Simple Interface

World of Warcraft has as friendly a user interface as possible to make the game accessible to all players. To ease players into questing, the game makes it easy to identify quest givers by the yellow exclamation marks over their heads. Trainers, who teach your characters new abilities and spells, pop up with a book. If you can harvest a resource from the world, your cursor will pop up with an appropriate action icon. If you can harvest a plant, a flower cursor pops up. If you can mine ore, you get a mining pick cursor. In this way, the game tells you immediately and intuitively how you can interact with the world.

Fighting is just as easy. All you need to do is right-click on a monster to begin attacking. You can even move your chat window around the screen, customize the colors of the window to better suit your tastes, and customize your combat log, which is a scrolling text box showing all your maneuvers and those of your enemies in battle so that you can keep track of combat. It is also easy to keep track of your quests through the quest log. A smart cursor usually pops up with an icon to remind you that you can just right-click on the NPC to begin an interaction. Quest givers pop up with a chat balloon to tell you that you can talk to them. You can always refer to this interface window to see all your accepted quests, the goals you need to still accomplish, and where to go to turn in your quest. When you return to a quest giver for your reward, a yellow question mark will replace the exclamation mark to tell you that your quest can be turned in. You can also tell at a quick mouse-over who an NPC is and how you can interact with it.