Everyone has a fighting chance
So yeah…I’ve been playing a lot of World of Warcraft in the last week. If you recall, I had just hit level 120 in my previous journal. I also felt like the mightiest dwarf in all of Azeroth. I was told by my WoW veteran friends that the “real” game doesn’t start until after I’ve hit 120. And, well, they were right.
Another week, more World of Warcraft. For continuing up-to-the-minute updates on my WoW progress, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@ShankTheTank). So then, what did I do this week? Let’s dive right in.
Battle for Azeroth if World of Warcraft’s 7th expansion. It’s been nearly a decade and a half since we all first walked through the gates of Ironforge or Orgrimmar, and it the big question is: does WoW still have that magic? It’s an argument as old as the game itself at this point, but if the 3.4 million first day sales are any indication, the answer may be yes. This is our World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth review.
reminder. I occasionally stream my adventures. So follow me on Twitter (@ShankTheTank) for updates when I go live on my Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, and Periscope. For a playlist of my adventures so far, check out this playlist.
Let me preface this: Battle for Azeroth may very well be the pinnacle of story and zone design in World of Warcraft’s 14-year history. I’ve loved almost every bit of questing and dungeon content, and I’m actually reading the quests for the first time in years. But there’s a big glaring issue that’s increasingly clear the more I play – it never feels like your character is growing or making progress in this expansion.
Rob’s back to revisit Azeroth while she faces her greatest thread. Let’s check in on his journey so far.
Not one week ago, I too like Butters proclaimed, “I don’t play World of Warcraft.” Little did I know how much that would change. You see, I’m a complete newb. Yes, this dude right here — the man writing this article on a website literally called “MMORPG” — had never played World of Warcraft.
Fourteen years young and WoW is back with another expansion. Can Battle for Azeroth repeat the overall success of Legion? By all accounts so far, there’s a lot of what made Legion work present in Blizzard’s latest, and if the early hours of play are any indication, more of the same might not be so bad.
It’s time to return to World of WARcraft today beginning at 3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern (you can check your start time here) with the simultaneous worldwide launch of the Battle for Azeroth. Players and their respective factions will be beating the drums of war, but the wily player will take care of a few things before heading out to battle. Here’s what we recommend.
With World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth almost upon us, it’s time to take the far-flung pieces of lore that have been presented in videos, comics, books and novellas and try to put them into rough chronological order. Welcome to Battle for Azeroth Lore 101.