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The Character Building Guide for World of Warcraft

November 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The character building guide for World of Warcraft teaches players how to create an ideal character from scratch. The character design in world of Warcraft involves choosing different skills and attributes which make it very complicated. In order to succeed in the game, the character should possess different abilities that would help it deal with any situation.

Using the character building guide, players can create a character fit for their technique. The character should complement the player’s fighting style. The players should choose among the three basic categories which include the fighter, archer or mage. These are the three main categories that can be used as the base of the character. Fighters are used for close combat which is ideal for aggressive players. Archers and mages fight from a distance using different means. Archers utilize bow and arrows while mages use magic. These characters require patience since the attack used are calculated and timed.

The player can also enhance the abilities by adding magical attacks and auras. Magical attacks are very powerful but require a lot of energy from the character. When the energy is drained, the magical attacks cannot be used. Auras are temporary power ups that increase the strength, damage and defense of the character for a time. They are useful during short-term battles.

After establishing the skill set of the character, the items, weapons and armor should be carefully chosen. The weapons, armor and items are crucial to the success of the character.

Weapons decide the amount of damage the character can inflict. Swords, daggers and maces are the basic weapons which can be used by players. As the level progresses, players can use long swords, bastard swords and crystal blades which are stronger and inflicts more damage. Ranged weapons such as bow and crossbows are also available.

Rare weapons give players tremendous boost against opponents. These are weapons which possess powerful abilities. A good example would be the Excalibur Sword which deals twenty times the damage of a normal long sword. These weapons are very hard to find. They appear only at random. Players can trade for them.

The character building guide allows players to use practical information in creating a very effective and powerful character in the long term. It gives players an idea on how to use the different skills and items found through out the game.

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Warlocks as an Advanced Class

November 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Warlocks are one of the more difficult characters to play in World of Warcraft. While being a popularly played character for Player versus Player realms, warlocks are less popular in Player versus Environment realms.

The difficulty in playing a warlock lies in the fact that it is a cloth wearing character. That easily translates to a comparative lower defense and relatively lower hit points. While that might seem daunting warlocks provide a unique set of skills sets that makes it a desired member of a raid. One of the unique spells of a warlock is summoning players. The warlock can summon players to the warlock’s current position. Warlocks also have the ability to create an item that allows players to automatically resurrect when they die, a skill priceless when raiding. The warlock is also an excellent damage dealer. The unique skills and the fragility of warlocks make them an advanced class.

Warlocks are popular with PvP players due to its excellent crowd control abilities, high burst damage in case of destruction warlocks and heavy damage over time damage in case of affliction warlocks. Warlocks also have access to pets that allow them a distinct edge in battles acting either as a mana source, cancels damage or as a killer of other casters. Perhaps one of the most feared ability of a warlock is those that cause the fear status effect. Fear is generally devastating in PvP where it causes afflicted opponents to run uncontrolled for a several critical seconds usually spelling victory or defeat to their team. Warlocks also have limited but potent way of recovering their hit points. Warlocks can make “health stones” that act as an extra health recovery potion. Affliction warlocks also have access to potent drain life spells. These are reasons why many consider the warlock is an advanced class.

The interesting thing about warlocks is that generally older players use a warlock. Demographic study of World of Warcraft shows that older players tend to play warlocks. This could be based on the fact that younger player can relate less with a warlock since warlocks aren’t generally part of children’s literature compared to paladins, priests or hunters. Another reason that less young players play warlocks is the comparatively difficult leveling experience, skills and longer time to master. Where warriors and paladins can go gung-ho attacking several monsters at once, a warlock is infinitely more fragile and could be easily overwhelmed by a large amount of opponents.

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How to Deal with Unique Characters in World of Warcraft

November 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The World of Warcraft contains a lot of dangerous and powerful characters. Many unique characters in World of Warcraft have been created to make the different quests very hard to accomplish. A lot of players have fallen victim to these enemies due to lack of information and over confidence. Players should understand that the world of Warcraft is full of many traps and difficulties. This means that the game designers add new monsters and creatures on a regular basis to increase the challenge in the game. Players should always be aware of these changes so that they can do the necessary steps to prevail against enemies.

