This WoW Guide is a continuation of World of Warcraft Basic Guide Part 1. If you haven't read the Guide and you haven't played or have very little experience I highly recommend reading it.

Professions

In the Wow Guide Part 1 we ended with the discussion of Gold, which is the common currency in Wow. As mentioned, there are many ways to earn money or gold and in one way is to pick up a profession for your character.

A character on World of Warcraft cannot have more than two primary professions at a time. A character can also add secondary professions as they level and acrue items to help them advance. Any character can have as many secondary professions as they want. A profession requires training and advancement to produce higher level items within that career.

The primary professions a player can pick for their character are:

1. Alchemy
2. Blacksmithing
3. Enchanting
4. Engineering
5. Herbalism
6. Leatherworking
7. Mining
8. Jewelcrafting
9. Tailoring
10. Skinning

There are also secondary professions and they are:

1. Cooking
2. First Aid
3. Fishing

Many of these professions complement each other and many will take complementing professions for their characters. For example, Skinning gathers leather from the creatures in Wow. A hunter who WEARS leather can be a skinner and collect the leather and also choose to be a Leatherworker so that he/she can make their own gear. You can sell anything that you make in the auction house or even any merchant. You will get more money from the auction house. Lower level items do not sell for much so do not think you will become milionaires over night.

Many players choose to pick professions that will bring money in comfortably quickly. Personally, Lorreia (my character) a cloth wearing Human Priest is a skinner and miner. The reason why I chose these professions is because I can sell stacks of leather for decent prices AND I can also sell Ore and Metal for a good price as well. It really is up to your own preference and there are many benefits and retractions for each.

You may think that you will level your character and then change professions. Well, you can do that, BUT, you will have to start all over in bringing the level of your profession up. For example, if you started as a skinner as a Level 5 character and you skinner until level 40 and chose to dump skinning and becoe a jewelcrafter, well you would lose all the experience and ability of a skinner and have to start with materials for jewelcrafting that you would receive as a level 1-10ish character. This will take time because you would travel from one land to a lower level land to collect the materials for the new profession AND you would not gain any reputation or experience points because you are too high of a level. So my advice is to research the professions and start a low level and grow your professions as you level, so you don't have to play catch up.

Transportation

If you have already started playing, you might've realized the characters aren't particularly fast. It would take an to hour run from a city like Stormwind to Wetlands (I've done it at a low level too!). So the beautiful people at Blizzard Entertainment have provided us with many forms of transportation.

Gryphons and Wyverns and other large flying creatures are the mass transportation of Warcraft. They are like our buses and trains in our real world. You pay a small fee (very affordable) and you ride (fly) to the designated city. You can't fly to specific areas of regions but you just fly to another Gryphon or Wyvern master. This is the main form of long distance travel until you are level 40.

When you reach level 40 and have gathered enough gold and repuation you can buy a mount. You'll see these mounts EVERYWHERE so it won't be a suprise. The kinds of mounts you can get at level 40 are:

Alliance:

1. Elekks
2. Horses
3. Mechanostriders
4. Nightsabers
5. Rams

Horde:

1. Hawkstriders
2. Kodos
3. Raptors
4. Skeletal Horses
5. Wolves

The mounts are race related. So humans generally ride horses, gnomes generally ride mecahnostriders, orcs generally ride wolves, but you can ride any mount within your faction (Alliance or Horde) if you have the right repuatation. Remember reputation is earned by completing quests and activities within the realm of those people.

At level 60, you can fork over a large sum of money again to get even a faster mount. These mounts are plated and usually are referred to as "epics". They are of the same as your level 40 mounts just faster.

Flying mounts are the epitomy of all travel for any character. You can fly using your own mount. You have to be level 70 and have the proper training. Here are the flying mount:

Alliance:

1. Gryphons

Horde

1. Windrider

There are also class related mounts. You are given a plated horse similar to the epic called a Warhorse at level 40. That is one of the benefits of being a Paladin or Blood Knight. At level 60 a Paladin or Blood Knight will get a Charger.