This connection between past and present events in the World Of Warcraft universe allow all players – both veterans and newcomers – to engage with the richness of Warcraft’s story and its world.įor the goths and goths at heart, Shadowlands hits the spot. The Maw is the source of darkness and evil that the undead scourge of Northrend draw their powers from.
The mirroring of Northrend and the Maw are no coincidence. What makes the start of Shadowlands particularly cool (pun intended) is the fact that players get to experience a storyline set in the chilling citadel before they are plunged into the Shadowland’s Maw of Souls, a place of inescapable darkness where irredeemable souls are sentenced to an eternity of hellish damnation. The sight of the Frozen Throne and the Ice Crown Citadel brought me straight back to Wrath Of The Lich King, one of World of Warcraft’s much older expansions from 2008. Shadowlands begins in a familiar place for seasoned World Of Warcraft players: Northrend, an icy wasteland filled with the undead. World of Warcraft Shadowlands – it’s no accident it came out so close to Halloween (pic: .uk) (Save your gold on armour repairs and don’t try this!) Seconds later, unsurprisingly, and to the amusement of my friend, I died. It said, ‘the in-between claws at your soul’, and I was noobishly catapulted off the map. As we flew away from Oribos, the central hub in Shadowlands, a notification filled my screen. I know this because I already tried, just to see what would happen.Īs I quested through the starting zone of Bastion, curiosity got the better of me and I tried to fly to Maldraxxus on the back of one of my friend’s two-seater mounts.
When levelling your first character from 50 to 60 in it is not possible to ‘cheat’ the game and skip to a different zone. Unlike the previous two expansions, where questing across zones felt somewhat disjointed, every zone in Shadowlands is tied to the next. (Why am I not surprised that I always end up getting killed by enemy Horde players?)
As an Alliance faction player, I am also partial to throwing tricky treat pumpkins at blood elves on the enemy Horde side faction. My favourite item is the Hallowed Wand, which makes an unsuspecting party member look like an abomination NPC. For the minority of very lucky players, completing this dungeon could even mean that you ride off with the Horseman’s steed! Hallow’s End offers ‘tricky treat’ appropriate costumes for your character, a range of fun, spooky quests, and an exclusive, eldritch dungeon called The Headless Horseman.
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