World of Warcraft

Hello readers, today im going to TALK about World of Warcraft, yes talk not review. Why? You ask, well because theres so much to talk about. I mean seriously this game is huge. So many thing to see and so many things to do. So ill just talk about basics and explain some things. Before i begin, i woud like to state that the stereotype of WoW players is completely wrong. WoW players are not socialy awkward freaks who live in their moms basement. Most players are socialy active, have alot of friends and usualy do a sport in their spare time, besides WoW. Yes there are some exeptions, of people who are well matching the stereotype.  Alright lets begin, World of Warcraft or WoW is a pay to play MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game). But it is not just one game, as alot of games have downloadable content or DLC, MMORPGs usualy have expansions. And WoW has 3 expansions. To play you must own World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (or also known as TBC), World of Warcraft: Wrath of The Lich King (also known as WOTLK) and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (also known as Cata). Once you have these games you register them on battle.net. Then you can start playing. WoW is set in the fictional world of Azeroth, Azeroth is divided into three continents Kalimdor, Northrend and Eastern Kingdoms. So to begin playing you must create a character, when doing so, you choose a faction (you must choose to be a member of the Alliance or the Horde, to put it simple the Alliance are the good guys and the Horde are bad guys), then you choose race, a class and you may choose to be male or female. You can also change your haircut, hair color, face, and depending on the sex and race you can change your facial hair, tusks, horns, percings, marks and such. Here are the races:

ALLIANCE

-HUMAN (regular race)

-DWARF (shorter than humans)

-NIGHT ELF (taller than humans, skin tone ranging from violet to light blue)

-GNOME (very short and comedic)

-DRAENEI (tall and blue)

-WORGEN (werewolfes, preety much it)

HORDE

-ORC (green and very strong looking)

-UNDEAD (zombies, just plain zombies)

-TAUREN (minotaur like creatures, very tall and slow)

-TROLL (tall and skin tone ranging from blue to green)

-BLOOD ELF (considerd to be homsexuals by the gaming community, due to their look)

-GOBLIN (very short green creature with large ears)

And here are the classes:

-WARRIOR (hand to hand combat, uses swords)

-PALADIN (hand to hand combat and casting, uses maces)

-HUNTER (ranged combat, uses axes and has a pet)

-ROUGE (hand to hand combat, uses daggers and is a stealth class)

-PRIEST (caster, uses staves, is a healer)

-DEATH KNIGHT (requires a level 55 character to create a character with this class)

-SHAMAN (versatile class uses hand to hand combat, casting and ranged attacks, uses maces and staves and shields)

-MAGE (caster, uses staves)

-WARLOCK (caster, uses staves)

-DRUID (hand to hand combat and caster, uses staves, daggers and swords)

            Once you create your character you begin playing, you are put in the starting area, each race has a diffrent starting area. In this area you get a couple of quests so you can get to know the game and learn how to play. The next milestone is when you reach level 10, when you reach level 10 you unlock battlegrounds or also know as BGs. What are battlegrounds you ask? Battlegrounds are arenas where a team of Alliance players and a team Horde players battle it out. But theres also and objective, the objective differs on the arena. The objectives span from Capturing the Flag and other things. At level 10 you also unlock the feature to use Talent Points. What are Talent Points? Talent Points are like buff you choose what kind of branch you will choose. For example if you choose to be a Rouge you can assingh your Talent points to Subleyt, Combat or Assasination. Each of the branches has its own bonuses, it is up to you to choose witch one you think will benefit you most. The next milestone is when you reach 20, when you reach level 20 you can learn to ride a mount. A mount is, well like a veichle. For example, humans have horses, orcs have wolfs and so on. Where you learn how to ride a mount depends on your race. Your mount trainer is usualy right outside the starting area. Once you mount you moving speed increases for 60%. After level 20, thing get alot easier, more experience points (these are required for leveling up). There are a few more milestone but im not going to go into detail, im just going to list them:

-LEVEL 40 (you may train for a faster mount, it increases you speed by 100%)

-LEVEL 60 (you train for a flying mount, increases your speed by 150%)

-LEVEL 70 (you train for a faster flying mount, increases speed by 280%)

-LEVEL 80 (you train for an even faster flying mount, increases speed by 310%)

-LEVEL 85 (congratulations you have reached the level cap, that means that you have reached the highest level, you no longer need to earn experience points)

These milestones are very important, but dont think that all you do in WoW is quest and level up. The objective of the game is to reach level 85 , yes, but along the way you can participate in events and other things like, raids, dungeons, battlegrounds and all kinds of diffrent activites. So if you intend to play WoW, i hope you have fun, and i hope that this blog helped you understand the way the game works. Of course i didnt mention alot of thing like professions, gear, dual-spec and other thing. No, this blog is a beginers guide.

Bye now.