Tell me all about World of Warcraft. How do I start playing it? Describe every single detail about the game?

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Tell me all about World of Warcraft. How do I start playing it? Describe every single detail about the game?

Answer 1

As a now professional gamer, and leader/co-founder of one of the current top ranking guilds on WoW, I can attest to what that guy said about the Zygor guides from that website http://www.zygorguides.pcti-system.com .. When I first started using them, is when I started taking my WoW gaming to a whole new level. I wouldn't be where I am today without them. As advanced as I am now, I still use them as an awesome reference/aid. Highly recommended if you're serious about being an accomplished WoW gamer, or just a newb looking to quickly learn the ropes and advance. On a side note, I am looking forward to the Warlords of Draenor expansion coming in November, and the updated guide to go along with it. Should be epic.

Answer 2

I've been in love with Blizzard games since I was 14 years old. I remember starting with Starcraft, moving onto Diablo, then finally finding my true love and passion, World of Warcraft. I've been absolutely addicted to this game for the past few years now. It's such a beautiful, mysterious, but often complex and complicated world of mystery and intrigue. I have, at many times, found myself where you may be now... confused or stumped in some way- and not knowing exactly where to turn or what to do. Or maybe just unsure of how to advance, or reach the next level in my gaming experience. These road-blocks ranged from very simple, basic, or otherwise minor problems to complicated and complex issues. Both technical and in-game. I did and still do find GREAT help, on ANYTHING WoW related, within the infamous Zygor guides at http://www.zygorguides.pcti-system.com .. These guides are like the Bible of WoW, the Encyclopedia Britannica for anything World of Warcraft. My go-to guide for just about anything and everything. And unlike others, these guides are integrated IN-GAME. Listed below are some of the things that currently come to mind:



-1-90 In-Game Leveling and Loremaster Guide

-Dailies and Events Guide

-Dungeon and Gear Guide

-Professions and Achievements Guide

-Pets and Mounts Guide

-Titles, Reputation, and Macros Guide



...The list goes on and on.



Anyways, I hope I was of some help to you. Above all, my greatest recommendation to you from personal experience, is DON'T FORGET that there is still a REAL world out there! Lol. The biggest problem for me that I've come across is my absolute addiction to this game. Like many others out there, WoW has taken over much of my life and free-time. Proceed with caution! FOR THE HORDE! :P

Answer 3

best game ever i quiet my job got divorced just to play join our crusade

Answer 4

WoW is a game where it's alliance vs. horde. You can choose to be either on the alliance or the horde and you can pick 10 races and 10 classes



alliance:gnome, dwarf, dreanei (with the burning crusade expansion pack), human, and night elf

horde races: undead, troll, tauren, blood elf(with The burning crusade expansion pack), or orc.



classes: paladin, priest, druid, shaman, mage, warlock, rogue, hunter, death knight (with the wrath of the lich king expansion pack and a lvl 55 char), warrior



Once you get into the world of warcraft, there are two main ways to level up. Instancing and questing, although most people just do both.



Instancing-You get into a party with 4 other people and you take down harder than normal guys.



Questing- You grab quests from the people that give them and follow their instructions. Upon completion of the quest you will get experience.



Once you reach the max level, you can either raid or pvp. Raiding is where you get 4-24 other people and take down hard computer based mobs. PvP or player vs. player is where you can attack other players in battlegrounds or arena type fields.



Most high end raiders or pvpers tend to do both.

Answer 5

There is the regular game you buy, and two expansion packs known as "Burning Crusades" and "Wrath of the Lich King" On the first game, you play until level 60 and then 70, and then 80.



You can choose to either be apart of the Horde(the bad) or the Alliance(the good). You have many races and different kind of characters that you can choose from, that all have different abilities. You do many quests and get experience based on the difficulty of the quest and receive rewards to better your player (weapons, armor, bags, money), and the amount of experience dictates your level. As you level it takes longer to get to the next level. You also can group up with other players to complete group quests, do raids or dungeons and you can be apart of a guild, which is the same members, or ones added and there are many advantages to that (helping with quests among other things) You can also have a pet to ride once you get to a certain level (usually horses). There are also achievements, and you gain them by doing all the quests, world events, different holidays, for example, "Hallows End" (halloween) and "Love is in the air!" (Valetntines Day), and many other things.Your character can also learn to be a master and so on in different professions (example: engineering, blacksmithing, fishing, cooking etc..)



You pay 30 dollars for a 60 day playing period. This is also an online game. Randomly, there are updates to the server and new patches that have to download and they sometimes do restarts for all the servers or just some.



On E-bay or Amazon they sell a "battle chest" with all three games, and detailed book/guides to help you with the game. There are also many websites that you can goto to help you suceed in the game. Good luck! It's fun.

Answer 6

World of Warcraft also known as WoW is so much better then runescape. To start playing it you have to choose if you want to pay for retail, or play on a private sever and not pay ( most people do this).Then you have to go out and buy the game and install on your Computer or whatever. Once you start playing you make a character from the choice of orks, trolls, humans, Taurens, undead, elf's and blood elf's then you choose if you want to be Horde or Good then you start playing trying to get good armor doings tasks, going on raids and much more!!

Answer 7

Runescape sucks WOW butt, lol. I couldn't really tell you that much about starting it up etc, because I just play from my bro's account, but I hope you enjoy when you start playing! It's really fun, trust me--this is coming from a girl, btw : )

Answer 8

Dont go there!

Answer 9

You start by buying the game. Yet, you can get a free 10 day trial that has some (not all) the great details of the game.

Once you create an account, you choose from these classes (original WoW): Orc, Troll, Tauren, Undead (known as the Horde) or Human, Night Elf, Dwarf, or Gnome (known as the Alliance). Now the expansion, Burning Crusade, includes two other races, Dreani (Alliance) and Blood Elf (Horde).

