World of Warcraft
An Amazing Game for All
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My husband has been playing the Warcraft games for a long time. I could never really get into them. The whole strategy game is beyond my normal thinking. But naturally when World of Warcraft came out, Bear bought it. I watched him play for a little while and then decided that I would give it a try.
I am hooked.
I have two characters on two different servers. One of my favorite things about this game is you can totally customize your characters appearance. Hair color, facial features, male/female, class, race, hair style, skin color. Depending on the race you can pick features unique to that race. Piercings, horns, scars.
My first character is a night elf named Ivie. She is a level 21 druid with Alliance afliation. You can pick two professions with each character. The two I chose are herbalism and alchemy. I pick different herbs, mix them together and create different potions. Some are to heal and some are to improve. I had to learn fishing also as a trade skill because some of my potions need fish (I'm not sure why). Ivie is on one of the 'normal' servers. That means that I can go about playing my character and talking to other people via the chat option and no big deal.
My second charater is a tauren named neheptra (panther in a foreign language). She is a level 10 warrior with Horde affiliation. Her professions are mining and blacksmithing. That works out really nice because I can make my own chain mail and such. The skills that I learned with her are fishing, first aid, and cooking. She is on one of the 'role-playing' servers. That means that when I chat with other players and conduct myself I am supposed to act the way that character woud if it were real. Including my manner of speech. I dont know how to speak like a tauren so I don't say much.
I play at least a few hours a day. I like the way the game is layed out. I like doing the quests and talking to people, but often enough I will just wander around to see what I can find. I have "met" people from all over the United States and even talk to a "friend" from Australia. There is an artcile here on JU by Draginol about his son and that game Link If you get the chance you should read it. This game is so expansive that no matter what your reason for playing, it is worth the $15 a month to play.
I am hooked.
I have two characters on two different servers. One of my favorite things about this game is you can totally customize your characters appearance. Hair color, facial features, male/female, class, race, hair style, skin color. Depending on the race you can pick features unique to that race. Piercings, horns, scars.
My first character is a night elf named Ivie. She is a level 21 druid with Alliance afliation. You can pick two professions with each character. The two I chose are herbalism and alchemy. I pick different herbs, mix them together and create different potions. Some are to heal and some are to improve. I had to learn fishing also as a trade skill because some of my potions need fish (I'm not sure why). Ivie is on one of the 'normal' servers. That means that I can go about playing my character and talking to other people via the chat option and no big deal.
My second charater is a tauren named neheptra (panther in a foreign language). She is a level 10 warrior with Horde affiliation. Her professions are mining and blacksmithing. That works out really nice because I can make my own chain mail and such. The skills that I learned with her are fishing, first aid, and cooking. She is on one of the 'role-playing' servers. That means that when I chat with other players and conduct myself I am supposed to act the way that character woud if it were real. Including my manner of speech. I dont know how to speak like a tauren so I don't say much.
I play at least a few hours a day. I like the way the game is layed out. I like doing the quests and talking to people, but often enough I will just wander around to see what I can find. I have "met" people from all over the United States and even talk to a "friend" from Australia. There is an artcile here on JU by Draginol about his son and that game Link If you get the chance you should read it. This game is so expansive that no matter what your reason for playing, it is worth the $15 a month to play.
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It WAS in fact easy to start up, and I never got the level-grinding blues... there's always something. I think those 3 words sum up the addictive nature of it... "There's always something". I log on to take care of some business... attend to my mining issues, for example. One hour later, I'm knee-deep in evil looking for some trinket and tryiing to figure out which items I should haul back to town in my bulging backpack, and which to leave behind!
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