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World of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment.Set in the Warcraft fantasy universe, World of Warcraft takes place within the world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events of the previous game in the series, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. [3]
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness was the first game in the series to feature play over the internet using Battle.net, although this was not included until a later release of the game. Warcraft II was also the first in the series to be re-released as a "Battle Chest", a bundled copy of the game containing both the original and expansion.
Two new playable races were added to World of Warcraft in The Burning Crusade: the Draenei of the Alliance and the Blood Elves of the Horde.Previously, the shaman class was exclusive to the Horde faction (available to the orc, troll and tauren races), and the paladin class was exclusive to the Alliance faction (available to the human and dwarf races); with the new races, the expansion allowed ...
The Death Knight class (added in Wrath of the Lich King) was opened up to pandaren (added in Mists of Pandaria) and to all allied races (added in Legion and Battle for Azeroth); players who pre-ordered Shadowlands received access to death knights for these races with the release of Patch 8.3.0, Battle for Azeroth ' s last major content patch ...
Named the "20th Anniversary Edition", this version of Classic retains most of the features from the 2019 release of World of Warcraft: Classic, but also includes certain quality-of-life updates, such as the Chronoboon Displacer, updated Honor System, removal of the Buff and Debuff Limits, as well as a native LFG tool and the ability to enable a ...
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A few days later, Patch 4.0.1 was released to public test realms, indicating that a release date might be in the not-too-distant future. [14] [15] On September 30, news site MMO-Champion estimated that the game had a target release date of December 7, 2010 based on data-mining which revealed the start of the next arena season. [16]
[16] [17] Several enhancements to World of Warcraft ' s graphics engine were added with the release of Wrath of the Lich King. These include the use of a new shader in areas containing ice, [ 18 ] new fire effects, more realistic shadows, and the option to turn down character texture resolution to improve performance.