Shadowlands’ new afterlife setting means that artists can take brand-new directions in how they craft areas. But the look doesn’t stray far from the classic appearance players have grown familiar with. So a new player isn’t playing 2010 content, and then graduating to 2012 content or 2014 content,” Hazzikostas said.īlizzard made a few modest tweaks to the game’s UI for Shadowlands, including new character design screens and updated button looks and behavior. “We can have a finely paced, crafted experience that really reflects the best of what WoW has to offer in 2020, that reflects the modern game. For new players, the experience will skip huge, poorly aging chunks of the franchise’s history altogether. Designers had the first real chance to quietly tweak and update quests and leveling since the 2010 Cataclysm expansion literally broke parts of the game world. The revamped leveling experience features a new starting zone and progression through 60 levels instead of 120-130.

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