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Shadowlands is the next World of Warcraft expansion coming after Battle for Azeroth.

For more details check out our BlizzCon 2019 Content Hub!

We're going to the Shadowland which is the afterlife of the entire Warcraft universe. We will meet some of the fallen and learn more about their destiny. King Terenas told us there must always be a Lich King, and in the official reveal cinematic, Sylvanas took Bolvar's mask at icecrown, revealing the Realm of Shadow.

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Official Reveal Cinematic

Shadowlands is coming in 2020 and will be available for play at BlizzCon. Pre-orders will be available starting later today. We'll have more details available after the panel.

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Great animation, although it is like me and many have predicted. Sylvanas is now more like Kerrigan, with some plan to "set us free", hopefully she won't turn good later.

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Well at least their writers aren't completely out of mind by putting the crown on Sylvanas, that's good. Wonder if finally she will find the use of all that azerite everyone was so mad about and now completely forgot.
Tho i feel how addon's theme is so out of nowhere, they will need to do a ton of explanation of what shadowlands actually are to capture some interest. "New" and "Mysterious" lands is just bland by itself, there need to be something backing of it with story, which shadowlands completely lack so far, they really need a patch to tie it all together.

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Reminder: One of the key Kul Tiran heroes in BfA was Taelia Fordragon, daughter of the (last?) Lich King. Wonder what'll be her next move once she learns of her father's story or will this conclude the return of Bolvar in some form.

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Yet more Sylvanas fanboy-ism, solo-ing the most powerful character in lore. The write-up looks promising, however, but BFA looked good too and it's been pretty "meh". Looking forward to it, but I'm not too hyped either.

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6 minutes ago, Brutalis said:

Yet more Sylvanas fanboy-ism, solo-ing the most powerful character in lore. The write-up looks promising, however, but BFA looked good too and it's been pretty "meh". Looking forward to it, but I'm not too hyped either.

"the most powerful character in lore" the Lich King isn't the most powerful character in lore. This also isn't a full power Lich King, he has no Frostmourne, the helm of domination isn't even what it once was, the original Lich King WITH frostmorne fought Illidan and it ended in a draw.

Not saying he isn't strong, but he's definitely not the most powerful character in lore.

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Sylvanas plot armor is starting to become really ridiculous. She fights the Lich King's entire army ALONE, wins against him in a 1v1 AND destroys his helm with her BARE HANDS.

This is ridiculous. It's like they're trying to please SJWs to have strong female representation, but Sylvanas is becoming a Mary Sue.

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Does Sylvanas mean she's gonna break the fourth wall and save the NPCs from the imprisoned fate of being endlessly grinded by the players by shutting down this game?

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Their giving her all the power she was denied in Warcraft 3 and making her into this big-deal until she either dies or becomes some martyr. She was always a behind the scenes Hero. Coming back to Icecrown Citadel to introduce Shadow lands only proves my point. Even though we all know Syl accepted that Arthas aka the Lich King was done and dealt with. What more needs to be said. Next! The trailer is pretty cool

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1 hour ago, Valhalen said:

Sylvanas plot armor is starting to become really ridiculous. She fights the Lich King's entire army ALONE, wins against him in a 1v1 AND destroys his helm with her BARE HANDS.

This is ridiculous. It's like they're trying to please SJWs to have strong female representation, but Sylvanas is becoming a Mary Sue.

I mean, it's been shown she's pretty hopped up on at least void maybe void and death magics. 

She's definitely a plot point, but it's hardly "Oh appease the SJWs" it's because she's been entwined with this death story from the beginning. Who else would they use for it?

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After watching this cinematic, you feel even more sad for Saurfang... but respect his courage and resolve even more. Poor guy.

What do you think happens to Bolvar now? The way he looked helpless at Sylvanas reminded me of the same defeated pose Gul'dan was in at the end of the Warlords cinematic.

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4 hours ago, Aegrotat said:

I mean, it's been shown she's pretty hopped up on at least void maybe void and death magics. 

She's definitely a plot point, but it's hardly "Oh appease the SJWs" it's because she's been entwined with this death story from the beginning. Who else would they use for it?

Yea people think it's bad writing because they have yet to tell us how she's getting this power. It doesn't mean they are going to ignore it, just means they're building towards an explanation.

6 hours ago, Aegrotat said:

"the most powerful character in lore" the Lich King isn't the most powerful character in lore. This also isn't a full power Lich King, he has no Frostmourne, the helm of domination isn't even what it once was, the original Lich King WITH frostmorne fought Illidan and it ended in a draw.

Not saying he isn't strong, but he's definitely not the most powerful character in lore.

Arthas LK > Bolvar LK, for sure. The mantle of Lich King is a husk of what it once was. Frostmourne, Ner'zhul, Arthas - all broken and purged. Once the supreme commander of necromancy, the current Lich King is an overpowered baby-sitter of the scourge and a guard to the eternal veil. From a lore perspective, he hasn't even been unfrozen that long.

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13 hours ago, Arcling said:

Great animation, although it is like me and many have predicted. Sylvanas is now more like Kerrigan, with some plan to "set us free", hopefully she won't turn good later.

 

For a minute there, I thought she's going wear the helmet.

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On 11/1/2019 at 2:56 PM, Arcling said:

Great animation, although it is like me and many have predicted. Sylvanas is now more like Kerrigan, with some plan to "set us free", hopefully she won't turn good later.

+1. StarCraft was great, Kerrigan was great..just wish the story was different..no need for "revenge".

 

I'm excited to get back into wow. I've never really played it too seriously but the fact that level squish is coming and all races can play DK, it's peaked my interest for sure! Might buy a physical copy of the expack and resub once it's released.

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9 hours ago, Knoxtane said:

I'm excited to get back into wow. I've never really played it too seriously but the fact that level squish is coming and all races can play DK, it's peaked my interest for sure! Might buy a physical copy of the expack and resub once it's released.

Same here. I would love to make a DK Vulpera. ?

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