The latest Shadowlands Alpha build 34714 has introduced the new zone: Maldraxxus.
ORIBOS WORMHOLE TRAVEL
The most exciting thing ever to happen in World of Warcraft is wormhole travel from Oribos to the Shadowlands zones. At the moment: Ardenweald, Bastion, and Revendreth.
The mystery of the Shadowlands sandbox verticality is now revealed. Blizzard has introduced wormhole travel between the zones.
I had a feeling (several weeks ago) that Blizzard had arranged the zones at different vertical locations for something unique. This is it. You can’t see it while in the wormhole, but during the walking-on-air bug I could see Bastion is at the top of the vertical coordinates, followed by Oribos, then Ardenweald, Maldraxxus, Revendreth, and the Maw at the bottom.
Difficult to explain without a proper 3D perspective representation. Maybe this 2D image can help you visualize what I saw during the bug that allowed alpha testers to walk in the air from Bastion to Oribos and beyond in the sandbox. The bug didn’t allow me to walk up or down. South of Oribos, I could see the silhouette of Ardenweald several hundred yards below. When I went northeast of Oribos, I could see the Maldraxxus’ silhouette even further below.
Blizzard Entertainment PR sent me a press release to announce the World of Warcraft Classic Summer Bowl — an eSports event where players will clash in Warsong Gulch.
The latest Warcraft III: Reforged patch introduces balance changes to few units of all races and changes to neutral units and Mercenary Camps. Many item updates too.
Summer Games Fest updated the schedule in the evening to add World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Update. The livestream will start on June 9 at 12 ET / 9am PT. (source)
This is just conjecture: Some of the content not yet available for testing in Shadowlands Alpha — which might be the focus of this livestream:
Maldraxxus
Ardenweald
Castle Nathria (Raid)
June 24 marks the day 76 since Shadowlands Alpha started. It took Battle for Azeroth Alpha 76 days to switch to Beta. It is highly possible we might hear about Closed Beta invitations date or approximate date range. Stay tuned. Follow @blizzplanetcom for more updates as I continue to monitor the Summer Game Fest and IGN Summer of Gaming events’ schedule for any changes.
Chromie Time is a new feature introduced in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which allows level 10 players to choose their path of adventure (the expansion) to level up from level 10-50.
Alliance players should go to the Stormwind Embassy (through the Dwarven District).
I got an email from a PR agency associated with Blizzard Entertainment alerting that a Shadowlands Developer Livestream will take place on June 9 at 9am PDT.
On June 9, join World of Warcraft Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, live from their homes, as they share a look at some of the new content the team has been working on for the forthcoming expansion, Shadowlands.
The stream kicks off at 9:00 a.m. PDT and will be simulcast on the World of Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels.
On March 12 I posted an article titled Theorycrafting: What if BlizzCon 2020 was Cancelled? — just as the pandemic started to get hold on United States when 1,000 deaths had been reported. In context, two months later, the number has risen to 100,000+ deaths in the USA.
BlizzCon executive producer Saralyn Smith announced there won’t be a BlizzCon 2020. However, her team is studying how to stream online early 2021. Read her message below.
New Shadowlands Alpha build 34490 was deployed (1.48GB). I will update this page as I find new content in Shadowlands. Follow @blizzplanetcom on Twitter for notifications.
I can confirm that the level cap continues to be level 59. There is no level 60 content for testing in build 34490. Only Bastion and Revendreth remain available for testing. Ardenweald and Maldraxxus will be available in a future build.
Death Knight is the new class ready to test Torghast and anima powers.
TREASURE CHEST SYSTEM
There is a new system that seems not complete. It seems there will be a rotation of treasure chests that spawn in a specific zone. At the moment there are no chests when you get there in the map.
Searching this specific chest, I found out there are actually very well hidden caves in Bastion. I had to drop from a cliff to reach this cave that has no other means to get there unless you use a flying mount or drop down from the cliff.
Blizzard Entertainment posted a preview of Oribos — the Eternal City in the middle of the Shadowlands. Oribos is coming to the Shadowlands Alpha test soon. Follow @blizzplanetcom for notifications. Once the new build arrives, I will tweet videos and images of Oribos in more detail.
