World of Warcraft Battle For Azeroth

Everyone knew the next expansion is coming, that's not a surprise. Reddit was full of datamined information, leaked audio cues, maps, and more. The community was almost certain that the next expansion will continue the story of the struggle between Light and Void and save wounded Azeroth from the furious Old Gods. Then Blizzard came out and said: 'Nope!'.

What does it mean for World of Warcraft?

The next expansion takes a slight detour from the storyline established in Legion going back to the roots - conflict between Horde and Alliance. Ever since Cataclysm the old conflicts kinda faded into obscurity with a bigger threat always on the horizon. In Battle for Azeroth the conflict re-ignites once again, old hatreds will play a major role in the narrative and new players will join the struggle. Instead of a new big shared region, WoW will gain two faction-restricted zones  - Zandalar, home of Zandalari Trolls, and Kul Tiras - the home kingdom to Jaina Proudmoore. 

what do we know so far?

• Level cap increased to 120

• 6 allied races announced at launch: Zandalari Trolls, Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren for the Horde and Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarves and Void Elves for the Alliance

• New races will not be available instantly, they will be unlocked via quests 

• Jaina Proudmoore is back!

• There will be no more division between PVE and PVP servers replacing it with an opt-in open world PVP

• The Heart of Azeroth will replace Artifact Weapons progression system

• Warfronts - 20man co-op raids vs NPC enemies mimicking Warcraft 3 RTS style combat but larger in scale 

• Plunder islands - 3 man coop scenarios on various tropical small landmasses

• 10 new dungeons on launch 

• Zone level scaling - now players will be able to progress through zones in no specific order as the zone enemies and quest will scale to players level

• Open world PvP warzones.

Summary

That's a huge load to process. So far we have no details and release date or a beta test launch veiled in mystery. Instead, we'll leave you with this amazing cinematic: