Transportation Command

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It costs 50 copper to take a gryphon ride from Stormwind to Ironforge, while it is free to take the Deeprun Tram.
A flight master with a green exclamation point over his head indicates that there is a new flight path to be learned by talking to him.
When mounted you are unable to engage in combat, though you may be targeted by other players. Players can only get a mount at level 40 and even then need to pay a fee, with the exception of Paladins and Warlocks who get their mounts from a quest.
Riding skill costs more than the mount itself. The various riding skills and mounts cost the following:
Description Skill Cost  Mount Cost  
Regular Mount  90 gold  10 gold  
Epic Mount  600 gold  100 gold  
Flying Mount  800 gold  100 gold  
Epic Flying Mount  5000 gold  200 gold  

Flying mounts can be purches at your factions town in Shadowmoon Valley in the Outlands

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If your reputation is high enough towards specific factions you will get lowered prices when purchasing from that area.
Fishing, Cooking, & First Aid do not count towards your two maximum professions as they are considered secondary professions.
When forming a guild you need at least 10 players to sign the charter that registers the guild. Luckily these players need only to sign the charter and dont need to stay in the guild.
When in a Raid Group (a group of more then 5 people) you will not be able to reap as many benefits as a normal group. For example you will not get most quest items to drop while in a raid group.
Some classes have abilities that require reagents, these can be found at Reagent Vendors that populate most towns in WoW. Be sure never to run out of required Reagents as they can only be bought at vendors and not found in the wild.
Pings on your mini map indicate important information, such as location of quest NPCs & Mobs, or the location of mineral veins and different herbs depending on the skill currently in use.
When logged off you will gain a bonus to experience gained depending on how long you are logged off. If you logoff in an inn this rate will quadruple and you will accrue experience bonuses much faster.
Between the actual game screen and the User Interface bar is a small bar that fills with blue, this shows your experience to next level. A small arrow tab indicates any accelerated experience you have accrued from resting.
A sideways bar in your User Interface that can be colored three different colors (green, yellow, & red) shows your currently latency level (or Lag). Mousing over this will show your exact download rate in MS.
For the most part, items that are titled in gray text are simply vendor fodder. These items can sell for varying amounts of cash, but are usually meant for just that; to be sold.
Holding shift and right clicking a corpse will automatically loot all items on that corpse. This works for the skinning and mining skill as well. This can be useful when farming zones for money, as all the items acquired can be sold.
As with all warcraft games, when you repeatedly click on some mobs they will begin talking back with witty little comebacks. However critters do not explode if you continually click on them.
Only Hunters can name their pets. Warlocks summoned pets are automatically named, while any pet that is purchased through the use of an item (such as the special collectors edition pets) receive the generic name of what they are.
Going /who will bring up a list of all the players in your current zone who are of similar level. This can be changed by editing the level tab in the Who box when it comes up. Going /who followed by a username will bring up information on the specified user.
Adding players to your friends list allows you quick access to see when their online, as well as the options to send them tells and invite them into a group with a single click.
Items that are green are considered uncommon and can be drained by enchanters for their magical essence. Items that are Blue are considered Rare and can be made by some crafters by using difficult to find ingredients, or by having them dropped at highly rare times by Mobs. Purple items are considered Epic and are some of the best items in the game.
Patches are normally applied Tuesdays from 6AM to approximately 10AM PST.
When you have a stack of items in your inventory and want to give just a few of them to someone else, you hold down shift and click on the stack. A window will appear asking how many to separate. You can then place these in a different slot in you inventory to trade or sell.

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