World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Expansion Overview

By Neryssa Updated: 2023/11/22

ShadowlandsBattle for Azerothlevel squishCovenantsTorghast, Tower of the Damned6 new zonesLaunch InformationShadowlands Launch Date

The Shadowlands expansion will be released on November 23rd / 24th, 2020.

Blizzard

Americas (PST)	Europe (CET)	Taiwan (CST)	Korea (KST)	ANZ (AEDT)	UTC
3:00p.m.November 23*	12:00a.m.November 24	7:00a.m.November 24	8:00a.m.November 24	10:00a.m.November 24	11:00 p.m.November 23

*To align with other regions, the Americas will launch slightly ahead of November 24 in local time.

Raid Opening and Season 1Castle Nathria

RAID UNLOCK SCHEDULE (NORTH AMERICA)

December 8 – Normal and Heroic difficulties
December 15 – Mythic Castle Nathria, Raid Finder Wing 1
January 5 – Raid Finder Wing 2
January 19 –Raid Finder Wing 3
February 2 – Raid Finder Wing 4

Expansion Pre-Orders

Base Edition: ($39.99) Includes a pre-purchase* of World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands™ and early access to Death Knights for Allied Races and Pandaren starting with the Visions of N’Zoth content update.

Heroic Edition ($59.99): Includes everything in the Base Edition, plus instant access to a Level 50 Character Boost and the Ensorcelled Everwyrm flying mount. The flying mount grants a quest for the Ensemble: Vestments of the Eternal Traveler transmog set.

Epic Edition ($79.99): Includes everything in the Heroic Edition, plus 30 days of game time, the Anima Wyrmling pet, an otherworldly Eternal Traveler's Hearthstone, and Illusion: Wraithchill, a cosmetic effect for your weapon. As with other Illusions, Wraithchill cannot be applied to certain weapon types.

Collector's Edition ($119.99): Includes everything in the Epic Edition, plus an Art of the Shadwolands book, the Collector's Edition Soundtrack key, a four-pin collector's set of Covenant Sigils, and a mousemat.

Shadowlands as long as you enter the Collector’s Edition key before 11:59 p.m. PDT on March 31, 2021Shadowlands LoreAfterlivesNew Zones and MapsShadowlands

Oribos, the Eternal City is the arrival point for all souls in the Shadowlands, where they will be judged by The Arbiter, a being that determines where souls will spend their afterlives. Oribos serves as a nexus between the various domains of the Shadowlands and is a gathering point for power brokers, wheelers, dealers, and soul-traders, as well as serving as the player's central hub in the Shadowlands.

Bastion is a kingdom of crystalline spires and pristine skies, ruled by the Kyrian covenant. Souls drawn to service are sent to Bastion by The Arbiter, where they examine their life's deeds and work towards a state of virtue, letting go of their life burdens and seeking ascendance.

Maldraxxus is the heart of the military might of the Shadowlands, ruled by the Necrolord covenant. Although it is home to wicked beings such as abominations and necromancers, not all beings of Maldraxxus are evil, they are simply battle-hardened. Souls fueled by war who never yield and thrive in a survival of the fittest environment are sent here by The Arbiter and welcomed by the Necrolords.

Ardenweald is an enchanted forest ruled by the Night Fae covenant. Serving as a dark mirror to Azeroth's Emerald Dream, Ardenweald is a place that focuses on rest, hibernation, and eventual rebirth of the soul. Souls deeply attuned to nature are sent here by The Arbiter, where they prepare for rejuvenation and rebirth.

Revendreth is a land of dark secrets and gothic spires, ruled by the Venthyr covenant. Souls that are prideful or flawed in life are sent here by The Arbiter to atone for their sins and seek redemption through torment inflicted by the vampiric Venthyr.

The Maw is the endgame zone of the Shadowlands, a swirling vortex composed of the vilest souls sent to the Shadowlands and ruled by The Jailer, a being who has never been seen before. The Arbiter only sends to The Maw souls that are considered to be irredeemable and a threat to the Shadowlands if left free. No one has ever escaped The Maw, and those that went to explore the vortex were never heard of again. The Maw is also home to Torghast, Tower of the Damned, the replayable endgame instanced feature.

