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Your Name Kory Minner
Your Topic World of Warcraft is a Difficult Game to Play.
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Thesis Statement
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I believe that... the computer game World of Warcraft is an extremely difficult game to play.
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Your Subtopics
Topic Topic Topic Armor, Weapons, and
What class and race? Quests and Leveling
1 2 3 Stats
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2. Topic 1 What class and race?
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When first starting the game you have to decide what class and race you want to
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First you must choose your side alliance or horde, there are five different races you can be on each
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side.
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Each race has racial abilities that only that race has, for example the Tauren have a five percent
Support #2 health bonus just naturally. The races on the alliance are the humans, dark elves, drainia, gnome,
and the dwarves, and on the horde are the tauren, undead, blood elves, troll, and orc.
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Once you are done choosing your race you must choose between a warrior, hunter, paladin, druid
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mage, deathknight, priest, shaman, or warlock, all races can't be all classes,
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Once you have created your character it is time to begin the journey to the
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World of Warcraft.
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3. Topic 2 Quests and Leveling
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introduce this topic to your Once you begin playing questing and leveling are the biggest parts of the game.
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Questing is the fastest way to level but you have to pay attention to the level the quest is for
Support #1 because if the quest level is to high you will probably be not able to do the quest or it will take an
extensive amount of time to finish it. If you level up one of the quests that you already have might
be to low for you and you will not get any experience.
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On many quests you will have to run around and try to find the monster you need to kill or the
Support #2 quest item you need and it will take a long time, but if you get the add-on called CARBONITE
you can look at your map and the place where the monster or item is highlighted.
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Many quests need you to grind monsters, kill many of them for experience, or get items from
Support #3 monsters that don't drop on every kill so you have to pay attention to your level and the level of
the quest and monster because if the monster is ten levels lower than you then you will not get any
experience.
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It is hard to do some quests if you do not have good armor, weapons, and
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stats.
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4. Topic 3 Armor, Weapons, and Stats
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When you are doing your armor and weapons you also have to worry about your
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stats.
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When you get a new weapon you can't judge the weapon on just the damage you have to also take
Support #1 the stats into calculation, such as if you have a sword with 200-300 damage with no stats and than
you have a sword with 175-225 with 150 strength than you probably want to put each weapon on
and look at the damage you do. You also have to take the stats into consideration with your armor.
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When you have two weapon you need to look at damage and speed which calculates your damage
Support #2 per second, dps, which is more important than your damage. If you have a weapon with 200
damage with a speed of four seconds than you have 50 dps and you have another weapon with
100 damage with a speed of one second you will have 100 dps, so even though the one will do
more with each hit you will do less damage over time.
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Each class has their own stat that helps them more than all of the others, like rogues need agility
Support #3 to get a better chance to get a critical hit and warriors need more strength and stamina for health
and damage.
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5. Introduction Paragraph
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topic?
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Attention Getter
World of Warcraft is a massive multiplayer online role playing game.
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Background Information
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information you are discussing in
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Thesis Statement
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6. Conclusion Paragraph
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Include a brief summary of the paper's main points. Evoke a vivid image
Suggest results or consequences Wrap it all up for your reader
Leave a lasting impression
Restate your thesis in
a fresh, new way
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Summarize /
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thoughts on Topic 1
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Final Thought
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-Leave a lasting impression
-Sums up your essay in one
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Paragraph 1- Introduction Paragraph 3 - Body Paragraph 2 Paragraph 5 - Conclusion
- Attention Getter - Topic Introduction - Thesis Restatement
- Background Information - Support 1 - Summarize/Reflect/Final - Topic 1
- Why should we care sentence - Support 2 - Summarize/Reflect/Final - Topic 2
- Thesis Statement - Support 3 - Summarize/Reflect/Final - Topic 3
- Transition - Strong Final Thought
Paragraph 2 - Body Paragraph 1
Paragraph 4 - Body Paragraph 3 Final page - Bibliography
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- Support 1 - Topic Introduction - Titled - Bibliography
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- Support 3 - Support 2 - MLA Format
- Transition - Support 3 - Alphabetized
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