World of Warcraft is one of the longest-running and most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) around. It’s seen spin-off card games[1], movies[2], and novels too. Since its inception in 2004, there have been six expansions, the latest being World of Warcraft[3]: Legion that released in 2016.
2018 promises to be a big year for the game with creator Blizzard announcing plans to release a new expansion called Battle of Azeroth[4]. Furthermore, there’s World of Warcraft: Classic which brings back vanilla servers, allowing you a taste of what the game was before its many updates and additions. With almost 15 years of lore, gameplay changes, and visual additions that have no end in sight, is World of Warcraft still worth getting into? We took a dip into the World of Warcraft and its latest expansion — World of Warcraft: Legion — to find out.
Like most MMOs, World of Warcraft begins with you choosing your character race - from humans, orcs, elves, and pandas or pandaren as the game calls them. Then you select your character class, ranging from the usual ranged sorts like the mage and the hunter to the damage-dealing variety such as the paladin and the warrior. Certain classes like the druid — which lets you transform into a cat — and bear are limited to specific races like the night elf, troll, tauren, or worgen.
You can choose between playing the game from the very beginning or jumping into World of Warcraft: Legion. Trying the former in 2018 is an act of attrition as we soon realised for a host of reasons.
For one, the old school presentation of text and dialogue with the odd voice...