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World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer
And The Wait is On
Once again Blizzard announced another World of Warcraft expansion to be released. Battle for Azeroth, it is the upcoming seventh expansion. This expansion was announced at Blizzcon 2017 on November 3, 2017. Many new features and new content also coming with this expansion. Which includes some of the following, The level cap will be raised from 110 to 120, New continents, Kul Tiras and Zandalar. New dungeons and raids. Warfront's, New races and much more.
Release date is as of right known to be coming in 2018, Many people predicted this earlier this year. Get ready to experience the conflict that started everything, The big battle of Horde and Alliance once again. Excited? well so are many true WoW fans, The wait is on once again.
Gameplay Changes
Another stat squish and item squish will be coming again, to lower the numbers used in the game. Unique class buffs are coming back. Titanforging which makes an item more powerful, will be staying in the game. But one change, is if the item is one of those affected by the Heart of Azeroth, Then that item cannot be titanforged.
Leveling brackets will be changing, for example Outland and Northrend will now be sharing a level bracket of 60 - 80. Doing this change, they hope to give people leveling more options, also to encourage to experience full story of certain zones instead of always over leveling. Level scaling will be made available with Legions patch 7.3.5.
Blizzard plans to have a lot less class changes in Battle for Azeroth, More different than what we experienced in Legion.
What is Heart of Azeroth?
The Heart of Azeroth is a new artifact given to players from the world soul of Magni Bronzebeard. This artifact is a necklace and it can utilize the power of Azerite. Azerite is a mineral that comes from the essence of the world soul. Azerite is exactly like the Artifact power we use in Legion. Azerite will be needed to upgrade certain pieces of gear. This all seems a little difficult for now, but it will be explained and become easier to understand.
Azeroth is now dying, its essence bleeds to the surface. This essence, is the new resource, Which is called Azerite. Azerite feeds your medallion allowing you to unlock more properties in the armor you will be finding in the high seas. The more powerful your medallion, the more powerful bonuses you can unlock in your armor.
Azurite - This New resource is gained from exploring and from monsters in dungeons and raids.
Azerite Armor - Every piece of armor, Has four rings, which unlocks more when your Heart of Azeroth becomes more powerful. Each ring will contain several powers, or you can choose one to unlock. More challenging content will have more powerful abilities.
Warfronts
Warfronts is a large scal 20 player cooperative warfront to claim a specific location. Your gonna have to build up your factions forces. PvE mode inspired by the amazing classic Warcraft RTS battles.
Warfront Basics - 20 player cooperative mode, that will occur on the home front. The first Warfront is Stromgarde. Warfronts will not always be active, It will act like a special event. Where we spend time building up to this event. Also could be on a schedule like timewalking and invasions in Legion. Rewards are not yet known, Will update when more knowledge is known.
- Establish a base
- After you pick and establish a base, you have gather resources. Which include Lumber and Iron to take territories.
- Once you get resources, Than you can build your base, You can build an armory, a barracks and much more.
- Players collect their own resources, than deposit those resources in the building they wish to build. When that building has enough resources, Peons will automatically build it.
- Build an army, To lead into battle to take down the opposing commander.
- You will have to Defend and Attack.
- Different commanders have different troops.
- Random events also pop up.
Warfronts is not a PVP mode.
Allied Races
Highmountain Tauren - Faction : Horde -
These Taurens descended from Huln, They honor the spirit of earth river, and the sky. Finally after Legion, the Highmountain Tauren stand united together once again. They stand with Kalimdor, Lending strength to the Horde.
Lightforged Draenei - Faction : Alliance -
Army of light waged war against the Burning Legion during the Twisting Nether. Draenei committed to their crusade, did a ritual and became Lightforged. Being infused with Holy Light. Finally after achieving victory in Argus, They paired up with Alliance to push back against the Horde.
Nightborne - Faction : Horde -
Suramar had some of the coolest elves, being protected for 10,000 years. After fighting for freedom from their demonic masters. The Nightborne Elves will now be paired up with the Horde to push back Alliance.
Void Elf - Faction - Alliance -
Most attempted to harness the power of the void, and most fell into madness. The void elf wants to now help protect Azeroth, In doing so they will use their power and pledge it with the Alliance.
More Allies -
Much more allies will be coming if these go well, But still we have two more also coming, which is Zandalari Trolls and Dark Iron Dwarves who wait in unexplored lands. Explore the new continents to recruit these new allies.
New Continents
Alliance Kingdom - Kul Tiras
Home of Jaina Proudmoore, Full of betrayal and dark magic, Power hungry pirates, Witches with death magic, Mystical Sea Priests. Explore around in Stony Peaks of Tiragarde Sound, High Plains, Red Forests and Stormsong Valley. All of this new content you want to convince this kingdom to join in your cause.
Horde Empire - Zandalar
Massive troll dominated new zone, Very ancient evil awaits to be unleased, Battle Crazed Blood Troll Worshipper's, Gargantuan Dinosaurs, Titan Constructs. Explore and discover One of the oldest cities in Azeroth "Zuldazar." Explore swamps of Nazmir and the Desert of Vol'dun.
WoW Classic Announced
Blizzard has recently announced that they want to possibly open up some more servers. Not just regular servers, Classic WoW servers. Not much is known about this yet, But a bunch of people are very excited about this announcement. They did say they want this to have the true vanilla experience. Any dedicated WoW players who have been playing through many expansions, Knows all the content we have went through. It will be interesting to see going from 100 to 0. Making gold in these days were extremely difficult and even getting your first mount was so expensive. But you dont have to play Classic WoW if you do not want to.
More Content. . .
- Six new zones, with new world quests and new world bosses.
- New level cap, Being increased from 110 to 120
- The battle between Horde and Alliance.
- New raids coming along with New dungeons.
- Character Boost, Pick a new hero to increase to 110 instantly.
- Communities, find people with common interests through in game communities.
- New continents
- New Artifact
- New Pets
- New Mounts
- New Social Features
- Changes to open world PVP and more.