1.1 Interface
The interface of World of Warcraft is fairly simple to navigate. The top left portion of the
game’s interface displays three important things, your health (red), your current mana
(blue), and your characters portrait.
The red indication bar is health; health determines the well-being of your character.
Each time an enemy attacks you, you lose a portion of this meter. When the meter is
completely empty, your character dies.
Health can be recovered in a number of ways. Spells, First Aid, Cooking, and potions
are all effective means to heal yourself. WoW also has a health regeneration system
which tends to be faster than most other MMORPGs.
The blue bar below the red one is an indication of your mana, or ability to use special
spells and abilities. Each time you use a spell, your mana will go down, when
completely empty, you will no longer be able to cast spells.
Mana can be regenerated in much the same way as health. Drinking fluids and quaffing
potions are your best options, followed by natural regeneration which also occurs more
often than most MMORPGs. Mana will begin the regeneration process 6 seconds after
starting your last successful spell.
Warriors and Druids in bear form have a special meter in place of mana called rage.
Rage allows the player to use special abilities in place of mana. Warriors use “stances”
which we’ll get into later, and druids just maul opponents to death. When rage levels
have built up to the point where you can use an ability, it will light up so you can perform
a special attack. Special attacks and abilities do not generate rage, but deal more
damage than just swinging your weapon.
Warriors and Druids have skills to pump up rage, but alchemists can make special
potions as well which allow warriors to have rage before they fight.
