http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com Playing the world's greatest online multiplayer game Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/10/24/world-of-warcraft-allakhazam-website-for-latest-news-tips-and-strategies/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/10/24/world-of-warcraft-allakhazam-website-for-latest-news-tips-and-strategies/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:58:53 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/10/24/world-of-warcraft-allakhazam-website-for-latest-news-tips-and-strategies/ If you’re looking for all the latest news, tips and strategies about Warcraft, then there’s no better place for you to look in than the World of Warcraft Allakhazam website.

Originally begun as a site to cover the game Everquest, the now mainly World of Warcraft Allakhazam site covers all of the larger MMORPG’s (in plain speak lingo that stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

This means that not only will you get information on World of Warcraft Allakhazam will also be able to give you information on other such MMORPG’s. That is of course if you can tear yourself away from World of Warcraft to play something else entirely, which many World of Warcraft players would say is tantamount to sacrilege.

Having said that you can be one of the millions on the World of Warcraft Allakhazam site to have their say and post their comment about anything and everything that is Warcraft related.

And the best thing about the World of Warcraft Allakhazam site? It’s free, totally and absolutely free. Unless of course you want to signup for the World of Warcraft Allakhazam premium membership, in which case you will need to fork out a very small sum (under four dollars per month) to get access to all sorts of services not offered by the normal member login.

These include such things as being able to get your World of Warcraft Allakhazam journal, being able to have your avatar to say you’re you, along with the fact that you also get access to more refined search options than you otherwise would. You also get the bonus of having the advertisements turned off with a premium account.

If you’re wondering whether you will have access to the World of Warcraft Allakhazam search database if you’re not a premium member, then wonder no more. You will definitely have the same access to the same database, the same as all the premium members.

The only thing you won’t have is the refined search. To post a comment on one of the many forums you will either need to have a free member log-in, or a premium member log-in. Just anyone can’t walk in from off the streets and start posting comments on the World of Warcraft Allakhazam forums.

And if you’re completely new to whole World of Warcraft Allakhazam will be able to give you all the help that you need in the form of its massive online community. And this is not something to be scoffed at or taken lightly. You will also find that if you use the World of Warcraft Allakhazam community wisely that you will be better equipped to play your game.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/10/24/world-of-warcraft-allakhazam-website-for-latest-news-tips-and-strategies/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/09/13/world-of-warcraft-guides-from-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/09/13/world-of-warcraft-guides-from-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:06:48 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/09/13/world-of-warcraft-guides-from-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/ For the dedicated game player there are many World of Warcraft guides which they can use to help in the game play. These can be found in many places although some of the best World of Warcraft guides are to be found in the World of Warcraft Allakhazam site and the World of Warcraft Vault.

These two websites contain pretty good World of Warcraft guides and you will find that they are very informative as well. These two sites aside you will also find that you have a staggering number of other websites to choose from if you’re interested in finding World of Warcraft guides.

It’s just a simple matter of doing a quick search on the internet for World of Warcraft guides and choosing a few which look promising. You can even continue to do this until you find the sites which satisfy your World of Warcraft needs.

A guide is also what is called a walkthrough and to find more on the subject all you need to do is to do a search for this as you would for World of Warcraft guides. They will ultimately yield up the same or similar results.

World of Warcraft guides are good in that they can help you find your way through the many quests, lands and towns of Warcraft without putting you to too much trouble. These are not in the way of cheats or exploits as they only help you through the various parts of the game.

They are in effect, detailed descriptions of how to get through certain portions of World of Warcraft, and they have been compiled by other gamers such as yourself.

You will find World of Warcraft guides for just about everything that you can think of, with the most popular being that of how to get gold. If you look, just about everywhere you will find that there are references to obtaining gold.

With the World of Warcraft guides however, you can go about these in a legitimate manner without having to resort to hacks and cheats. World of Warcraft guides can also help you to level up faster as you can by taking advantage of the other gamers’ experience and knowledge of the World of Warcraft.

