Natural Magic, Versatile Workers: Shamans in the World of Warcraft

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In the world-renowned massively multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft, over eight million people on earth play, share, fight, and band together to save worlds, track down assassins, kill enemies, trade products, and make a virtual living. This MMORPG is the fourth installment in the World of Warcraft series, which was first introduced in the early 1990’s, and which allows players to work, play, trade, and kill in real time, and with the help of weapons, armor, and spells.

The World of Warcraft happens four years after the Frozen Throne, the third installment in the World of Warcraft series. Much like any other MMORPG, World of Warcraft occurs in real time, pits millions of players against each other and computer-controlled characters, and allows exploration of a static, benign universe where wars can happen without any real humans being killed; where trades and business can occur without any real money being lost; and where everyone can live in virtual harmony without any chances necessarily taking place in the real world.

Today, the World of Warcraft is the world’s most popular subscription-based MMORPG, and has spawned both a board game and trading card game. In the MMORPG, players can assume their own virtual characters and live in the Warcraft universe. To progress, gain points, and win awards, players need to fight monsters, fulfill quests ordered upon them by computer-controlled characters, explore the topography of the Warcraft universe, and make trades and do business to keep thriving. In exchange for their digital efforts, players of the World of Warcraft are given virtual money to give them the chance to purchase important items such as armor, arms, clothes, or food.

Players can also receive items that can help them succeed on future quests, or that can help them explore the World of Warcraft better. Such items may also be sold or traded afterward, should a player need money for an emergency. Players can also receive experience points, which will allow them to assume greater powers and skills and participate in even more events in the World of Warcraft. This has earned the game a rather derogatory reputation as an addictive MMORPG, in that players can find themselves so immersed in the digital universe that they can find the difference between reality and the digital world blurring fast.

Playing World of Warcraft entails choosing your virtual identity from any of the game’s nine classes. There are warriors that specialize in fighting, druids that can heal and perform magic while shifting into different shapes, mages that can influence the political set up of World of Warcraft, warlocks that perform dark magic, priests that heal, hunters that adopt animals and fight, paladins that defend the weak and fight the undead, and rogues that assassinate and steal.

The shamans are perhaps the most versatile characters in the World of Warcraft. Their powers emanate from the five natural spirits existing in the Warcraft universe: Water, Air, Earth, Fire, and the Wild. They can also come from the races of the Draenei, Ocr, Troll, or Tauren, all of them with the same shamanic philosophy.

Shamans can heal and wreak damage, and can even extend their special graces to surrounding players. With their powers, they can mislead computer-controlled characters to attack a decoy instead of player characters. Their shock spells can also cast damage immediately, and in the seconds thereafter, which can result in players slowing speed, losing the power of their spells, healing much slower from the damage, and depriving the rogue classes of stealth abilities.

Shamans can use a variety of weapons, such as fist weapons, staves, shields, maces, daggers, axes, two-handed axes, and two-handed maces. They can supplement these weapons with spells with elements for extra damage and attack. Shamans are also combatants, fighting in mail, cloth, and leather. They can also specialize in healing and defense. Versatile and strong, shamans can not only participate fully in the game, but help the rest of the World of Warcraft out.

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