The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007.[5] The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008.[6]

With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers,[7] World of Warcraft is currently the world's largest MMORPG in those terms,[6][8][9] and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG.[10] In April 2008, World of Warcraft was estimated to hold 62%[11] of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) market.

Ongoing gameplay

As characters become more developed, they gain talents, requiring the player to further define the abilities of that character.[17] Professions such as tailoring, blacksmithing, mining, cooking and first aid can also be learned by characters.[18] Characters may also form or join guilds, allowing characters in the same guild unified communications, a shared guild name, and possibly identity, guild bank and dues.

Much World of Warcraft play involves questing. These quests, also called tasks or missions, are usually available from non-player characters (NPCs).[19] Quests usually reward the player with experience points, items, and/or in-game money. It is also through quests that much of the game's story is told, both through the quest text and through scripted NPC actions.[20] Quests are linked by a common theme, with the next quest triggered by the completion of the previous, forming a quest chain. Quests commonly involve killing a number of creatures, gathering a certain number of resources, finding a difficult to locate object, speaking to various NPCs, visiting specific locations, interacting with objects in the world, or delivering an item from one place to another.

While a character can be played on its own, players can also group up with others in order to tackle more challenging content. In this way, character classes are used in specific roles within a group.[21] [19] World of Warcraft uses a "rested bonus" system, increasing the rate that a character can gain experience points after the player has spent time away from the game.[17] When a character dies, it become a ghost at a nearby graveyard.[22] Characters can be resurrected by other characters that have the ability, or can self-resurrect by moving from the graveyard to the place where they died. If this location is unreachable, they can use a special NPC known as a spirit healer to resurrect at the graveyard.[23] When a character dies the items being carried degrade, requiring in-game money and a specialist NPC to repair them. Items that degrade heavily can become unusable until they are repaired.[24]

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