World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

WORLD OF WARCRAFT WARLORDS OF DRAENOR

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 World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, often referred to as Warlords or WoD, is the upcoming fifth expansion to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Mists of Pandaria. It was announced on November 8, 2013 at BlizzCon 2013, and is currently in beta. The expansion is scheduled for release on Thursday, November 13, 2014.

 The expansion will raise the existing level cap from 90 to 100 and will introduce player-built, upgradeable garrisons, as well as upgrade the player character models of those races released prior to Cataclysm.

 The expansion is set after the events of Mists of Pandaria and takes place in an alternate universe on the world of Draenor, the original homeworld of the orcs as it appeared in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, prior to its destruction in the ending of that game and the creation of Outland as featured in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Legendary characters of Warcraft's past, such as Grom Hellscream, Ner'zhul and Blackhand, will appear.

Plot and setting 

 At the end of Mists of Pandaria, Garrosh Hellscream is overthrown as Warchief of the Horde by a combined Alliance-Horde force and taken into custody by the Pandaren so that he can stand trial for the atrocities he committed in Pandaria. However, before he can be judged, Garrosh escapes captivity and, with the aid of a renegade bronze dragon, travels back in time to the orcish homeworld of Draenor prior to the rise of the Horde. He creates an alternate timeline by preventing the orcish clans from drinking the blood of the demon lord Mannoroth, which led to their corruption by the Burning Legion and played a major role in the events of the first three games. The clans unite into an "Iron Horde", using technology Garrosh brought from his reality, and begin a war of conquest on Draenor, building a Dark Portal that would allow them to travel through time and lay siege to the Azeroth of the prime timeline/present era.

Gameplay

 The expansion will allow players to level up to 100 from the previous cap of 90. It will also include new dungeons and raids, and will introduce a new difficulty of raids called Mythic, which will be the hardest version of that raid. Players will be able to build and upgrade their own garrison, a personal area in which they can recruit non-player characters to carry out missions to earn them items. The garrison will be assembled from the individual buildings like stables or armories, increasing their size and look.
 The development team is making a number of changes to the player versus player (PvP) aspects of the game; altering the way that PvP items behave when players fight, reducing crowd control abilities, and adding a new PvP-focused island area called Ashran containing various objectives and battles for players to participate in.

Development

 For this expansion the development team changed the file format used by the game, moving from the MPQ file format used previously to a new file format called CASC.
 The game will also contain updated character models with improved textures and a higher polygon count; the developers have said they want to "keep the soul of the original characters" while upgrading them to the quality of the Pandaren race released in the previous expansion, and the Worgen and Goblin races released in Cataclysm.
 Game performance has been taken into account with this expansion, with the developers saying that there will be no big drop in performance as a result of the models, and reducing the amount of visuals on screen during large fights.
 Warlords of Draenor was playable at PAX East and entered alpha testing in April 2014. Blizzard invited players to enter the beta in June 2014. Players who pre-order the game receive a free level 90 boost for one character. Subsequent boosts may be purchased for $60 each. Blizzard said they made the price high because they did not want to devalue the experience of leveling a character.
 With this expansion, Blizzard is aiming to create expansions at a more frequent rate, as often as once per year.