Hi, I’m Leemans Kevin. The subject I’m going to talk about MMORPG and World of Warcraft. made by Blizzard Entertainment. WoW is a mmorpg or a massive multiplayer online role-playing game. I can’t really define a RPG, but it’s something where there’s a big storyline behind it and where you “role-play” your character. It’s like some child’s played cowboys and Indians.

It all began 10 years ago, when the first game of Warcraft was made. Warcraft wasn’t the same genre like WoW. It was an RTS, it’s the kind of game where you build buildings and train soldiers. When the 3rd game of warcraft came out they had such a big story behind the game that they made a RPG. The most criticizers compared the story with lord of the rings, but even better then lotr.

First of all, I’m not going to talk about the classes in the game and the professions and things like that. I’m going to talk about what a RPG is, especially what it is like in a MMORPG, and I’m taking WoW as an example because I played for 1 full year and just quitted last month.

WoW was the most addictive game I ever played. When I quitted I had 3 months playtime, so that’s and average of 6 hours a day. WoW was one of the biggest rpg’s I ever saw. The world is so big, that you think in the beginning of the game that it has no end. Keep in mind that over 6 million people play this game, and they all pay 13$ for every month.

When you start a mmorpg you have to level up your character and search for a guild or in other terms a clan. I’m now showing you a movie that was made by our guild about 6 or 7 months ago. This movie is about the thing you have to do in every mmorpg, killing bosses in dungeons and caves. So why do you kill bosses? Because you always want better equipment and you want to challenge bosses. So what’s the challenge of killing a boss? In WoW the hardest bosses are done with a group of 40 men. So you need a lot of teamwork, you especially need to find the right tactic to kill a boss. And when you have killed that boss you can brag about it. The dungeon we are doing here is molten core. My guild is called Exiles. The bosses are …

So how do you kill the bosses? It’s mostly the same in a mmorpg. The basics are : You have a tank. That’s the guy who gets the damage on him. You have the damage dealers and then you have the healers. That are just basics. But you have much more complicated bosses then that. You have bosses that are with 3 guys, and those guys have to die at the same time. You have another boss that always kills the tank every 45 seconds, so another tank needs always to take over.

Like I said earlier, you need a lot of teamwork, Because you are working with 40 people. You have to be organised. The leaders need a lot of leadership skill. You have to find the right tactic. You can’t have cocky guys in your guild who are always whining. So how do we communicate? We talk over ventrilo, that’s a program that allows us to speak with each other. You have to know with 40 people if 1 guy says something every minute it will get a chaos. So mostly the leaders are talking. I can that you really improve your English with it. You’re talking and reading the whole time English. The fun part about most mmorpg’s is that it is actually really social. You get to know a lot of other people by communicating with them. You start to know them better.

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So here is the tank, we are using 2 tanks here, Cause Ragnaros has a skill that he can knock back the tank. So if the one tank gets knock backed the other tank needs to get in to tank him. If he doesn’t a random guy just gets killed. Ragnaros comes up for 2 min then he spawns his 10 sons which you need to kill in 30 seconds I think, then he comes back up.

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This a moment where we got more famous. It was the first time we did the last boss of molten core. We thought we just could jump trough the lava and take a shortcut. It’s quite hilarious if you played the game and you got this far. We had 10.000 downloads a day with this movie and were on number 1 of the most downloaded movies of WoW for 1 week

The last moment you saw we were all laughing but it isn’t like that all the time, when we are killing a boss, every1 is serious. We talk about the tactics. Everything needs to go alright or you all get killed. The boss you see here is onyxia, it took 2 months before they killed him, they thought he was impossible first.

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When you killed a boss for the first time there is a lot of excitement.