Hight also revealed that Shadowlands’ pre-launch event will being on November 10 and will have players taking on a “flood of the Scourge.” Furthermore, December 8 will see the arrival of the Shadowlands’ first raid – Castle Nathria – which features 10 bosses and “takes players into the heart of Sire Denathrius’ lair in Revendreth – along with the start of Shadowlands Season 1.”
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the eighth expansion for Blizzard’s MMO, will send players to the realm of the nine afterlives where mortal souls go to find a new purpose – or “suffer eternal torment at the mercy of the Jailer in his Tower of the Damned.” Players can look forward to discovering the fates of Warcraft legends, forge a bond with one of four Covenants who rule over Shadowlands’ disparate domains, and confront a threat that is “shrouded in darkness with designs to unmake the cosmos.”
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