MMORPG World of Warcraft Expansions

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is a multiplier online game also known as a MMORPG or massively multi-player online role-playing game. It seems to be highly addictive for all ages but particularly the age groups 14-23 and 35-45. World of Warcraft has many expansions that have been added over the past ten years including The Burning Crusade Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and the most recent release of Mists of Panderia in September 2012.

Explaining the Expansions

As previously mentioned, World of Warcraft (also referenced in this article as WoW), has many additions and expansions, four main ones to be exact. These expansions have taken game play to a whole new level with adding new land to explore, more characters to choose from, new classes to create, and more skill professions to learn, achieve, and conquer.

• World of Warcraft: The beginning. With this game you could level your characters from level 1 to 60 by doing quests along the way and interacting with others if you choose to do so. You can learn skills or professions and level them up to the level 60 cap. *There is a free game play that is offered, however you can only level your character to a level 20.
• The Burning Crusade: This expansion offered players a chance to choose between two new characters for game play, the Draenei and the Blood Elf. The Burning Crusade also offered a raised level cap making the new one 70. It also introduced the new land mass Outland into game play.
• Wrath of the Lich King: The second major expansion that WoW incorporated. WotLK or Wrath of the Lich King, brought the new evil along with leveling up to a new level cap of 80. Not only was this a new challenge but there was also one new character introduced, the Death Knight.
• Cataclysm: The third expansion was unlike the second. Instead of Ice and Cold Hearts, Fire and Flames fills the game play. Adding a new land mass, Northrend, making the new level cap 85 and adding in the Worgen and Goblin races, Cataclysm proved to be a great milestone in the history of WoW.
• Mists of Pandaria: The most recent update of WoW as of September 2012. Bringing a new class, a new level cap of 90, and a new land mass, MoP has many surprises in store for the those that have yet to play a Pandaren!