Update or delete the Beginners Guide in download clients?

Zentuo-thrall · March 28, 2019, 5:15pm

Has Blizzard thought about either updating or deleting the Begiiners Guide pdf located here?

It is from Brady Games and is current up to MOP.

Blizzard has other guides for new players available that are more up to date than this. Even Wowhead, etc are as well.

Is that really still needed there?

Zeropointt-dalaran · March 28, 2019, 5:18pm

Lol. I took one look at that giant thing and never opened it again. It’s still on my PC somewhere…

Chetal-wyrmrest-accord · March 28, 2019, 5:22pm

Who the hell thinks a 121 page pdf is good for a “beginner’s guide” like holy hell

It’s not even formatted in a way that makes it easy to look at. It looks like it’s trying to emulate DnD manuals or something despite WoW being much simpler than that.

Cyniel-dentarg · March 28, 2019, 5:27pm

wow that really is outdated.

anon59182019 · March 28, 2019, 5:32pm

You can tell how old it is by looking at the sexy female model in the ‘Human’ section with her big busty assets accentuated and her entire midriff delightfully exposed. Today, she would be put in some sort of huge modern Jaina-esque granny dress.

And check out that female Orc in the Warrior section. Hubba Hubba…

Chetal-wyrmrest-accord · March 28, 2019, 5:33pm

I just skimmed through it a bit and noticed this tidbit:

Clicking Versus Typing
At some point, everyone must click on an ability icon with their mouse pointer. Maybe you’ve set up five hot bars on your screen and can’t get to everything quickly. However, your goal should be to use the keyboard for all possible actions. This is often much faster and lets your character pop through abilities at lightning speed.

Demonstrate this for yourself.

Search for the ability in slot six and left click on it, even if nothing is there.

Press 6 on your keyboard.

Which was faster?

Once you’re used to the game, teach yourself to use abilities without even looking to see what they are. Memorize where each ability is located and watch your character transform into a killing machine. No one expects you to master this instantly, but it will make your experience in the game go much more smoothly.

Despite the actual in-game tutorial pop-ups still actively telling you to click your abilities on your hotbar, only mentioning keybinds if you hit the “more info” button on the pop-up. (at least last I checked, which was probably late WoD or early Legion)

Zentuo-thrall · March 28, 2019, 7:38pm

The old Brady Games books where a lot bigger than that.

Try to have one of those open and referring to it and playing at the same time.

The hardcover version of the MOP is 432 pages
Warlords 400 pages
Cataclysm 496 pages

The 121 page one looks small now…

Chetal-wyrmrest-accord · March 28, 2019, 7:41pm

Seems like more of a novelty than a truly useful thing to have at that point.

Zentuo-thrall · March 28, 2019, 7:47pm

Back there there was not things like Wowhead, etc to get information from.

We actually had to read a gaming guide to get the information.

Chetal-wyrmrest-accord · March 28, 2019, 8:00pm

I mean, originally when it comes to game guidebooks, sure. But not the WoW ones. Before WoWhead there was Thottbot. And… Alakazam or something?

Zeropointt-dalaran · March 28, 2019, 8:09pm

Don’t forget Elitist Jerks

Zentuo-thrall · March 29, 2019, 1:54pm

It was a lot harder to find information about WOW, other games etc than it is now.

There are some of us that had to go to a BBS or Compuserve to get information. And even then it was not that great/vast as it is now.