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Originally Posted by nickerjones
i about to start playing WOW for the first time .... all this lingo is quite intimidating... any tips for you guys ??
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The number one tip anyone will ever give you:
find a guild that's right for you. If you go to your official realm forum on the WoW website, most guilds advertise themselves, list if they're recruiting or not, and state what their goals and general attitude are. You should spend some time "shopping around" until you find a good fit. That being said, you'll probably get invited to your first guild if you have a good experience completing a 5-player dungeon with some other players. If you're Alliance, the first dungeon you're likely to do is the Deadmines (level 17-20 or so), and if you're Horde, it will either be Ragefire Chasm (level ~15) or Wailing Caverns (~20-25).
Play around with a few classes until you find one you like. Druid is a good first class because it gives you a sample of everything -- they can cast both damaging and healing spells, shapeshift into a bear for tanking, and shapeshift into a cat for stealth and rogue-like damage-dealing. If you like being a cat more than the other aspects of a druid, for example, you might want to consider playing a rogue.
Some popular lingo you'll see often:
LFG: Looking for group. Usually the person will list a specific quest or dungeon after this
LFM: Looking for more. As above, but they already have a group and need more players
AH: Auction House, a place for buying and selling goods, located in every capital city
PUG: Pick-up Group, a group formed randomly instead of being organized by a guild. These can sometimes go well, but they're reknowned for often ending badly
DPS: Damage per second, a measure of how effective you are in combat. DPS can also refer to player class that specializes in dealing damage (as opposed to tanking or healing), such as a rogue or mage.
Capital City abbreviations:
Alliance
SW: Stormwind
IF: Ironforge
Darn: Darnassus
Horde:
Org: Orgrimmar
UC: Undercity
TB: Thunderbluff
SM: Silvermoon -- SM can also refer to Scarlet Monestary, a level 35-40 dungeon