Hello all! I made a post yesterday looking for help, and have since spent quite a few hours playing as an orc hunter. It’s been very fun, so I’m looking to purchase WoW proper.
Should I use the character boost it comes with? I personally can see some positives and negatives to using the boost, but if anyone with experience can tell me their thoughts, it would be appreciated.
Do not, do not, do not boost your first character.
Boosts are handy for people returning to the game after an expansion or two. Boosts are great for people who want a new class at max level fast because their raid needs that class. Boosts are convenient for people who want to start on a different server.
Boosts are bad for beginners.
I’ve been watching this Newcomers forum for a long time. One of the recurring problems has been new people who boost, and are then lost and disoriented and alienated. They usually leave, or put their boosted character away and start from level 1 again. It always makes me sad.
It’s not just how to play a class at 120; it’s all the little things you learn along the way - geography, vendors, bags, travel, UI and addons and macros, XP, trade, communication, buffs, passives, roles. And trhen the systems you sign up for at max level are a bit elaborate anyhow, but when you have no grounding in the game before it, they really seem pointlessly complicated.
I’m glad you found a class to settle on - for now. Go for it, and enjoy it, but if you find your enthusiasm dropping as you level, don’t rule out other classes. We can’t really know what we enjoy until we try it. Most people who stay in the game - I would say 99% of people - play different classes on separate characters. These are called “alts”. Perhaps your main character will be a Hunter, but you will play a Demon Hunter on the side, or perhaps you’ll find you love Druid, and your Hunter will become an alt. This is all normal.
As for your realm question, by now I’d put it this way: if you’re going Horde, choose Draenor unless you have a specific reason not to; if you’re going Alliance, choose Silvermoon unless you have a specific reason not to.
Hey Jujenzi!
I’m in complete agreement with Gráinne here, for the exact points that were already explained. It’s going to be an overwhelming and confusing experience for you, and what may be worse, it might end up putting you off the game altogether which would be a total shame when you’ve only just started and have been enjoying yourself by the sounds of it.
One other recommendation I do always try to cover with these questions is to make use of the Class Trial feature. This will give you a temporary but solid experience of what that class and spec will play like at a high level and will hopefully help you make up your mind if still in doubt :).
Have fun on your hunter!
While I think the Trial is a great way to get a sense of a class - if it is used right, which I’m kind of suspicious about - then, considering also what Jujenzi said in the other thread, I don’t think the Trial is necessary yet, and may even be confusing.
Jujenzi, if or when you get to max level, and if or when you decide you want to try out another class, the Trial will be a great option. For now, though, as long as you’re happy with your hunter, I’d just keep looking straight ahead and learning all about your class and the world. 
For your first character do not boost, you will learn so much during levelling that will help you.
One more thing, you may want to play on a different realm. The realm you are on is ok but once you get to level 120 you may find the realm empty and that can make some people feel like they wasted their time.
I agree, you shouldn’t boost. It realy doesn’t take that long to levelup anyway. In a month you can easly get to max level if you have few hours to play every day. Leveling up gives you time to familiarize yourself with the game, the mechanics. You get access to new stuff step by step. Many new players that boost find themselves overwhelemed by the amount of stuff that opens up to them at the same time. They don’t know what to do.
I agree, because i speak from experience, i started playing at the end of legion and leveled a warlock to about lvl 70 after which i decided to boost this priest, luckily i had some friends to help me out a bit but none of them had ever played priest before and it took me a good 4-5 months to really get the hang of, that how overwhelmed i was. I think if you just level your Hunter the normal way and save your boost for later you’ll get a lot more out of it, good luck!
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