Its a world, its at war. I have no idea what the craft part is.
World of Warcraft is an MMO designed for just one thing: Taking your money, and lowering your IQ. Okay, that's two things. See? I'm getting stupider by the minute. No matter what you're doing in WOW you're going to be constantly pelted with requests to do things that you don't want to do. If FFXI was about complete jerks with 15 dollars a month of disposable income and an internet connection, then WOW is about a secret government project to make everyone who plays it as mature as the plot to a Power Rangers episode. It's working.
My Story Begins
I started off playing as a female Night Elf. Anyone who has played the game already knows where this is going, so feel free to skip on to the next section. Everyone else, read on.
I spent most of my time denying requests to remove my clothes and dance. Which, if you have any life outside of videogames you will realize that this is not only a waste of time, but kind of sick. One person even went so far as to follow me all the way across one of the continents demanding that I remove my clothes, and even offered me a few silver if I did. I finally gave in and that's the story of how I bought my first set of Druidic robes. THE END.
I wish. I figured that the higher I rose in level, the more this kind of thing would taper off, so I did my quests, built up an ignore list of pervs, and continued on with my pretend life. It seems though, that I just traded one type of harassment for another. One day, I s*** you not, someone requested that I have sex with their character. Naturally I turned them down, because I have a girlfriend, and that is kind of like cheating, even though there's no real sex involved, and its not me doing it anyway. Of course this is all just rationalization for the fact that having sex in a game is probably the saddest thing I can think of this side of Beanie Baby collecting. I can only determine that WOW breeds polygon molesters. They're freaking everywhere.
Stay Away From Me
The worst thing about partying with anyone on WOW is that you have to put up with people who try to make their characters do things that they're not supposed to do. I'm all for customizing characters, but a Rogue (think Thief) is NOT a healer. I don't care how many Goblin Jumper Cables (an item that revives a fallen character) you have, or how high your First Aid skill is, you are not "TeH HeelR!!1!" You are "TeH imbecile!" If WOW were a benefits package then Druids, Paladins, and Priests would be Full Coverage, and a Rogue with Cables and First Aid would be an HMO. A bad HMO. There is at least one of these people in every Town, and usually two in any decent guild.
If you're not in a guild, prepare to be harassed until you join one. Once you're in a Guild, prepared to be harassed by duel requests. Actually, just prepare to be harassed. Everyone seemed to want to fight my Healing Druid. Why the heck would you want to fight me? What am I going to do? Heal you to death? That would be like a Tank Battalion challenging a MASH unit to some War-games.
How To Take A Game Too Seriously
WOW also has different types of servers, such as PVP (Player vs. Player), Normal (ummm... Normal), and RP (Roll Playing). My favorite is RP. These people take the game far too seriously, but since its an RP server, they don't feel so bad about it.
More often than not, in an RP server, you are greeted by someone in the following fashion "I am Cabados of Stormwind, warrior of our King". No. You are Greg of Ohio, maker of Slushies. You can't really blame them though. It's far more interesting to be 'Cabados, the warrior of Stormwind" than "Greg, Manager of 711".
But to all the Gregs out there, listen to me. When we're having our imaginary characters fight a pretend dragon in a fantasy world, it is NOT the time to RP. I highly doubt that in Feudal times, if they were fighting a Dragon they would have used a phrase like "Tis a fine fireball hurtling towards you me lady. Would you care to step out of the way?". More than likely they would have said something along the lines of "Get out of the way! F***ING FIREBAAAAALLL!!".
Where are people getting some of these accents and language from? In any given sentence from any Greg, there's usually a bit of Olde English, a few modern English words, Scottish word or two, or some French mixed in. You don't sound like a Medieval warrior, you sound like some backwoods British retard. Take an Olde English literature class, then try to play along. As it stands, there's not a single European from any century that would have a f***ing clue what you're saying.
AC: 30% If they're not pestering you to take off your clothes, then they're harassing you to duel them. If they're not doing either of those, then they're either trying to get you to join their guild, or get you to quit your guild and join theirs. There are of course, some that are just plain a******s.
LLA: 70%-80% No one in Wow could type a complete sentence if they were reading out of the manual and they received electrical shocks to their groin every time they hit a wrong key. I think that this is partly due to the fact that almost everyone who plays WOW is 13.
LSR: "Creepy Uncle Jim" The only reason to play WOW for longer than a month is if you like hanging around little kids. There's only three types of people that like to hang out with children: Other children, serial killers, and child molesters. If you're over 16 and you haven't killed anyone, then my advice to you would be to stay the h*** away.
My Character: I played a female Night Elf primarily, among many others. My favorite race were the Jamaican Trolls. Being a Troll is about as close as most people will ever come to being cool.
Conclusion
By the time you've played WOW enough to get your character to a level that isn't laughable, you've effectively dropped two years off your maturity. To compensate you'll try to talk like your from the 1300s, but you'll just end up sounding like you learned European English from reading Fantasy novels. I want to leave you with this thought: If you are not part of a class that is designed to fill a certain role in a party, please don't try, and whatever you do, don't talk like you're from Feudal Times. You'll just make yourself look like a fool, and even the Gregs will laugh at you.