New System: CovenantsCovenantssouls are assigned to an appropriate Covenant to help them find a purpose in the afterlife

The Kyrian Covenant of Bastion governs over souls that served a life of service, offering them a chance to look over their past deeds and seek ascension to become a Kyrian themselves.

The Venthyr of Revendreth take over souls that were flawed or prideful in life, but can still obtain redemption. The Venthyr punish those who lived a life of sin, determining whether they are worthy of redemption in the Shadowlands.

The Necrolords of Maldraxxus governs over battle-hardened souls and rewards strength, while weaker souls become fuel for Maldraxxus' cosmic weapons. Those who are deemed determined, quickly rise to positions of power.

The Night Fae of Ardenweald accepts those with a deep connection to nature, using of the Anima in the Shadowlands to infuse slumbering spirits with the knowledge of old, and preparing them for rebirth.

Choosing a covenant is the biggest character choice in Shadowlands.

covenant-themed armor with back details

Soulbinds: Within your Sanctum, you’ll meet three key members from your Covenant. You’ll be able to choose one of these to Soulbind with. Soulbinding allows you to gain access to traits that enhance your skills so that you can effectively combat all who stand in your way.

Adventures: Put your tactical skills to the test by sending your allies into the Shadowlands and lending aid to your chosen Covenant by tackling the unique challenges facing them. You’ll need to be strategic about how you take on these combat puzzles, who you’ll send to face them, and how you’ll utilize their skills to claim victory.

Transport Network: Players will be able to access a zone-specific travel network within their Sanctum. These travel networks are specific to each Covenant.
Kyrian: Eternal Gateways

Necrolord: Bone Deathgates

Night Fae: Fae Circles

Venthyr: Blood Mirrors

Anima Conductor:

The Kyrian can access the Path of Ascension, which involves inhabiting the consciousness of a Soulbind, then helping them confront their own challenges.

The Necrolords build the Abomination Factory, where players can build their own Abominations.

The Night Faeare put in charge of the Queen's Conservatory, which has been compared directly to the farm from Mists of Pandaria.

The Venthyr can access the Ember Court, which involves throwing themed parties for distinguished guests.

Covenants OverviewKyrian CovenantVenthyr CovenantNecrolord CovenantNight Fae CovenantSoulbindingSoulbindingResource: AnimaAnima New Mission Table Content: AdventuresNew Endgame ContentThe Great VaultDungeonsLeveling Dungeons:

The Necrotic Wake

Plaguefall

Mists of Tirna Scithe

Halls of Atonement

Level Cap Dungeons:

Theater of Pain

De Other Side

Spires of Ascension

Sanguine Depths

New Raid: Castle NathriaTorghast, Tower of the DamnedTorghastSoul AshLegendaries: The RunecarverLegendaries PvPChanges to Base SystemsClass Changesare now returning as baseline to players

Class Changes Overview

Death Knight Class Changes
Demon Hunter Class Changes
Druid Class Changes
Hunter Class Changes
Mage Class Changes
Monk Class Changes
Paladin Class Changes
Priest Class Changes
Rogue Class Changes
Shaman Class Changes
Warlock Class Changes
Warrior Class Changes

Changes to All Classes

New Character Customizations

New User Interface on the Character Customization Screen in Shadowlands.

Most races are receiving new options for skin tones, hairstyles, jewellery, eye colors, and more.

Forsaken will be able to customize their levels of decay.
Humans will receive more ethnically diverse faces, as well as new face shape customizations.
Eye color and skin color can be chosen separately.
Worgen are able to customize their human appearance separately from their Worgen appearance.
Druids will be getting the option to choose their Druid racial form appearance.
The ability to change your character's gender will be available in the Barber Shop.
City Guards in Stormwind will get an update to reflect some of the new diverse character customization options.

Check out the updates for your favorite races:

Blood Elf Draenei Dwarf Gnome Goblin Human Night Elf
Orc Pandaren Tauren Troll Undead Void Elf Worgen Allied Races

New Leveling System in Shadowlands

The leveling experience is getting a complete make-over for Shadowlands.

