Friday, August 7, 2009

Newbies Guide for World of Warcraft

By Michael Arthas

For fanatic or even regular online gamer, the title World of Warcraft is not an unfamiliar title. Around the world, it is estimated more than 11.5 million gamers subscribe to play World of Warcraft. But why is it successfully gain so much fame? One of the main reason is because World of Warcraft is very easy to access. Another reason is because this game is straightforward. Anyone, does not matter to have experience or not in online game, can play and enjoy the game right away. Newcomers in MMORPG wouldn't have much trouble getting started.

World of Warcraft comes in 4 discs that you need to install on your PC. The installation is easy. After successfully install the game, you need to create a game account. Off course you'll be needing internet connection (it's an online game). To have access to play the game, you need to pay a monthly subscription fee. The typical subscription fee is US$19.95 per month. When you first purchase World of Warcraft CD, it usually came with free subscription fee for the first month. For the subscription, you can paid it monthly, three-monthly, or every half year. The choice is yours. Better to adjust with your own budget and need. At first you can choose monthly subscription and then you can choose three or six monthly. But I believe you'll enjoy playing WoW.

World of Warcraft operates with a series of servers. In WoW terms, we call these servers as "Realms". The realms located globally. You just need to connect to the nearest realms. This will make the game faster in respond. But no need to worry. Each realms is highly reliable and well maintained. This also another reason why World of Warcraft is the leader in MMORPG market in the world.

Azeroth is the name of the world where World of Warcraft events took place. Azeroth is a unique world, quite similar to our planet Earth, but has its own unique history, myths and off course unique creatures. After creating Azeroth, it is said the ancient gods then gave rise to the earliest races on the planet. With its own forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, cities, caverns, dungeons, Azeroth is an interesting place to have an adventure. Just like our beloved Earth, Azeroth has gone thru pain and experience much trouble. It also has gone thru great wars and conflict.

The inhabitants of Azeroth is not what you would find here on Earth. In general, Azeroth has 3 great continents which is The Eastern Kingdom, Kalimdor and Northrend. Each great continent has their own unique inhabitant creatures and climate. Humans, dwarfs and gnomes inhabit the Eastern Kingdom. The inhabitants of Eastern Kingdom is known as The Alliance. While orcs, trolls and taurens inhabit Kalimdor. And they are known as The Horde. The third great continent, Northrend inhabited by the wicked Lich King and its underlings.

As of now, you can imagine how rich and detailed the world of Azeroth. Although Azeroth is vast and detailed, the game itself is practically easy to understand. In general, you'll be choosing as the Alliance or the Horde. Each group has their own strength and weakness. The Alliance has more beautiful faces, move fast, and smaller in physical. While the Horde has more ugly and scary faces, move slow but physically strong. If you ask which one's the good side, that would be your own choice.

World of Warcraft gave you the ability to create and design your own character. You can also customize their clothing, weapon, armor, etc. You have 9 different classes to choose for your character. Example, you can choose your character to be a hunter, mage, rogue, shaman or warrior. Each class have their own unique ability, strength and skills. Choose and use it wisely as it can be very helpful when you play the game. It seems rather bit confusing for newbie, choosing character and then choosing class, but I assure you, it's not as hard as it sound.

Playing MMORPG is mostly about exploring new places. World of Warcraft is no different. In your adventure in the world of Azeroth, you'll be fighting monsters or other players. Sometimes to progress and get to the next level, you need to fight monsters or savage creatures. Every level you need to play in this game has their own unique area for exploration. Besides fighting, you're objective is also to collect gold which is the ultimate currency in Azeroth. With gold, you can buy new, better and stronger armor or weapon. Collect as many gold as you can to help you progress and get the good stuff in this game. Along the way you'll also find items in your exploration. You can use the items for your character or sell them for gold.

The control in World of Warcraft is easy to handle. The control system is sensible and makes good use of the keyboard and mouse. A newbie wouldn't have much problem mastering the control. World of Warcraft also includes in-game camera which allow us to look around and have a full view of the environment.

All in all, World of Warcraft is a great game for any type or age of online player. People with zero or even skilled gamer will still have much fun playing World of Warcraft. Every player will enjoy having an adventure in the vast and detailed world of Azeroth. They will also enjoy fighting monsters, collecting and trading items, finding rare and powerful items, etc. There are so much fun and addiction playing World of Warcraft. So... enjoy...

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