From the humble beginings of letter and line interface to a biodiversity and geography of sweeping horizons. The avatar in the game universe is about making a social playground. World of Warcraft is a world based on level hunting and instance preperation.Tune your gear then take the final exam in an instance (dungeon). These are links to the quick path to level advancement. Choose an avatar then hit the zone. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/questlevels.html Once you start to advance beyond level five get mineral and herbal as your first professions.Download curse client for mods that help you through the game http://www.curse.com/client/ . Hit the Auction House to get power food ,scroll and pots. Beyond 10 you can jump into group missions and battle grounds to test your skill and gear. Hit all the passive professions ( Cooking,Fishing,First Aid) to make more money. Here is the instance link http://www.wowwiki.com/Instances_by_level You are expected to do a fair amount of research on your charicter so when you reach higher levels bean counters dont boot you for having weak gear. Heres a clue join a clan and get chants http://www.wowhead.com/?spells=11.333#250+7+1 Have several charicters to spy on better clans that allow you to send and recieve money from the auction house. Theres more at level 80 when you join PvP battle arena’s. Of course in 2010 the Cataclysm Expansion brings the number to 85 and creates new organic details as well as massive changes to the old look of Azaroth. One final Note --- Resist the idea of downloading the mods (curse Client-Quest Helper) to help you quest will result in a breakdown of your personality and screaming fits of uncontrollable rage. I have reached 80 with a warrior on Shandris and I will give you gold and gear if you walk up to me and mention gamersnews. I know I cant go broke because gamersnews is a pretty quiet site.----- Advanced (this advice assumes you have expansions up to Lich King installed.) When you reach level 20 get a port to Dalaran and make it your home base (hearthstone).This will allow you to explore new lands at your level grind out professions and get your mount to create flight route's from point to point.