An Introduction For Non-Players

So you've installed the game and updated to the latest patch. The first step is the most important in the game, even more so than choosing your class. The age old battle that wages in Azeroth and has torn the very world apart. Horde or Alliance. Under the red banner of the Horde, one may play as an orc, blood elf, undead, tauren, goblin, troll, or pandaran. Standing beneath the blue banner of the Alliance, one may play as a human, night elf, gnome, draeni, dwarf, worgen or pandaran. The pandaran is a specialty class, because after their starting quest line, one must then choose to fight alongside the Horde or Alliance.

The second step in entering the world of Azeroth is finding a race and class that you can enjoy. Many people look up charts online to see which one's are the best tanks, best healing, and best DPS. While this may provide the best results in raids, dungeons, and PVE scenarios, it may leave the player feeling hollow: why play a character that you only enjoy playing for their results in combat?

I suggest an alternative route. Play what you want to play. Don't worry about how much damage you can deal, how much damage you can take, how good you are at healing. For the best experience in World of Warcraft, you have to find a connection with the character you're playing. The choices include mage, warrior, death knight, warlock, priest, rogue, hunter, druid, paladin, or monk. Each class offers a unique game play experience. Whether it's melee or ranged combat, healing or tanking, you will be placed in a varying perspective.

But wait, there's more! Once you choose your class, at level 10 you must choose your specialization. This includes 3 subsets of your class. For instance, a mage at level 10 must choose between focusing on the arcane arts, frost, or fire specialization. Don't worry though, if you don't like it you can always change.

I made countless characters when I first joined the World. Before the expansions, when the level cap was 60, the first character I got over level 20 was an orc Shaman. But something was missing. I didn't feel fulfilled. It was only after switching to playing Alliance that I fell in love with a class. A Night Elf Rogue named Syylus. This was the first character I reached the level cap with (maximum level).

Further down the road, I needed another character to hold my attention. It was then that I found my favorite class in the game. A hunter. Taming wild beasts and shooting my enemies from afar! I leveled this character faster than any other because I enjoyed it so much. While playing my rogue, I would do 5-10 quests, get bored and log off. But playing as a hunter, I was enticed to do quest after quest and dungeon after dungeon.