Me and the World (of Warcraft)

Name: Erinnyes
Faction: Horde
Race: Undead
Class: Mage
Specialization: Arcane
Level: 70
Stat: 7.9k hp, 9.1k mana, 2.5k crit, with an awfully low resilience of only 47 atm, soon to have epic PVP gear (I hope :D)
Guild: Legion of Fate

So this is what I have been doing lately.. no wait, scratch that. This has been my world lately.. Warcraft. For you who don’t know what World of Warcraft is, it’s an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Okay, I know what you’re thinking here.. and yes, I plea guilty. I got sucked into it, I was only trying to see what the fuss was all about at first and the next thing I know, not a damn day goes by without me playing it (with my boyf, of course.. he’s the one who dragged me into it, so it’s basically his fault). I have to admit the game is highly addictive, but only for plenty of good reasons. I could describe them one by one, but one can’t possibly understand unless he/she has tried to play the game.

To start, you need to choose a faction, Horde or Alliance. Then choose a race, sex, and class. After that, there’s no end to it, you will need to do quests in order to earn XP (experience) points and reputation, which will bring you to a higher level. You’d be eager to get one level higher each time; you will want to learn new spells and abilities every 2 levels (until level 60, and each level after that until 70); you’d have two professions from which you’d earn gold (and from selling items you loot); the game even has its own Auction House, like eBay! Besides that, you can do Battlegrounds to play against other players. In a PvP (Player versus Player) realm, you are automatically in war with your opposite faction.

In terms of mounts, when you reach level 40, you get to learn a riding ability which will enable you to buy a mount (that gives you a 60% bonus speed). In level 60, you get to buy an epic mount (that gives you 100% bonus speed), and in level 70 you get to buy a flying mount! But that’s not all, you could even buy a Swift Flying mount, so you can fly, but with 280% bonus speed. Damn the list is endless.In WoW, the chance for you to be anti-social is pretty slim. Well, you can be, but you won’t be half as good as other players, cause they give you group quests, raid quests, even dungeons which you can’t possibly pawn on your own.

There are also loads of guilds in it that you can be a part of. So I do make friends. There’s even this one kid who’s being utterly dependent on me and Tez (Hudi’s char). Plus, the best part for me is to be given the chance to “dress” the character with multiple choice of qualities, designs, and specifications gears. It’s INSANE, I’m telling you. Yet, it’s also the most genius idea ever. In this world, you can do things you can’t do in real life, you can go places you don’t even imagine you’d go (even only virtually), you can be whoever you want regardless of who you really are outside it. Sound like a buch of ol’ (virtual) lies? Probably. But ah, who gives a damn?

“Will I lie to myself to be happy? … Yes, I will.”
(Leonard Shelby, Memento)

All hail mighty Blizzard.