Navigating around the world (of Warcraft)

World of Warcraft (WoW) is bigger than Jesus, in fact, it’s bigger than The Beatles. It’s a game I personally have over 350 days played on. I love WoW. It pisses me off, the developers are trying their best to ruin it, and the general WoW playerbase is probably the worst collection of dipshits this side of a Limp Bizkit reunion concert. But, despite those glaring problems, it is quite simply the greatest game ever created.

For the uninitiated, WoW is a role playing game that exists completely online with thousands of other players in a persistent world. Basically, what this means is that you pick a race (Human, Orc, Gnome, Elf, etc) and then a class (Mage, Rogue, Warrior, etc) and you start off as a lowly level 1 dude with 1 or two abilities. The level cap currently is 70, soon to be raised to level 80 in the next expansion and they will be adding a new class, the Death Knight. So you run around with your one spell, you get a quest to kill some wolves or other runts, and you do your duty to Azeroth. You start leveling up very quickly, and with each even numbered level you get new abilities, making you more powerful. Then you add in getting better armor, weapons, taking up trade skills and creating your own powerful stuff… well, you get the picture. After about 10 levels it has already taken over your life, you just don’t know it yet. When you break plans with real life friends to enter a 25 man raid instance, you start to get an inkling of what this game has done to your mind.

But I’m certainly not condemning it. In most ways WoW is better than real life. Like, for instance, my characters are rich! I have lots of gold! I also have more friends in the game than I do outside of it, but of course not to the same level of friendship. But you meet A LOT of people, and they are part of the fabric that makes the game great.

Squidoo has more freaking lenses about World of Warcraft than you can shake a stick at. Do you want to make gold, fast? Want to learn the inner workings of the warlock class? Or maybe you are a rogue and you want need help leveling your lock picking? Or maybe your character is a miner, which is the toughest of all the gathering skills to level, and you need some help.

Basically, what i am saying is that if you like WoW, go to Squidoo, they have so much freaking crap on this game that it’s unreal.

I have many, many issues with where WoW is headed, but my hopes for the expansion are still high. Someday soon I will write an editorial type bitchfest on the problems with the game. But now is not the time for that. Here is to hoping that Wrath of the Lich King is a success.