Level Squish

With Shadowlands comes the very first level squish in WoW history. WoW has previously had two item squishes, one at the beginning of Warlords of Draenor, and one at the beginning of Battle for Azeroth. In Shadowlands, a level squish will be applied; players at the current level cap of 120 in Battle for Azeroth will be squished down to level 50 in Shadowlands, with the Shadowlands expansion level cap being 60.

Talent rows are unchanged with the same seven-row talent system that has been in the game since Mists of Pandaria. However, talents are now received at levels 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50.

For more information on the leveling changes, check our Leveling Changes guide!

Shadowlands Leveling Changes & Level Squish

New Leveling Paradigm

With the new level squish in Shadowlands, there is also a complete revamp of the leveling system.

This revamp created a streamlined experience between all expansions and helps new players get caught up to the most recent portion of WoW's history without them needing to go through extra loops. Leveling from 1-50 in Shadowlands is around 50-70% than it was to level from 1-120 in Battle for Azeroth.

Levels 1-10: A new starter zone, Exile's Reach, is being added. Located off the coast of Stormheim, Exile's Reach will serve as a tutorial zone where new players will be taught the basics of WoW. Exile's Reach will have a storyline of its own, ending up in a mini-dungeon that will teach the basics of dungeons in WoW.

New players will go through Exile's Reach on their very first WoW playthrough.
Veteran players will be able to choose between going through Exile's Reach or repeating their chosen race's starting zone experience.
Demon Hunters and Death Knights will start at level 8. They continue to play through their own starting experience instead of Exile's Reach

Shadowlands Guide to Exile's Reach - Walkthroughs and Lesson Analysis

Levels 10-50: After completing your starting zone experience, players will arrive at their capital cities for the next step of their leveling adventure.
New players will be sent to level through Kul Tiras or Zandalar, as Battle for Azeroth was the most recent expansion. This will help new players feel like they aren't left behind, ensuring they can get caught up to the most recent portion of WoW's storyline without having to go through additional loops.
Veteran players will be approached by Chromie, who offers players the chance to level in past expansions! You will be able to choose your expansion to level on, and change at any time, in case you need a change of pace. This feature, called Chromie Time, also scales zones from past expansions all the way to level 50, allowing players to complete storyline quests as if these were scaled for their own level.
Allied Race characters will start at level 10 and can go straight to either Kul Tiras or Zandalar or talk to Chromie to experience past expansions.

Chromie Time - How Shadowlands Leveling Works and Zone Expansion Level Ranges

Levels 50-60: Once players are caught up on the new Battle for Azeroth's level cap, it is time to start leveling in Shadowlands. At the first time around, players will follow a linear storyline through all of the main zones of the Shadowlands.
After leveling a character to 60 for the first time, subsequent characters can be leveled either by repeating the Shadowlands leveling storyline, or through a new feature, Threads of Fate, which allows players to level through Shadowlands content by completing tasks like World Quests, in a similar fashion to the Adventure Mode of Diablo III.

Threads of Fate - Alt Leveling in Shadowlands via Adventure Mode

Heirlooms

Heirlooms have received significant changes in Shadowlands, the main change being that Heirlooms no longer grant bonus experience. However, Heirlooms are still powerful pieces of gear that level with you and will likely be better than anything you can pick up as you level.

You can find more information about Heirloom changes in Shadowlands in our Heirloon guide:

Heirloom Changes in Shadowlands

More Details

Mounts

Shadowlands brings with it many new mounts to collect. Some of these models are new spins on recognizable mounts, such as stags, boars, horses, unicorns, which will be able to fly, bears, bats, chimeras, cats, and even pretty devourers.

There are also some new mount species, with more insects added like moths and decomposers, as well as rocs, winged lions, giant beasts, and death wargs. There are mount types connected to each of the new Shadowlands zones, and many of those are rewarded via Covenant efforts.

Shadowlands Mount Guide

Technical Updates

With all the exciting new things already uncovered in Shadowlands, a few interesting settings have also been snuck in, including spell density options and gamepad support!

The spell density options should go a long way to improving visual fidelity within the game. The gamepad support might lend more credence to the long-running rumors of eventual console support, or at least a wider range of accessibility.

