Can World of Warcraft make you smarter?
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Can World of Warcraft™ make you smarter?. Hard to improve on perfection, I know, but I have to believe all those hours grinding for a dragon weren’t wasted.
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World of Warcraft
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One of my frequent occupations is World of Warcraft, a MMORPG. Basically, you control a character that can interact with all the other people controlling characters. Its set in a fantasy world with different races and everyone is at war with each other as well as demons scattered around the virtual world.
The character to the right is my main character, Lodis, who just got his mount (the cat he’s riding which goes 60% faster than running). It’s quite a big world so any movement speed increase is welcome. As you can see from the tiny image here, the gear has been color coordinated, which delayed getting his mount until yesterday at lvl 45. There was also some spell training involved in the delay. Lodis harvested and sold Gromsblood for about 1g each to go from 5 to 80 gold in a week.
Lodis has also spent more than a few gold on pets like the moth to the left. These pets follow you around and don’t actually do anything but attract other player’s attention.
I’ve installed some add-ons to improve the experience. You can see what my interface looks like to the right. Some of the add-ons display information, like Titanbar across the top, cartographer which keeps notes on the map, or ItemStats which remembers every item I’ve seen. Others add functionality such as automatically feeding hunter pets or serving character profiles while role-playing. Only problem is the stream of updates to the game can break add-ons you come to rely on.
Even being drunk has been simulated…
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