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World Of Warcraft’s latest expansion The War Within is live, adding a new continent, hero talents and DelvesAnd a bunch more things

And a bunch more things

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Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment

A shadowy mage stands amidst the burning wreckage of a town in key art for World Of Warcraft: The War Within.

It’s been a while since I last playedWorld Of Warcraft, but that doesn’t stop me from listening to the Elwynn Forest theme whenever I need to decompress. And as I understand it, WoW’s latest expansion The War Within adds to a game that’s largely unrecognisable from those vanilla days. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and with TWW out this very second it does make me think, “Hmmm, what if I do make a return”. This happenseverytime. I’d quite like to see the new continent, the new class features, and the expanded Skyriding.

First on the agenda is the new continent: Khaz Algar, which lies off the western shores of Pandaria (a good time, that DLC) and fits with the theme of a subsurface, well, war within. Here you’ve got the surface level city of Dornogal that acts as the city centre, so to speak, with three other zones all under the surface: The Ringing Deeps, Hallowfall, and Azj-Kahet. The max level has been ramped up to 80, so each of those zones, starting with the Isle Of Dorn, will feature a gradual level climb with the aid of new dungeons.

The War Within Launch Trailer | World of WarcraftWatch on YouTube

The War Within Launch Trailer | World of Warcraft

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Elsewhere, Hero Talents are unlocked for players at level 71 and let you specialise classes even further. Essentially, there are talent trees to pick from depending on classes and specialisations, you select a single talent tree to activate, then each time you level up you bang a point into it. They grant you buffs up the wazoo - the technical term. Here’s Blizzard’sarticle on it, which breaks it down into more detail.

More mounts are available for skyriding and now you can switch between dynamic flight (the zippy flippy type introduced in the last expansion) or steady flight (kinda normal flying introduced all the way back in The Burning Crusade).

There is, of course, a whole lot more that would take aeons to cover here. Blizzard’sWar Within pagehas you covered on that front.