World of Warcraft - Past to present

The game started little bit more than 10 years ago and has developed more and more due to the company called Blizzard that made this awesome game, and also due to us players giving feedback to Blizzard.

Since it has been going on for so long, there has been new “expansions” coming out from time to time. Tis is BIG upgrades of the game in which a big new content area has been added, new races has been added and changes of game play such as talents etc.

Within an expansion there are small upgrades called patches. Here we can also see new content (not as big as when an expansion comes out), game play changes and cool things added in the game (or bad things removed from the game).

Let’s go through the different expansions in general so you get a hang of it.

1st expansion: World of Warcraft (1.0) 2004

When WoW came out 2004 the world was Big even then. Today we call this expansion “vanilla” for some reason. If you as a Blizzard employed he/she wouldn’t call it that.

World: Azeroth (2 Continents: Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdom)
Max level: 60
Alliance Races: Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome
Horde Races: Orc, Troll, Undead, Tauren

Classes: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior
Only Alliance: Paladin
Only Horde: Shaman
Final Boss: Kel'Thuzad

2nd Expansion: The Burning Crusade (2.0) 2007

Here we got a new world as content, called Outlands. A dark Portal was the gate way between the two worlds Azeroth and Outland.

World: Outland
Max level: 70
New Alliance Race: Dreanei
New Horde Race: Blood Elf
Also Alliance can be Shamans and Horde can be Paladins
Final Boss: Illidan Stormrage

3rd Expansion: Wrath of the Lich King (3.0) 2008

In this expansion we are back at Azeroth in which a new content was added in the north part of the world called Northrend.

World: Azeroth (Continent: Northrend)
Max level: 80
New Race: Death Knight (Alliance and Horde)
New Class: Death Knight (Alliance and Horde)
Final Boss: Lich King

4th Expansion: Cataclysm (4.0) 2010

In this expansion the big dragon Deathwing came up from the ground and his wrath changed the world. New contents were added within Azeroth (Kalimdor, The Eastern Kingdom) and entire Azeroth changed.

World: Azeroth (world changed)
Max level: 85
New Alliance Race: Worgen
New Horde Race: Goblin
Final Boss: Deathwing

5th expansion: Mist of Pandaria (5.0) 2011

We are still in Azeroth and found a new Continent called Pandaria, south part of Azeroth.

World: Azeroth (Continent: Pandaria)
Max level: 90
New Race: Pandaren (Alliance and Horde)
New Class: Monk (Alliance and Horde)
Final Boss: Garrosh Hellscream

6th expansion: Warlords of Draenor (6.0) 2014

We never kill Garrosh, instead we prison him. He escapes and travels back in time. So do we, to stop his plans to take over Azeroth. Garrosh travels back in time to Outland but back then it wasn’t destroyed and called Draenor.

World: Draenor
Max level: 100
Final Boss: Archimonde

This is where we are today 2015.

7th expansion: Legion (7.0) 2016

We are in Azeroth and the Legion has used portals to enter our world. The new content will be between Kalimdor and The Eastern Kingdom, called The Broken Isles.

World: Azeroth (The Broken Isles)
Max level: 110
New Race: Demon Hunter (Alliance and Horde)
New Class: Demon Hunter (Alliance and Horde)
Final Boss: ?

 

 

 

14 Aug 2015