Like most of you, I’ve read a lot about World of Warcraft since the beta began, and frankly it’s all kind of a blur. While I appreciate the host of previews available, and that Blizzard isn’t holding testers under a NDA, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a good feel for what it’s like to actually play the game. These previews are usually overflowing with information – often by necessity, for there really is a lot to talk about - but they are too often impersonal and usually indistinguishable from one another. They are a laundry list of features and screenshots, hundreds of thousands of words that I’ve consumed ravenously but rarely coalesce into a coherent image for me. I’m not saying that my endeavor is destined to be meaningfully different, but I’d like to take a slightly different tack on the approach. Instead of producing one bulky article with everything packed in, I figured I’d cut the discussion into individual bite sized portions, so that in the minutia you might get a better feel at what the play experience of WoW is actually like.