In a year from now, we’ll be approaching the 10th anniversary of worldwide of Warcraft. For such an event, you’ll expect Blizzard to maybe announce a brand new MMO, however the venerated game developer has decided to stay to its guns and release another expansion for its almost decade old game.

At BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard announced that the subsequent expansion to hit World of Warcraft can be called Warlords of Draenor. This latest expansion will introduce characters and locations from the 1st three Warcraft RTS games into the sector of Warcraft universe. The growth also will raise the extent cap to 100, and instantly raise one player character to level 90 a good way to immediately access the recent content.

“Warlords of Draenor gives players a raffle to take a commanding role in a single of the Warcraft series’ most necessary conflicts,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “This expansion also includes features that make it easy for anyone to leap right into the action, whether they’ve played WoW sooner or later up to now or are only setting foot in Azeroth for the 1st time.”

In classic Blizzard fashion, the debut trailer is pretty amazing.

Besides introducing characters from the older games into the MMO, this latest expansion also allows players to construct and upgrade garrisons. Blizzard says the garrison will act as “expandable, customizable stronghold that may function each player’s personal base of operations within the process the growth.” Players shall be ready to recruit NPCs à la Suikoden and feature them deal with the garrison while they’re out and about.

All in all, Blizzard looks to have another hit on its hand in order to ensure WoW stays alive for plenty more future years. Because the developer has reportedly delayed its next MMO until 2016, Blizzard could need to maintain WoW alive for no less than a couple of more years.

There’s no launch date for the newest WoW expansion, but you can most likely expect to peer it sometime next year.

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