"Knowing Warcraft" [My WoW drawer]

Now you have no bloody idea what World of Warcraft is, I bet.

Even  you say that you do, I don't believe you. To me, the fact that you know it's some role playing game is not good enough say you "know Warcraft".

Luckly I'm here to explain you the basics. (even if you don't give a damn about it)

This will be a intro to what it consists of, not a shot summary of the story, so you've been warned.

We all know World of Warcraft, it's the game where you choose to be Alliance or Horde (author's note: For the Horde!) and  then you level a character to max level and start raiding or PvPing. Here's a picture:

(It's quite random. Oh look! That's Vol'Jin and Mal'ganis and Mannoroth or is it Magheridon? and Cenarius and Chen Stormstout and Kel'Thuzad and... I'll stop now.)

Anyway. Before WoW there were 3 games:
Warcraft I, Warcraft II and Warcraft III.
Strategy games.
If you haven't played any, you should go for Warcraft III. The stories are amazing and importand lore wise and the grapics are excellent for a game that old. (Who the hell cares about the graphics anyway, right? It's aaaaaallll about the loooore <3)

A picture of some of the main characters of the game.







PS: The green text will be my opinion about those specific expansions and WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!



So now after Warcraft III came World of Warcraft (vanilla) and that was followed by expansions.
(To be honest, the lore in vanilla isn't quite my favourite. Though there are some things that I liked about it, such as them introducing an Old God named C'Thun and the elemental lord of fire Ragnaros. And I bet some people are happy about Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker <--- HAHAHA, inside jokes lol)






The first expansion was WoW: The Burning Crusade. It was mostly about the demons trying to invade your world and doing bad stuff.
This expansion has the coolest raids and dungeons in my opinion. (Karazhan, Black Temple and Escape from Durnholde Keep are my favourites. Also the fact that every damn last boss has such a story behind them is something to behold. And what can I say, Illidan is my 3rd favourite character is WoW lore :3)





Next on the list is the most popular expansion, during it's time WoW has 11 million people playing it! Yes, I'm talking about Wrath of the Lich King.
(Though it being a fan favourite, I'm not that moved by it. I don't know if it's the fact that everyone fangirls over this or that I don't like snow in games or that I don't like paladins, they get quite a nice role in it, but I'm not that big of a fan of the Scourge and Nerubians, they make the worst dungeons (in my opinion). I did like one thing: the killing of Malygos, the aspect of Magic. That's awesome)





So next is the expansion, where WoW lost many of it's players: Cataclysm. The end of the world was coming and shit started happening.
(Now this is my baby, I sterted playing WoW in Cataclysm and no one is gonna take away my sweet sweet nostalgia of doing RDF and getting Deadmines or Grim Batol and leaving or doing Dragon Soul and getting shoulder token after 5 months. 
OK, sorry about that. But anyway, I loved the lore in Cata: Dragon Aspects, druids of the Cenarion Expedition and shamans of the Earthern Ring teming up, Twilight Cultists following Deathwing and ofcourse all that following Thrall around, as you may have figured Thrall is my all time favourite character of WoW. Don't forget about goblins, my favourite race to play. As much as I love orcs, ingame I'll stay true to the Bilgewater Cartel and play my goblin shaman <3 )





Now up on the list is Mists of Pandaria, the expansion where they featured Pandaren and monks. It's not as epic as it sounds, but it had some amazing bosses and the Horde got alot of epicness in this.
(It was amazing to see Garrosh going insane and becoming the last boss of the expansion. The Horde got a lot of love this expansion and I'm glad. We had Vol'jin threatening Garrosh and Lor'themar arguing with Jaina, who had gone crazy becuse of Garrosh yet again, and Baine being all for-the-Horde-like teaming with Vol'jin and Chen Stormstout joining the Rebellion against Garrosh and Thrall going all "I'll go to Orgrimmar alone, if I die look after my boy, Vol'jin" sacrificing himself and all that. I mean wow, just wow. And that last cinematic doe with Garrosh beaing deafeaten and Thrall being like "You dissapoint me, Garrosh" again and wanting to kill him and Vol'jin becoming warchief. UGHHhhhhhhh, I loved that cinematic. Sorry about that nerd-gasm. There was other lore that I also liked, like Wrathion's shit and Anduin trying to be important and the Thunderking being all badass like and the Sha, but I liked all that Siege of Orgrimmar stuff a damn lot)





So now the expansion that is to be released on 13th November: Warlords of Draenor. The expansion bringing you alternate universes, epic long-dead characters who now live and the past being changed!
(My expextations are damn high on this one. The cinematic was 5-minutes-of-awesome. The Lords of War videos are awesome. Outland is in its former glory and we get to explore it. The expansion is just great. Since I already mentioned being a Thrall and shaman fan, I'm mostly hyped for that moment where Thrall meets his parents Durotan and Draka. After seeing the cinematic, Garrosh seems a lot cooler then before. Ofcourse now I'm looking foreward to seeing Gul'dan's struggle in all of this, since all his plans backfired on him. I'm going to stay in tough with WoD content for sure.)

The cinematic of Warlords of Draenor is here

Thanks alot for actaually reaching this point of my rant and I after reading this I think you can actually say that you know Warcraft. (somewhat...)

'Til next time, nerds!
Diantz <3