Game Preview: World of Warcraft: Legion
- Michael Reynoso
- Apr 11, 2016
- 3 min read
The upcoming MMORPG game of the century, “World of Warcraft: Legion,” will be released either before or on September 21, 2016, thanks to a Blizzcon 2015 convention.
It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac.
Blizzard Entertainment ended 2014 with a promise to release bigger, better expansions -- and today at Gamescom, it finally came through. The next World of Warcraft expansion is called Legion, and like its name, its additions to the game world are many. Legion will bump the max player level up to 110 and introduce a new continent: the Broken Isles. Here players will search for the Tomb of Sargeras, and prepare for the invasion of an all-powerful demon army. How do you fight demons, you ask? With an all-new Demon Hunter Hero Class, of course.
Players that adopt the Demon Hunter class will be able to transform into powerful demonic forms that take on the guise of in-game enemies. Is hunting not your thing? Don't worry -- Blizzard is adding a new "Class Orders" system that gives characters access to a new champions system (similar to the follow system from Warlords of Draenor).
The development team made a huge amount of changes to the player versus player (PvP) aspects of the game. There is a PvP honor system that unlocks PvP honor talents and there are separate abilities for use only in PvP that are not available in player versus environment gameplay. Honor talents are abilities earned through increased levels in PvP and are activated while players engage in PvP. Once players hit maximum honor level, they can choose to earn a prestige level that resets the honor talents earned and gives cosmetic bonuses.
In PvP combat, gear will be nullified and all bonuses related to gear will be deactivated, with the exception of artifact weapons and its related powers. Instead, Legion will predetermine a set of stats configured to a player's specialization that can be modified for class balance purposes. However, a player's average item level will still factor in PvP; for every one point increase in average item level results in a 0.1% increase to PvP stats.
The "Artifact weapons" are powerful items that were wielded by legends of the Warcraft universe, and will be the main weapon available to player characters in Legion. There are 36 unique weapons specific for every class and specialization combination, which include: the Ashbringer (the sword wielded by Tirion Fordring) for retribution paladins, the Doomhammer (the warhammer wielded by Thrall) for enhancement shamans, Icebringer and Soulreaper (swords forged from the shattered Frostmourne formerly wielded by the Lich King) for frost death knights and other powerful weapons from the Warcraft lore. In addition, there is a fishing artifact.
Players will complete quests to obtain these weapons, and the weapons will gain power alongside the player as they level up through the Broken Isles and defeat dungeon and raid bosses. The appearance of the weapons can also be customized.
Down below is a gameplay of how to play the new World of Warcraft game as a “Demon Hunter.”
Gameplay
Blizzard says it's doubling down on dungeons as well, and promises better designed and more repayable dungeons and raids than previous expansions.
The company hasn't announced a release date for the expansion yet, but promises that you'll be able to play a beta later this year.
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