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Tips and Tricks
Last wiki revision 2020-08-16
Tips and tricks for new players.
Here are some useful key shortcuts (assuming you don't change too many defaults):
- Press Shift-B to open Backpack and all Bags.
- With open Backpack, press B to close Backpack and all open Bags.
- Press R to reply the last whisper, after pressing R, you can use Tab to cycle through people who have whispered you.
Make sure the hotkeys of all of your most used abilities and items are close to your hand.
You can loot all items in a corpse, container item, or resource nodes (herb, mineral vein/depost, or skinnable corpse) by holding the Shift-key down when right-clicking. Try it!
- Managing aggro and handling adds
- Ready attack before in range
- Using ranged weapons
- Running away wisely
- Be wary of spell resistance
If available, the following buffs should be applied before fighting:
If you have a ranged ability, power, spell, or weapon on your command bar (Auto-shoot for bows, guns and wands):
- When the key-shortcut number is white (1), you are in range.
- When the key-shortcut number is red ( 1 ), you are out of range.
Bear in mind that whenever you use an ability or an item, you will have to wait 1.5 seconds till you can use another spell or ability, this is called Global Cooldown. To ensure that you can use your next ability or spell as fast as possible, consider pressing the hotkey, or clicking on the button rapidly when Global Cooldown is almost at an end.
Categories
- Game terms
- Newbies
Source
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks · retrieved 2023-11-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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