World of Warcraft: Legion – World and Content Overview | Summary

Broken Shore

• The Broken Shore is the staging point for Legion
• Involves a 40 person scenario for Horde and Alliance
• Split into two parts, one half for the Horde, one for the Alliance, as they work in unison

Demon Hunter

• Introduction Zone
  
  • Defines the Demon Hunter Class
  • Serves as a story bridge from TBC to Legion
  • Features a cutscene explaining the mission Illidan sent his demon hunters on
  • Mardum is a former prison World, shattered by Sargeras
  • The Sargerai Keystone was safeguarded here and will be a focus of the Demon Hunters’ mission there
• Burning Legion
  • More powerful versions of old demons join
  • The Imp Mother
  • Jailer
  • Inquisitor
• “Fight Fire with Fire”
  • Use Legion’s devices against them like their own portals
  • Learn new spells as you go, stolen from demons
  • Spell: Eyebeam
  • Epic Mount: Felsaber
  • Mardum ends with being taken prisoner by Maiev
  • Mardum is only the first half of the Demonhunter Intro

The Broken Isles

• Val’sharah:
  • a Druidic paradise, but the emerald nightmare is there.
  • Set at the west coast of the Broken Isle
  • Malfurion met Cenarius, his mentor and instructor in the druidic ways, in this area
  • Focus on Shaladrassil, the corrupted world tree
  • Black Rook Hold
  • Features a number of Archdruids, like the Treant “Alafir”
  • You encounter the Satyr
  • Features the “Nightmare Dragons”
  • New models for Keepers, Dryads, Hyppogryphs, Moonkin
  • New model for Sea Lion Form
• Stormheim
  • Home of Vrykul who left Northrend
  • You meet the “God King”, a warrior king of the Vrykul
  • Gives a look at the origin of the Kvaldir and the Val’kyr
  • New dragonflight: The Stormdragons
• Azsuna
  • Side note: You can now see 3x times as far as before
  • features Remnants of the Blue Dragon flight
  • Home to the “Spectre”, a male counter part to banshees
  • New Naga models!
  • Azshara allied there with a Sea Giant Kingdom
  • Features a giant creature called the “Wrath of Azshara”
  • You will encounter the Warden’s here.
  • The Warden’s have owl companions
• Highmountain
  • Set to the far north of the Broken Islands
  • Domain of three ancient tauren clans
  • They were united, until the Drogbar stole a sacred artifact
  • The Drogbar are highly attuned to elemental magic
  • also the home of Alpine Harpies
  • Moose and Moose Calves
• Suramar
  • home to the “Nightwell”
  • The Nightelves became dependant on the energies of the nightwell and turned into the nightborne
  • allied with Gul’dan and helped him to open up the portals for the legion
  • Nightborne Exiles turn into the “Nightfallen”
  • When nightfallen don’t get any source of arcane energies, they turn int the “Withered”
• The Broken Isles zones scale with you, allowing to play through the zones in your own order
• Main Objective is to Recover the “Pillars of Creation” to seal up the dark portals of the legion
• Suramar is the high end zone, so 110 only
• Scaling affects the world around you, not the player

End Game

• Trying to tie the best of the various end game models together
• Goals:
  • Keep player agency
  • Keep a free-form gameplay, but give a sense of purpose
  • a vehicle for storytelling
  • structure, but not a sense of compulsion
  • make use of the world
• When you log in, there are various objectives scattered over the map, some with a time limit
• Variety:
  • Player Garrison Missions
  • Reputation specific objectives
  • PVP objectives
  • World Raid Boses
  • Profession Missions
  • Minigames
• Objectives are consistent, so you won’t have a reason to server hop
• Emisarries of factions at the order halls will ask you to do objectives for their case,
• but you can choose what you want to do.

Raid & Dungeons

• The Emerald Nightmare
  • 7-boss raid
  • accessed through Val’sharah, by ascending the Shaladrassil World Tree
  • First announced Boss: “the Pestilience Worm”
  • Second announced Boss: Cenarius, corrupted by the Nightmare
  • Final announced Boss: Xavius
• Suramar
  • base of Gul’dan’s operation
  • one mentioned boss: a so far a non-named Dreadlord
  • second mentioned boss: Grand Magistrix of the Nightborne
• 5 Level up Dungeons
  • Eye of Azshara
  • Neltharion’s Lair
  • Halls of Valor
    • prove your worth to claim the Aegis of Aggamar
    • Compete against the Legion serving God King of the Vrykul
  • Darkheart Thicket
    • main aim is to rescue an ally from the nightmare
  • Violet Hold
  • integrated into the storyline
  • can be done in any order
• 5 max-level dungeons
  • Vault of the Wardens
  • Black Rook Hold
    • Confront Lord Ravencrest
  • Helheim
    • board the ship of the damned to safeguard precious cargo
  • Suramar Noble District
    • infiltrate a party with the intention to possibly strike at the Grand Magistrix
  • Suramar Catacombs
    • discover the secrets of the nightborne and search for a passage into the Palace
• Dungeons shall remain relevant
• shall be achieved by the “Challenger’s Keystone”
• it will point to a random legion dungeon
• possesess a power level, that determines difficulty and reward
• might have additional modifiers
• main objective: scale the dungeon up to your skill level
• focus on combat gameplay, but not on rushing
• each week will have different modifiers for the dungeon to up the difficulty
  • example: Raging: All enemies Enrage at 30% remaining dealing 100% damage until slain
• Rewards
  • at the end of the run, you get a loot chest
  • shall offer a genuine alternate path to raiding

Beta comes soon!