World Of Warcraft? NOOB?

Question

Ok so alot of my friends play WoW so I want to try it out. One of my friends told me that he'd let me play it at his house but not to buy it till christmas cuz a new one comes out. Do I have to have the new one to play WoW when it comes out. If i get it now do I have to get burning crusade? Is it worth getting at all. I love RPG's and i used to play Runescape alot (I know theres no comparrison) and I love the whole magic medieval theing so yeah. Whats your advice

also I know if I get it I want to be on hord, undead, but i cant pick between mage and rogue

Answer 1

Burning crusade is just and expansion pack. So, you would still need to buy wow to play burning crusade. You could buy WoW now, then get burning crusade when it comes out.

Answer 2

OK buy it now the new one coming out is an expansion and so is burning crusade and you cant do anything with those until level 58 only thing is you cant play two races but what you want to play hord and undead your good and if you cant pick play both create two toons i did.  

Answer 3

Your friend says not til get it til christmas are you insane? lol jk...but there's no need in waiting til xmas to get the game just because of WotLK (Wrath of the Lich King), its your choice plus its about if your willing to buy it now...

You really only need the original seeing that your just starting out...the orinial will satisfy you until you reach lvl 60 then Burning Crusade allows you more feature & an increased lvl 70 cap & 2 new races ( draenei & Blood Elf)...If those don't matter to u right now...you don't have to get BC...If I was you & I had the time to play I would get the original right away, so you can play w/ your friend plus you guys can do the new "Recruit a Friend method".. Your friend emails a code that he registers from his account mangement page & you type in that code & if he starts a new toon you guys will recieve 3x exprience while questing for 3 months w/ each other..that''ll get you to 60 in no time....plus you can summon each other & your friend recieves a zherva mount for recruit you ;) Happy lvling lol

I believe you asked this question 2x..so I copy & pasted my answer is that ok?

OH if you want stealth & stun moves be a rogue Depends if your able to run away effectively be a mage....Mages have alot of downtime meaning time in between fights because they need to replenish mana & health more often but higher lvls don't have that problem much they also have better Crowd control abilites like Freezing & Polymorph...Rogues don't have as much downtime as a mage, but you do need money for poisons & itll probably be harder to find instance groups + they rely n on Stun & ambush moves mostly