We got a look at Blizzard's upcoming massively multiplayer role-playing game, World of Warcraft, on the show floor at E3. As reported earlier, the game includes five races: dwarves, orcs, humans, wow gold tauren, and night elves. Three classes--the warrior, the mage, and the shaman--had also been reported on in the past, but three brand-new classes are being shown off at this year's E3: the hunter, the warlock, and the druid.

First off, we played around with a female night elf hunter. This particular character wielded a double-bladed sword, similar to the one used by the demon hunter in Warcraft III. She also carried a bow strapped to her back for ranged attacks. The hunter's most interesting specialty is the ability to take on pets, using a skill called beast taming. This allows you to pacify just about any animal in the game (provided your beast-taming skill level is high enough for the particular creature), though you can have only one pet at a time. The pet will remain with you as long as you like or until it dies. As you go through your adventures, your pet will gain levels and will take wow gold on new abilities just as you do. Since your creature improves with time, when you come across more impressive monsters in battle, you may have to make a decision to part with a longtime friend in order to take on a better pet that has more long-term potential. Hunters will also have a number of abilities that relate to keeping a pet, such as being able to heal them, and you can easily set their behavior disposition from a long list of options (aggressive, passive, and so on) by right-clicking on their icon underneath your own portrait in the top left corner of the screen.

In addition to being able to keep a familiar, hunters specialize in ranged attacks, with a number of passive skills, like personal true shot aura, that give them bonuses in ranged combat. You'll also have some active combat skills relating to ranged attack. Hunters aren't totally helpless when it comes to melee battle, though. We were able to deal a decent amount of damage in close combat using the twin-bladed sword.

We were also able to try out a warlock, another of the new classes being shown off at E3. Warlocks are spell casters, but their magic spells are focused in a few areas: draining life, fire-based magics, and disruptive spells, such as those relating to disease. The particular warlock we played with had the death coil ability, which, similar to the spell in the Warcraft RTS games, vampirically takes health from an enemy and adds it to your own. He also had the immolation spell, which is identical to the one used by Warcraft III's demon hunter. It engulfs you in flames for wow gold a period of time and damages any enemies in melee range.