World Of Warcraft continues in its rise in popularity with more than 9 million paying users worldwide so I thought I would put down a few details for newbies.
World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment’s 4th game in it’s Warcraft series, is played by millions and millions of people worldwide. Amongst the WoW savvy it is known as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG).
Set 4 years after Warcraft III n the world of Azeroth, WoW was originally released on November 23 2004.
There are many rewards for playing WoW, not the least of which is money, experience, items and reputation. The pupose of many gamers is to find a solid World of Warcraft strategy to level-up your character.
If you have the Burning Crusade expansion you can level up to 80, otherwise your character can level from 1-60. (Note: There is a Wrath of the Lich King expansion coming soon if you want to level up to 80).
If you are looking for more advice on this click here, you’ll find out many secrets to leveling up your character here, plus there are reviews of the best World of Warcraft strategy guides so that you can learn from the masters!
One of the best is The Ultimate WoW Guide – it has a massive members area containing extremely up to date information on everything to do with Levelling from 1 to 70, plus a really comprehensive gold guide.
OK enough about that, let’s get back to what World of Warcraft is all about…
In the game, there are two main types of characters:
1) Player Characters (controlled by real people)
2) Non-Player Characters (controlled by Blizzard’s gaming software)
There are nine character classes that you can choose from, each class has its own unique set of talents and abilities. Depending on the class of charater that you have, you can choose to build your character’s talent trees for damage-per-second (DPS), tanking, healing or a combination.
There are 9 WOW character classes which are:
- Druid
- Hunter
- Mage
- Paladin
- Priest
- Rogue
- Shaman
- Warlock
- Warrior
Your character can earn gold, silver and copper to finance your adventures through the lands of Warcraft.
As part of your World of Warcraft strategy, you’ll need to work on different side skills for your character, called professions and are set into two categories:
1) Primary Professions
– Gathering: Mining, Skinning and Herbalism
– Crafting: Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Alchemy, Engineering, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, and Inscription
2) Secondary Professions
Cooking, Fishing and First Aid.
Note: The Rogue class has two unique secondary professions: Lock Picking and Poisons
For lots more on WoW strategy website, make sure that you check out our website www.worldofwarcraftguides.us just click here
On the site you’ll find lots of tips, tricks and strategy advice that is all designed to help you get through the levels faster, get gold faster and most importantly enjoy and gain more satisfaction from the game.
Go Have Some Fun!!
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This post was written by admin on August 3, 2010
