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Hey Tedtusk,
Welcome to the game 
That kinda depends what you’re looking for (news, guides, community posts, etc.), but below are the few I use:
- Wowhead: this is probably the staple of wow fansites and covers everything, from in-depth guides, news and updates about the game, down to little interesting tidbits about stuff happening in the community. If ever you’re stuck on a quest or unsure how an item works, simply go to that quest/item’s wowhead page and read the comments. I’d argue in like 95% of the time the most common questions asked about it are answered there.
- Icy Veins: I mostly use this for the different class guides, although there will be a lot of overlap with wowhead, since a lot of those guides and class builds are simulated and go with the optional solution for each. I know they have a news section as well, but personally it’s not why I use it, and I stick to wowhead for that.
- Wow’s subreddit: This one I mostly read out of curiosity and interest, and it sometimes has a few guides in its posts as well, but is more of a mixed bag of posts.
Besides the official forums here, those are probably the ones I use the most. I know there are others (like mmo-champion), but I never got around to really use them, and I find that the 3 above cover everything I’m looking for.
Youtube channels are obviously also very much down to personal preference, depending on the tone and content you’re looking for. The main ones I watch are Taliesin & Evitel (they do great weekly reviews/updates), and Hazelnuttygames (great streamer with a very fun and nice vibe and some great guide videos too). There are some more I occasionally watch but they are more specialized into a niche in terms of content (like lore-focused, or gameplay). Again, there are many many fantastic content creators out there that put a lot of work into their videos, so I’m sure you’ll find one that scratches your itch 
Hope this helps, but shoutout if other questions 
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Glad to hear
Hmmm, I can’t think of a comparative list of all abilities/spells each class/spec uses, but what might be a good starting point are the summaries of each spec on the class guides over on Icy Veins.
Each spec page there starts with a pros & cons table, that sometimes lists out some of the key abilities and general play styles. If you want to find out more about them, you can also check the “Spell list & glossary” section of each spec, but that one goes into a lot more detail.
Other than that, I’m sure there are some good youtube videos comparing each class/spec and play style out there
You can also ask here about your preferred play style/what you look for in class, maybe other posters and myself can point some out to take a closer look at
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Hahaha 
alternatively, if they do, just drop aggro and see if they can fend for themselves without a tank 
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Wowhead.
NEVER EVER use Icy veins.
Jeeeeez that site has some massive misinformation, especially if it is about class guides.
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I second that wowhead.com and icy-veins.com are the two main sites you need to have bookmarked.
For a beginner, I recommend this video:
it is MASSIVELY long, but broken up into 30-60 second chapters about different aspects of the game.
It is also out of date in that it was made just before Chromie Time was introduced, so it dosn’t cover that.
But it is very well made, and may make you aware of aspects you wouldn’t even think to ask about otherwise. You can then simply search YouTube to get more detail on anything you want to learn more about.
I find that searching YouTube is often the most practical way to find out about pretty much anything in the game, but you do have to be careful about getting the CURRENT information. Blizzard update classes and systems every expansion, and in a smaller way every patch. On the other hand, there are quests in the game that haven’t changed since 2008. So, look carefully at the video’s date and be conscious that some things have changed, and others haven’t.
If you want to know about the story of Warcraft, which spans tens of thousands of years, the previous games, and novels, you can look at Wowpedia https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wowpedia or channel Nobbel87 on YouTube.
For professions, wow-professions.com is worth using when you are skillling up.
What misinformation? Specify. Cite. Quote. What errors do they have?
Anyhow, I don’t get it.
Both Wowhead and Icy-Veins outsource the guides. They ask top players to write them. So each guide is separate from every other. One could be amazingly good, and another wrong.
Read all the guides - the ones in Icy-Veins, the ones in Wowhead, the ones in the Class Discords - and then work out how you want to play your character. Personally, I start with Icy-Veins, and while it doesn’t give me everything I might want to know, it has never steered me wrong.
Of course, for PvP, you do want a completely different playstyle, so you need to take that into account.
Importantly for Tedtusk’s immediate information, ALL the guides are written for max-level play. When levelling, many classes don’t get an approximation to their full toolkit until level 40 or so, so when playing at 20 you can use as much of the guides as relate to the abilities you have, but it’s hardly a complete rotation.
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As I say, it is broken up into very short chapters, and you can just click straight to the bits you’re interested in.
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Oh yeah. Addons.
Addons are a whole thing.
I recommend getting two applications to keep your addons updated:
WoWUp
WoWUp-CF
Both from https://wowup.io/
We are at the start of an expansion, and there are addon problems all over the place. It will settle down in a couple of weeks - until the next patch - but meanwhile do check for updates every day. Addons breaking can cause strange effects in the game. If you ever find something that doesn’t seem to be working right, first thing you do is disable all addons and try again.
OK, so: to your actual question.
ElvUI is a personal taste. I hate it. I want to control my addons individually, not download someone else’s framework.
Other people are so used to it, they can’t play without it.
Personal taste.
With my Speaker-to-Newcomers hat on, I always recommend that people install their first addons one by one, so that you can see and learn what each addon does, what options you have, what options you want to change, where you like to see things on your screen.
ElvUI gives you a whole package of addon functionality at once. Which is great, if you’re happy with that - but can result in some bad language when you’re trying to install another addon that conflicts with some screen space that ElvUI is using, or some functionality already built into ElvUI.
You can watch YouTubes on the subject, and it would be instructive to look at vids of players just to see the different ways they have their screens set up.
Then you can decide what you like, try that, see if it works for you, remove the addons you don’t like.
Searching wow addons dragonflight on YT gives a LOT of results.
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Yup. There was a whole thing about Curseforge not allowing their addons to be downloaded, and this is the result.
WAGO is a set of utilities for WeakAuras, the most powerful of addons. Advanced players use them a lot. That version of WoWUp manages the WeakAura functions as well.
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ElvUI is the best in slot UI.
I love it and will never play WoW without it. It has soooo many good features baked into it you don’t need 50 different addons, the only annoying thing is it isn’t on curseforge, so you have to manually update it
I use about 6-8 addons.
- Weakaura: I have a ton with info about on class trackers and additional boss fight info. (found on
wago.io) - DBM (or Bigwigs/Littlewigs).
- ElvUI
- Handynotes
- RareScanner
- OmniCC + OmniCD (Dot trackers etc)
I download all these through Curseforge, but after updating I close curseforge ASAP, since Overwolf takes quite alot off PC juice.
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