I really recommend reading the whole guide before choosing your professions.
As well as your spells, you can also acquire other skills by purchasing them
from profession trainers. You will usually find these guys at your 2nd or
3rd location and in the big cities. To locate them early game you must ask
a guard for their location. You can identify guards from the scroll that
appears when you mouse over. They will give you directions and the mini
map will show the trainers location.
Try to get cooking, first aid, fishing and two professions asap. The
professions you choose will earn you money. Does it matter which ones you
choose? It depends on which class you chose at the start. WoWWiki is a great site for all sorts of information about WoW, and they do good guides
about professions for your chosen class character. I recommend reading my
section on levelling up quickly first.
If you chose a Warrior, for example, then mining and blacksmithing are
useful combinations, as it allows you to buff (improve) your equipment (weapons
and armour), as well as "earn" an income. For a Warlock, you might want to have skinning and leather
working. Similarly, to the above it allows you to buff your cloth armour. Or
you might choose herbalism and alchemy, which will enable you to brew healing
ointments and other buffs for your character.
If you have a Shaman, brewing healing buffs is maybe not what you require
because they already have healing spells; although you do use mana for your
spells and alchemy allows you to create mana buffs. So, it's best to look
at your character's needs before deciding on your professions. Whatever
you choose though you will have an income which is the main point.
Cooking, First Aid and Fishing
With cooking, first aid and fishing it is important to build up your skills
(they are skills rather than professions). Fishing is incredibly tedious,
but some quests require the skill and it will earn you XP. It will also
catch you fish that can give your character stamina and spirit buffs, and of
course you can sell the fish. Try to increase your fishing level by 10 at
a time. Anything more will send you to sleep.
Cooking allows you to prepare foods that will give you buffs and first aid
does what it implies. You will be able to make bandages and healing balms
for your character, which are very useful, especially in Battlegrounds.
It's very convenient to fish, gather herbs etc. whilst waiting to join a
battle ground or a quest, especially in a safe area where you can easily kill lower ranked
monsters. Just remember where those herbs, lakes and the boars that gave
you food were. But do remember to switch back to your main weapon
afterwards. A fishing rod isn't usually very good for killing the Horde!
An easy way to rank up your early cooking skills is to purchase flour and
spices from the seller that you will often find near to the Cooking Trainer. After
about 40 loaves you will find it becomes pointless to make any more, but you
will be more than half-way to the XP needed for the next skill level.
It is important to regularly maintain your skill levels because if you
don't, as you progress through the world, you will find out that there are
certain herbs you can't pick or metals you can't mine.
Dying
Normally a morbid topic but in WoW you have amazing powers of recovery and
so do the monsters, unfortunately!
Blizzard have made it easier to return to your body by creating more
graveyards, and there is a return to the Spirit Healer button if you get lost
whilst attempting to get back to your body. It is, unfortunately, very
easy to get lost and it can be a right pain in the proverbial!
Be wary of the directional arrows, they don't always help. It's best
to look at the main and mini map and plan your route. I'd like Blizzard to
remove all the long tedious journeys, which is what they will have to do with
competition heating-up in the MMORPG genre.
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