In the globe, an avatar from the player's face is shown. In the bars to the left of it, the players name, and a green bar (the health bar) and a blue bar (the mana bar). In some screenshots the exact number of hit point are shown inside the health bar; this might be something which can be activated and deactivated. The level of the character is shown beneath the avatar.

If you are in a direct fight, conversation, or trading (with a creature, npc or player), that player's status will appear in this spot.
You will be able to see their name, avatar, level and health bar.

If you are in a party, your fellow party member's status will be shown beneath your own player status. You will be able to see their name, avatar and health bar. The party leader (who is in charge of the looting arrangements) has a crown above their avatar.

If you have a pet or summoned creature, his/her status bar will be shown here too. When clicked on, a small command list will appear, and you will be able to give different commands to your pet or creature.

If a spell that modifies your character in someway (buffs, disease, etc) is cast on you, an icon will appear at the top. If you activate a skill or ability it will be shown here to.

The location bar shows what region you are currently in.
The Mini Map shows a miniaturized view of the world map, you will be able to see which direction your facing, other players, and buildings.
If you are tracing herbs these will be shown here to. With the plus and minus buttons you will be able to zoom in and out.
The Day/Night cycle show the time of the day, hovering over this might give you the exact time. but this is unknown until beta or release.

When doing a quest or killing creatures/players you will gain experience points, once gained they will appear above your head for a short time.

Your chat with other players will be displayed here, as well as what happens to your character (new quest completed, new skill learned...). There are different colors for every type of speaking. This is what we know about chatting in WoW so far:

[Chat Messages]

[General Messages]

Some spells may need charging before they can be cast. This loading bar will also appear when a player is using his gun or bow.

The mouse cursor which is used to in WoW is an iron glove. When hovering above or clicking on characters (or items) it changes; the picture shows either a normal, an attack, or a speak cursor. All races have the same cursor at the moment; its unknown if all races will still have the same mouse cursor in the final release, but that's very unlikely.

There are twelve quick slots for spells or abilities. The spells and abilities can be dragged in here from the spellbook and can be used with the keys "one ( 1 )" to "plus ( + )". Multiple quick slot rows can be used.

The experience points you gain will be added to this bar. The number of XP you have, and how much you need for the next level are shown in the middle. e.g. you have 840 xp and you need 1000 for the next level...It will show 840/1000. The number of XP hasn't been on all screenshots, so its possible this could be activated and deactivated.

These 7 buttons will open the following menus:

• Characters Paperdoll
• Spell Book
• (Unknown) - maybe something to do with talent points or secondary skills?
• Quest Log
• Chat Menu (not sure)
• Main Menu
• (Unknown) - maybe to report bugs?

You can read more detail about the menu's in the section Popup Menu's .

This bar is the lag bar, it will show you (in full color!) how good your connection is. Green will of course mean a good connection, and red means not.

There are five slots for back packs and sacks. When the back pack is clicked on, an inventory popup menu will appear.
Read further detail about this below.

Some quests you accept need to be accomplished within a specific time frame. This is the timer that shows you how much time you have remaining to complete the quest.