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The expansion opens up the Shadowlands, the realm of the dead in Warcraft lore. [3] It features the game's first "level squish" and a completely overhauled leveling system, access to the Death Knight class for the races that did not previously have access to it, Covenants in the new zones, and new dungeons and raids. [1] [7]
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion set for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at local midnight in Europe and North America, selling nearly 2.4 million copies on release day alone and making it, at the time, the fastest-selling PC game released at that point. [ 1 ]
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and Mac OS X.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]
The expansion raised the existing level cap from 90 to 100 and introduced player-built, upgradeable garrisons. [3] Most of the player models were updated to have more detailed textures, animations and facial expressions, thus increasing the system requirements of the game.
Dragonflight raised the level cap to 70, the first increase since the level squish in Shadowlands. [4] Dragonflight also features a revamp of the user interface and talent tree systems, [1] [4] with two tree branches. [5] Dragonflight includes a new playable race, the Dracthyr, and a new class, the Evoker. The two are combined: Evokers are ...
The first expansion pack, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, raised the maximum level from 60 to 70 and the Wrath of the Lich King raised the level cap from 70 to 80. [4] After reaching level 80, players were able to ride flying mounts in Northrend. Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor remained "no fly zones".
Classic recreates the game in the state it was in during patch 1.12.1, c. September 2006, before the launch of The Burning Crusade expansion. The maximum level of the player characters is set to 60, all expansion content is absent, and almost all the gameplay mechanics of the original version have been exactly replicated. [3]
The global market for video games based on 2020 revenues was estimated to exceed $179.7 billion according to the International Data Corporation; the growth of 20% over 2019 revenues is attributes to the surge in spending in video games from the COVID-19 pandemic along with the releases of the new consoles.