Need some advice for beginner

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Good day,

I’ve wanted to give WoW a try. I’m usually a FFXIV player but I’ve been rather distraught with its current direction in regards of content and battle system. I’ve known WoW since 2004 but never really thought of giving it a go until recently (I played Aion mostly previously).

I’ve started a character as Drachtyr (because I love dragons) but I noticed I’m level 10, so I started another character to be put on the beginner zone to understand more or less what’s going on. I’m trying to figure out how to follow the story (or MSQ if you will) because on Drachtyr it seems the story wants to take me to the Dragon Isles, but there’s another story happening with Jaina(?).

I’m usually a mid-core to casual player, I don’t mind clearing content later. I enjoy crafting/gathering the most, is the system viable? Also love collecting stuff and doing achievements.

Thank you for your time.

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Wow is different to Final Fantasy in the sense there is too much content vs how long it would take you to level up through it. So we now have Chromie Time.

On your first character you should be directed to the Dragon Isles. You will be able to level from 10-70 on the Dragon Isles. To level 70 to 80 you would need the latest expansion and will be directed to Khaz Modan.

Once you have reached level 70 on a character you can choose which timeline you wish to level through on other characters. They can be done in their own right or you can swap around. You can find Chromie in Orgrimmar or Stormwind, depending on what faction you are. When you are in a timeline you are scaled to that expansion and you should be able to level through.

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It is certainly viable, in the sense of workable. It definitely works.

What it works for is where you match up your wishes what what the system does.

Each one of your alts/characters can have two professions. There are three gathering professions - all very safe choices in every expansion. Once, it was a safe bet and an interesting synergy to pick up the crafting profession for your own class, and its gathering equivalent, where relevant. You could make your own gear.

As a Priest, you could take Tailoring to make Cloth Armor. Tailoring has no necessary gathering profession, so you could take any gathering profession, or the other self-sufficient profession Enchanting.

This was the traditional view of professions.

However, as expansions went on, and everything but the current expansion faded in importance, a few things happened.

You now level FAR too quickly to skill up your profssions within any expansion below the latest. While you can still make cloth armor while levelling, it will be far too low-level for you by the time you learn to make it.

For the past couple of expansions, the devs have made the learning the expansions’ crafting skills quite time-consuming and convoluted. You can be very successful and make a LOT of gold at max level with crafting profs, but it takes a lot of focused effort.

So the general sense is: crafting professions are not good for goldmaking below the latest expansion, and then they are very good only if you apply yourself quite hard.

Double-gathering is very viable for gold, if you are in the world a lot.

If you want to know how to skill up a profession efficiently, or the best places to farm gathering materials, check out this site: https://www.wow-professions.com/profession-leveling-guides

:rofl:

Be careful what you ask for!

You are walking into a game full of people who collect things. Many would say that collecting things is the true end-game of WoW. Mounts, Pets, Toys, appearances …

The addon All The Things taunts me every time I log in. Right now, it tells me that I have collected 46,330 of the 66,983 things I could have collected on my mage.

That includes 3,618 of 5,723 Achievements. And the Achievements include things very very very easy, very very very hard, and outright weird. :smiley:

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Stay with Drachtyr for gods sake, you should be happy you’re starting at level 10.
Stay with Drachtyr, because you’ll never have to chase mounts (they can fly) or transmogrification in older raids which actually SUCKS if you’re not lucky.
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Íf you like collecting stuff then play whatever you want, level in whichever expansion you want to level in. (Dragon Isles, Outland, Shadowlands)

You will most likely make another toon someday that you can choose to level in another expansion. I do that, I have 7 level 80’s now, it’s quite fun.