General Discussion

Warhammer Online Correspondent John Lisenby Writes this guide that introduces the early mechanics of the game to new players who might ot be too familair with them.

What do you do when you log on? Where do you go? Who do you talk to? What does that green circle over that NPC's head mean? Don't look any further. Here are the answers you seek. This short guide goes over a number of elements that should help you get started if you're a first time player.

When you first log in to this new game world you will find many things to do. What do you do first? Me, I found out all I could about the controls, interface, and the chat. It's really pretty simple, and I've laid out a quick overview of each below:

Read the guide here.

I am sorry, but this isn't a guide.

It's title gives a user the wrong idea, like Bait and Switch for more shady businesses.

It should be titled something like ... WAR's UI and beginner tips  or something where it doesn't elude to telling the new player that this has what he needs to play WAR for the first time.  Talks nothing of the two sides, the classes, the races, the starting areas, the point of the game, etc.  How items work, housing ( I know, none but still you get the idea).

Please use more responsibility when publishing this stuff, tons of users look here to share information.

Really good beginner guide. It hits the much needed items, and some of the unique aspects of the game, and getting started. Good job, kudos to you.

Nice guide. Good job. I am going to link it from my guild forums where members who missed the initial rush are still trickling in daily.

Thanks.

 I need a guide on the crafting stuff. I'm dumb. Specifically salvaging and talisman making. All I know is I gotta bunch of pretty little wisp thingies.:)

Always love the posters that critique the articles for not enough information.  You have to realize that these posters have a word count limit, so they just can't be detailed like some want. 

I thought the article was pretty good.

Is this "FRESH" like in "fresh meat" ?

 nice article

my advice for absolute beginners would be:

do NOT join a server that has the status LOW on any side of the realms even if the system suggests that server for you. i experienced that first hand and heared it from friends as well. if you end up on a LOW population server you will miss out what makes the game great i.e. public quest (for pvers) and rvr szenarios, world rvr  (for pvpers).

i know this suggestion may be counter productive but i had to tell a lot of people that otherwise would have quit the game to try a mid-populated server and after they saw what the game was about they said theyd stay.

even the login queue  on the HIGH populated servers makes up for it presenting a really living, breathing, warring mmo with almost instant pvp or pqs options 

Good article.  It has some useful *practical* tips for playing rather than getting into the broader concepts of the game (which would take dozens of articles to cover).

I was a beta tester and I even learned a new trick (the backpack filter) from the article.  Thanks! 

Regarding the circles; you forgot to mention that a blue circle over a Rally Master's head means that you have influence rewards available.