WOW Classic (and Later): Getting Around Five Second Global Cool Down

If you are an old time WOW player, you'll be interesting in this Elitist Jerks' article on getting around the five second global cool down timer.  This is really important for PvP.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080408033047/http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t15393-global_cooldown/

Here is a more detailed information about the five second rule, including the mana regen formula in case you are into math.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080408013010/http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t15391-five_second_rule/

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WOW Classic: Your Own Pet Chicken

In WOW Classic you can get a pet chicken by buying special chicken feed from Farmer Saldean in Westfall.  Feed it to one of the chickens running around in the field near him and it will become your chicken companion.
https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=233/farmer-saldean

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WOW Classic: Learn to Kite

The Solo MMO has noticed that the current crop of players in WOW Classic don't have even the basic skills or know any of the tricks that players learned and shared in the original game years ago.  Kiting is an excellent example.  What is kiting?  It's drawing the enemy towards you into a more advantageous setting for you to take the enemy down.  Various classes use kiting in different ways as this discussion makes clear.  (Sorry, but the Warcraft Hunters Union website appears to be gone now.)
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/4079844216

Some enemies will follow you for a very long distance.  Kite them, then dash as fast as you can to a road.  Roads are generally safe spaces where enemies won't follow you.

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WOW Classic: The Elitist Jerks Live Again UPDATED

Probably the most famous WOW guild back in the good old days was The Elitist Jerks.  And they were just that—plus the most amazing theory-crafters you'd ever see.  Many ended up working for Blizzard later.

Their forum website and all the information therein is gone except for traces in the Wayback Machine.  I found an April 2008 listing of blogs members of the EJ created.  (They aren't traditional blogs but appear to be more discussions and short articles in most cases.)  This is as far back as the Wayback Machine goes for this section of the website.  Change the date slider to explore further.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080415041127/http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/all/

Probably most of these are dead links but I'm going to see how many still have information available. Just because….

Ok, how about this—Application of Military Leadership to Raid Leadership.  (The Solo MMO Player is going to laugh himself silly over this one.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080421233405/http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/malan/101-application_military_leadership_raid_leadership.html

Here's the Small Wars Journal's article referenced above, just in case the link breaks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080814003544/http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/12/fm-30-operations-sams-rewrite/

Again from April 2008, here's the Theorycrafting Think Tank. First link is the intro.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080407040725/http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/boethius/91-finally_birthing_ttt_blogs.html

Here's the meat of the section.  Have fun exploring.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080409231823/http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t21302-theorycrafting_think_tank/

UPDATE:  If you are pining over the loss of the Elitist Jerks, then this site below is for you.  Why do I think that?  Let me quote from the home page:  "Increasing class synergy and the prevalence of proc-based combat modifiers have eroded the accuracy of traditional calculators that rely upon closed-form approximations to model very complex mechanics. The goal of this simulator is to close the accuracy gap while maintaining a performance level high enough to calculate relative stat weights to aid gear selection."

You are welcome.
http://simulationcraft.org

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WOW Classic: Quit the Guild

If you play WOW or WOW Classic for a white, you'll see folks pestering you to join their guild.  Some of them will spring this on you in the middle of a quest, too.  If you don't notice and accept the invite by mistake,  you'll be in their guild.  Want to leave?  The easiest way (although it's not as much fun as insulting the GM) is to just type /gquit.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/3811454978

You may be able to right click on your name in the guild roster and then choose the quit menu item but this doesn't always seem to work.

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WOW Classic: Hunters and Their Pets

Here are some links with pet info.  Most appear to be older.  If you are a beginner doing the quests to get pets, use Stay to get rid of one pet or get out of aggro range of the first pet so you can tame a second.  Or get it killed.  (There doesn't seem to be a Dismiss key early on.)
https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=2641/dismiss-pet

Remember, your pet won't be able to do anything until you find a pet trainer (will be next to the hunter trainer but not all locations have pet trainers).

Use your pet to draw aggro away from you.  You can tell it to go to certain places.  Send it a slight distance away so the monster will attack it instead of you.  You can resurrect it over and over once you have a pet tamed.

You have to adapt your play style to the pet in Classic WOW.  Pets are not alike in everything but  their appearance in the original vanilla WOW.  So look at these links and pick the best pet for how you play.  Here's information about various pets and their builds.
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow-classic/hunter-dps-pets-guide

Scroll down towards the bottom for more pet build stats.
https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/classic-wow-hunter-pets

The ultimate pet site is Petopia.  Here is Petopia Classic.
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/

Warcraft Tavern has a list of all rare hunter pets in a database you can sort.  This appears to be for Vanilla WOW/Classic WOW.
https://www.warcrafttavern.com/hunter-pets/rare-hunter-pets/

Pet attack speeds.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061112230516/http://tkasomething.com/attackspeeds.php

How to train your pet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070406191702/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/skills_main.shtml

Training guides.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070408070200/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/tameguide_main.shtml


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WOW Classic: Travel Tips

Traveling in Classic WOW is difficult.  There aren't any docks to travel from, for example.  Pick up flight paths everywhere you go if they are available and utilize hearth stones.  A hearth stone can be gotten from an innkeeper.  That makes that inn your "home."  You can always go back to that inn if you use your hearthstone.

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