World of Warcraft


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World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set in the Warcraft universe. It is developed by Blizzard Entertainment and contains 5 expansion packs:  World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade,  World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,  World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,  World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and  World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. The initial release is now sometimes known as "vanilla WoW" or "classic WoW". A 6th expansion was announced at gamescom 2015: World of Warcraft: Legion (NYR).

As of 2010, World of Warcraft had more than 12 million monthly subscribers, and still holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest and most popular MMORPG since 2009. It also continues its further story development throughout its franchising, other than online media, such as Warcraft novels, comics, manga, RPG books, TCG, and board games.

Features
Note the following have pre-expansion details separated from expansion details:
 * Uses and expands the storyline from the Warcraft series of games.
 * Customizable characters:
 * 2 factions: Horde and Alliance.
 * 8 initial races: Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf, Orc, Troll, Undead, Tauren; added Blood Elf / Draenei,  Goblin / Worgen, and  Pandaren.
 * 9 initial classes: Mage, Warlock, Priest, Rogue, Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Warrior, Paladin; added Death Knight (Hero Class), Monk, and  Demon Hunter.
 * 9 initial professions, enabling resource gathering and item crafting; added Jewelcrafting and  Inscription.
 * 4 initial secondary professions: Cooking, Fishing, First Aid, Riding; added Archaeology.
 * 2 initial class-based professions (Rogue): Lockpicking, Poisons (removed with patch 3.0.2); added Runeforging. (Death Knights only)
 * The Talents and Glyphs system allows further customization of the character's skills and stats.

Gameplay system

 * General system
 * A casual-friendly character progression system up to a point.
 * Quests occur frequently, and being offline (resting) increases your experience points gain.
 * Text chat and built-in Voice chat.
 * In-game trading, mail service and auction system.
 * Four server types: Normal (PvE), RP, PvP, and RPPvP.


 * PvE systems
 * Thousands of quests.
 * Dozens of instanced dungeons and raids, ranging from Blackfathom Deeps to Zul'Aman with dozens more added in content patches and expansions.
 * Bonus Objective areas in Draenor.


 * PvP systems
 * A PvP Honor system, 3 initial Battlegrounds; added 1, 2, and  2, and  3
 * Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch; added Eye of the Storm,  Strand of the Ancients / Isle of Conquest,  Battle for Gilneas / Twin Peaks, Deepwind Gorge / Silvershard Mines / Temple of Kotmogu.
 * Arena PvP system for 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5 intense, small area combat ( and beyond).


 * Housing
 * Added in Warlords of Draenor.


 * Garrison personal player area that other players can visit.


 * Events
 * A variety of World Events including:
 * Darkmoon Faire, Children's Week, Scourge Invasion, Midsummer Fire Festival, Hallow's End, and Feast of Winter Veil.


 * User interface and customer support
 * Customize AddOn and Interface with some game commands support.
 * Client seamlessly supports both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Linux users can play via Wine (MS Windows emulation), however this is not supported and can be buggy at times.

Availability

 * Oceania (English - Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand)
 * North America (English - US & Canada)
 * Europe (English-UK, French, German, Spanish, Russian)
 * South Korea
 * China (Simplified and Traditional Chinese; including Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau)
 * Latin America (Spanish, English?)

Videos

 * Official


 * Other

Trivia

 * The original WoW is sometimes referred to as "vanilla World of Warcraft," "pre Burning Crusade (Pre BC)," or "classic World of Warcraft".