WoW - an Intro...............

Okay as many know it's "National Blog Posting Month" so here's my "unofficial" attempt at it. I say unofficial as I didn't register on the website but here goes anyway.

I'm going to give you a little intro today of a game I play online called "World of Warcraft" or WoW for short.
It's set in the mystical land of Azeroth, after a titanical battle between good and evil where all the races realised that they needed to bind together to defeat a common enemy once this was done however, the old hatreds started to show and the bonds of friendship broken. Thus came on the one side, the horde, orcs, trolls, tauren & the undead they who once were living but turned undead by the war. On the other side, the alliance were the humans, the night elves or Kaldorei, the dwarves and gnomes. Each race is imbued with special skills that are only available to that race, giving specialisation with specific weapons, herb gathering, mining to name a few.
In the current version the game was expanded to add new content and 2 new races - both lost the gifted Draenei or "exiled ones", live in peace near the Night Elves as they had to escape their homeworld before they were transformed into pure evil by one once sent to protect the universe from evil, the Blood Elves, they are a reclusive race who only wanted to be left alone, alas it wasn't to be so as the source from which they drew their magic and energies from was destroyed in a recent war that saw the return of the scourge who had been driving out and all thought destroyed alas it was not to be. It also changes the maximum obtainable level of your character from 60 to 70, what that all means will be revealed in another post, another thing it gives you access to is another world away from Azeroth, simply known as "Outland" more on this later.
I have left many things out as you will really want to get the game otherwise and I can't have that it's just too addictive sometimes.
The game does require an internet connection and a monthly subscription in order to play it, you will see why in but a moment.
When you buy the game you get the 1st month free after that you pay a fixed sum ever month or every 3/6 months depending on how you've set it up, what your paying for is the 24/7 support needed to keep all the various realms up and running, and the in game technical support that is available.
When you start off, you first choose where you want to play, on what realm and not all realms are equal. The realms are divided up into firstly primary language those being English, French, German and Spanish, although you don't need to choose one in your own native language. This gives you a list of realms to choose from and these again are divided into different types: Normal or PvE (Player versus Environment), RP or Role Playing, PvP or Player versus player and finally the craziest of them all PvPRP - that's right Player versus Player with Role playing!
Now you've gotten that out the way, me you can find me on the European realm of "Boulderfist" which is an english speaking PvP realm, where I have 2 characters, both Horde of course.
When you choosen your realm, now it's time to choose your race, you can only play the 2 new races (and get to level 70) if you have the "Burning Crusade" expansion. If I didn't have the games already I would serious invest in the "World of Warcraft War chest" which contains the primary game, the Burning Crusade Expansion and 2 very good guide books.
Each race has limits on to what "classes" of player are available. These classes are Hunter - the might bowman, Warrior - fearless in battle, Rogue - the deadly assassin,
Mage - ice cold or on fire you chose, Warlock - bringing death by shadow and fire, Priest - The might healer, Shaman - Fighting the Battle the shamanistic way, Druid - Shapeshifter , Paladin - part warrior,part priest. That's a very brief descriptive of the various classes, I'll tell you more about each of them in later posts.
Male or female, the choice is yours, then you can decide exactly how they look. On each realm you can have up to 8 characters, the only restriction being if your on a PvP / PvPRP realm you can only be either Horde or Alliance not both.
Now for a name, think of something good and original here then create them.
What now, sit back and enjoy the intro movie, it will show you places you can visit and gives you a little background on your chosen race.
Tomorrow - I be introducing you to each of the various races.