World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is the next expansion for the long-running MMORPG, and Blizzard has been releasing a series of animated shorts in the run-up to the game’s release that has many fans excited for what the developer has in store.
While Shadowlands Afterlives has given players a look into the story of the Shadowlands, many are still unsure what to expect in the expansion. Here are some of the main features that WoW players can expect to see in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
Shadowlands will include a leveling squish that could change the way WoW is played forever. No longer will players have to level all the way to 120, but all max-level players will now be reduced to level 50, making 60 the level cap just as it was in vanilla WoW.
Not only that, but the leveling experience has been made drastically shorter. Streamer MrGM was able to level from 1-50 in WoW in under 3 hours, and though this was a speedrun, players can still expect to reach the new Shadowlands content in record time. Not only that, but due to the level scaling already introduced to WoW, players will be able to choose which expansion they’d like to play through from level 10 to level 50, which not only streamlines the leveling system but helps tie up some plot holes caused by late-expansion races and classes leveling through old areas.
Shadowlands will introduce four Covenants to the game, and players will have to eventually choose one. The Covenants are Kyrian, Venthyr, Necrolord, and Night Fae, and each one comes with its own powerful class abilities. For example, a Druid who aligns themselves with the Venthyr will unlock “Ravenous Frenzy,” increasing damage, healing, and haste, while a Hunter who joins the same Covenant will gain the “Flayed Shot” ability, which deals ticking Shadow damage.
As will all WoW expansion, Shadowlands comes with some new locations for players to explore. These locations are Bastion, Maldraxxus, Revendreth and Ardenwald, which are the main focus of each of the Afterlives shorts. Also included is the Maw, where the Jailer keeps the souls of the damned, including Arthas Menethil, and Oribos the Eternal City at the heart of the Shadowlands that is home to the Arbiter who judges each mortal soul.
Character customization in WoW has been greatly improved across all races for WoW: Shadowlands. All of the main playable races now include a far greater breadth of skin colors and all genders have a bald option they can now use. Beards, mustaches, and sideburns are now able to be chosen independently for most races, as well as features like noses, eyebrows, and ears.
There are some clear winners when it comes to customization, particularly the humans, dwarves, tauren, trolls and night elves, all of which now have far more character customization options than ever seen before in the game, including headdresses, tattoos, and even leaves, vines, and flowers. Forsaken players in Shadowlands now have the option to cover their exposed bones for the first time as well, among a myriad of options Blizzard is putting into customization across the board.
Exile’s Reach is a new starting zone which players can start in instead of their original starting zones that serves as a new 1-10 leveling experience. It will not be available for allied races or hero classes. The new starting zone follows the player as part of a Horde or Alliance expeditionary force to an island where many past expeditions have gone missing. There they discover that the previous expedition has been captured by an ogre who plans to use them in a dark ritual to summon something far, far worse.
The new zone is a more unique and story-driven starting zone than many of the racial starting zones, and could provide a fresh new experience for players returning to the game who want to feel thrown right into Azeroth’s current world and story.
There are of course new dungeons, raids, and monsters as players have come to expect from every WoW expansion, but these are the main changes that will set Shadowlands apart from previous games. Whether or not these changes will be enough to sustain World of Warcraft as it approaches nearly two decades since its original release remains unclear.
World of Warcraft is available now for PC. At this point, World of Warcraft Shadowlands releases on October 26 or 27 (depending on time zone) for PC.
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