Game Guide

The World of Warcraft Game Guide was a section of the official site. It contained explanations of gameplay, features, strategy, and lore in World of Warcraft. The original version was written by Nebu, and later versions may have been as well. The Game Guide contained hundreds of pages, most of which were on generic game-play. The articles documented here are mostly the specifically unique and the lore-centric articles.

History

The Game Guide was originally located at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info. In March 2006, it was reorganized with new content, but old content was not rewritten.

In December 2010, it was rewritten for Cataclysm and moved to http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/. In 2014, it was reorganized (but not completely rewritten) for Warlords of Draenor.

When the official site was revamped again in July 2016, much of the guide's content was cut, and links to the remaining pages were moved to a simple dropdown menu.

The Game Guide's previous contents can now only be viewed through the Wayback Machine (original version, 2010 to 2016 version) and in the articles below.

Articles

Original version (March 2004 - December 2010)

Introduction

• Story/Lore
  • History of Warcraft
  • Lore
  • Novels
  • RPGs
  • Previous Warcraft Games
• The Warcraft Encyclopedia

Character

• Races
• Classes
• Reputation
  • Classic
  • Burning Crusade (US)
  • Burning Crusade (EU)
  • Wrath

The World

• Major Cities
• In-Game Events
  • Game Guide/Yearly Events

• Dungeons
  • Wrath World Dungeons
    • Utgarde Keep preview
    • The Nexus preview
    • Dungeons - Ulduar
  • Wrath Raid Areas
    • Icecrown Citadel
    • The Ruby Sanctum
  • BC World Dungeons
  • BC Raid Areas
    • Magtheridon's Lair
  • Classic World Dungeons
  • Classic Raid Areas
    • Blackwing Lair
    • Monsters of Ahn'Qiraj
    • Zul'Gurub
    • Dragons of Nightmare

Transportation

• Mounts
• Public Transportation

Player vs Player (PvP)

• Battlegrounds

2010 version (December 2010 - July 2016)

Player Heroes

• Races
  • Alliance
    • Draenei
    • Dwarf
    • Gnome
    • Human
    • Night Elf
    • Worgen
  • Horde
    • Blood Elf
    • Goblin
    • Orc
    • Tauren
    • Troll
    • Undead
  • Neutral
    • Pandaren
• Classes

Gameplay

• Dungeons, Raids,
  • Scenarios
• Player vs Player
  • Battlegrounds
• Garrisons
• Factions
  • Classic Factions
  • The Burning Crusade Factions
  • Wrath of the Lich King Factions
  • Cataclysm Factions
  • Mists of Pandaria Factions
• Events

Lore

• 'Expanded Universe' or 'Tales, Comics, Videos'
• History of Warcraft
• The Story of Warcraft
• The Characters of Warcraft

2016 version (July 2016 - Current)

Races

• Alliance Races (Text mostly unchanged from the 2010 site)
• Horde Races (Text mostly unchanged from the 2010 site)
• Allied Races
  • Dracthyr

Classes (Lore text mostly unchanged from the 2010 site)

Warcraft Lore

See also

• The World of Warcraft Townhall
• The Burning Crusade Townhall
• The Burning Crusade Flash site
• Warcraft Encyclopedia
• Underdev

References

These pages and the articles they contained can still be viewed through the Wayback Machine.

• 2004 Version can be viewed here.
• 2010 Version can be viewed here.
• 2014 Update can be viewed here.
• 2016 Version is still live on the World of Warcraft Official Website.