World of Warcraft (WoW)

I personally have played a few online games, and WoW was the best online game ever. This is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is currently the world's largest MMORPG in terms of monthly subscribers.[5][6][7] World of Warcraft currently holds 62% of the MMOG market at 10 million subscribers. The current subscriber base for all MMOGs is 16 million.

Current expansion pack of game is The Burning Crusade. Believe it or not, these World of Warcraft game used nearly 9gb space. In future update or new expansion pack released, it expected will used more than 10gb. This game really recommended to play. Players able to choose it desire races and classes, and it is separated into 2 factions which is Alliance and Horde.

* The Alliance currently consists of Humans, Night Elves, Dwarfs, Gnomes and Draenei.
* The Horde currently consists of Orcs, Tauren, Undead, Trolls and Blood Elves.
(each races have different racial abilities)

In both factions, player can choose the nine character classes, though not all classes are available for each race. Each class has a set of unique abilities and talents. Abilities are general skills and spells available to the entire class, while talents allow players to specialize their character and further refine their role. Each class has a set of three talent trees. Depending on class, players may choose to build their character's talent trees for damage-dealing (also called damage-per-second, or DPS), healing, tanking, or a mix of these. Some classes, known as "hybrid classes," are able to perform different roles depending on a group's needs.



The nine available classes in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade are:

* Druid (Hybrid class)
A nature-oriented class capable of fulfilling the role of damage-dealer, tank, or healer. The druid can shape-shift into many animal forms to increase its combat or movement abilities. In humanoid form, the druid can cast a variety of healing or damaging spells.

* Hunter (Ranged damage class)
A combination of a marksman/archer and animal specialist, the hunter specializes in ranged damage dealt by means of a bow, crossbow, or gun with the help of an animal pet. The hunter also employs a series of traps for damaging or disabling enemies.

* Mage (Spell damage class)
The wizard-esque damage-dealer of World of Warcraft, the mage employs spells of the "arcane", fire, and frost elements. They have minimal armor. Mages can also conjure food and water to replenish group members, and teleport themselves and others to most major cities.

* Paladin (Hybrid class)
A heavily armored holy warrior. Like druids, paladins can specialize to fulfill each of the three major roles in World of Warcraft.

* Priest (Healer/Spell damage class)
A lightly armored class that can protect and heal allies (with "Holy" spells) or bring harm to enemies (with "Shadow" spells).

* Rogue (Melee damage class)
A shadowy assassin that can "stealth" to avoid being seen by enemies (providing near-invisibility). The rogue deals damage by dual-wielding small melee weapons, and also provides traditional thief skills like lock-picking, pickpocketing, and poisoning.

* Shaman (Hybrid class)
Unlike other hybrid classes (paladins and druids), the totem-wielding shaman's tanking abilities are quite limited. However, they can specialize to become effective healers, or damage dealers using either melee weapons or spells.

* Warlock (Spell damage class)
A sinister combination of the mage and the hunter, the warlock deals magical damage like a mage, but also has demonic "pets" (called minions) like hunters. Depending on their specialization, the warlock's damaging spells can come chiefly in the form of "damage over time" spells that, after being placed on an enemy, slowly deal damage, or in the form of direct damage spells that deal damage all at once, as those of a mage or shaman do.

* Warrior (Tank/melee damage class)
A heavily armored class, the warrior is a general melee fighter who can wield any non-magical weapon in the game.



This game is not easy to get boring with, because no matter in PvP (player versus player) and Dungeon Raiding (boss killing) also very fair, which no any player/classes/races which are extra strong or able to get things done by self. Especially in boss killing, if 1 player did not do well it might causes the whole party owned(killed) by boss, so must be careful. Beside all these, player can choose and train professions to develop side skills for their character(s). These non-combat skills are called professions. Professions are divided into two categories, primary and secondary.



Primary professions are skills related to the creation and enhancement of items (weapons, armor, potions, and other useful devices), and can be subdivided into gathering and crafting professions. The gathering professions in WoW are herbalism, mining, and skinning. Crafting professions include blacksmithing, leatherworking, tailoring, alchemy, engineering, enchanting, jewelcrafting (added in The Burning Crusade expansion), and inscription (to be added in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion[9]). Crafting professions also have specialization categories that when trained, allow for more diverse items to be created, depending on the character's direction in the game. There is also the Enchanting profession, which allows a character to enchant weapons and armor, and also disenchant magical items in his or her possession. A character is limited to two primary professions.

Secondary professions are skills that serve to enhance the player's experience and self-sufficiency. The secondary professions are first aid, cooking, and fishing. Characters can learn all three secondary professions. The Rogue class has two unique secondary professions: poisons and lock-picking.


Players able to download some useful add-on, some allow user to modify the interfaces. The picture below shows that used add-on those modify and relocated the skill shortcut. If wanted to download add-on please scroll to the end of this topic, the link for download add-on is available at there.



WoW Curse - add-on download sites
World of Warcraft Official Website
World of Warcraft Information
Thottbot: World of Warcraft Database - useful to help players to search about equipments/items as well as questing
WoWHeadL World of Warcraft Database - useful to help players to search about boss/items/quests and talent calculator