On the other hand, to be fair, the amount of action in WoW makes it relatively difficult to communicate and plan effectively. Many players resort to chat macros to say, "Hey, I'm
being attacked, I need help," or, "I'm going to cast a spell on this mob that will remove it from combat, so please don't attack it and thereby pull it back in." WoW could use a more robust voice macro system for when things get hairy. And with the dynamic spawning system,
things can get hairy indeed. It's definitely the lesser of two evils, the other being waiting for the mobs to appear when they're good an ready, but it still needs work, as there will be times when they just keep coming and coming until the whole party's been wiped out.However, the instanced dungeons are a different story, and there are some simply eye-popping set pieces, like the final stage of the Deadmines in Westfall. There's a bunch of screenshots of that in the gallery, as well as many other images I've taken over the past several months I've been playing. And here's where I talk about the graphics. World of Warcraft is not cutting-edge in this department, but the artistic direction is top-notch. Take the Undercity, for example, the Undead capital beneath the ruins of the former human city of Lordaeron. It's
like Beetlejuice meets A Nightmare Before christmas, with fanciful shapes, bright colors, and lots of endearingly silly touches of spookiness. Then there's Orgrimmar, the Orc capital, with its mesas that look almost painted by hand, with the layers of soil and soil streaking and banding like streams of water. Or perhaps Ironforge, the massive city built
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