Shadowlands System Requirements

Blizzard has released their recommendations for "minimum" and "recommended" computer specs to play in Shadowlands. Overall there isn't anything new besides Processor and Graphics Cards in each category increasing by 1 or 2 generations. One notable thing is Shadowlands now having SSDs as part of the "Minimum Requirements" section. Note that this probably doesn't mean that you cannot install Shadowlands on a normal HDD, just that Blizzard really wants it to be installed on SSDs.

	Minimum Requirements	Recommended Specifications
Operating System	Windows® 7 64-bit	Windows® 10 64-bit
Processor	Intel® Core™ i5-3450 AMD FX™ 8300	Intel® Core™ i7-6700K AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X
Video	NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 AMD Radeon™ RX 560 Intel® UHD 630 (45W) DirectX® 11 compatible GPU with 2GB VRAM	NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 AMD Radeon™ RX Vega 64 DirectX® 12 compatible GPU with 8GB VRAM
Memory	4GB RAM (8GB if using supported integrated graphics)	8GB RAM
Storage	Solid State Drive (SSD) 100GB available space Or Hard Disk Drive (HDD) 100GB available space (depending on the performance of the drive, player experience may be impacted on HDD)	Solid State Drive (SSD) 100GB available space
Internet	Broadband internet connection
Input	Keyboard and mouse required. Other input devices are not supported.	Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel
Resolution	1024 x 768 minimum display resolution

Full Blizzard Support Article

Comments

Comment by Seridar

There's a mistake on The Unpruning for Mages: it's not "Fireball", it's "Fire Blast"(##RESPBREAK##)272##DELIM##Anshlun##DELIM##

Comment by mssylv

I'm curious how they will handle partially-leveled toons. I have a stable of toons at various levels and expansions, and I wonder where they will end up after the expansion drops. I'm sure Blizzard will address this in the future, but that was my first thought when reading about this expansion's features.

Comment by Farmbuyer

The "Expansion Pre-Orders / Base Edition" description starts off with "Includes a pre-purchase* of" but there's no matching "*" anywhere, so we don't know what the small print gotchas would have been...

Comment by xscott2019

do we get the transmog quest at time of pre-order or do we have to wait until pre-launch patch is out for that quest i bought the special edition or whatever it is for shadowlands getting the game time mount and should get the quest for this transmog set but i cant find where to go to do the quest.

Comment by Tntdruid

Looks like zones i have played before?

Comment by NivekNosaj

how do they expect people to experience the game, as they say they want, with the increase in leveling speed again?

Comment by stormhales

Just read DKs and DHs are starting at Level 1 in Shadowlands - so confirming that means they won't be at 55 or 98 (their equivalent in Shadowlands) anymore? Proper leveling experience across the board?

Comment by Alucurd

So what happens with Bolvar? Did he die after his crown got ripped off and split in half? Is he still kicking? Who is controlling the undeads now? They rampant? I have so many lore questions..

Comment by ghostintheruins

What happens for players who don't purchase the expansion?

Comment by Calphricham

I think the Legion will play a big part in Shadowlands. The Legion created the crown and armor for Ner'zhul's spirit, and I think when they created it they knew of the hold it had on the Shadowlands. So I think in the expansion we will go find the spirits of the 5 dreadlords in charge of Ner'zhul and find some answers. That's what I want to see. Or at least have the Legion involved somehow.

Comment by Ariecho

So, am I right understanding that we won't go to level 130?

Comment by Zovesta

Sounds like a lot of fun! I was enjoying being able to level toons through any classic zone, then picking which expac I wanted to level from there, and this just sounds like the X-treme version of it, so I'm looking forward to this. :) Getting to replay my favorite expansions--and avoid the ones I hated ENTIRELY--would be reason enough for wanting this expansion. The Shadowlands themselves sound neat, too, of course.

Comment by Helcayala

Seems to me soloing old raid/dungeon content for achievements, pets or mounts will become a lot harder or maybe become impossible for some classes. If all old content scales from 1-50, that means you'll only be 10 levels above any old raid content, while now you're up to 60 levels above that content. For myself, I'm pretty sure I currently can't solo raid content from Legion, and if it would be possible, it would take a lot longer than blazing through Molten Core currently.

