Leeeeroooooy Jeeeenkiiiiins! Was the first wow-celebrity, and this video is a nice introduction to the World Of Warcraft…(this is a video of a raid recorded in the game, and the people are talking together trough a voice-chat program called ventrilo) even if you dont like gaming, the world of warcraft is so jammed with popcultural references, that i belive everyone can enjoy it at some level 🙂
So… I thought i might just make a blog about how things are in Northrend!
For those of you that are scratching your heads trying to fire out what or where Northrend is, i can tell ya that its the new continent in the mmorpg (massive multiplayer online roleplaying game, or massivt flerspiller pålogget rollespill..eller noe sånt.. på norsk) World Of Warcraft. If you have seen my previous blog, i posted there some pictures from the release of the new expancion pack in Oslo.
To give you a short idea of the concept of this game; you make a character or a so-called toon or avatar. You can choose looks and abilities for this char. You can decide if you want to be a strong warrior that kills monsters with the help of swords and maces, or you can be a mage who uses magic like frostbolts and polymorph to defeat enemies. There are also several other classes wich i might explain more about later…
The point of the game is to travel around in the world, doing “quests” wich are different types of assignements that require you to kill a certain type of monster, or gather a specific item. Upon doing so you gain “experiance” wich are points that eventually let you increase in level. (gaining a level is also called to “ding”) When you gain a level your character will get more power (get stronger or get stronger magic etc.) and can travel to other places and take on harder asignements and eventually take part in raids. Raids are when up to 40 players work together to kill a certain monster, or attack a city. Because these raids concist of different human beeings from all over the world, you get a pretty colorful community. People are usually a part of a guild (“laug” in norwegian) wich basically is a team of players that regulary do raids together or just hang out in-game. But thats another long chapter…
My character is a Night elf hunter named ElMona, and these are the days of a beast masters life….
Eyes Of The Beast 