A Players Guide To World Of Warcraft Players new to World of Warcraft often find themselves overwhelmed with choices they need to make right away when it comes to what class to play.
A basic rule is to decide what role you think you would like to play in the game.
The three core roles are damage, tank or healer.
A tank is the front line fighter that works to hold the enemy while the damage classes will actually kill the target.
The reason for this is because a tank will have more armor, health and ability to take extreme damage.
Damage classes are exactly what they sound like, the toons that will deal out the high damage needed to kill enemies.
Damage classes also perform such functions as crowd control and serve to protect healers in extreme cases.
A damage class can be a ranged spell caster, a melee front line attacker as well as a hunter.
Healers are the classes that will constantly be working to keep the group alive during fights and usually serve to remove curses, poisons as well as dispelling magic from their party members.
Once a new player has selected their role they can begin learning how to play their chosen class.
Each of these have different abilities.
Even different types of tanks will hold enemy targets at bay for the group in different ways.
Along with learning the mechanics of the class a player has selected there are different types of gear each class is able to wear.
Within those gear sets there will be certain stats that will enhance the players role.
As an example a paladin can be a tank, damage or healer and the gear stats found on the mail and ultimately plate gear a paladin can wear will be different depending on the type of paladin role a player decides to play.
Each class has a choice of three World of Warcraft Talent Builds that determine the abilities and role enhancements a player will gain as they level their toon.
These World of Warcraft Talent Builds can be very confusing but there are well documented builds that are the most beneficial for each role within a class.
The very best thing a new player can do is try to guess what role they would like to play and what class they want to use in that role.
After this simply begin playing the game and try your best to learn everything you can about the best way to play your chosen class and role.
There is a ton of information to be found online about pretty much anything you want to do in World of Warcraft.
The most important thing is to have fun playing the game.
After all this is the reason we all pay to play World of Warcraft online.