World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

While World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hasn't been my favorite expansion in the franchise, it brought with it some great new dungeons, fantastic new raid encounters, an excellent new story, and gorgeous scenery. I have hope that what is lacking, or...

It's a testament to the longevity of World of Warcraft that Battle for Azeroth, the game's seventh expansion as it enters its 15th year, manages to be a difficult second album. Legion changed the game – some might say saved the game – and began a new...

Battle for Azeroth has one of the most amazing leveling experiences in World of Warcraft's history, with rich storytelling, evocative landscapes, and fun characters. However, the lack of testing in its beta in the run-up to launch has clearly impacted...

Battle for Azeroth, despite the endless grind, has been an exciting expansion this far. However, raids and additional content are what makes the game great. Blizzard has made the entry level into the new expansion welcoming for new players and some...

Teldrassil has been burned to the ground. Sylvanas Windrunner steps over the corpses of slain rangers and civilians alike who were impetuous enough to get in her way, only to seal the fate of more innocents in fire and blood as her lithe frame is...

It’s even inspiring, in some ways. For all the polish and all the new activities, World of Warcraft is still the same game of countless kill-and-fetch quests, raids, and dungeons that it ever was. Even so, Blizzard has continued to adapt to changing tastes and graphical advances. It’s essentially one of only three or four major MMORPGs still standing. As the millions of people still streaming into the game show, if Blizzard sees Battle for Azeroth as a struggle to keep our hearts and interest, it’s clearly already won.

In our age of divisiveness, World of Warcraft 's Battle for Azeroth expansion begins with a premise that cuts deep. It's nasty stuff. Greed (and quite a bit of petty hate) led the Horde to burn the Night Elves' tree city a few weeks before launch,...

Battle for Azeroth has a lot to live up to thanks to its stellar predecessor in Legion, and for the most part it delivers. The storylines feel more intimate than Legion, and while the spectre of Azeroth itself dying is still looming overhead, on the whole it was nice to simply sit back and help solve the relatively smaller problems plaguing Kul Tiras and Zandalar. But, while it definitely feels as though the Heart of Azeroth and Azerite armor will be important in the patches to come, and Blizzard fixed the grind right now their implementation feels forgettable. Island Expeditions also feel lacking overall, but the new Foothold excursions and new Battlegrounds map make up for the former’s lackluster debut.