How do I get to Ironforge from Darnassus? Why can’t I mind control this npc? How did I get flagged for pvp? This trainer won’t teach me anymore, where do I continue to train first aid? Why did my first pet have bite but my new one has screech?

I know we have all seen these questions in general chat. Sometimes it’s a very simple thing that someone is looking for, knows they must be close and are simply frustrated. More often than not the question can be answered by reading quest text, looking at a talent tooltip, checking your character pane or perhaps checking the zone maps (when they fill in).

However, some of these questions do not have simple answers. And if you are like me, you like to be able to find the answers yourself, but when you are new its hard to know where to look. So where do you look?

**Before this post got too carried away and became a novel I decided it would be a series of posts. Later I will escalate the types of sites for the more power oriented. For now, the simple stuff.**

Since the inception of the MMO genre there have been sites dedicated to collecting and holding such info. While these typically have followed the pattern of being fan created then being comerciallized and eventually falling out of general use due to overflow of adds and mal-ware *cough* allakaz *cough*…ahem, in recent years there have been a few that have seemed to be able to avoid this pattern to an extent.

Wowhead is likely the most well known and is a site that I easily hit on a (nearly) daily basis. I play with specs for whatever class I am researching using their talent tool (which to me seems faster than the one provided by Blizz) or check for item drops. One great boon we have from Wowhead is the provided code for hover-over tooltips of items and spells.

Likely my personal favorite as a repository for all things WoW, including lore behind most anything there is lore provided for, is WowWiki. Researching an instance in preparation for tanking it the first time? WowWiki is the tool you want. Not always needing a walk through guide for the instance, it is always helpful to know what tricks the trash mobs have up their respective sleeves .

Last but not least in this list of the simple stuff is one that is fairly new, WoWDB. Here we have a site that is hosted by the addon site (goodness there is another topic waiting right there) Curse Gaming. And while I would like to go into a little more detail on it, the links over at wowdb are currently down or at least for me all seem to be redirecting to the front page.

In conclusion, you can either go here, here or here to find out where murloc eyes come from…or the EgoCorp will simply tell you they come from Aensu’s pants.

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