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Fans of World of Warcraft rejoice, level-100 characters may soon be allowed to be tested before using them. Blizzard Entertainment, the brains behind World of Warcraft, have announced that World of Warcraft: Legion will launch next summer and now with this news it should be even more anticipated.

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THE REASONING BEHIND THIS

World of Warcraft is a MMORPG, which is a mass media online role-playing game. This genre of video game allows gamers to constantly upgrade their playable characters as they go through their adventure. Leveling up characters can be a mind numbing process as it can take a long time to do so, and leveling characters to 100 takes forever. Basically, the senior vice president of World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, stated that this decision was to allow users to test certain level-100 characters. In World of Warcraft there are several different types of characters that can be used. This will now allow users to be able to play with their certain character type at level-100 and see if they like it before they spend countless hours leveling them up. Brack also mentioned that users will be allowed 45 minutes of content to play through with the level-100 character and that their would be a warning message afterwards prompting the user that they are about ready to officially commit to their character.

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ISSUES WITH THIS

Sources across the web have came up with several problems that would need to be addressed before World of Warcraft: Legion launches next summer. The major problems that are being talked about across the web are: How to determine when a user is done to prompt them with whether to proceed or not. What to do when a user says no and deletes their character, but then changes their mind. How to handle all the experienced players who have already pre-purchased Legion and used their level-100 character boost and equipping those characters with something other than the Legion starting gear. All of these are legitimate questions that Blizzard will need to keep in mind when they start doing the work, as Brack has stated that they have not officially started the work yet. Brack also stated that this option can be turned off if users do not want the additional help. It sounds like this is just in the development stage as we speak, so World of Warcraft fans just need to remain as patient as they can for now.

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World of Warcraft: Legion to Allow Level-100 Characters to be Tested

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After reporting some incredibly disheartening subscription numbers on August 4, Blizzard has taken the stage today at Gamescom to annou119nce their upcoming expansion pack for World of Warcraft (WoW), the decade-long running massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG).

Introducing World of Warcraft: Legion

WoW’s last expansion, Warlords of Draenor, used time travel to lure players through an alternate timeline, and Legion appears to be what is essentially the same thing but involving the Burning Crusade.

As expected with every WoW expansion, there are a few givens:

The Broken Isles – the newest continent for players to explore

Artifacts – the new “system” that allows players to customize weapons; letting them grow in power as players level up.

New World Bosses

Reworked PvP

Improved transmogrification system

Improved social features

New class-specific Order Halls and followers

New dungeons and raids

Perhaps the biggest change to the game is the introduction of the Demon Hunter, which is a new playable hero class (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?).

The Demon Hunter

Blizzard fans will immediately want to start making comparisons to the Demon Hunter class in Diablo III, but they should stop there. The Demon Hunter class in WoW is similar in name alone. Blizzard describes the class as an “elven outcast” who was shunned for harnessing the power of the Legion, but they look like smaller versions of Illidan Stormrage.

Demon Hunters have the ability to double-jump, perform gliding attacks, see with “magically augmented sight, metamorph into fel forms, and, well, that’s about all we know so far.

World of Warcraft Subscribers Down to 5.6 Million

During Blizzard’s Q2 earnings call for 2015, the company mentioned that subscriptions had fallen to just 5.6 million — down from the 7.1 million subscribers reported in Q1. Some of the biggest complaints coming from players revolves around reliance on uninteresting raids, a broken PvP system, and too much focus on repeatable content.

Looking through the highlight reel from today’s announcement didn’t instill a sense of confidence in a lot of gamers. The ability to play as a demon hunter is pure fan service, replacing garrisons with class orders doesn’t seem to change the focus, and Blizzard was quiet on details revolving around how they were planning to revamp WoW’s broken PvP system.

Blizzard really needed to shift WoW in a different direction, but Legion sounds like it’s more of the same, though that still remains to be seen.

Let us know how you feel about WoW’s newest expansion in the comments below.

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