If you spend even just a little time away from the game and pay attention to some of the World of Warcraft guides you will find that you can progress far easier through your quests than if you went into them ignorant of what lay ahead of you. Then again, that is part of the fun, being able to explore the game on your own.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/09/13/world-of-warcraft-guides-from-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/08/11/why-world-of-warcraft-bot-is-frowned-upon-by-the-people-at-blizzard/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/08/11/why-world-of-warcraft-bot-is-frowned-upon-by-the-people-at-blizzard/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:25:02 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/08/11/why-world-of-warcraft-bot-is-frowned-upon-by-the-people-at-blizzard/ For World of Warcraft gamers there is nothing more they dislike than a new gamer who uses such things as cheats and cheat codes to progress quickly through the game. Another one is these sources of annoyance and something which is banned from the World of Warcraft game site is a player who uses a World of Warcraft bot.

For those of you who are unaware of it, a game bot is an automated service or software that will emulate human behavior. By using a World of Warcraft bot, players will be able to go through the levels – or rather the more boring parts of the game – more quickly.

This means that a new player using a World of Warcraft bot will be able to level up faster, which means that they will be able to reach level 60 faster. This sort of cheating because in essence that it what using a World of Warcraft bot is, is not unnaturally frowned upon by the people at Blizzard.

In fact, not so far back in the distant past of November 15 of 2006, Blizzard banned more ten thousand gamers from World of Warcraft for using a World of Warcraft bot to take them through the leveling and the grinding processes of the game.

Not that this has necessarily made too much of a difference for the World of Warcraft bot users. Now they just try not to be caught in the act of botting. However using a World of Warcraft bot is against the Terms of Service which you agreed to when you signed on for the game.

This includes third party automating services, third party power leveling services as well as the use of hacks, data mining and cheats. If you look carefully you will see that using a bot comes under the third party automating service.

You will also find that you cannot in all good conscience share or use your account with others, nor can you trade your accounts. You can share your account your account with a minor if you are their parent or guardian but other than that it is prohibited, and is also mentioned in the World of Warcraft Terms of Service.

The problem with that, is that many people don’t bother to read the Terms of Service but will just click on the agree button to get the game ball rolling.

Or if you do read it, you only read the beginning few paragraphs and skip, or skim through the rest, which could explain how you might miss the reference to not using a World of Warcraft bot or a third party automating service!

All in all, the best thing that you could do would be to skip the World of Warcraft bot to help get you through the levels and actually learn to play the game for yourself. After all, that’s what you got the game for in the first place, isn’t it?





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/08/11/why-world-of-warcraft-bot-is-frowned-upon-by-the-people-at-blizzard/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/07/23/so-how-could-there-be-a-bad-world-of-warcraft-review/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/07/23/so-how-could-there-be-a-bad-world-of-warcraft-review/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:46:48 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/07/23/so-how-could-there-be-a-bad-world-of-warcraft-review/ There have been bad reviews in the archives of history but to date no World of Warcraft review has been a bad review. Well, alright that was a slight exaggeration.

As with anything World of Warcraft and the entire Warcraft empire does have its fair share of critics, but for the most part these are few and far between when you take on the entire legion of World of Warcraft players who believe the sun rises and sets in the world of video games with World of Warcraft.

This highly popular online game, reached a milestone of eight million players worldwide on January 11th, 2007. Not all of these people could be wrong could they, about the quality of the World of Warcraft game? Blizzard rightly took this as a sign of a good World of Warcraft review, given by none other than their loyal player base.

So how could there be a bad World of Warcraft review? Very easily in fact. Players of other major MMORPG’s will naturally enough prefer their own game to that of the World of Warcraft, and this holds doubly true if the game they play doesn’t need an account fee.

In fact this seems to be one of the worst World of Warcraft review problems, the need to pay for the privilege of playing World of Warcraft. Most of the numerous World of Warcraft review pages that you will come across though, will all lean towards praising World of Warcraft for its great game playing as well its accessibility and ease of play.

The good World of Warcraft review pages go on and on, and you will also find mention of such things as over a thousand quests available for game play with more still to come, a number of lands to explore, and a variety of races and classes to choose from to create your character.

Also another reason for a good World of Warcraft review lies in the fact that Blizzard learnt its lesson from other MMORPG’s and created instanced portions of the game so that players wouldn’t have to fight over the limited number of item drops, and the limited number of truly bad monsters to fight.

Having an instanced portion of the game to play in, meant that players could play without interrupting other players who were playing in the same portion of the game as they were. These were all factors leading to many a good World of Warcraft review from the time that it was released in November of 2004.

