW from a complete and total noob’s perspective?

Let’s start at the most basic of basics. WoW is World of Warcraft, an MMORPG based off Blizzard’s hit series, Warcraft. Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games allow thousands of players to share a gaming experience, interacting with one another while they pursue the game’s goals. This engenders a sense of community and camaraderie with fellow players.

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WoW Rookie: Guide for the BlizzCon rookie – Joystiq

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WoW Rookie: Guide for the BlizzCon rookie

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New around here? WoW Rookie has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the WoW Rookie Guide. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

Is this your first year at BlizzCon? Don’t worry if it is — we’re here to help you. BlizzCon is a huge event, and Blizzard fans from across the nation gather to get their game on. While it might seem like a big, confusing mess, BlizzCon can actually be broken down fairly simply. What the heck goes on at BlizzCon?

As we get started, let’s throw a shout-out to the Friday night WoW Insider & Wowhead Reader Meetup. It’s not an official BlizzCon event, of course, but we’ve been doing it for a few years, and everyone knows where to go. The pre-party itself is a fantastic time when we all get together at the Anabella (right near the convention center), drink, play some contest games, take pictures, hobnob with celebrities, and enjoy a little show. The party’s so good, we stream it! If you’re anywhere near Anaheim Thursday night, come enjoy a good time with fellow Blizzard friends.

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