Episode 12 - You Still Want to Start WoW NoW? Part 2

Episode 12 - You Still Want to Start WoW NoW? Part 2

Show Notes

Opening Bit

• Official Apology letter from Solo Queue HQ for the delay of Part 2

A Few More Words on the WoW Map

• The whole screen map, zooming in and out
• The quest log and small map, explanation of different types of quests and all the new symbols added to the map legend

A Few More Words on Gear and Gear Upgrades

• Gear is the heart of WoW, but it can be very confusing
• Soulbound and Bind on Equip gear historically
• Transmog and learning appearances to change your character’s look
• The addition of the Warbank and Warbound gear in TWW, sharing with all your characters
• End game gear and the complicated upgrade track system. A good visual and explanation of the upgrade system here:  https://epiccarry.com/blogs/wow-war-within-gear-upgrade-guide/

Modification and Customization Inside the Game

• Settings, suggestions
  • Use mouse for movement – 2 buttons and steer
  • Set autoloot – first thing I do on all new characters
  • Going through Menu items
• UI/addons
  • WoW edit mode
  • UI replacements – I use ElvUI, one of many
  • Source for add-ons – Curseforge, other sites
  • Advice for new playera: just start with the custom UI in the game; perhaps a future episode segment on solo Add-ons
• Keybinds – Setting what you keyboard keys do
• Macros – Shortcut buttons that simplify tasks, but I'm not the one to ask

The Many Ways to Play WoW

• Getting to current content, important or not?
• Dungeons/Raids and “end game”
  • Grouping
  • Levels of content
  • What solo players can expect and missing out on content
  • Follower Dungeons now, raids next?
• PvP the other end game
  • I am not the expert
  • Rankings, seasonal rewards
  • War mode
  • Podcasts for more info, Technically PVP
• Great Vault from various play; will add Delves (solo play) to vault in TWW
• Bnet friends, social, guilds (who am I to talk about that?)
• Warbands, after talking about guilds
• Solo content, including out-leveling old content
• Collections
  • Types of mounts including utility mounts
  • Transmog
• Lore/history
  • Loremaster path
  • Know that much of the story is not in-game
  • Books, comics, etc. outside of game
  • Content creation community for lore
  • Podcasts - Live, Laugh, Lore Ep. 101, Nobbel87
  • Chronicle I-IV
• RP – role-playing in WoW
• Professions, primary and secondary, gathering and crafting, playing the auction house

Where to get help?

• YouTube videos
  • Lore: Platinum WoW for quick lore; Nobbel87 for in-depth lore
  • News channels: Taliesin & Evitel among the most popular, Hazelnutty, SoulSoBreezy, Bellular
• Websites: Wowhead, MMOChampion, BlizzardWatch, IcyVeins, Petopia for Hunter pets
• PODCASTS ARE THE GREATEST!!! The Starting Zone a great resource; Live, Laugh, Lore; Unshackled Fury; Girls Gone WoW; Thrall’s Balls
• Discord groups
• Twitch streamer communities
• WoW Forums

Outro

Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely wife, and you for listening.

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