Unique characters can be classified depending on their strengths and weaknesses. Advance enemies possess immunities from elemental and magical damage which make it harder to kill. This is why players should use multiple attacks in order to have assurance that damage can be inflicted.

Players should constantly invest in different skills to have greater offensive capabilities. This would include using a variety of physical and magical attacks. Physical attacks are the primary offensive option of a character. It is practical since it does not require the use of mana or magic points. Magical attacks are more powerful but require a lot of mana. When mana is depleted, the magical attacks cannot be used.

Players should combine both the physical and magical attacks in order to prevail against powerful enemies. Some enemies have weaknesses when it comes to different attacks. Fire based enemies cannot tolerate water and ice based attacks. Some magical creatures are prone to physical damage. This information should be used by players in order to take advantage of situations. A lot of unique characters can be easily defeated if the correct attacks are used.

The unique characters in World of Warcraft possess special attacks that are very strong. Players should conduct research regarding the nature and amount damage of the attacks used in order to defend against it. Players should also take into consideration the pattern of the unique character. This would include the movement and rate of attack of the creature. The player should create a strategy in order to win and kill the creature more effectively.

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World of Warcraft – Paladin the Most Played Character Class

November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Within the past year statistics across all realms overwhelmingly point that the paladin is the most played character class. While the paladin was not always the most played class it was always in the top 3 most played character classes when World of Warcraft began. Initially the most played character was the hunter but while the class remains to be the second or third most played class depending on the server, the paladin has skyrocketed to the top of the list by a large margin compared to other classes. This statistic applies to all realm types from Player versus Player, Role-Playing and Player versus Environment servers.

The sudden increase of popularity of the paladin class was initially attributed to its unique edge in player versus player realms then subsequently in the arena. This however does not completely account for its popularity in role playing or player versus environment servers. While the paladin has indeed been very powerful in the past year and being subject of change in several patches, its popularity with players continued to soar.

Some of the reasons that the paladin class is popular would be because it is easy to master, the paladin is very tough, has heal spells and has two powerful spells to keep it from dying namely “Lay on Hands” and “Divine Shield” skills. Using either skill when low on health would allow the paladin to regain his health. Retribution paladins can also deal massive amounts of burst damage through the Seal of Command skill, dealing extra damage to up to 3 enemies per swing.

Paladins can also be specialized to be healers, while they are not as efficient as priests they are definitely harder to kill since they wear plate armor. Holy paladins are also mana efficient with the correct items. Aside from game characteristics of paladins, they also represent an archetype that has a deep seated niche in the hearts of everyone – the knight in shining armor. The paladins represent the strength of good and are warriors for justice. This holds true with paladins in World of Warcraft.

With the intrinsic popularity of knights and the in-game strength of the paladin, there is little surprise that it is the most played character class

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Automated Character Bot the World of Warcraft

November 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Using an automated character bot in the world of Warcraft is a good way to maximize time and effort. The automated character bot can be programmed to accomplish a task repeatedly without player supervision. This allows players to increase the experience and gold of their characters continually.

The automated character bot can be used even without player control. This means that the player can let the character accomplish tasks for a whole day without sending in a command. This can be used for harvesting minerals, fishing and other jobs that take a lot of time to accomplish. The player only needs to assign the character to do a specific task. This is not illegal provided that the character is not used in an automated battle against other players. Blizzard, the creator of Warcraft does not allow automated battles since it eliminates the purpose of the game.

The automated character bot is very easy to use. The software is directly installed on top of the game. The software creates a tool bar which can be viewed on the screen while playing. The tool bar contains a list of all the possible tasks that can be automated. At a click of a button, any task can be programmed to be repeated depending on the need of the player.

Jobs such as fishing and mining can be automated using the character bot. This could be very productive since a lot of minerals and resources can be gathered using the bot. The jobs can be repeated for days even without player supervision provided the internet connection is maintained. The player can take this chance to increase the job experience and get a lot of items.

The automated character both can also be used to explore the map in order to find new spots containing resources and minerals. The character can be programmed to use mounts or creatures to fly around and check the environment. When a collection of minerals has been found, the software would mark it on the map for reference.

