
You can go to Val’sharah, which is a deep forest area close to the Emerald Dream that’s essentially the blueprint for all of Azeroth. You can go to Azshara which houses a ghostly undead elf race that you must help in your quest to bring down the Burning Legion. These zones are vastly different in how they are presented. I hate alts and having the ability to pick any zone in any order while being able to just start questing has been a breath of fresh air. You will then become “Champion of your Class” and granted your first task: selecting any zone in the Broken Isles so you can help push back the Burning Legion in that area.

Keep in mind that your mileage might vary as some classes will actually get to see this before getting their weapon. Once you secure your weapon, you are brought into your Class Order Hall. Overall, though, it provides a sense of progression and power that I really have yet to see in another MMO. It can be a little disheartening to do so as every class gets a weapon for each specialization, with most classes having three and one class even having four weapons that you will have to maintain over the expansion. One is that if you change your weapon, you will have to power the new one from scratch. This is one of the greatest ideas that Blizzard has ever had for WoW. Instead you acquire what is called an Artifact Weapon, which you get to slowly power up over the course of the entire expansion. One interesting thing that Legion has done is that you don’t get a “new” weapon for this expansion. I kicked off my adventure as a Priest and set out to search for my specific “spec” weapon. This game has been a Renaissance in the WoW universe. Having done all of that, I can say one thing for sure.

On top of that, I have completed all of Emerald Nightmare, which is the first tier of endgame raiding on Normal difficulty and most of Heroic. I have Arena’d a fair bit, done Battle Grounds and also done Level 7 of Mythic Plus, which is the hardest dungeon content in the game. For this review, I have put in roughly 268 hours of playing time across three characters.
