Welcome to the most addicting game ever played. Think I’m joking? I thought my friends were, too, until they got me started on the game. I held out from playing this game up until two weeks ago and finally decided to download the free 10 day trial and try it out.

That was on a Friday night… Now, only two weeks later, I’ve logged enough hours that I have a Level 20 Night Elf Druid. I’ve been to both major continents apart from my home island (with the help of a friend of mine who’s Level 30), racked up some serious coins (I’m ‘Miss Money Bags’ for my general level and area) and have some killer armor (again, from the help of my friend). I’ve learned a new profession (Enchanting) and am seriously thinking about my second profession in First Aid.           

My main and first character, Rydria, a Night Elf Druid, started out in town called Aldrassil. Within seconds I was learning to control my staff, using magic to kill creatures, looting bodies (to gain meat for health and objects to sell at the vendors) and completing quests.

Each race (among The Alliance: Draenei, Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans and Night Elves. The Horde includes Blood Elves, Orcs, Tauren, Trolls and Undead) will start in their own unique starting locations, except for Trolls and Gnomes who share their starting locations with Orcs and Dwarves. Each race will have its own set of unique quests and each class within that race will have its own subset. In this way, the game is different for each character and class. [A Night Elf Druid’s quests are going to be different from a Tauren Druid because of their own unique race quests.] Each quest will give the player a different reward, ranging from experience points to armor and weapons or money and, sometimes, a skill.

I soon found out that one quest will lead to another quest, which leads to another, which then leads outside of the city to further quests in lands unexplored and unknown cities.

I once got lost in Stormwind City, the human capital city in Azeroth. I was following another player there via the Deeprun Tram from Ironforge (the Dwarven capital city). It took me at least fifteen minutes to find the Flight Master to get back to Ironforge via Gryphons, since I lost the entrance to the Deeprun Tram. It then took me at least ten minutes to fly back to Ironforge, then a short distance to Menethil Harbor and then a few minutes trip to Auberdine on a boat. I have identified only a very few of the 68 possible flight paths in –and out of- Azeroth. This doesn’t include the 27 possible flight paths in Outland in the Burning Crusade expansion.

The player will fight stronger monsters, follow harder quests and acquire better armor and weapons as the game progresses. This all expands the character and playing experience. Players will master different magic, skills, talents and professions. The game can be played solo or among a party, group or guild who can then and quest or raid together.

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