However, you don’t need to rely on a third party World of Warcraft review. With the advent of blogging and forums you can now give your own honest World of Warcraft review for other people to see.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/07/23/so-how-could-there-be-a-bad-world-of-warcraft-review/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/06/20/how-to-find-news-on-world-of-warcraft-and-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/06/20/how-to-find-news-on-world-of-warcraft-and-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:14:18 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/06/20/how-to-find-news-on-world-of-warcraft-and-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/ There are good sites to look for World of Warcraft information and there are bad sites to look for World of Warcraft information. Most of the really good sites to find information about World of Warcraft though are the Blizzard endorsed sites like the World of Warcraft Vault, and the Allakhazam World of Warcraft site.

To do find the World of Warcraft Vault you can either do a search for the site, or you could enter the email address into the address bar and go where it leads you. If you want to go straight to the World of Warcraft Vault website their URL is, http://wowvault.ign.com/.

This will take you straight to their home page. Here you will find news and information on World of Warcraft and the World of Warcraft Vault. You will also find that there are many interesting links which you can explore to find the information you’re looking for about World of Warcraft.

After a little bit of looking around you will find that there are such things as World of Warcraft Vault game guides, which include information about the many dungeons, instances and quests. You will also come across such World maps to help you find your way through the lands of Warcraft.

These World of Warcraft Vault maps include Zone Maps and Instance Maps, along with Locations maps. When you go further into these you will have the ability to search through the many cities, regions and even according to trainers and city buildings and such.

You have the option of going through a talent calculator, and the many community databases. You will also find in the World of Warcraft Vault, archives on just about anything and everything about the World of Warcraft.

If you’re a newbie, or have only recently found out about World of Warcraft, you will find that there is more than enough information to keep you going and to help you figure out (sort of) what World of Warcraft is like.

Of course to fully do this you will need to play the game, but going through the World of Warcraft Vault archives and information will at least give you a passing acquaintance with everything that is World of Warcraft.

There are also links to other games similar to World of Warcraft, in the World of Warcraft Vault Network. And if all of this isn’t enough for you, the World of Warcraft Vault also has what are considered to some of the very best forums on just about any World of Warcraft topic that you can think of.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for you can even post your own question in the World of Warcraft Vault forums, but to do this you will need to be a member of the World of Warcraft Vault or rather of ign.com.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/06/20/how-to-find-news-on-world-of-warcraft-and-the-world-of-warcraft-vault/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/27/the-world-of-warcraft-important-release-dates/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/27/the-world-of-warcraft-important-release-dates/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 15:21:52 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/27/the-world-of-warcraft-important-release-dates/ Most interested fans are aware of these facts, but it is always best to put things down in print to help get things in perspective. To that end, it is perhaps best stated first and foremost that the original World of Warcraft release date was on November 23rd of 2004. This was a groundbreaking ten years after the release date of the first of the Warcraft series, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.

Since then there have been more than enough releases of the game by Blizzard to keep the Warcraft saga running hot. Warcraft II: the Tides of darkness was released in December 1995.

Following on the heels of its success, an expansion pack was also released in April of 1996, a mere five months after the release of Warcraft II. This expansion pack was called Warcraft II: Beyond the dark Portal.

Warcraft II was touted by gamers everywhere as one of the best Role Playing Games (RPG) ever created. And although the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft release date was another eight years in the future, Blizzard didn’t lack for a shortage of ideas.

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos was released in July of 2002. And an expansion pack for this was released not soon after. This was called Warcraft III: the Frozen Throne and was released a year later in July 2003.

By now of course World of Warcraft was a reality in the corridors of Blizzard Entertainment. It was only awaiting imminent announcement to the rest of the world of the World of Warcraft release date. This was duly accomplished and the World of Warcraft release date was set for November 23rd of 2004.

The rest as they say is history, and two years later the World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade expansion pack was announced to be released within a few months, on January 16th of 2007.

Of course not all Warcraft and World of Warcraft release dates received as much promotion as did the Burning Crusade promotion. It was to prove to be one of Blizzard’s most ingenuous coups. In the first twenty four hour period alone after the World of Warcraft release of the expansion pack, the Burning crusade sold over 2.4 million copies worldwide.

