World of Warcraft: Shadowlands review

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands review


Shadowlands, World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, takes the muddled mess that the previous Battle for Azeroth expansion became and sorts it into a beautiful, rewarding flow. It quietly modernizes systems that desperately needed attention, sneaks in graphics enhancements and a cohesive storyline, and even takes time to poke fun at itself. Its dungeons are fun and varied, its first raid is a flat-out triumph, and it manages all of this — unfortunately — without simplifying the game a whit.To get more news about wow classic gold eu, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

Shadowlands runs on pretty much any desktop or laptop with a processor, from Mac’s newer mobile M1 chips to top-of-the-line PCs. What you see will vary wildly depending on the capabilities of your machine; one of WoW’s strengths is that it adapts well — particularly for more or less powerful graphics cards.For the purposes of this review, I ran the new expansion on a bleeding-edge machine that included an Nvidia RTX3080 graphics card. That’s decidedly overkill for Shadowlands, but it allowed me to easily run the game at 4K resolution with all graphics settings maxed. The gorgeous new ray-traced shadows on character models and in some of the game’s areas, in particular, made use of the extra processing power.

The expansion offers three price points. A Base Edition at $40 just includes the game, which requires a monthly fee of $13 to $15. The Heroic Edition at $60 adds one free boosted character to level 50 — Shadowlands leveling takes characters from 50 to the new max level of 60 — plus a mount and the quest for a new armor transmog set. The Epic Edition at $80 includes all that plus cosmetic weapon and hearthstone effects, 30 days of game time, and an in-game pet.
Warcraft’s newest expansion dramatically reworked the way players level their characters. Brand-new players start characters at level 1 in Exile’s Reach. This delightful new starter island walks you through game mechanics and your character’s abilities. It teaches you World of Warcraft basics over the course of about an hour and 10 levels. The island’s progression of difficulty and storyline are thoroughly modern, incorporating some trademark Warcraft humor. It ends with a dramatic dungeon fight that should prepare players for later dungeon encounters with other players.

Veteran players can choose between Exile’s Reach or the traditional leveling experience in character starter zones. Players can select which expansion they’d like to spend time in while leveling from 10 to 50. By default, the selection is Battle for Azeroth, with its modern-looking graphics and systems. But players who’d like to re-experience one expansion or another can choose to frolic in that era for the next 40 levels. To pick, just talk to Chromie in your faction’s capital city. The extra time in one expansion really allows you to stretch out your legs and see some of the storylines.