WoW is an actively developing project that has more than 20 years of history of development and the release of new updates and additions.
However, gradually, the developers from Blizzard began to move away from the old concepts of hardcore and complexity in favor of greater dynamics and simplicity, which led to an influx of new players and an outflow of old ones.
So, in order to captivate two groups of players, a solution was invented – relaunching old updates and chronicles, which were popular, preserving the hardcore and difficulties, but at the same time updating the graphics with a new, more convenient interface.
So the last update at the moment was Cataclysm.
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Leveling mechanics
WoW retains many of the classic character development opportunities, it just has different priorities that now need to be taken into account.
The main and stable way to gain experience remains the quest system, which is characterized by stability and good rewards in the form of gold and resources as an addition to experience.
The main quests will help you better understand the history of Azeroth and in this way, in a game format, undergo training in obtaining levels and your main skills and obtain various equipment and weapons.
Such tasks are usually long in time and interconnected, when you turn in one quest and can immediately take another that continues it. This is convenient for beginners who can sacrifice other aspects of the game, but at the same time retain all the main mechanics and step-by-step development of their hero.
Quests bring primarily experience and gold, and for resources and weapons with armor you need to go to the grinding and profession system.
In addition to quests, there is another way to get many levels – this is the boosting system from the Skycoach service – when you transfer your account under financial guarantees and anonymity and receive a hero of the level you need with all the accompanying trophies as bonuses.
Hunting mechanics
In all locations that suit your level, you will find an alternative to your leveling.
Thanks to it, you can get additional experience and gold, but the most important thing is various resources that can be used for crafting, or simply sell them to other players.
In order for your boosting in WoW Cataclysm to be stable, you need to make sure that the level of monsters does not lag behind yours, otherwise the amount of experience will be reduced and the likelihood of receiving a valuable item will be reduced.
It will be good if you combine all possible quests and grind to receive an increase in rewards from all sources at once.
You can also hunt as part of a group, so that together with the tank, healers and attacking heroes you can gain a lot of experience simply by hunting locations and sharing the experience with everyone, like gold. But due to the speed of the kills, this will be a better deal than just killing them yourself, especially if you are a support.
WoW Cataclysm is hardcore and hunting in a group is safer than alone, because at any moment a battle with representatives of another faction can begin.
Raid mechanics
The dungeon system is the best way to strengthen your character for your efforts.
You will enter dangerous territory and will fight a boss who is accompanied by guards and carries many useful items that he can drop with a certain chance in the event of his death.
Raids are divided into normal, heroic and mythic.
They differ in the health of the boss, his strength of attack and defense, the frequency of using unique skills and, of course, the overall drop that you can get to strengthen your character.
Killing a boss, especially a rare one, will bring you additional leveling in WoW Cataclysm and, of course, a chance for a unique drop, many of which simply cannot be obtained in any other way.
Mechanics of professions
Each player can master two professions that will help him earn gold, or provide himself with weapons and armor, depending on the game class.
If you only need gold, then simply collect two types of resources and sell them to other players in exchange for gold.
If you want to craft yourself, then select interrelated professions, such as mining and blacksmithing for the production of steel, armor and weapons.
Until the classic version has received an update with an order table for earning gold, you should not take two creating professions, because they are very difficult to upgrade and at the same time they will not bring much practical benefit, but will spend all your gold on the equipment necessary for development.
PVP mechanics
For fans of fighting in WoW, there is a mechanic of constant battles between representatives of warring factions, where each killed enemy of equal strength is a coin of valor, which can be spent on unique equipment that has bonuses in PVP and, in fact, engage exclusively in battles, constantly training your skill.
The main thing is not to try to kill players of a lower level – such behavior is not encouraged in World of Warcraft and will quickly be punished by shouting into the general chat, to which a punishing squad or simply a high-level player may arrive.
For fans of large-scale battles, mechanics of large battles will be available, which will allow you to fight in large groups against your enemies for control of lands that will bring economic and reputational bonuses to your faction.
Each new major raid has its own honor board, which is replenished by representatives of different guilds and serves as another tool for determining the outcome of the confrontation.
This happened in Abberus and will continue in World of Warcraft Cataclysm in the classic version.
Constantly working on the development of important professions will help you in the future, when the developers introduce new updates, for which you will need to prepare and stock up on weapons and equipment, and you will already have the opportunity to create it for yourself.
The sale of fully finished items will not be available yet, at least until Blizzard implements the order table system in the classic version.
