The first and best part about the game is probably the sweet looking gear you can collect throughout a career of questing your way around the world and battling those who'd seek to destroy it. This is my most recent character, a warrior named Hamoorabi (pun totally intended). Out of the six years playing the game and trying just about every class I decided to get back to my beginings and reroll another warrior. My old account got permabanned for credit card theft because I gave it to a friend during one of my quitting phases and so I had to rebuild at the beginning of the previous expansion. Anywho, the picture above shows off the neat visual aspect of my character's gear.
This next part is where things get a bit tricky. See generally each class has three different sets of talent tree's that help determine what role your character will play. My spec (specialization) above is built for Tanking which basically means that I stand in front of the group and cause enough threat to get baddies to attack me instead of the group. Now for most that would seem counter intuitive right? Getting hit is bad? Well normally you'd be correct except that tanks are built to withstand the hardest hits in the game and with the help of a few good teammates live through the encounters. A Tank's job is to hold the attention of enemies and mitigate as much damage as possible with stats like Block, Dodge, Parry, and Stamina but we'll get to those in a minute.
Stats are the biggest part of the game. You can't kill anything unless your stats are built the right way. That being said my warrior's stats (shown above) are relatively average or slightly above average. Stats vary from Strength and Stamina to Intellect and Spirit all the way to more intricate things like Hit Rating and Expertise. Now I won't get too technical here because this is supposed to be for people who don't know anything about WoW but I will say that this part of the game is the most intense. Boss fights? Pretty interesting. Game mechanics? Challenging. Abilities and skills? Tough to learn but simple once understood. Character stats? Nerdgasm. Imagine a gearhead tuning his car to run better on an open downpipe to make it faster. That's the general idea behind character stats. The more you understand and fine tune them the better your character will be.
