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Well I dunno about you but neither FF11 nor Mass Effect slapped me with anything I didn't expect. But then again my game of choice has always been RPG, I'm a story plot drive player! So I'm used to the shit they pull in RPGs. Sure some things were unique and different but as far as wowing me to bits and pieces. Eh.

WoW isn't about the unexpected. It's about the story, the sheer volume of lore in the game is crazy. Every single quest tells a continuing story. Everything NPC's tell you has something to do with the story, with the lore of the game. It's a chance to take everything you know from Warcraft I - III (all the lore and all the stories and apply it to your own character) and become part of that warcraft world. You're a hero playing in the Warcraft world, playing out the stories we learned about in the other games.

I mean I don't play WoW to be thrilled to pieces. I won't lie the monotony of grinding drives me nuts. However it happens and you do it, it's all for the greater end of getting to the max level, getting gear, doing the fun stuff like heroics and raids and hardcore Battle Ground PVP and Arena PVP. I play for:

A] The lore, the stories.
B] Because I have made quite a few interweb friends on the game. I like the social aspects of the game. Talking to people all the time. Playing with other. Sure some people can be real dicks sometimes (name a place on the internet where there isn't an asshole), but get a good guild, good player (older players) and the game is a hoot and a half.
C] The sheer fact that the game is so extensive and time consuming. I like a game were I truly have to apply myself to get anywhere. It's the most extensive game I've played. The amount of stuff I need to know to be able to do well, is just fun.
D] End level, PVPing, getting to Raid and do heroics and working with a well tone team of players. Who know each others moves inside and out. Who get stuff done efficiently and smoothly.

It isn't a game that lures you in with it's OMFG unexpected, action packed, go go go, crazy game play and story. We all know the WoW lore, we all know what is going on, we're just FINALLY getting a chance to play and finish all those stories that we've come to love while playing the warcraft games. The appeal is in a lot of other minor aspects, that say someone who isn't into the WoW lore or the kind of MMORPG game play that Blizzard has created, would not like.

WoW is long, it is monotonous, it takes a lot of time and effort. It isn't crazy fast and yeah we all know the lore and the stories. We're just finally getting to play the hero and finish those stories.

That's WoW!

Okay, fine here are two videos that explain two different boss fights in a 10 man instance.

First we have the Wizard of Oz Opera event. Where you must maintain and manage 5 bosses. This is the hardest opera event there is there. People die on this if they do this fight wrong. It take coordination and players who are quote "skilled" at their class. If you're DPS sucks balls you will not, can not finish this fight. Because the DPS ends up on their own having to down most of of the bosses without a tank. Because your tank is kiting one of the other bosses around the stage till near the end of the fight, so that the boss can not hit the DPS. The tank is kiting this boss because he he hits the hardest of all them. So you have keep him moving so he can't attack people. You also have to keep one of the bosses feared throughout the entire fight. DPS must down two of the bosses basically from the get go and the jump from the required boss to the next.

Next we The Shade, one of the other harder bosses to complete. He does a range of attacks in a general order. Example Flame wreath, if you are in the flame wreath and you move (jump, step forwards, anything), you will wipe the entire party. Flame wreath kills everyone if one person moves! Then there is part closer to the end were the boss sheeps everyone, a prime change to gain heath while you're down. Trouble is the boss does a pyro blast for about 8k damage which usually kills most squishy classes who naturally have low health and if your healer doesn't over heal your tank before the sheep and your tank has low health this attack can kill your tank. Without a tank you usually wipe.

This videos were made my people who've basically mastered the dungeon raid, they farmed it for badges. My guild when we were raiding Kara used those videos to help us learn the fights.

So there two boss fight that take skill to do. If not you couldn't do them, you wiped and never got any further. Now those fights are easier due to a recent patch Blizzard brought out. however beforehand when I was doing Kara those fight were difficult. And that is one of the first raids you did at 70. Zul'Aman was 25 man raid, that one was even harder. Black Temple was even hard still. The Sunwell was even harder then Black Temple and not many people did that raid and completed it.

Now, do you think the game takes skill? Here are even more videos.