The storylines in those zones are some of my favourites in the entire game, and rushing through them to get to the next levelling continent on the way to current content really doesn’t do them justice. So it feels bizarre for me to be so excited for Shadowlands just so I can run through old content for the umpteenth time.īut I can’t get past the potential thrill of levelling through all of Pandaria, or Northrend, or Legion, from levels 10 to 50. Histrionics aside, the next expansion may define the game’s future more than any other, and the community is waiting with bated breath for further details of its content. World of Warcraft in patch 8.3 is pretty alt-unfriendlyīfA had a pretty rocky reception from players you don’t have to look too hard to find a YouTuber declaring that Shadowlands is World of Warcraft’s last chance. At last count I have 36 characters across different servers, and most of them are stuck at various points a few hours into levelling.
I was excited to reap the rewards of several weeks of doing the same boring World Quests and finally level up my new foxy friend, but after a few hours doing the same journey through old content that I’d run dozens of times, I doubted whether the effort was really worth it after all. I’d always been an Alliance character, and with Vulpera being exclusive to the Horde, it took me weeks on an alt to farm the reputation needed to unlock them. We’re in that strange limbo period right now where we’re not expecting much new content until the next expansion launches, which could be any time this year, and as your gear level gradually creeps up, there’s slightly less to do every week.Īllied Races were one of the big features of Battle for Azeroth, with two more arriving with 8.3 – Vulpera and Mechanomes (although, come on, who’s playing a tiny tin can when you can roleplay high-fantasy Starfox). In World of Warcraft the end of an expansion is traditionally the best opportunity you’re going to get to level a new character.