WoW Information Part 1

Very happy with the sudden interest in World of Warcraft. Finally, my friends are willing to play with me after so many months of persuasion. World of Warcraft is addictive i admit, but its hard to play alone so its hard to PLAY ADDICTIVELY.
In WoW, you can be rested or normal. In rested mode, you gain twice the amount of experience you get from kills, while on normal you only get the normal amount of experience. Therefore, it is not worth it to play for 24 hours consecutively. The game only lets u play until you level 2.5 levels before you become normal mode. You have to logged out at an inn or in a major city and stop playing for several hours before you become rested again.
So, the addictiveness can be curbed. =D

Anyway, here is some information on WoW.
There are 9 classes to choose from. Every class have different roles to play in the game. There are mainly 3 main roles - Tank, DPS(damage per second or killers) and healers.
Here are the 9 classes.

TANKS
1. Warrior - Warriors are primarily tanks, as they wear plate armour and have the highest amount of HP in the game. However, they can also fill the role of DPS. Melee fighter.

DPS
2. Rogue - One of the best DPS class in the game. They can deal alot of damage. Weak armour and HP. Similar to agility heroes in Dota. Melee fighter.

3. Hunter - Another good DPS class. They are number 1 in range combat. They can have a pet to follow them around like fluff in facebook. So its quite fun playing with them.

4. Mage - The best magic DPS class in the game. On top of that, they have powerful AOE(Area of effect) skills. So they can kill several enemies at once and on top of that, they can sheep humanoids :)

5. Warlock - Damage not as powerful as Mage, but this class have several skills that makes him so valuable to a party. He can summon minions to fight for you and has the most powerful DoTs(Damage over time) spells in the game.

HEALERS
6. Priest - Number 1 healer in the game. However, the priest can also function as a very good DPS class. The priest have spells like Vampiric touch, that heals the entire party for damage done. Very good vampiric spells.

HYBRIDS
7. Paladin - The paladin can heal, tank and DPS. Although not as good in tanking as warrior, healing as a priest, or dealing damage as a rogue, he can do all 3 so his role changes as the game situation changes.

8. Druid - The druid can do what the paladin does too. However, the druid can change roles easier compared to the paladin. This is because he can shapeshift and change roles instantly.

9. Shaman - The shaman can heal and DPS. He can tank too, but not very good. But the best thing about the shaman is his ability to summon totems to help the party, summon bloodlust and chain heal.

Note to all: The same as Dota, everytime you level up, you gain a talent point. You can place the talent point in different skills to define your character.
For example, you want to focus your priest on DPS rather than healing. So everytime you level up, you place a talent point in the DPS skills rather than the healing skills. You still can heal but not as good as a priest who place all his talent points in his healing skills.

A summary on all the classes.(from the best to the last)
Tanking - Warrior, Druid/Paladin
Melee DPS - Rogue, Warrior/Druid/Shaman, Paladin
Range DPS - Hunter(the rest sucks.)
Magic DPS - Mage(also number 1 in AOE), Warlock, Priest

In certain situations, a priest DPS is better than a mage DPS. Or a rogue DPS can be the lowest in the party instead of the highest. Therefore, there is no number 1 class in the game. All the class are important, and has their own unique spells.

However, in every party, there must be a tank and healer. In my post in 02s21.blogspot.com, I mentioned that there are 5 people who wants to play. Tay has lately told me that he wants to play too so there are 6.
The group will therefore have, 1 tank, 1 healer, 4 DPS. The best is there are no repetitions of class, meaning Marvin choose to be a hunter so he can just shoot and bo chup, and Tay wants to be a hunter too so he can be the 36 killer. This is a bad case as Tay and Marvin have to compete with each other to get the same items. The best is each person takes his own class.

I will choose the role that is left over. So choose away guys.
If you want more information on the roles, head over to http://www.wowwiki.com/Class

Tag to say what class you wanna be!