![]() ![]() ![]() Once you enter it, you will find yourself in Hellfire Peninsula, which is a large, reddish, desert-type zone that is absolutely huge and packed with content. To get out here, you need to enter the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands zone, be Level 58 or higher and have the expansion pack tied to your account. The main part of the expansion is definitely the seven zones that make up Outlands and everything contained within. I know I am considering raising a Blood Elf Rogue to try out the Horde side, something I never did except in the original WoW beta back in early 2004. Graphically, I found the Blood Elf starter area to be exceptional and definitely one of the most euphoric areas in the game-I think most of you will agree with me on this.įrom what I could see, Blizzard has done a great job of offering introductory areas for people to play through, and the Horde side will definitely get a boost by having a "pretty" race to appeal to people who didn't like that faction earlier. The new starting areas have numerous quests to do, and in the case of Draenei, there are a few cool twists, such as being able to ride an elephant mount around the zone at Level 10. Some of you may be disappointed in that however, the new races are done like the old races, meaning they each have their capitol city, dozens of quests and are up to Blizzard's quality standards for the original areas. I did have a chance to explore the new zones with my main characters and I did raise a couple of Level 10 Draeneis, but that is about all I did, so this will be a brief section. Dozens of other improvements, additions, etc. Thousands of new draftable items, world drops, reputation items, etc. New and revamped talents for characters (again, it was patched in before the expansion) ![]() ![]() Revamped honor system (though technically this went in in December) Six 25-man instances, two of which will be patched into the game in a few months Two new Level 1-to-20 "starter" zones for each new race Two new playable races, each exclusive to one of the factions (Draenei for Alliance, Blood Elves for Horde) Outlands, which includes seven new "zones" Of course, the number of people who will actually ever see Illidan in anything other than a screenshot is probably pretty small… The player's ultimate task is to go through the Dark Portal found in The Blasted Lands zone, level to 70, then farm a half a dozen Raid Instances until you are equipped to ultimately defeat Illidian who is sitting in The Black Temple and waiting to hand your ass back to you. Outlands is now ruled by Illidan, who was instrumental in helping you defeat the Burning Legion in Warcraft III, and who then played a major role in the Warcraft III expansion pack. The Burning Crusade takes place on Outlands, which is all that is left of the Orc homeland once known as Draenor (and the setting for Warcraft II's expansion pack). However, my "main" character is already Level 66 and halfway to 67 as I write this, so other than the Raid Content, I have experienced most of the expansion pack, flown an epic mount, blah blah blah. I should mention that part of this review is based on my TBC beta experience, where I leveled up to 70. So what is the verdict? Read on and find out (yes, I hate that). Yes, the anticipation for this thing is huge and the expectations are even bigger, so some people will wonder if Blizzard is trying to pop out a quick money maker or is actually releasing a high-quality expansion pack to go with its equally high-quality World of Warcraft "classic" release, which has entertained millions of gamers the world over for the last two years. So when I went to the midnight launch on January 15 at the local Electronic Boutique (my first time standing in line for something like this), I was not surprised that there were over 150 people waiting in line-and I live in a small city of 200,000 people with four EBs. I think I can say with complete confidence that the long overdue "The Burning Crusade" expansion pack that I am about to review is probably one of the most anticipated expansions of all time, and why wouldn't it be? With over eight million people currently playing WoW (reportedly close to three million in North America alone), it is easy to see why. ![]()
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