So, Podcast in all of Azerau. This is World of Warcast. I am Renata and this is the start of a series of mini-casts that we're going to be putting out in addition to the regular casts.

Partly in an effort just to get more content out there, but also to cover some topics in a shorter format that people may be interested in that will help them with their game.

We've gotten some feedback on our forums and thank you for everyone who is sending feedback

and I'd like to hear more about some of the basics of the game.

So this is the first in a series I'm going to be doing and hopefully in future

casts I will bring on some guests to talk about some

other topics but this series is going to be called Back to Basics because it's going

to cover some of the nitty gritty of playing and operating in the game

World of Warcraft. The first topic that I plan to cover with Back to Basics is Solowing.

Anyone who's listened to our cast for a while knows that I am very big on soloing as an

activity in World of Warcraft.

Now there's a lot of people who think of soloing as something to do only when they can't

get a group.

And certainly that's a perfectly legitimate way of looking at it but for me

soloing is an activity in and of itself it's something I enjoy doing it's something I

seek out doing I do group a great deal there are some things you can only do in groups

But I like to spend a certain amount of my time soloing

partially for the challenge and for a variety of other reasons which I'm going to talk about in just a few minutes.

I think it also may go back to the fact that when I grew up as such in video games, there was no such thing as a large multiplayer game.

There were Muds, which stands for multi-user dungeons, but really these were not much more sophisticated than some of the very early

text-based games. They were on servers and yeah a lot of people played them, but they weren't

interactive the way that today's massively multiplayer online role-playing games are today.

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