Not unnaturally, this staggering sales total made gaming history and will be remembered forever in the annals of history as the day when a World of Warcraft release took the entire world by storm.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/27/the-world-of-warcraft-important-release-dates/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/26/purchasing-a-world-of-warcraft-cd-key/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/26/purchasing-a-world-of-warcraft-cd-key/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 07:51:26 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/26/purchasing-a-world-of-warcraft-cd-key/ The difference in the two types of downloads is that with the World of Warcraft downloadable version you have only ten days of free game play. With the World of Warcraft CD-key you get 30 days of free game play. What you are in essence purchasing is the World of Warcraft CD-key.

By doing this you are buying yourself extended time on a World of Warcraft server and you can take your time in deciding whether or not you want to go ahead and buy the game and create a proper account.

Account activation with the World of Warcraft CD-key in most cases is very fast and depending on the site which is selling these CD-keys, you will either receive them through the email, or in the post.

And normally after your World of Warcraft CD-key purchased time has ended you will then need to purchase an additional game time World of Warcraft CD-key. This will normally give you a set number of hours to log on and play the World of Warcraft game. To do this however, you will require a legitimate World of Warcraft account.

There are many reasons why a person would go to the lengths of purchasing a World of Warcraft CD-key but these are mostly centered around the fact that they’re still not sold on the idea of Warcraft as a great MMORPG.

For those of us who have played other Warcraft games, World of Warcraft is but another step up the ladder of Warcraft game playing, which The Burning Crusade expansion pack takes even further.

Use of a World of Warcraft CD-key and game time cards are also good for people who love to play World of Warcraft but who don’t have the time to devote to playing the game almost 24/7. For these people a proper account could become a burden, whereas a World of Warcraft CD-key activated guest account would be more helpful.

One large drawback with a World of Warcraft CD-key is the fact that you need to have the activation key with you at all times when you want to play. You would do very good not to loose it or put in a “safe” place as you will find that you need to buy a new World of Warcraft CD-key.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/26/purchasing-a-world-of-warcraft-cd-key/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/13/color-coding-for-the-world-of-warcraft-items/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/13/color-coding-for-the-world-of-warcraft-items/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 22:06:17 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/13/color-coding-for-the-world-of-warcraft-items/ In World of Warcraft there are many quests you can go on and there many lands you can explore. You will come across many people with whom you can strike up a friendship and you will also come across many people with whom you can have a free-for-all. And through all of these you will come across many World of Warcraft items which you will find of use to you.

These World of Warcraft items can be obtained through many means. One of these is outright buying. You can buy whatever items you need at one of the three auction houses (Ironforge – Alliance auction house, Orgrimmar – Horde auction house, and Gadgetzan – neutral auction house and available for use of both factions).

Or you also have the choice of buying any World of Warcraft items from the Non-Playable Character vendors who dot the landscape of the World of Warcraft. You will also find that you come across World of Warcraft items in your many quests and explorations of lands. You will be able to get these through either looting or plundering!

That does sound odd, but really this is how you manage to get your World of Warcraft items, some of which are necessary for you to complete your quests. These World of Warcraft items can be obtained when any monsters that you fight drop them or when you kill anything and there is something left behind.

World of Warcraft items will also come to you in the form of chests and the like which are strategically placed, and to get to these you will generally have to fight your way through.

Other methods of obtaining World of Warcraft items can be from trading with other World of Warcraft gamers. This is permitted in the game and some people go through these channels instead of putting their stuff for sale at the auction houses.

World of Warcraft items will also generally be color coded. Gray items are the most common items and these you will come across almost everywhere. They are thought of as Poor in quality, and considered vendor trash by most people.

The next color coding level of World of Warcraft items is White. These are also quite easy to find and considered to be Common, although they are not as proliferate as the Gray items.

Greens come next on the list and these are a better find than either Whites or Grays. These are also known to be Uncommon World of Warcraft items.

After Green, comes the color coded Blue World of Warcraft items. These are very Rare to find and can fetch quite a tidy sum. Unfortunately you won’t be able to get your hands on these until you reach a few of the higher levels.

Purple World of Warcraft items are considered to be Epic, while Orange items are considered to be Legendary. These are almost impossible to find and will go for a very high price. All items though can be traded in-game by anyone.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/05/13/color-coding-for-the-world-of-warcraft-items/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/17/world-of-warcraft-spans-continents-races-ages-and-even-worlds/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/17/world-of-warcraft-spans-continents-races-ages-and-even-worlds/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:32:58 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/17/world-of-warcraft-spans-continents-races-ages-and-even-worlds/ The World of Warcraft to put it quite simply, is a game. It’s a very large game with a very large player base but it is nevertheless still a game, and when you get right down to it, it spans continents, races, ages and even worlds.

