Ram Racer's Noobie Guide

Hello everyone, you may have seen my guides in the past about getting quests for RFC and other instances but in this guide I'm going to teach you about the basics of world of warcraft. I'm making this guide because World Of Warcraft was my first MMORPG other than www.runescape.com and runescape is just kinda strange. Anyway, when I started World Of Warcraft I really felt like a noobie asking questions like RFC? or what does IDK mean?. This guide will tell you all of the things you need to know so you don't feel nooby like I do.

Add-ons

Add-ons can make you're gaming expeirince a lot better. Some good ones are some kind of coords mod and titan panel also take a look at some of the add-ons the leveling guide makers give you for those are probably pretty nice. To get these go to www.curse-gaming.com or go www.google.com and search "WoW UI". Also, some of the leveling guides that give you add-ons will have links that send you to the site to make it easier for you.

World Of Warcraft Dictionary

This is pretty much just a dictionary explaining the chat shortenings of world of warcraft chat and the symbols used in chat.

AFK - This shows that the other player is away from keyboard. You can shpw that you're AFK by typing /afk in you're chat box.

DND - This means (Do Not Disturb). You can show this to other player by typing /dnd but please don't annoy dnd players usually they have dnd to not get annoyed.

LOL - This is probably the most commonly used chat shortening and it means laugh out loud. You can use it in different ways like LOL, lol, LoL, lOl. But, they all mean the same thing.

ROFL - This tells the people in you're chat that you're rolling on the floor laughing kinda the same thing as LoL only this is less commonly used.

LMAO - This tells people you're laughing you're ass off. Some people use things like ROFLMAO to show rolling on floor laughing my ass off.

GTG - This indicates that this player has (Got to Go)

SRRY - This means sorry.

THX - This means thanks.

C - This means see.

CYA - This means see ya.

CYL- This is rarely used but I've seen it before and it means (See You Later)

BRB - This means the player who says it will (Be Right Back).

These are mostly the important ones some people kinda make their own and some use stuff like kool instead of cool just for no reason but these are most of the ones that you would feel like a newb asking about. By the way Noob means non-expeirienced player. There are many different forms of it like Newb and Nub.

Instance and Dungeon Shortenings

AQ - This stands for the instance Ahn'Qiraj.

BFD - This stands for Blackfathom Deeps

BRD - This stands for Blackrock Depths

BRS - This stands for Blackrock Spire

BWL - This stands for Blackwing Lair

VC - This stands for deadminds.

DM - Dire Maul

Gnomer - This stands for gnomeragon.

MD - This stands for Maraudon.

MC - This stands for Molten Core.

OL - This stands for Onyxia's Lair.

RFC - This stands for Ragefire Chasm.

RFD - This stands for Razorfren Downs.

RFK - This stands for Razorfren Kraul.

SM - This stands for Scarlet Monastary and this has three different instances in it.

SFK - This stands for Shadowfang Keep.

SCHOLO - This stands for Scholomance.

STOCK - This stands for Stockades.

STRATH - This stands for Stratholme.

ST - This stands for Temple of Atal Hakkar.

ULDA - This stands for Uldaman.

WC - This stands for Wailing Caverns.

ZF - This stands for Zul'Farrak.

ZG - This stands for Zul'Gurub.

This should definetaly have you down with the chat and the instances.

Factions

Allright now that you know what people say in world of warcraft we're going to study factions. Basicaly there are two factions, Horde and Alliance. They pretty much are completely different especially if you're on a PVP server, this chaptor of my guide will explain why.

Horde

Ok, horde is my main faction just because thats the faction I have the highest level on and because I have many friends on horde. I don't allways play a horde because I also have a level 44 Human Warrior on Alliance.

The following races are all horde.

Blood Elf (Requires The Burning Crusade World Of Warcraft Expansion.)

Troll

Orc

Undead

Tuaren

Each of these have special racial spells and melee attacks and also have different class's which can be either a mage, palladin, shaman, druid, warrior or a priest. These all have special class abbilities that can be learned from you're in-game trainer. Usually every 2 levels you will get a new class spell or abbility.

Heres a pretty basic leveling guide but I'd much rather you use someone else's for this one is pretty just basic.

1-12 Durotar, Mulgore, Trisfal Glades or Eversong Woods.

12-20 Barrens or Ghostlands.

20-30 Hillsbrad Foothills or Thousand Needles.

30-45 Stranglethorn or Desolace.

45-55 Hinterlands or at low 50's Blasted Lands.

55-60 Winterspring Grinding.

I've never been to outlands yet the highest level I have is a 58 Orc Warlock so I hope to be there soon.

Alliance

Like I said I rarely use alliance but I still know some about them only i only have a level 44 Human Warrior so I don't really know the greatest spots to level so, you probably should go with another leveling guide because I aint gonna have a basic one for alliance.

The Folllowing Races Are All Alliance.

Human

Dreani (Only for The Burning Crusade.)

Night Elf

Gnome

Dwarf

Just like horde each of these class's have racial spells and abbilities and class spells and abbilities. Every 2 levels you should visit you're trainer.