Right now is a really good time to get into World of Warcraft - they have a special thing going where if you adventure with a friend who's under level 60, they get triple the XP and can 'gift' you with some, to the point where someone in that situation can go from level 10 to level 49 in about 15 minutes.
The fee is flat - no matter what you got or don't got installed, it's the same fee. $14.95/mo, with breaks for paying in 3 mont, 6 month and 1 year installments. An interesting hack is that for a while Amazon was selling 60 day cards for $25, which is less than 2 months normally costs.
The other thing to consider is that in a few months, the next expansion comes out. You'll need the basic World of Warcraft set, and the first xpac, The Burning Crusade, to install the second one, Wrath of the Lich King. You may want to invest in the The World of Warcraft Battlechest, which has both of them, and a pair of books (the Burning Crusade one has a walkthrough of the first 20 levels for the Blood Elves and the Draenei; the original one is.... not so good) about stuff in the game, and at $45 is cheaper than the main and expansion together.
My recommendation for classes, based on your comments, would be Paladin, Druid or Shaman. In the endgame, Druids get a lot of flexibility, as they can cover the three big bases of Damage Per Second, Tanking and Healing depending on spec (more about that later). Shamans are good at all three, but more gear dependant, and most of the time a paladin will go to either tanking (holding the monster(s) in place while other people beat it up) or healing.
One of the nice options in WoW is the talent system. Each class has three talent trees, and from level 10 on you get a point to buy something on the talent trees. Most of them have a "requires x points in this tree" on the higher level talents.
As far as races go, it depends on which side you prefer. Alliance side, you can have night elf druids, human paladins, dwarf paladins, and draenei paladins or shaman. Hordeside give you orc shamans, tauren druids and shaman, and Blood Elf paladins.
I recommend reading at http://www.wowwiki.com/ for information on classes, races, the lore (background info) and things like that.
Also, there's sites like http://www.wowhead.com/ which are pretty deep databases of Stuff In Game.
There's also podcasts about the game - my personal favorite is The Instance, which is basically a talk-about-the-news podcast, but also has interesting things like the Mod Of The Week (WoW has a built-in plug-in format, and there's a lot of mods you can plug in to do stuff to your user experience, everything from cosmetic changes to event recording.
And, as with everything else, there's worldofwarcraft, because there's a community for EVERYTHING on LJ.
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Date: 2008-08-18 01:53 pm (UTC)The fee is flat - no matter what you got or don't got installed, it's the same fee. $14.95/mo, with breaks for paying in 3 mont, 6 month and 1 year installments. An interesting hack is that for a while Amazon was selling 60 day cards for $25, which is less than 2 months normally costs.
The other thing to consider is that in a few months, the next expansion comes out. You'll need the basic World of Warcraft set, and the first xpac, The Burning Crusade, to install the second one, Wrath of the Lich King. You may want to invest in the The World of Warcraft Battlechest, which has both of them, and a pair of books (the Burning Crusade one has a walkthrough of the first 20 levels for the Blood Elves and the Draenei; the original one is.... not so good) about stuff in the game, and at $45 is cheaper than the main and expansion together.
My recommendation for classes, based on your comments, would be Paladin, Druid or Shaman. In the endgame, Druids get a lot of flexibility, as they can cover the three big bases of Damage Per Second, Tanking and Healing depending on spec (more about that later). Shamans are good at all three, but more gear dependant, and most of the time a paladin will go to either tanking (holding the monster(s) in place while other people beat it up) or healing.
One of the nice options in WoW is the talent system. Each class has three talent trees, and from level 10 on you get a point to buy something on the talent trees. Most of them have a "requires x points in this tree" on the higher level talents.
As far as races go, it depends on which side you prefer. Alliance side, you can have night elf druids, human paladins, dwarf paladins, and draenei paladins or shaman. Hordeside give you orc shamans, tauren druids and shaman, and Blood Elf paladins.
I recommend reading at http://www.wowwiki.com/ for information on classes, races, the lore (background info) and things like that.
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Date: 2008-08-18 02:07 pm (UTC)There's also podcasts about the game - my personal favorite is The Instance, which is basically a talk-about-the-news podcast, but also has interesting things like the Mod Of The Week (WoW has a built-in plug-in format, and there's a lot of mods you can plug in to do stuff to your user experience, everything from cosmetic changes to event recording.
And, as with everything else, there's
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Date: 2008-08-18 02:50 pm (UTC)