World of Warcraft - My Favorite Game


World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) released in 2004. It quickly gained popularity and had over 12 million players online at its peak in 2008. It's reduced in quality since then, when Blizzard was acquired by Activision. It has had 7 (!) expansion packs since release and a remaster that came out less than a month ago called World of Warcraft Classic, where the game is as it was back in 2004 (a lot of things have changed since then). 

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The game doesn't really have a set goal but most people try to level up their characters and get better weapons and armour. There's lots of races to play as; you have your fantasy races like humans, elves, dwarves, orcs etc.

There's several classes to choose from as well. Classes fundamentally decide your play style. Amongst others there are warriors, priests, mages and hunters. Players will generally run from zone to zone looking for quests to do which grant rewards like experience points and items.

There are professions in which players can specialise in, for example blacksmithing, alchemy or enchanting, all of which provide unique perks.

You can also own a cat, a chicken and a parrot which will follow you around. If that doesn't convince you to play, I don't know what will.

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  1. Ciaran Daniels10 November 2019 at 23:04

    Hi Pawel,

    I found your post very informative as I had little knowledge as to what World of Warcraft was really about. This game reminds me a lot of Skyrim. Have you played Skyrim before? I think that it is hilarious that you can have a chicken follow you around while you play and it’s definitely motivating me to give this game a go.

    I look forward to reading more of your blogs.

    -Ciaran

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