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Jan 15th, 2008 at 00:35:18 - World of Warcraft (PC) |
For this game log I chose World of Warcraft (WoW). WoW is the most popular game of it's genre and has been since it's release with a multi-million man player base. WoW atributes it's success to it's wide variety of diversions it offers its many players: from leveling to farming gold to progressing through end game content to killing lower level players for the sake of being a jerk there is something in WoW for any gamer. The concept is simple; a player begins by creating a character and is immediatly faced with such important decisions as faction race and appearance. The player proceeds to level their character up to max level (70) at which point they can engage in endgame content.
There are two schools of end game play and often times players will immerse them selfs in the two in varying degrees. For this session I mostly focused on the PvE (player versus environment) aspect of the game; raiding in particular. Raiding is when 10 to 25 players get together and attemtp to destroy high end game content.
My guild is a social group established within game and is comprised of other like-minded players who focus on clearing through the end game boss fights and raid instances. Today we went to Serpentshrine Cavern and killed Leotheras the Blind and Fathom-Lord Karathress. When bosses in WoW die they award random loot to the group that killed it and the loot is divided up depending on how the guild sees fit to distribute it. A general method of loot distribution is DKP (dungeon kill points) which work on a system which is somewhat unique and completely player made, most likely modeled after a previous system implemented by older generation MMO players of games such as Everquest. When a player recieves a piece of loot they are charged an ammount of DKP assigned to that item based on the guild's thoughts on how much it is worth, then the ammount of DKPS spent is divided among the other players in the raid and added to their DKP sums.
This entry has been edited 4 times. It was last edited on Jan 15th, 2008 at 01:04:27.
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