World of Warcraft

WoW in general:

• Blizzard Entertainment• Release: november 23, 2004• MMORPG• 11.5 million monthly subscribers• Guiness world record• holds 62% of MMOG market• 2 expansions:

The Burning Crusade

• January 16, 2007• 2.4 million copies sold on release

day• 2 more races: Blood Elves(Horde)

Draenei (Alliance)• New Continent: Outland• Level Cap raised to 70• New abilities, items, spells,

locations

Wrath of the Lich King• November 13, 2008

• 2.8 millions copies sold on release day--> fastest selling game EVER

• New hero class:Death Knight

• New Continent:Northrend• Level Cap raised to 80• Whole variety of new things

Character Customizationdetailsfactions

races

sex

classes

Specialattributies

Alliance

Races:

Human

Dwarves

Night-Elves

Gnomes

Draeneis

Orcs

Trolls

Taurens

Undeads

Blood-Elves

Classes attributies:

warrior

paladin

mage

druid

hunter

warlock

priest

Death knight

Melee unit, strong, heavily armed

Melee unit, heavily armed, able to heal

Casting unit, strong in damaging in area withmagic

Can turn into animals

Hunters can have pets that help them in battles

Casting unit, they can have pets, they do heavy damage over time

The best healing class, they can buff up other players

Melee unit, they can cast aswell

rogue

Melee unit, they attack from stealth

shaman Melee/casting unit, able to heal

Login screenChar, selection screen

Current char.

Other characters

In-game screen

Self-portrait

Chat-window/settings

Action bars/Abilities

Mini-map/Big mini-map

Self-character

NPCs/Non-playercharacters

Buffs on our char.

nameHealth/Hp

Mana

Level

Rested --> gain more Exp. for killing monsters

This means you are in combat

Rage - you gain rage by getting hit, or dealing dmg.

Energy

Experience/Exp. - When you kill a monster that is at least 4 levels lower, or you complete a quest, you get Exp. points. By getting enough Exp. you can achieve higher levels. By growing levels you get your attributies higher.

Max level: 60/BC70/Wotlk80

Char. window

-Datas about your equipment

-Datas about your attributies

-Picture of your mounts, pets

SpellbookContains all the executable and passive abilities

TalentsContains 3 talent trees, and you can spend your points here to improve your abilities

Action barsYou can put the spells from your spellbookhere to use them comfortably.The ‘shadow clock’ on the icons show the cool-downs of the spells.

Target

Cast barShows the spell you arecurrently casting

Glowing ring around yourtarget

Farming

Defeated enemy

Loot window:after defeating an enemy you can get its things. From ordinary monsters, you usually get their fur, paw, fang...etc., that are needed for many quests. But from epic, rare monsters you can get more valuable things. The better-than-avarage drops are indicated with a colorful names.

By fighting, your armor and weapon looses from its durability, and you need to go repair them. By doing this, you consume your money.

Money: Gold , Silver , Copper 10Copp. = 1 Silver. 10 Silver = 1 Gold

(Avarage money drop (not at max level) is about 70 silver)

You start the game with a Backpack that has 16 slots to use. You start up with a Heartstone, some food, and some drink.But during the game you can buy additional bags (Expensive)

Socializing in WOW

Wow is an MMORPG, so you NEED to communicate and work with others.If a player says something, it shows up in a chat bubble (1), and also in the chat window with a white color (2).

(1)

(2)

You can send private messages to players, it is called whispering. (purple color; only shows up in chat window; only the sender and the receiver can see it.) (3)

(3)

You can also send messages for everybody in your region, by yelling.You can send a message for a Lot of people by chating in a channel, for example trade - to offer your things for sale

You can make parties or even raids (5+ players) by inviting people. This is really important, mainly for defeating bosses, or doing dungeons. In the party you need to fix down, who is the healer, the tank and the dps.Parties always have leaders and they organize the ‘trips’.

Auction houses - here you can put your things up for sale, and players can bet on them or buy them out. Usually high level players browse them and they make a lot of moneyout of them.An alternate way of socializing is making emotes. Many of them are just for fun, but with people who don’t understand you, this can be the only way of communication.

Ways of gameplay

• Pvp: World Pvp, Battlegrounds, Arenas

• Instances/raids: dungeons: includes trash mobs, and bosses. In instances the party or the raid group is ‘alone’, seperated from the other parts of the world, and no one else can join them without being in the party.

The WorldThe World is divided into to big ones. One is Azeroth (Kalimdor, Northrend, Eastern Kingdoms), and the other one is Outland, the realm of demons.These continents are divided into regions, like Elwynn Forest.

Generally about servers4 kinds of servers: Normal, Pvp, RP, RPPvp

2 Month of playing --> 8500 HufMany private servers, but they are lagging, they are not real (instant max level, etc... ).

How loved this is game is: On the release day of WotLK, in Mammut there were about 1600 people waiting to buy the game at 12:00 pm. Go home and be the first to who plays the game.L80ETC/Level80EliteTaurenChieftain: A rock band made by the programmers of WOW. They have 3 Wow songs: Power of the horde, Rogues do it from behind and I am Murloc.There is a complete official database of WOW on the Internet: Wowwiki.com