I remember levelling 1-60 was a lot faster when the content didn't scale (all kills required for quests were pretty much instant, while now it always takes more time to kill anything).

Comment by illidan1387

WE ARE WAITING !

Comment by Mike1985

I wonder how the squish will affect LFR raiding and dungeons.. Will all dungeons and raids be available to anyone in that specific level range, or will only the zone your leveling in be available... Like lets say I am leveling Draenor for my 10-50 but want to run Court of Stars from legion.. It would be within everyones level range who are currently the same level, but playing a different expansion.. Would I be able to run that, or would I have to physically start leveling that expansion to be able to run that?

Comment by anubalabeloralon

As every legacy dungeon is now lv 50, would it be possible to queue as lv60 or even scale back from lv 60 to lv50 as a Random old dungeon queues like timewalking? Bfa dungeons already have somesort of scaling that allows different levels inside the same dungeon party, so that should not really be a problem I guess?
Legacy raids would probably become alot longer if not impossible to solo for transmog or pets.
Many storyteller LFR legion raid boss are pretty much impossible now at live.
I am not sure how LFR or PF queue would work for legacy raids at lv 60 either. Even on live, there isn't alot of people interested in time walking raids and even much rare to find enough people to queue for eg: LFR G'huun in Uldir.

Comment by Midevil

I can't find the answer anywhere. Seeing we are dropping back to level 50 and work to 60 professions doesn't appear to have changes I would assume I should go back and level my Herbalism and Alchemy before release or are there going to be changes in this zone that are zone specific?

Comment by azaleas

Do we anticipate this to be released in summer as was Legion and BFA?

Comment by Bazalto

The legendary sistem kind of reminds me of armour in swtor, where almost all of the pieces are basically cosmetic and the actual stats come from "mods" similar to the punch cards from mecagon.
What I'd really like apart of choosing the effects is to choose and tune the appearance, make it unique.

Comment by Capri

Please please please tell me Frostmourne is going to be available in this expansion, it seems to be THE BEST expansion for it.

Comment by Eldares

addon looks good i hope we will see in Shadowlands:
- PvP vendors
- deleting PvE abuse in PvP
- deleting RNG system in PvP/PvE (in bfa we have so much random)

Comment by KnirpsLyn

So in case anyone wasn't aware, obviously the squish happened. And no, they didn't do auras or any of that jazz...they did, actually, nothing but change the appearance of the numbers. There are no level 50's in Legion or Pandaria or anywhere else besides BFA and SL. They put it all in Chromie Time. The easiest way to avoid retuning/rescslaling the world for a stat squish meant to align all content...is to not actually do it, turns out. rofl

Comment by rickngin5287

BTW the new gear system in uldum is not something i like farm to get the gear then farm again to keep it from killing you, really?

Comment by Neoyoshi

Looks like a great time to come back to World of Warcraft. :D

Comment by Calphricham

Another thing I want to see is Daelin Proudmoore. I really want to see what he has to say to Jaina.

Comment by dillybar

I don't see the issue with just continuing to raise the overall levels. I've played dozens of games that just continued up. While not nearly as complex, on one I have a 561 level character, and everything is fine. This just seems to be a goofy way to move into the future with WoW, and no matter what they say, there will be a host of problems. Much like the stat squish did for last expansion, when you went into a raid that you one shotted everything the day before the new expansion, then the day the expansion dropped you either could barely down those same bosses, or you couldn't down them at all.

Comment by SIKKIN

I have not read all but, no pvp vendor?

Comment by CjMapope

ugh, this next xpack sounds terrible tbh... : /
good thing i already paid in gold for it, took like less than a week farming lol

Comment by Sustainna

Single Minded Fury for Warriors would be nice.

Comment by aeonisdawnwing

On every expansion release, I expect Blizzard to do something for the RP community and every single time, we get nothing.

Is it really so hard for Blizzard to add an optional RP tool to the game? Just like MRP or TRP? Seriously, it is so frustrating and discouraging to be forced to download add ons and keep them updated if I want to create a character profile...

I wish Blizzard acknowledged the roleplayers for once and give us the very simple and basic tool we need. I really wouldn't be mad if they stole some features from the existing add ons.

