Multiple questions

Question #1:Would I be better off working on multiple characters now, or would I bet better off waiting until I have a maxed account before I work on more accounts?

Question #2:What happens if I don't buy the burning crusade but I do buy WoTLK? Does my Level Cap still rise to 80?

Question #3:As a new player, would making a priest be difficult for me? Would it be to demanding? (Keep in mind I am not quite used to using numbers to cast spells yet)

Question #4:How do some people level up so fast? I've seen people with multiple level 80's in a matter of months, I've been playing for around 3 Weeks and I only have a Level 30 Paladin and Level 10 Druid.

Question #5:What the hell are buffs and debuffs?



Thanks :)|||1. Entirely up to you and your play style. If you want to experience content, do one character and play through, if you want to take your time and level multiple toons...feel free. Also you might want to consider how soon you want to be raiding or doing end game content. You'll get there faster on one toon then multiples so to speak.

2 If you buy TBC and not WOTLK, you will have a level cap of 70, be able to go to Outland but not Northrend, be able to create both a Blood Elf and a Draenei, but not a Death Knight. You will have access to Jewelcrafting and Outland gems and socketed armors. You will not have access to Northrend gems or gear, no Inscription. No Northrend dungeons or zones and can't level from 70-80.

3. Maybe. I don't know. Nevrer played a Priest.

4. Some do the RAF (Refer a Friend), some play long hours, others who have one 80 have access to Heirloom items which increase exp. (Wrath only)

5. Buffs and debuffs are beneficial and harmfull conditions on your toon, they either help like a Druid's mark of the wild, or hinder you in some way like resurrection sickness or a DoT ...not to be confused with a Hot.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Buff

http://www.wowwiki.com/Debuff

http://www.wowwiki.com/Dot

http://www.wowwiki.com/Heal_over_Time

http://www.wowwiki.com/Acronym|||Quote:








1. Entirely up to you and your play style. If you want to experience content, do one character and play through, if you want to take your time and level multiple toons...feel free. Also you might want to consider how soon you want to be raiding or doing end game content. You'll get there faster on one toon then multiples so to speak.

2 If you buy TBC and not WOTLK, you will have a level cap of 70, be able to go to Outland but not Northrend, be able to create both a Blood Elf and a Draenei, but not a Death Knight. You will have access to Jewelcrafting and Outland gems and socketed armors. You will not have access to Northrend gems or gear, no Inscription. No Northrend dungeons or zones and can't level from 70-80.

3. Maybe. I don't know. Nevrer played a Priest.

4. Some do the RAF (Refer a Friend), some play long hours, others who have one 80 have access to Heirloom items which increase exp. (Wrath only)

5. Buffs and debuffs are beneficial and harmfull conditions on your toon, they either help like a Druid's mark of the wild, or hinder you in some way like resurrection sickness or a DoT ...not to be confused with a Hot.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Buff

http://www.wowwiki.com/Debuff

http://www.wowwiki.com/Dot

http://www.wowwiki.com/Heal_over_Time

http://www.wowwiki.com/Acronym




Thanks for the response, it was very descriptive, but theres still one thing I still don't understand. If I buy WoTLK and skip The Burning Crusade my level cap is 70 or 80? I already know I won't be able to make Blood Elves or Draneai without TBC.|||I'm fairly sure that you can't skip any expansions.

You might still find battle chest editions (I think they're called), that have both vanilla and TBC in one package - no need to get WotLK until you're higher. I think you'll need WotLK in order to be able to install Cata, but again, not 100% sure.|||There's no fairly sure about it - you can't skip expansions.

If you want to play Wrath of the Lich King you need to upgrade to The Burning Crusade.

Likewise, to install Cataclysm you'll need to have Wrath installed.|||Correct, you can't skip expansions....

You're required to have previous expansions installed in order to use later ones. Kind of like needing Diablo 2 to play LOD.|||Quote:








Question #1:Would I be better off working on multiple characters now, or would I bet better off waiting until I have a maxed account before I work on more accounts?

Question #2:What happens if I don't buy the burning crusade but I do buy WoTLK? Does my Level Cap still rise to 80?

Question #3:As a new player, would making a priest be difficult for me? Would it be to demanding? (Keep in mind I am not quite used to using numbers to cast spells yet)

Question #4:How do some people level up so fast? I've seen people with multiple level 80's in a matter of months, I've been playing for around 3 Weeks and I only have a Level 30 Paladin and Level 10 Druid.

Question #5:What the hell are buffs and debuffs?




1. There are some advantages to having a level 80 character. You can get access to heirloom gear for your other characters and it's much easier to get gold on a max level character. However, its not necessary. As Gorny said, it really comes down to what you are enjoying.

2. This has been covered already.

3. My first level 70 (back when level 70 was the max) was a priest, and I just leveled a new priest to 80 on a different server. I've generally leveled as disc or holy, and the playstyle isn't exactly subtle. You shield yourself, and smite until the mob is dead. (Okay, you can work holy fire in as well, but my point is it's not very complicated.) If you somehow manage to get lots of mobs, then you holy nova and pray they all die before you run out of mana.

Obviously, more advanced stuff will require you to pull out more tools, but that's true of most classes.

4. I'd say this comes down to experience. There is a huge difference in how fast you level when you already know the quests. You don't spend as much time wandering around (which on your first character is half the fun anyhow.) You also know which quests to group together to minimize how much running around you do.

5. Gorny covered this pretty well. I just want to add that sometimes you will hear buffs and debuffs refered to as auras. This really confused me at first, since I always just though of auras as something that a character or mob had that affected friends or enemies around them. Wow uses that definition of aura, but it also has a second meaning for aura, which is basically anything good or bad that affects your character and shows up in your buffs or debuffs. You will see this terminology used in some addons or when talking about macros.|||To add to the confusion Paladin's get something called Aura's which are simply spells they can toggle that buff party/raidmembers within 40 yards.

They are actually more like a Warrior's Stances.

But yeah,

On the inside, anything that affects you is an "aura". Buffs are beneficial aura's that you can usually right-click away if you want to. Debuffs are detrimental aura's that are either not-removable or only by special dispel-spells like Cure Disease, Abolish Poison, Purify, Cleanse, etc. The priest's magic-debuff remover is even called Dispel Magic .