February 16, 2005

World Of WarCraft

EveryOne should know WarCraft! It’s the Ultimate Strategy game that started on the PC AGES ago, remember? Zon zon! Lokhtar!, Dabou! “ Orcs Sounds when selecting a unit “ now and after like 10 years, Blizzard decided to make a MMORPG game of WarCraft Depends on its unique world and unique characters.

World of WarCraft released in the UK at 11th of this month, I went to the store to get my copy and was shocked that the store is OUT OF STOCK!, I went to different other locations and finally got my copy which was one of the last 3 copies left, was kinda expensive, but not as expensive as in Kuwait that’s for sure, after 3 hours hanging out with my friends, I got back home and installed it, first of all, I was shocked of how SLOW their website was, and the Registration process was one hell of a nightmare! TONS of people are registering and the registering server couldn’t handle it, crashed every once in a while and kept on saying, “YOU ARE TOO SLOW“ huh? How do you expect me to right my CD key fast? Anyway, after wasting 2 hours trying to register I finally finished it, got my account activated and everything seemed cool, logged in, checked out the characters.
If you have played WarCraft Series of STG games, you will notice “ Of Course “ all the characters here, you will see the Dwarf, Human,Gnome,NightElfs as the Alliance Side of the game, and you will have the Horde side, which consist of Orcs, Undead, Trolls, and others hehe I don’t recall that moose thing, anyway, I choose a NightElf druid! Since I read that druids can transform into cool animals, well that’s in every MMORPG game hehe, BUT! In WoW “ World Of WarCraft “ its different!,
Well beginning when entering the world, you will be in the nightelfs city, and you will start doing quests, getting exp by killing and such MMORPG stuff, Whats interesting about WOW is that, you can Rest at the Inn for an amount of time, then get bonus experience when killing monsters, “ if I understood it correctly “ I stay at the inn and log off, come back with 200% experience gain when killing monsters, that’s fair enough and good, since I can’t play every time, other interesting thing is Death, when you die in any MMORPG game you will LOSS Experience Or as they call it , DEBT, heck it’s the same, whether its debt or lost exp, YOU will waste time getting it back, anyway, in WoW, you wont loss any experience whatsoever, when you die, you will become a Spirit and spawn at a nearby graveyard, each zone has a graveyard, then you will have the option of asking the death angle or whatever she is to Revive you, This had a penalty, this penalty is that your equipments and carried stuff will be 25% damaged, and you will have to repair them, aswell you will be effected by revive sickness for a short period amount of time, that’s about it, otherwise you will run like hell to you corpse and revive there, as a nightelf, it was FAST, since I turn into a wisp when I die “ NIGHTELFS ONLY “.
The Game Play is Fairy very simple, you do not need to learn anything new here, point, attack, KILL, easy, not like other games where u have to understand a lot of weird stuff that makes the game boring,
Whats so different about a druid in WoW and a druid in another MMORPG? Right!
Shape Shifting! Its when you can change shapes into an animal, and gain a completely different Role, example, I can change into a bear, WHICH will give me a Warrior like abilities and a massive amount of health, and a complete new skills that I can use! And shape shifting doesn’t take time! While running, SHAPESHIFT, poof u are a bear, its really nice if you know how to use it, example, cast your normal buffs on your self, blast the enemy with a couple of spells, then when the enemy almost near you, Shape Shift into a bear and START Tanking it, if your health is low, Shift back to normal, heal your self, cast root if you want, then shape shift into a bear again and continue your killing, awesome isn’t it? I loved that style, later on I can be a Cat/Cougar that will be like a rogue and Fast running aswell, the game has A LOT of stuff to do, I haven’t explore it much, only level 12 so far.
The Graphics aren’t that great, BUT it has the cartoonish WarCraft Style, which is unique, and best of it, it doesn’t go GRrrrrrrrrrt Grrrrrrrrrrrt Grrrrrrrrrrrt on my HD like EverQuest2 which has a huge memory leak, there aren’t any ZONING PLEASE WAIT, I thought that was a negative feature, since my PC wont handle a huge wide world, but! Its nicely done, and I hardly feel any GRRRRRRRRTs, have I said enough? Woha, it is! I’ll leave you with some pictures that will give you the feeling of WoW.
“ REMEMBER! This is NOT a Comparing Article! I didn’t mean the game RULES! I just stated what happened to me, and I feel that this game has promises, good luck Blizzard! “



Posted by snakeam at February 16, 2005 07:43 PM
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so is it the same grind as the rest of the MMORPG ?

Posted by: forzaq8 at February 17, 2005 04:28 AM

Grind, every MMORPG game has grind " working alot to own " if you mean getting money, u can do trade skills as same as every mmorpg game, i never tried that system, so i have no idea, if you meant getting experiance, you can do tons of quest that are easy and gives you tons of experiance, which is fun, or u can hunt down monsters after you rested " 200% experiance Gain ", if you meant Farming Alot for money/Special Item, i did not reach a phase were i needed a special item yet, most of my stuff are from quests, rest are from drop loot or bought from merchents. hope this answers your question, feel free to ask more. :D

Posted by: Snakeam at February 17, 2005 11:48 AM

Thank you! Chinese Apes.

Posted by: Yellow Monkey at February 28, 2005 04:02 PM