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Jewelcrafting is also added in this expansion, which of course means your end-game gear now has sockets ready to be gemmed.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that you can’t roll any combination of race/class that you want, and even more importantly, The Burning Crusade still uses the vanilla talent tree layouts and almost the same skills, with only a couple of new moves thrown in for each class. The Blood Elves join the Horde and give access to the paladin class for the faction, while the Draenei join the Alliance, giving access to the Shaman class. Horde and Alliance both get a new race in The Burning Crusade. TBC is all about flying mounts and the ‘new’ 10/25-man raid format still used in retail raids today. These four zones, with capital city Shattrath at its centre, provide most of the grinding experience from 60 to 68, while the final three zones offer plenty of end-game level 68-70 and faction quests. Terokkar Forest also provides for some picturesque gameplay, but once you’re truly advancing into the map you’ll reach the vast plains of Nagrand. Hellfire Peninsula welcomes you like a grand stage into the broken world, but quickly you’ll find yourself weaving through the huge mushrooms of Zangarmarsh. This can help with questing, and just like in WoW Classic last year, can also be used to your advantage to farm particular mobs.įor those new to The Burning Crusade, Outland has seven new zones to explore. Using an AddOn called ‘ Nova World Buffs’, you can see how many layers there are in your area, and also see which layers guild members and friends are on. Players that disliked the layering of WoW Classic will find that it’s just as prevalent in TBC Classic. Last year’s retail expansion Shadowlands had a shaky launch, which leaves us thinking Blizzard is testing the layering system even more, or maybe there just aren’t as many people playing this expansion. We also didn’t experience any stability issues, with no server disconnections to report. The server issues of WoW Classic last year had more than stabilized, with only some servers maxing out their occupancy rates.
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Though we reviewed WoW Classic at launch ( Read Rocket Chainsaw’s full review of WoW Classic here), what better time to use the Dark Portal Pass to boost a Tauren druid to level 58 and prepare for a new chapter, this time as horde.Īs the Dark Portal opened, it became clear that this expansion launch was going to be smooth.
Existing WoW Classic servers have been in a pre-expansion state for two weeks ahead of the launch, allowing players to level up the two ‘new’ races Blood Elf (Horde) and Draenei (Alliance), though fans of the base game can also migrate their level 60 characters to new WoW Classic servers to continue in the nostalgic original game. It’s time to relive history with the opening of the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands, leading to a shattered floating world known as Outland, formerly Draenor. We were not prepared.Īfter fourteen years, we’re back. Raiding felt different, PvP felt different, it was no longer the vanilla WoW experience that my friends and I had invested so much time in. My hunter was the first to reach level 70 (sixth overall) on the server, but then everything changed. It was the end of an era, but also the start of something new. PvP rank 12, in a Naxx raiding guild, my ZG raptor-mounted character was a sight to behold.ĭue to TBC not launching in Australia until almost a day after America, I littered the entrance of The Dark Portal with horde skeletons, frustrating the lives of many players wanting to start the expansion. The Burning Crusade expansion was a big deal for me. In actual fact, I wanted to play the class that could morph into animals but didn’t realise the error until I was well invested in my Night Elf hunter, and never did end up playing as a druid. “Hunter!” he replied, and so began my journey in vanilla WoW. When I first started my World of Warcraft adventure in 2005, I asked my friend which class was the one with all the animals.