Your First Hour in WoW Forever — Nine Goblin Rules

The nine rules

1. Choose your ruleset like a contract. No free move to another ruleset has been announced, and you can only group with players on the same one. Pick your ruleset.
2. Take the free gathering manual. A quest in your starting zone offers a choice of three manuals: Mining, Skinning or Herbalism. Each one teaches the profession and gives 2 skill points. One choice per character, according to one guide.
3. Do your race's bag quest. Every starting zone has a quest that rewards a 6-slot bag, usually by level 7, according to one guide. Free bags by race.
4. Learn First Aid and Cooking in your first town. First Aid now makes your healing potions as well as bandages, and cooked food can give +5% XP from kills. First Aid potions · XP bonuses.
5. Set your hearthstone at the first inn. You log out there with rested XP building up, and logout in an inn is instant, according to one guide.
6. Grab every flight path you walk past. Missing one costs a long walk later.
7. Bind your abilities and your potions early. Clicking costs you fights.
8. Collect dungeon quests before you enter. Dungeons pay mostly through their quests, once. Dungeon quests first.
9. Don't spend every coin on spell ranks. Riding at 40 costs 100 gold plus 20 for the mount. Riding budget.

Good to know

• Your first character to reach level 25 unlocks the Legacy system.
• A rare mob drops better loot than its neighbours: the WoW Forever rares list gives each one's spots and drops.
• Playing a Hunter? Your trainer's "Taming the Beast" quest gives you your first pet: the Hunter pets list shows every family and its abilities.
• At level 14, start the Cozy Sleeping Bag chain: rest anywhere, and a 12-slot bag.
• No group finder: you find groups through the listing board. How to find a group.

"Nine rules, zero excuses. Now go make some money, friend."