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The Creamy GUI Center: Addon basics

WoW Addon Basics for Noobs

Each week Matthew Porter contributes The Creamy GUI Center, a column aimed at helping you enhance your WoW experience by offering an in depth guide to addons, macros and other tools we use to play WoW, along with commentary on issues that affect how we all play.

Howdy folks and welcome to this week's edition of The Creamy GUI Center. I know last week I mentioned I was going to write about addon compilations; however some advice from my editors and comments left by readers got my attention. So instead, this week I'm going to take a step back and cover the basics of WoW interface customization and addons. I believe I should have covered this topic sooner and I appreciate my editors and readers for pointing it out to me. Much like the eager party member who pulls that group of mobs without warning, I dived into addon reviews and interface mumbo jumbo without covering the basics. Let's remedy that with a breakdown of WoW interface terminology as well as how to safely find, download, and install addons.

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WoW Moviewatch: How to Paladin IX

I know what you're probably saying..."you mean there are eight more of these?" Yes, yes there are.

This time, Shepiwot has brought a friend along for the fun in Winterspring. Take two parts Blood Elf, three parts frostsaber, and about 30 parts wintermaw furbolg, and hilarity ensues.

Enjoy.

[Thanks, WarcraftMovies.com]

Resources for beginning paladins

PaladinDefenders of the Light, mace-wielding upholders of justice, and hard to kill; paladins are the only Alliance-specific class, and a great newbie class to play. A paladin can take damage, dish it out (although more slowly than DPS classes like the rogue or mage), all the while healing, resurrecting and buffing their party. With the upcoming 1.9 patch, paladins are going to see some changes, but the first few levels won't change much, so here are a few things to get newbie paladins going:
  • Infoceptor lists all the paladin's spells, including costs.
  • Rampage's guide has a lot of general discussion of paladins, but also walks you through the first few levels as a human pally.
  • WoWHealers has a basic FAQ covering race, talents, acronyms and more.
  • TenTonHammer's guide is a good overall resource and promises a 1.9 update.
  • Hester's PvP guide is useful, although you may want to try different strategies as well.
  • The official forums are rich with 1.9 information and the European forums feature a guide.
Paladins seem to have fallen into disfavour at the moment, but as a generally good all-round class they are fairly easy to solo with (if you have the patience to wait through the low damage output) and valuable to groups, as well as easy to get the hang of. My second ever character was a paladin and I really enjoyed taking her through instances and the like. Enjoy.

[[Previous classes: Mage, Priest, Druid, Hunter]


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