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a player then has four to seven of the game's ten character classes to choose from

The game has three roles, DPS (damage dealer), tank and healer, a member of any class can be customized for the DPS role, while members of some classes, known as hybrids, can also be customized as healers, tanks or any of the three roles.

Azeroth

These are indicated by having yellow exclamation marks (!) above their heads, while yellow question marks (?) represent quests ready to hand back and complete.[26] Quests usually reward the player with experience points and in-game money

Characters can be resurrected by other characters that have the ability, or can self-resurrect by moving from the graveyard to the place where they died.

Enhancing a character's reputation can gain access to rare items, unique abilities and profession-based patterns and plans,[29] as well as lowering cost of items sold by NPCs belonging to that faction

Players are also able to customize their character through the use of talents, which are further abilities related to their character class.[9][10]

In one of the updates following the release of the Burning Crusade expansion, the rate at which characters gain experience from killing monsters was increased, along with reducing the amount of experience required to gain further skills and abilities.

Characters are also able to learn two primary professions from a list of ten. These can be gathering professions, such as mining, herb gathering, or animal skinning. Characters can also choose from crafting professions, such as blacksmithing, leatherworking, or enhancement professions such as enchanting or inscription.

This allows players to explore areas and defeat quests without other players outside the group interfering.

Gameplay of World of Warcraft

A typical dungeon will allow up to five characters to enter as part of a group.

As well as banding together to form groups, players can also band together to form guilds. These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard. Guild members can also be given access to a central pool of resources known as a guild bank.[13] Guilds can also make use of an in-game calendar, allowing guild members to view scheduled events, and respond to them with whether they can attend or not. This calendar can also be accessed without need to log-in to the game, using the Armory feature.[14]

As well as dungeon-based raid challenges, several creatures exist in the normal game environment that are designed for raids to attack.

Death Knights are a hero class, which means the player needs a level 55 (at least) and they start at level 55 with many skills, abilities, weapons and armor. While a character can be played on its own, players can also group up with others in order to tackle more challenging content. In this way, character classes are used in specific roles within a group

In common with many MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires players to pay for a subscription, usually either by credit-card or by buying a card from a retailer to redeem for a pre-determined amount of subscription time.[15]

Players can discover 'flight masters' in newly discovered locations and then use those NPCs in order to fly to previously discovered locations in other parts of the world.[19

A number of facilities are available to characters when in towns and cities. In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items.

Although the game world remains reasonably similar from day to day, changes have been made over time. Seasonal events that reflect on real world events such as Halloween (as Hallow's End),[23] Christmas (as Winter Veil), Children's Week,[24] Easter (as Noblegarden) and Midsummer run for a period of a day or two up to several weeks.

First, some realms allow player versus player combat to take place almost anywhere in the game world outside of areas for new players.

A large amount of World of Warcraft revolves around questing.

These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard.

Each battleground has a set objective, such as capturing a flag or defeating an opposing general, that must be completed in order to win the battleground.

inding a difficult to locate object, or delivering an item from one place to another.

As well as gaining in-game money, items and experience points, many quests will also increase reputation with a faction.

These matches are among a small number of characters (between 2 and 5 per side) in two teams.

the rate at which characters gain experience from killing monsters was increased, along with reducing the amount of experience required to gain further skills and abilities.

These mods can help the player by automating simple tasks, grouping similar spells or abilities together and enhancing the way information about the game environment is presented to the player.

Some of the harder challenges in World of Warcraft require players to group together to defeat them.

These dungeons allow up to forty players to enter at a time in order to face some of the most difficult challenges.[3

The ability for players to communicate with each other using voice chat was added some time after the release of the Burning Crusade expansion.

In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other. Despite this change, the game draws many similarities with its predecessors.

However, most players prefer to use Ventrilo or Teamspeak, as they come with more customizable features and provide better sound quality than the voice service in-game.

As well as being able to complete quests and enter dungeons, players can also fight against other players in the game.

These locations act in a similar way to dungeons or instances in that only a set number of characters can enter a single battleground, but additional copies of the battleground can be made to accommodate additional players.[34]

Arenas are a further development to player vs player that were added in the Burning Crusade expansion

In the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, a new player vs player zone was introduced called Wintergrasp

A number of facilities are available to characters when in towns and cities. In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items. Each bank is unique to that character, with players able to purchase additional storage space.[21] An additio

sade expansion was the concept of guild banks, allowing members of the same guild to contribute items, resources and in-game currency to a central poo

Over time, a number of additio

3D-representation of the Warcraft universe that players can interact with through their characters. The game features two continents on the world of Azeroth. A second world, known as Outland, was later added in the expansion World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.[16] The second expansion, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, added a third continent, Northrend, to Azeroth

The mechanics of each class vary, with some tending towards melee combat while others are more suited to attacking from range or casting spells.

Players can also modify their in-game experience through the use of third-party modifications such as macros and add-ons.

Players are able to transfer their established characters between realms in the same territory (North America, Europe, etc) for a fee.

character classes are used in specific roles within a group.

nal features and improvements have been added to the game world, such as additional locations to explore.

In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other

Both Draenei and Blood Elves were added as part of the Burning Crusade expansion, which is required for these options to become available

These include using the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as following a similar art direction.

Each bank is unique to that character, with players able to purchase additional storage space.

weather effects

battlegrounds

Victory rewards the character with tokens and honor points that can be used to buy armour and weapons.

character in: the Horde or the Alliance.

These include using the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as followi

This was seen as an attempt to encourage newcomers to the game, as they would be able to play alongside more advanced characters much earlier than before.[30]

The resemblance theorist must give some account of why the funeral march, and not the cup of coffee, is expressive of sadness, and not joy. Levinson claims that the obvious suggestion here is that the funeral march is ‘readily-hearable-as’ an expression of sadness. If this is correct, then the resemblance the music bears to emotional behavior is logically secondary — a cause or ground of its expressivity. The expressivity itself resides in the music's disposition to elicit the imaginative response in us of hearing the music as a literal expression of emotion. As a logical consequence, the imaginative experience prompted must include some agent whose expression the music literally is.

We say that a piece of music is sad in the same sense in which we say that a weeping willow is sad (S. Davies 2006, 183). Such uses are no more metaphorical than a claim that a chair has arms.

The central problem is the great disparities between language and music, in terms of the ways in which each is both syntactic and semantic.

HAITIAN MAN 1: Yeah, we need agents. We need emergency. There is no help, no hospital, no electricity, nothing. No food, no phone, no food, no water, nothing. There are too many people dying.

What’s really eerie is the sound of just screaming, which is constant. I can hear it right now. It’s just people either singing and praying or just really loud screams.

The World Health Organization said it had sent specialists to help clear the city of corpses, and the International Red Cross was sending a plane loaded mainly with body bags. Medicine, food and water are in short supply. And Haitians are desperate for aid.

The injuries just kept coming all day long—head injuries, people with multiple broken legs, people catatonic who couldn’t speak. Everybody is asking for medicine. You know, we don’t have basic—we don’t have Advil.

It’s hard to describe. I was working on a boy who his father was there speaking in Creole, so we were trying to get a good translation, but basically what he explained was that their house collapsed, and he got out, but his son was trapped under the rubble. But he could—his son could still yell, and they spent all night trying to find him, and finally they dug him out, and they brought him to our hotel, because there was one nurse at our hotel.

The situation is increasingly desperate, with no coordinated rescue plan so far and aid only trickling in.

Much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince has been leveled, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless.

Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies are said to be on the way from the European Union, from Canada, Russia and Latin American nations. Two US aircraft carriers are also expected to arrive soon.