There is nothing quite like it anywhere else although many others have tried. They haven’t failed, but they can’t exactly live up to the standards set by the World of Warcraft.

First released to the world (as we know it, that is), in November of 2004, World of Warcraft is what is known as an MMORPG. That’s Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game to those of us who are slightly clueless in that respect.

World of Warcraft is a fantasy game where players can take on the guise of different characters in the world known to all as Azeroth, the place where World of Warcraft is set.

If you’re a gaming addict then this game is one of the better MMORPG’s which you should try if you get the chance to. It’s not a free game and to play it you will have to pay for it.

However, you do have the choice of playing the World of Warcraft trial version for free. This can be downloaded from the World of Warcraft website, or from numerous other official World of Warcraft websites.

If you decide to go with this option to experience the World of Warcraft in all its game playing glory then you also get the chance to create your very character, which can be fun and interesting in and of itself.

Also if you decide to go with World of Warcraft and get yourself an account, the character you created for the trial version can still be used. But now that you have a better idea about the game you might want to create a different character, then again you might want to stay with your first World of Warcraft creation.

Whatever takes your fancy you will find that you have what amounts to an unlimited number of characters in the ridiculously high number of 50 characters. Think about it, 50 characters? Now go even further with the thought that you will also be unable to play with more than one character at a time. It seems unlimited now doesn’t it?

Most people will in fact play with more than one character though. This means that they will create a handful of characters, (some people will take full advantage of the complete 50 character allowance).

This will in turn allow them to expand their playing range in World of Warcraft unlike in some other MMORPG’s. And ultimately that’s what the whole thing is all about – getting the most you can out of your game playing and the various characters, places, things and quests available in the World of Warcraft.





By: Muna wa Wanjiru ]]> http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/17/world-of-warcraft-spans-continents-races-ages-and-even-worlds/feed/ 0 http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/15/people-who-use-any-of-the-world-of-warcraft-cheats/ http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/15/people-who-use-any-of-the-world-of-warcraft-cheats/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:32:19 +0000 admin http://www.worldofwarcraftnow.com/2009/04/15/people-who-use-any-of-the-world-of-warcraft-cheats/ Like any game with a massive player base – it is after all a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, or MMORPG for short – World of Warcraft has spawned many a person who resorts to and freely indulges in World of Warcraft cheats to further their game.

This practice of using World of Warcraft cheats is frowned upon by Blizzard, the creators of Warcraft. This doesn’t mean however, that the people who use any of the World of Warcraft cheats, or for that matter the people who find and create these cheats, are going to stop anytime soon.

Even the Grand Masters of the game who watch over the game like hawks miss an odd hundred to thousand or so players who might be utilizing these World of Warcraft cheats. But in a game where there are over eight million players worldwide, this is but a drop in the ocean so to speak.

What can you do about people who use any of the World of Warcraft cheats? Not much really. If however you do suspect someone of using any World of Warcraft cheats you can report these people to the Grand Masters who will then be able to take matters into their own hands and arbiter the matter satisfactorily.

For those of you looking for World of Warcraft cheats, be warned if you’re caught using them you can, and in all likelihood, will be thrown out and banned from the game forever. Blizzard really doesn’t like people who violate their Terms of Service agreements.

The problem with World of Warcraft cheats though is that it is almost ridiculously easy to find them, and since they are also for the most part free World of Warcraft cheats, many people can be enticed.

After all, in a game where gold is scarce until you get to a certain higher level, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to be one of the richest people characters around? Not everyone thinks this way of course, but that does seem to be a moot point for the moment, as the World of Warcraft cheats web sites continue to flourish unabated.

What can feasibly be done about these web sites? Nothing. They have as much right to publish their content and findings on the net as anybody else, and until Blizzard catches a person at using any of these World of Warcraft cheats, the people who use them will also continue to flourish.

It is a sad but true fact of life that we live in such times when something as simple as a video game is inundated and exploited to such an extent. What happened to playing a game for the sake of playing and not for the sole purpose of just saying that you played? The best thing that you could therefore do would be to stay away from the many people out there who are all but giving away World of Warcraft cheats.





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