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World of Warcraft: A Brief Review
World of Warcraft, name you no doubt have heard in the recent years since 2006. This is because it has been the dominant MMORPG (Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) since its release. The game entails what the title says it does: its a whole world (no exageration the game is huge and absolutly not linear at all). In this world, you can be one of 2 factions, each of which have 6 different races which you can play as, each having their own unique traits and benifits, as well as unique starting zones. Since the main goal of the game is to achieve the currently highest level through the art of war and battle against the other faction, in addition to being different races, you also have a choice of 9 different battle classes, each of which have their own unique array of spells, advantages, and disatvantages which the player uses to stragetically to their own benifit. As you can see, all these choices proove many different ways to play the game many times over, each time having a totally different experince than the last.

Getting your Charecter Started
Choosing your begginign charecter attributes wisly in the beggining will pay off big time later int he game. The 2 main factions, Horde and Alliance, have different races each: Horde has the blood elves, trolls, orcs, goblins, tauren, and the undead, while the Alliance has humans, gnomes, dwarves, night elves, dranie, and worgen. Different races can be different classes and can't be some classes too, so choose your class before you choose the race. Here is a list of the different classes, and a small description of each fighting style, for your choice in the catagory of classes has the biggest impact on your gamplay by far. Before we go into this though, you must be aware of the 3 different fighting styles: tanking, dps, and healing, which are roles that come into play when fighting the world's creatures and when playing with other people. Tanks taunt all the enemies off of their comrades and can sustain lots of damage, but can't deal alot. Dps stands for damage per second, which obviosly, describes its main purpose which is to kill of the enemies with high damage while the enemies are focused on the tank. Despite their huge damage output, their armor is meager and they usually cant sustain much damage before they will die. Healers focus on a much more helpfull and beneficial role, unlike the other 2 with focus on killing the enemy as effeciently as possibly. Healers heal their party and rejuvinate their strengths. In a group while working together with others, dps are the most common because every class can become one. Healers are less often, for not all classes can use spells and those that can sometimes can only dps. Healers are important to groups, but of equal if not greater importance is the tank, which only a few classes can become, for you must be able to sustain huge amounts of damage in very little amounts of time. Classes can become certain roles, as will be described below, and cant be some roles too. Take this into account when creating your charecter and base your choice off which way you would like to play the game.

1. Warrior
A battle-heardy class, warriors can use any weapons and wear any armor, making them durable and potentially very lethal meele classes. They can be potentially great dps and quite good tanks, but they can't use spells at all and can't be healers.

2. Paladins
Paladins are holy versions of warriors, being able to use spells and having some benifits when fighting against their milenium old enemies of undead. They are 1 of the 2 classes that can fill any role, although ther really arent the best at any one. They can be tanks of equal excellence to that of warriors, but their dps lacks quite a bit. They too can wear any armor and are quite durable, but have a limited use of weapons. Their healing abilities are also one of the best, which makes this class a great one for starting players because of its ease and simplicity in battle.

3.Mages
This class has no capabilities whatsoever in healing or tanking, but are pretty much the best dps, having a wide range of spells to quickly and effeciently kill off an array of enemies. The downfall is their limited armor capabilit