Comment by 1295725

A bunch of classes get cool ^&*! back, mages just get some not very effective spells. Lol rip

Comment by Kenji1987

Is it wierd that what I'm looking forward to the most this expansion is the Character Customizations?

Comment by DemonIced

It would be great if they gave Shockwave back to warriors, having a single target stun really made warriors less desirable for M+. The returning abilities are certainly welcome to tank or help with mechanics, but I'd love for our AOE stun to come back.

Comment by Animosa

I hope the new customisation (blood elf and human at least) will not effect the npcs, or the history of these races is down the toilet. Feel free to call me racist, or bigott conservatist.

Comment by WAR93

Honestly... I was perfectly fine with my Holy Priest not knowing Mind Blast... as a Holy Priest it just feels very wrong to be using a Shadow based ability... imo Shadow Based abilities should be removed from Holy Priests line up of spells.

Comment by Furrywolf79

cool! :)

Comment by Calphricham

I have one more question. In order to get the Mount, 120 Boost, and the other Shadowlands loot do I have to PREPURCHASE it or can I buy it when it comes out. Cause I wanted the 120 boost for one of my characters.

Comment by Doomraven0

It's just not enough. They keep adding on new systems but they haven't fixed the fundamental problems of the game. Namely, classes are still essentially the same. The talent system is the same. They keep taking away player agency and locking talents and skills into items instead of as we level. The classes are homogenous and many of them not fun to play. From what they are showing here, NONE of that is changing. Pathfinder still exists, seriously, what the actual hell? They have no respect for player time or choice. We are led along the same boring talent trees that have been there for ages. Have they learned nothing from the popularity of Classic? Give us back the choices of talents, the choice of where to funnel our resources. Give us back professions that matter and require people to work together. I never get to actually play the game in an enjoyable way anymore. Instead, it's log in and do the giant treadmill of rep grinds to unlock things i already had. These are chores, not interesting gameplay that makes me want to play more. This is why they can't get the numbers they had before. They kept repeatedly treating their players like idiots. I lost hundreds and hundreds of hours to the game back in LK because there was so much to do. The classes were classes, not specs. As a mage, i felt like a true master of the elements, as a hunter i could choose to focus on my own skill or the strength of my pet. Where did all THAT player agency go? The leveling process is 50 to 70% faster in Shadowlands? Why? It just shows that they have no interest in actually making a compelling leveling process. It is still the design philosophy of "get to endgame as fast as you can because that's when the fun truly starts". Leveling and learning classes used to be The Game. Now it is just the chore/rep/Mythic treadmill ad nauseum. I used to love the game and there are still glimmers of that. For example, i love the Allied Races (although we still need playable Taunka) and the quests have much more variety now. The art and music continue to be fantastic, even in horrible, awful, odious zones--looking at you Nazjatar. But the game will never be close to what it was until Blizzard really, truly fixes class gameplay. And they have shown they have no interest in doing that. Shame, they used to be one of the most constantly innovative and quality-conscious developers out there. They will just continue to ignore player feedback and wonder where their player base went.

Comment by xlr8dmadness

Is there any information on how the level squish is going to affect Heirlooms?

Comment by Calphricham

Instead of just saying some characters I want to see in Shadowlands I made a list.
Admiral Taylor
Moroes (Keeps coming back “alive” at Karazhan)
Medivh (Spirit bound to Karazhan)
Prince Liam (Genn Greymane’s son)
Daelin Proudmoore
Jastor Gallywix (Still alive)
Mal’ganis, Tichondrius, Varamathris, Detheroc, and Balnazzar (The five dreadlords of the Scourge)
Terenas Menithil (Very likely that he will appear)
Edwin VanCleef
Deathwing (Again very likely)
Grom and Garrosh Hellscream
Torok Bloodtotem
Illidan Stormrage (If he died fighting Sargeras)
Magatha Grimtotem (Still alive)
Cairne Bloodhoof
Kargath Bladefist (Main universe)
Emperor Shaohao (Last Emperor of Pandaria)
King Mechagon
Sicco Thermaplugg (Leader of the leper gnomes)
Dagran Thaurissan
Sen’jin (Father of Vol’jin)
Zul’Jin
There you go.

Comment by butterflymama

I'd like customization sliders, within reason of course..
Maybe limited to height and weight.

