{"id":1000034,"date":"2006-05-23T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2006\/05\/23\/world-of-warcraft-tips\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T06:54:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T11:54:18","slug":"world-of-warcraft-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/videogames\/2006\/05\/23\/world-of-warcraft-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few random things I&#8217;ve noticed that I didn&#8217;t know when I was first playing the game that may be helpful to newbies:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Num Lock key runs you constantly until you stop. Very useful for long jogs down the road. All you have to do is steer.<\/p>\n<p>Once you start hitting with a melee weapon, you don&#8217;t have to keep pressing 1 again and again. In fact, if you do you&#8217;ll turn off the attack. Better to hit once and let the computer do the rest of the work. Focus your fingers on special attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The insert and delete keys change the camera angle. If you&#8217;re having trouble seeing, try these.<\/p>\n<p>The mouse wheel zooms the camera in and out. <\/p>\n<p>To chat in a specific channel prefix your chat with Forward-slash-Channel number. e.g. to broadcast a message in general chat, type \/1 before typing your message.<\/p>\n<p>When first learning a trade skill, make sure you talk to the <em>Journeyman<\/em> apprentice. If you talk to a Master trainer, he&#8217;ll tell you something like &#8220;I&#8217;ll be happy to train you when you&#8217;re smart enough.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry too much about choosing the race\/class\/gender\/etc. for your character. If you don&#8217;t like it you can always create another.<\/p>\n<p>The Map is your friend. Hit M to turn it on or off.<\/p>\n<p>Those signposts along the roads that point but don&#8217;t actually have any text? Mouse over them to see where the road goes.<\/p>\n<p>Holding down the right mouse button and dragging moves the camera. If you get out of whack with this, use the Home and End keys to get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few random things I&#8217;ve noticed that I didn&#8217;t know when I was first playing the game that may be helpful to newbies:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}