World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is getting one final update

  • November 25, 2021 9:59 PM EST
    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands represents the culmination of a storyline that has been brewing for years, with Sylvanas Windrunner's character assassination drawing towards its whimpering conclusion.To get more news about [url=https://www.lootwowgold.com/]buy wow gold paypal[/url], you can visit lootwowgold official website.

    For the past few expansions, we've seen fan-favorite Horde heroine Sylvanas Windrunner inexplicably commit genocide, while betraying the Horde, and her kingdom of Lordaeron for reasons unknown. In the most recent update, Blizzard revealed Sylvanas was "tricked" all along by The Jailer, Shadowlands' promising but ultimately disappointing villain, who manipulated the so-called "master tactician" Sylvanas with the most predictable plot in the history of writing.

    Bitterness aside, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is picking up one final update, dubbed 9.2, which will end what has been one of the least successful World of Warcraft expansions of recent memory. Despite being a major driver of profits for Activision still in 2021, Shadowlands has seen Blizzard's monthly active users dip to their lowest levels in five years, as the company battles lawsuits from the U.S. government over its treatment of women in the workplace. Will 9.2 change Shadowlands' fortunes? My guess is no, but if you're one of the few people still following WoW news in the hopes it will one day be good again (like me), here's what you're getting in 9.2.

    Zereth Mortis is a new endgame zone populated by the "First Ones," who are an alien race responsible for the creation of the Shadowlands, and play a heavy role in structuring the rules behind life and death. Zereth Mortis will feature a unlockable storyline involving the study of the First One's native language, as players assist in fighting back The Jailer and his shadowy forces that have seeped into Zereth Mortis.

    Blizzard claims that Zereth Mortis is "truly alien," featuring otherworldly creature prototypes that have yet to be fully completed by the First Ones architects. If I was cynical, I'd suggest that they're prototypical because this patch was rushed out as Blizzard pivots hard in an attempt to make up lost ground by developing a new expansion, but hey.

    Sepulcher of the First Ones raid: The Sepulcher of the First Ones is the final raid of the expansion, and is set to feature Dreadlords, an Algalon-style Titan boss, culminating in a fight with The Jailor and a corrupted Anduin Wrynn. So far there doesn't seem to be anything particularly unique about this dungeon. But looks can be deceiving.

    Class Tier Sets: Players have been asking Blizzard for years for a return of unique class sets for raid dungeons, alas, they may wish they hadn't after seeing what Blizzard managed to cook up for this final tier. The tier sets follow the Sepulcher's design but want for detail and flair, looking more like a entry-level dungeon set than what we used to get in Legion and earlier.