Make it specific to race obviously; e.g. can't make Kul Tiran look like twigs!

Comment by hengeveld1

Can we get this article updated with information from the July 8 Developer stream?

Comment by Calphricham

I had a theory! When Sargeras was wandering around the universe he found a corrupted world with a sleeping titan in it. He then destroyed that world. Possibly The Jailer is that dead world soul. There are some holes in this theory but it's just a guess.

Comment by Nymriel

Boon of Shapes questline in NighFae Covenant is still broken. You have written about Maldraxxus how about some attention there?

Comment by Completegibberis

I STILL do not agree with the FORCING of people through lower levels. I found it to be BS leveling several toons to 120. Even going without heirloom gear, things went too fast. I did not get to "relive" my past fun in Outlands and WOTLK, because 1 zone would max you at for the entire expansion, in a single day. AND NOW..it's faster?

Why can't they make it a toggle option, and not force me to zerg through packs ? I assume I can turn off leveling like we did with PVP back in the days to park in a bracket, but then i am running back to town every 3 days to turn it on, to gain a level or 2, then running back to turn it off.

I get it...a LOT of people have the:""been there, done that" view to the previous releases, but many of us do not.

Comment by NicKris12

There is a correction needed in the Collector's Edition items. It's not a mousemat or mousepad; it's called a flat clicker. If you get that reference, I will have your babies.

Comment by Wispersong

I would like to ask a question. back in the old expansions we have the Outlands and in the outlands we have the Oshu'Gun mountain that was a naaru ship with a dieing naaru inside.
Untill here all fine- we all know Naaru are of the Light side.

Moving to the Shadowlands expansion- we are told that souls go there and get to different covenants to purify, while the ones that cannot redempt go to the maw.
But also we learnt that the anima is scarce lately due to all souls going to the maw withou passing through the normal covenant funnel.

Now. back to OshuGun do you guys remember that OshuGun was in remote times, before the Manoroth blood coruption falls on orcs, OshuGun was a place of gathering of the suls of the ancestors- and Shamans are known to communicate with them.

How come that LIGHT was keeping souls in this place while they were suposed to go to shadowlands?

Is Light also involved in the souls crisis?

Comment by Wispersong

since Brewfest takes to October the 8TH I can advance the idea of the prepatch launch veing the end of BrewFest? it would leave us 20 days to paly in prepatch. I can hardly see a pre patch launch in the middle of an event

Comment by Wolfman492

When is Shadowlands supposed to launch? I see online either October 27, 2020, or later 2020... and yet I just received mine in the mail today... trying to get to the new content, but can't seem to find the path

Comment by SortsAzuremyst

2020 has been the worst year for a long long time.

Comment by Alistriona

Hi there! The dates on the Castle Nathria raid launch need updated on this guide. Thanks <3

Comment by atreidespl

Can you update raid and Thorghast unlock dates?

Comment by Guldranbaal

Pricing is now increased to below
.
Epic Edition
AUD119.95

Heroic Edition
AUD89.95

Base Edition
AUD59.95

Comment by ojomann

For the Shadowlands system requirements: I'm running on a laptop with 16 GB RAM. The CPU: Intel i5-4200M @ 2.5GHz and the GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M / 2 GB RAM. Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz. I can run quite high settings - World content on quality 7-8 with less view distance and low shadow quality. Minor tweaks in the FSAA and no fancy shading/lightning. For raid content, there's other settings enabled and quality is 4. FPS is ranging from 25-45 FPS (30-35 normal).
This is far below the system requirements, yet I don't experience any heavy lag. It just works good enough.
While I was really worried that I could not run SL at all, even "had" to invest in a new laptop - I'm very satisfied that I don't have to at this point.

Comment by Zugetz

Shadowlands is the worst expansion yet. Aside from all of the confusing aspects of it (covenants, stygia, anima, etc.) I have died more times in the maw than I have in leveling through all the rest of the game from level 1! The worst part is that I've lost more than 1,000 stygia because I keep resurrecting back in the same place each time, and have to work my way past all the foes that kept killing me in the first place, to get back to my corpse to get the stygia that I lost. My recommendation: skip Shadowlands!

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