World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide

A World of Warcraft Beginners Guide wouldn’t be complete without some background information on the history of the game. The World of Warcraft, or as it is often known, WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), created by Blizzard Entertainment. WoW holds 62% of the MMORPG market, with 12 million subscribers. WoW is the fourth release of the game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft as Orcs & Humans in 1994.

World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide – Game Setting

The World of Warcraft is set in the world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the end of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, with the game released on November 23, 2004, the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. World of Warcraft currently has three expansion sets:

The Burning Crusade, released on January 16, 2007.
Wrath of the Lich King, released on November 13, 2008.
Cataclysm, released on December 7, 2010.

A fourth expansion pack was announced by lead producer J. Allen Brack at BlizzCon in October 2010.

World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide – Gameplay

World of Warcraft is a subscription based MMORPG, with players paying either by buying prepaid game cards for a selected amount of playing time, or by using a credit or debit card to pay on a regular basis. Players in WoW control a character avatar within a game world in third- or first-person view, exploring the landscape, fighting various monsters, completing quests, and interacting with non-player characters (NPCs) or other players. To start playing, the player selects a realm, sometimes referred to as a server. Each realm acts as an individual copy of the game world, and falls into one of four categories:

Player vs player (PvP) – open combat is common
Player vs environment (PvE) – focused on defeating monsters and completing quests
Roleplay (RP)
Roleplay-PvP (RP-PvP)

Before beginning to play WoW, a player must create a character, by choosing between the opposing factions of Alliance or Horde. Characters from the opposing factions can perform rudimentary communication, but only members of the same faction can speak, mail, group, and share guilds. After selecting the faction, the player must select the character’s race, such as Orcs or Trolls for the Horde or Humans or Dwarves for the Alliance. This is followed by selecting the class for the character, with choices such as mages, warriors, and priests available. Most classes, except for special “Hero classes”, are limited to particular races.

World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide – Character Skills

As with the majority of role playing game,s the idea is to develop characters to gain various talents and skills. Talents such as mining, tailoring and blacksmithing, can be learned, along with secondary skills of cooking, fishing, first-aid and archeology. Characters can form and join guilds, allowing characters within the guild access to the guild’s chat channel, the guild name and optionally allowing other features, including a guild tabard, guild bank, and dues. A large part of World of Warcraft play involves “questing”. Quests, or “tasks” or “missions”, are usually acquired from NPCs. Quests are the heart of the game and their completion usually reward the player with some combination of experience points, items, and in-game money. Quests also allow characters to gain access to new skills and abilities, and explore new areas. Quests are linked by a common theme, with each consecutive quest triggered by the completion of the previous, forming a quest chain. Quests commonly involve killing a number of creatures, gathering a certain number of resources, finding a difficult to locate object, speaking to various NPCs, visiting specific locations, interacting with objects in the world, or delivering an item from one place to another. Completion of many end-game challenges require the character to be part of a group. In this way, character classes are used in specific roles within a group.

World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide – Character Death

World of Warcraft uses a “rested bonus” system, increasing the rate that a character can gain experience points after the player has spent time away from the game. When a character dies, it becomes a ghost—or wisp for Night Elf characters—at a nearby graveyard. When a character dies, it can be resurrected by other characters that have the ability, or can self-resurrect by moving from the graveyard to the place where they died. If a character is past level ten and is resurrected at a graveyard, the items equipped by the character degrade, requiring in-game money and a specialist NPC to repair them. Items that have degraded heavily become unusable until they are repaired. If the location of the character’s body is unreachable, they can use a special “spirit healer” NPC to resurrect at the graveyard. When the spirit healer revives a character, items equipped by the character at that time are further degraded, and the character is significantly weakened by what is called “resurrection sickness” for up to ten minutes, depending on the character’s level. Resurrection sickness does not occur and item degradation is less severe if the character revives by locating its body, or is resurrected by another player through special items or spells.

World Of Warcraft Beginners Guide – Combat

On PvE servers, players can flag themselves as attackable to players from the opposite faction. Depending on the mode of the realm, PvP combat between members of opposing factions is possible at almost any time or location in the game word—the only exception being the starting zones, where the PvP “flag” must be enabled by the player wishing to fight against players of the opposite faction. On PvE (called normal or RP) servers, by contrast, the player has the choice of engaging in combat against other players. On both server types, there are special areas of the world where free-for-all combat is permitted. Battlegrounds, for example, are similar to dungeons: only a set number of characters can enter a single battleground, but additional copies of the battleground can be made to accommodate additional players. Each battleground has a set objective, such as capturing a flag or defeating an opposing general, that must be completed in order to win the battleground. Competing in battlegrounds rewards the character with tokens and honor points that can be used to buy armor, weapons, and other general items that can aid a player in many areas of the game, thus building up the skill and strength of a character. Winners get more honor and tokens than losers. However, players also earn honor when they or nearby teammates kill players in a battleground. This is the first in Staralicious.com gaming section, more news and guides will follow.

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World of Warcraft Scourgewar Mount Loot Card TINY

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