The software is very effective in helping players accomplish task with the least amount of time and effort.

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Hunters as the Best Beginner Class

October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hunters are considered to be one of the three most popular classes across realms, the other two being death knights and paladins. The hunter class however is known to be the best beginner class in World of Warcraft. While paladins remain to be the most popular characters, hunters are generally easier and faster to level. This makes hunters the best beginner class.

Hunters are so notorious in World of Warcraft since they are so easy to use that virtually anyone can play the hunter class. Hunter class can also use most of the items they can pick up making them easier to equip in the beginning. Hunters have one of the highest dealing damage classes in World of Warcraft. They also have a pet that can greatly help them in the early stages of leveling and remain to be dangerous allies at level 80.

The main reason hunters are considered to be the best beginner class is that it is a ranged character which allows it to engage enemies while taking minimal damage if any at all. Even from the beginning of the game hunters have comparatively high damage that they are more than capable of killing their opponents before their enemies even get near enough to land a blow. Another great help is the hunter’s pet. The pet acts as an effective tank when leveling up. The pet can be sent to attack mobs while the hunter deals damage from afar. Some tenacity pets are so resilient that they can remain to be feasible tanks even against Northrend mobs. Despite the strength of pets they cannot be a substitute for another player.

The hunter also has an effective skill to stop enemies from attacking him. The “Feign Death” skill allows the hunter to pretend to be dead and mobs will stop attacking him. In some cases even real players buy this act and think that they have successfully killed the hunter. The true strength of a hunter lies with the effective use of his pet for beast mastery hunters, high burst damage by marksmanship hunters and trap use by survival hunters. While most players consider hunter users as unskilled, the most skilled hunters are feared in the battlegrounds.

The hunter class while being the best beginner class remains a viable character at level 80. The hunter provides easier leveling due to less down time for healing and dying. It remains to be one of the best damage dealing character in level 80.

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The Role of a DPS in World of Warcraft

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

World of Warcraft is a game that promotes both soloing, where you can pretty much do quests or grind to level up and it also promotes being in a group where a player can complete quests that has elite monsters, monsters that are more powerful than other monsters in the same level of it, also being in a group is needed for dungeon runs or raids and finally a player needs to be in a raid group if a player ever wanted to see the end game content and defeat the final boss of the expansion or just to get powerful end game equipment for their character, there are 3 types of people in a group, and one of those is called a DPS.

The DPS or the damage dealer is the person whose job is deal damage to the elite monster, it is the most common job since all of the classes in World of Warcraft has a spec that makes them deal more damage since dealing more damage is important in soloing and leveling, in a dungeon their job is to deal all of their damaging spells to the elite monster so that the elite monster can die early especially since that most raid bosses have an enrage timer where if that point of time is reached the raid boss will do more damage where even the Tanks cannot handle the damage and led to the Tanks dying and making the group wipe meaning that all of them unsuccessfully defeated the monster.

There should be many DPS in a raid group since the health points of an enemy is very high in a end game raid dungeons where the bosses have an average of 5 million health points in 10 man and 40 million health points in 25 man, and also they have an enrage timer where pretty much the people in the raid will die if they do not kill the boss in the before the enrage timer reaches, finally the DPS in the group should also control their aggro since if they take away the aggro from the tank a wipe will eventually happen.

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Paladins as the Top PvP Class

October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Four of the top ten 2v2 arena teams had paladins in them. At the top level of arena competition only skill and class choice makes the difference between victory and defeat. Player versus player item choices is very limited in general. There is usually one PvP armor set for each class specialization. PvP items have extra stamina as well as resilience stats. Plate wearing characters such as warriors, death knights and paladins have a distinct edge in reducing physical damage.

Most of the top arena paladins are holy specialized. This makes a solid healer especially in 2v2. The holy paladin can take significant damage without dying. This leaves the opposing team in a quandary whether to try to kill the paladin first or his damage dealing partner. Clearly killing a paladin is no easy feat, a quick use of “Lay on Hands” or “Divine Shield” easily heals or prevents damage. Healing spells of holy paladins are both potent and have significantly shorter casting time. Holy paladins while primarily healers shouldn’t be ignored in terms of damage dealing. Holy shock is a potent spell especially since holy damage cannot be resisted or protected against. These characteristics essentially make the paladin as the top PvP class.