Next, choose a class (original WoW): Warrior, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, Paladin, and Hunter. (New expansion, Wrath of the Lich King): Death Knight, though you must have a level 55 character.

Now you enter the world in a starter area. Good luck from then on with quests and leveling.

Answer 10

Okay every detail for you. First of all, WoW > Runescape in all ways. World of Warcraft is an MMORPG which is a Massive Multi Online Role Playing.



The adventure begins when you buy it. The total cost of buying the whole thing is about $100 and tax (20 for the original WoW, 40 for BC which is the Expansion, and 40 for WotLK which is the 2nd expansion). To add to that is the $15 a month you need to pay. I guess you don't have to spend anything if you get all of it illegally, which Blizzard will track and hunt you down for. After installing the CDs (a total of 10, 5 for Original WoW, 4 for BC, and 1 for WoTLK) you have to Install A LOT of patches which will take a long time depending on your computer and connection.



Once you have everything installed you log on and choose the server you want to play on. There are a few types, PvE, PvP, RP, RPPVP. PvE servers are regular realms, you have a choice to PvP. In a PvP server, PvP will get to you whether you like it or not unless you hide in cities. RP is for crazy people where you have to always play as if you were your character in the game. RPPVP I guess is the mixture of RP and PVP.



Once you choose your realm, you choose your Faction. There are the Horde and there are Alliance. You choose. Just advice though Horde is way better than Alliance. Alliance is full of little kids. Once you choose your faction, you choose your race. In the Horde, you have the Orcs, Trolls, Undead, Blood Elves, and Tauren. In the Alliance you have the Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Draeneis, and Night Elves. Each race has a different racial skill/passives (in-born abilities that are unique to that race only). Once you choose your race you choose your class. There are 10 classes (Warrior, Paladin, Rogue, Shaman, Priest, Warlock, Mage, Hunter, Druid, and with the new expansion the Hero Class the Death Knight). Each class is different and comes with its unique arsenal of skills, read online or the manual to see what they are. You pick your class from these 9 (The Death Knight comes later when you reach level 55 on your original character). You pick a name then you enter the world.



Your adventure now beings. You start at level one. You must now get to level 80. You get there by doing quests or killing monsters, or both. Quests are given to you by Quest Givers and you complete their objectives. You get experience from completing quests and monsters that are around your level range.



You choose your professions too (for example mining, tailoring) which you level up in order to make money in the future. Read online to see what all of these do. You can only choose 2 of all the main professions to keep. The secondary professions can be learned altogether.



Starting at level 8 you can enter a Dungeon/Instance. These are areas where you zone in through a portal into the special Dungeon while you are in a group. Zoning in through the portal will create a copy ONLY FOR YOUR GROUP In these you group with at most 4 people, altogether a group of 5. In here you kill special monsters with higher and better loot and better gear. These are where bosses at. In instances you have special jobs depending on what you want to do. 1 person is usually the tank (A warrior, a druid, or paladin...and later a Death knight) who makes sure the monsters attacks nobody but the tank. A healer who keeps everyone alive. And the 3 DPS who do damage to the monsters.



At 60 there are raids..but they are obsolete. Level 60 raids were in the Original WoW and consisted of having 40 people working together to kill hard bosses. Burning Crusade at level 70 raiding required 25 people or 10 people. Wrath of the lich King now at 80 has 10 people or 25 people working together. Each raid is different and has different boss fights. They take skill, coordination, and some Redbull to keep you on your feet on your computer. It takes execution to pull off these raids.



Patches arrive and bring new additions to World of Warcraft.



The forums online are where you can discuss many things (Suggestions, questions, problems).



Guilds are for you to join and meet new people and raid with.



You can either PvP (Player VS Player) or PvE (Player VS Environment) or both.



PvP is where Player vs Player happens. You can either do World PvP, which is going outside and killing people of the opposite faction. Or you can go to battlegrounds where you fight people with a special goal to complete in order to win a game. Or you can Arena (different types of games for different # teams. There's 2v2 [Your team of 2 versus a team of 2], 3v3, 5v5). These rated matches are serious business to people.



When you Arena or do battlegrounds you get better gear with resilience in it. Resilience is for PvP and all it does really is decrease the damage other people do to you.



When you raid you get more cool looking gear and weapons to show off. When you raid and you're good at it you can stroke your E-peen in major cities.



The impact you make on those around you in this game will make you either famous or just a regular Joe in WoW.



From a WoW player to a Non-WoW Player, it is really fun....but really addicting. Overall, don't play this game if you're young. It'll ruin your education.

Answer 11

First of all, ignore the lady that is trying to sell you gold. Everyone needs to work for their money in the game and buying gold through those websites is a violation of the game rules.



Anyhow, just go to www.worldofwarcraft.com and you will learn all you need to know. Also, you can get a free 10-day trial there to see if you really like it or not. I've known people who try it out and hate it, so it just depends on what you are looking for. Also some electronic/game stores have books that explain the game if you want a hard copy.

Answer 12

In wow you go to World of Warcraft.com and make an account and download a trial or the real thing, also you can buy at the store. After you create and download you pick your realm, which is basically different systems (malygos is my Favorite). When you start off you pick your race (human, orc, Gnome <-Dont make a Gnome plz, ect.) and your class (Warlock,warrior ect). You go around killing animals and doing quests which usually send you to kill something or deliver something.its fairly easy after the first few days, but it costs more than it should. If you have any questions refer to the website. If you do play have a great time :D

Answer 13

goto worldofwarcraft.com and read on it. there is ALOT of info to explain here. you can also get a free 10 day trial to try it out and see what it's all about.