Making Your First Character

Alright by now your probably getting bored of hearing how to play, so don't worry this will be my last informational post. After today ill start giving you some of the inside scoop of my day to day game play.

Since WoW has such a large population (just over 500,000), in order to run without lag people are split up into different servers, or realms. Each server has the same content and game play. Certain servers, mine for instance, is Firetree, a PvP (player vs. player) server. Meaning that although we do PvE (player vs. environment, or in simple terms, against a computer) our main focus is playing against real people. 

Before beginning the game you'll be prompted to this screen to make a character:

The two factions are horde and alliance, underneath this you can see the different races available to each side. All races have a racial ability unlike any other. If you choose to be Pandaren you remain neutral until level 10 when you are forced to join the horde or the alliance. Along the right side of the screen you can see the classes available. As you can see, if you choose to be a human, you cannot be a shaman or a druid, and the same limits apply for other races and classes.  By clicking'more info' you will be able to see the details about the race you choose as well as the class. There are 3 different roles each character can play. Tanks have alot of health and lead the battles, their job is to take all the damage while the DPS does damage to the enemies and the healer keeps everyone alive. In the beginning tanks usually do the most damage but this changes the higher level you become. When you choose your character make sure to check the additional infor to see highlights for each class. Do you want to be a leader and tank? Keep people alive and heal? Or kill kill kill as damage?