Warlords of Draenor, the highly anticipated fifth expansion for World of Warcraft has hit servers at last!
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Today's release is the culmination of months of speculation, anticipation, beta-testing and an endless blast of information on a near daily basis. I am a reformed WoW addict and I have needed to call my sponsor on more than one occasion in the last year.
First and foremost, Warlords of Draenor massively updates everyone's least favorite continent: Draenor, also known as Outland. The shattered world was first introduced in the game's first, and poorly received expansion, The Burning Crusade. Warlords of Draenor sends players hurtling back 35 years to before the events of the RTS title Warcraft II: The Tides Of Darkness where the Orcs of Outland give old destiny the middle finger.. By refusing to drink the blood of the demon Mannoroth, the timeline is altered dramatically (and probably paradoxically) and voila, the Iron Horde is born. And they are coming for you.
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Many of the gameplay updates came via the Iron Tide patch 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 a month ago, including a massive ability cleanup to streamline player's action bars and a stat pruning, which decreased the numbers weapons do. Don't worry, though, all numbers were adjusted, including those of your enemies.
The vanilla era WoW races have also gotten a major facelift, with Humans, Orcs, Dwarves, etc now all re-optimized, complete with an upgraded polygon count.
One of the most exciting new additions, however, are the Garrisons. Player-based housing that becomes a part of the landscape. You can build up your own personal space, recruit NPCs and even send them out on quests while you're off-line. The world will persist, even when you don't.
The level cap has been raised to 100, and you can instantly boost any of your characters to level 90 so you can immediately get in on the sweet, sweet Draenor action.
Blizzard released a new and final commercial titled the Age of Iron and like all Blizzard videos, it's quite chilling and awesome. You don't even need to have played before to appreciate it.
Head on over to battle.net to download. Warlords of Draenor costs $49.99.
Come on, you know you wanna.