I spent my first few weeks playing WoW swearing enthusiastically at the interface. I'd forgotten about that until now. Obviously I got used to it after a while.
The search dropdown on the mini map makes shop hunting a bit less irritating. I have mine set to display repair shops and inns.
Assuming you're playing a gnome, you probably spawned close to where my demondwarf first showed up. Things do calm down a bit after the initial plotblast of doom.
WoWWiki is the site I've found most useful, although I've no idea how it compares with FFXI stuff. To begin with most of my advice came from friends who already played it.
One thing I like about WoW that it took me a while to warm to is the professions. It seemed pretty weird to me after playing Neverwinter Nights, Guild Wars and Dungeon Siege that my troll seemed to be spending as much time picking flowers as killing monsters. I've totally embraced it for the demondwarf though. My story for her is that she's a jeweller on an extended mining holiday, which occasionally necessitates killing monsters to get to the best ores and gems.
Jumping means you never have to walk around the fences to get into that field of evil pumpkins. :)
I think there's some way of setting your own macros. I've never bothered with it myself but I think it's in the interface menu.
Travel is indeed awesome. :) And I love being able to alt-tab out during a long flight and do something else until I land.
Merchant catchphrases aren't so bad once you're further from your starting area, as the voices and phrases are race specific and they aren't all the same.
If you need any advice, there seem to be plenty of us reading who can probably help out. Which server are you on?
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Date: 2011-05-19 11:06 am (UTC)The search dropdown on the mini map makes shop hunting a bit less irritating. I have mine set to display repair shops and inns.
Assuming you're playing a gnome, you probably spawned close to where my demondwarf first showed up. Things do calm down a bit after the initial plotblast of doom.
WoWWiki is the site I've found most useful, although I've no idea how it compares with FFXI stuff. To begin with most of my advice came from friends who already played it.
One thing I like about WoW that it took me a while to warm to is the professions. It seemed pretty weird to me after playing Neverwinter Nights, Guild Wars and Dungeon Siege that my troll seemed to be spending as much time picking flowers as killing monsters. I've totally embraced it for the demondwarf though. My story for her is that she's a jeweller on an extended mining holiday, which occasionally necessitates killing monsters to get to the best ores and gems.
Jumping means you never have to walk around the fences to get into that field of evil pumpkins. :)
I think there's some way of setting your own macros. I've never bothered with it myself but I think it's in the interface menu.
Travel is indeed awesome. :) And I love being able to alt-tab out during a long flight and do something else until I land.
Merchant catchphrases aren't so bad once you're further from your starting area, as the voices and phrases are race specific and they aren't all the same.
If you need any advice, there seem to be plenty of us reading who can probably help out. Which server are you on?