Abbey's+WoW

1/29/10
I just signed up for the World of Warcraft. I am playing on the trial game for now. I started as a Level 1 Night Elf Rogue. I am not quite sure what that means yet. Here is a picture of my character, I named her Sairose.

1/31/10
I was playing the trial version yesterday, and I discovered that if you kill the animals that are running around you gain levels for your characters. This is probably obvious to some people, but it took me a while to understand the concept. I am not really sure what the point of the game is still. While I was playing, some character started to follow me around. I tried to talk to it/him (it was a boy elf), but he didn't respond. All he said was he "liked to watch me sleep", which was really creepy. I took a picture of the character following me around, and he kept kneeling in front of me. Anyways, that was my first conversation with somebody over WoW.

2/2/10
Today I was playing on the trial version, and I realized that I was going to have to give up the trial version in a few days anyways. So I decided I would finally download and install the actual WoW. So I paid for 3 months of play which was $49.99, which was a little more than I was expecting to pay, but it was a better deal than paying for the months individually. It took about 4 hours to install completely on my computer, and when I realized it as done, it wasn't working. So I had to install it again, which took only 1 hour. Then I had to install a few patches, which took about another hour. But, finally I was able to play. I decided to play on World of Warcraft: Return of the Lich King. So I decided to try out the real version for a little bit. I was the same character, but there were a lot less people in the same area in the actual game. Also I found a mouse for my laptop, which made it a lot easier to play, because I could actually talk to the quest giver people, and pick up the money on the dead characters. I noticed in the real game, the animals are more aggressive, and I must have walked into a bad part of the Elf town, because i was attacked by these eagle things, and died 3 times in a row. But apparently under level 10 there is no serious consequence for dying.

2/5/10
So, today I thought I would create a new character. I decided to become a Tauren from the Horde. And as I was playing, I like the land that these characters live on better than the Elf land, but they are worse at fighting. The animals are a lot more aggressive, and I can not gain any experience. So I will probably not play on this character too often. I am learning more and more about the game though, and how to find quests and the benefit of the Inns, etc. Here is a picture of my new character, his name is Tigol.

I created another character, a Human (how creative), her name is Richelle. She is a hunter, and I think I am going to like this character a lot more. The humans main land is really far away from where the Tauren lives. I just realized by running around and looking at the world map how large this game world actually is.

2/10/10
So I was playing WoW for a while before with my Human character. I was trying to discover some more of the land/castle where the Humans seem to congregate. I started to notice tons of characters with pink hearts above there heads. Now I know the characters didn't have this before, and I was skeptical it had anything to do with Valentine's Day....but I was wrong. After I got off WoW I did a little Google search, and sure enough, not even made-up worlds like WoW can escape the power that is, Valentine's Day. A little event called "Love In The Air" takes place in WoW for the week leading up to Valentines Day. Apparently you can give love potions, perfume, charm bracelets to characters, to gain experience and money. They function like other quests on the game. I just thought it was funny, that even something like WoW plays into this. I wonder what other holidays the Alliance and Horde celebrate??

4/11/10
So, It has been a while since my last post. I have randomly been playing WoW whenever I find time. Usually I will play for 20 minutes or so, since I don't have a lot of time to play for extended periods. One of my co-workers helped me learn some more stuff, and better ways to fight on WoW. I didn't know how the combo points/fighting worked, and that was really helpful learning that information. He also showed me a bunch of other websites about WoW, some showcased really good/built up characters from the game,others were about how to complete certain tasks, and meet people to complete tasks with. So far I have just been playing a lot with my NIght Elf character and trying to build up her level.

End of Semester
Overall I found this game to be very interesting. I don't think it is worth the amount of money you have to pay each month, but I can see why people like playing it if it is something they are interested in. I was surprised that more people didn't interact and help out when someone had a question about the game, but they are probably too busy in their own world. The game seems like it is avery simple in theory, but is actually very complex when you come down to the gritty details. There are so many backstories, and reasons for things that I never found out, and would probably take a long time to understand. Playing this game was a very good experience for me, I have always wanted to know what WoW was like, and why people were so into it. But i think the biggest downfall is the price. I would maybe play other games like this if they were free.