Paladins in general are more often retribution specialized. Retribution paladins have an excellent set of damage dealing skills and talents. It also has one of the most useful crowd control skill – “repentance.” Repentance essentially removes an opponent from the fight for almost 60 seconds. And 60 seconds is more than enough time to pummel everyone else to submission. Retribution paladins are known for its high burst damage, combined with the “Seal of Command” the damage can be dealt to 3 opponents. A series of “Crusader Strike,” Judgment of wisdom,” “Consecration,” “Divine Storm,” and “Hammer of Justice” is more than enough to knock out one or two non-plate wearing opponents in one go.

Paladins are known for their edge in player versus player combat. They are tough and excel in both healing and dealing damage. In certain instances it is virtually impossible to kill them in a one versus one scenario. They essentially have thrice their maximum health points thanks to “Lay on Hands” and Divine Shield”. This easily makes the paladin as the top PvP class.

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The Role of a Healer in World of Warcraft

October 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

World of Warcraft is a game that promotes both soloing, where you can pretty much do quests or grind to level up and it also promotes being in a group where a player can complete quests that has elite monsters, monsters that are more powerful than other monsters in the same level of it, also being in a group is needed for dungeon runs or raids and finally a player needs to be in a raid group if a player ever wanted to see the end game content and defeat the final boss of the expansion or just to get powerful end game equipment for their character, there are 3 types of people in a group, and one of those is called a Healer.

A healer in World of Warcraft just like most online games, is the person who heals the group, a healer is very important in a group because a healer is the only one who can restore the health points lost during a fight in a group, the Tanks heavily rely on the Healer because the healer can help the tank’s survival against the boss, a Healer is mostly played by the Priest, Paladin, Druid, and Shaman class where the Priest has to be Holy or Discipline spec, a Paladin should be a holy spec, a Druid should be in Tree form and be Restoration spec and finally a Shaman need to be restoration spec, all of this are need if that certain class wants to heal properly in a group.

In raids the Healers need to heal at least 8 people in 10 man raids or 18 people in 25 man raids therefore it is harder to select a person since World of Warcraft can only support 5 frames in a group therefore most people use the add-on, an downloadable content not made by Blizzard although legal, called Grid where all 10 or 25 frames of the players in the raids can be seen and selected and the healer will have an easier time to heal the entire raid, Healing can be the easiest job in a group or it can be the hardest job in the group depending on the commuter that the player is using.

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World of Warcraft DPS Characters Raiding Guide

October 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

One of the best things about World of Warcraft is raiding. Raids are instanced dungeons that allow ten to twenty five players to play together at one time. Essentially raids are designed to be played with the maximum number of characters but can be done with a little less. Raids provide the pinnacle of player versus environment game content where team work as well as individual skill is indispensable. Simply put the raid is only as good as the least skilled player. Raids can fail when all the players die or most players die with the rest of the surviving ones having no means to revive the other players. This failure is often called a wipe and the person causing it usually attracted a group of mobs that the group is not prepared to deal with resulting with the healers dying and the rest following suit.

One of the key elements of a raid is the DPS characters. DPS stands for damage per second. DPS characters are those characters that are specialized to deal the highest amount of damage in the least amount of time. In raid settings DPS characters are expected to deliver the same amount of damage throughout the boss battle. Boss battles usually range from five to ten minutes each in raid instances such as Naxxaramas, Ulduar or Icecrown Citadel.

The most important thing about DPS characters is that they reach the “hit cap” this means that they would never miss the boss during an attack and that they could deal at least 2,500 damage per second on a boss level enemy, that is on a level 83 elite opponent. Dps characters should try to get a hit rating as close to 263 as possible. DPS characters usually deal 3,200dps or more during boss battles depending on raid buffs available. The amount of damage DPS characters deal determines how long it will take to kill the boss. More damage means shorter boss battles and less strain on the healers.

DPS characters are also the most numerous in a raiding team; a raid team is easily made up of 50% DPS characters. DPS characters are the key in defeating bosses quickly.

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