Blizzard Entertainment confirmed a new expansion for World of Warcraft named Warlords of Draenor. As presented, the new game will continue the action on a new (or old) realm called Draenor.
New Features
Here's a list of announced features for the new expansion. Browse the subsections at the bottom of the page for more detailed information.
Continent - Draenor (the red world): Travel into the past and explore the old Outland as it was before and live the story alongside important lore characters.- Gameplay Concept - Time Travel: Allows players to go into the past through the Vision of Time located in Tanaris.
- Level Cap increased to 100: You can now level to 100 up from 90. Every level in this range will grant you powerful permanent bonuses in terms of spell damage, powers and abilities (e.g. damage increased by 50% for your Mage Ice Lance).
- Boost to level 90: If you haven't yet reached level 90 or even if you had, you can instantly boost one of your characters to this level and continue your journey through the new expansion.
- Quests and Refined Quest System: Introducing hundreeds of new quests to explore and complete.
- New Dungeons, Raids and Scenarios
- Difficulty - Mythic: A new difficulty will be introduced for raids which will make them harder than heroic with a 20-player size
- Monsters: New creatures will be introduced.
Improved Graphics: The graphics will be updated with new HD textures, animations and textures.- PvP Profession: Military
- PvP World Zone: A new area where players can fight will be introduced in Draenor and it will feature open-world epic battles between Alliance and Horde through Cross-realm technology. There will be score based on damage, healing, capturing and objectives. You can get a high score and win bonus items like weapons, armor, gear, consumables, etc.
- New Inventory System: Items like heirlooms and toys will have their own special place in the UI just like Mounts and Pets.
- Items and Rewards
Dungeons and Raids
Dungeons
Here are the announced dungeons:
- Bloodmaul Slag Mines
- Blackrock Depot
- Auchindoun
- Arakkoa Spires
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
- Iron Barracks
- Returning - Upper Blackrock Spire
Raids
Here are the announced raids:
- Blackrock Foundry
- Highmaul
- World bosses
Raids will also be updated to a new structure:
| Mists of Pandaria (5.4) | Warlords of Draenor (6.0) |
| Raid Finder (25) | Raid Finder (10-25) |
| Flexible (10-25) | Normal (10-25) |
| Normal (10) and Normal (25) | Heroic (10-25) |
| Heroic (10) and Heroic (25) | Mythic (20) |
Garrisons
Players can build, command and contruct their own stronghold on the new continent of Draenor, gather NPCs to collect resources and send them in missions. Changes on the world will be permanent so players can leave an ever-lasting trace of their progress in World of WarCraft.
Followers
You can recruit NPCs (Non-playable Characters) to work for you. Assign them to gather resources, build, manage the area, complete missions and tasks in order to evolve your "piece of paradise". Each has its own character level, item level and expertise area in certain tasks. For example, if a follower has more experience with Smithing, he will be more efficient on doing that than on something else.
You can get more followers by completing quests, building an Inn or simply hiring mercenaries for a considerable amount of gold.
Missions
Sending your followers into missions will award you with resources, experience, loot items or crafting regeants. You must establish a certain economy and maintain your garrison by dynamically and constantly interacting with its objectives.
As well as recruiting, you can also "lose" your followers. If it fails completing a mission or task, it might be captured in one of the Dungeons, allowing you to rescue it the next time you're going in that Dungeon.
Buildings
Your Garrison has some plots where you can construct buildings. There are smaller plots for smaller buildings and larger plots for greater structures. Leveling your garrison will unlock more plots, larger ones and even better buildings.
There are many types which you can contruct out of: Farms, Stables, Mines, Armories and more. Each allows you to do special things like training your followers, sending them into missions, etc.
Release Date
The game will be released on November 13, 2014.
