Evolution and History of World of Warcraft

In this topic, I want to recall the history of World of Warcraft, which begins in 2004, and the history of Warcraft is generally in 1994. Let us recall the history of each addition of World of Warcraft, also recall all the changes that were in each addition.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is the second game of the Mmorpg genre that has interested a huge number of players. The game was announced in 2001 and released on November 23, 2004. A year after the release of Lineage 2, which at that time was the most popular game. The World of Warcraft takes place in the fantasy universe Warcraft. Each player manages one character and can interact with other players in the general virtual world.
The World of Warcraft game is regularly produced by thematic additions that add new locations to the game, new character classes and other additional or updated content. For 2019, seven such additions were issued, we will talk about each of them with you. In 2008, the Guinness Book of Records called World of Warcraft the most popular MMORPG in the world with a number of subscribers above 10 million people. At the peak of the popularity of the game in October 2010, this number exceeded 12 million.
In 2014, Blizzard reported that over ten million accounts have been created in ten years with the launch of the game in it. The game received many awards, the main of which is the title of game of the year, which was received back in 2004.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

The first addition to the World of Warcraft, which was announced on October 8, 2005 and released on January 16, 2007.

From the innovations:
– New world Outbuster
– Two new game races: Drenes and Elves of Blood
-the maximum level is increased to the 70th
– New profession jewelry
– 16 dungeons for 5 people
– 8 raid dungeons
-PVP-Aren system

The plot of additions told us about how, Vladyka of Forest Kazzak again opened a dark portal in an outcome, from which bloodthirsty demons of a glowing legion poured into Azerot. The elves of blood and the Drenes joined the expeditionary forces of the Alliance and the Horde, who went through the portal in the very heart of the outrage to defeat the demons right in their lair. On the incinerated peninsula of hellish flame in the outrage, the heroes of the Alliance discovered several of their fellow tribesmen, who had long passed through the portal. At the same time, the soldiers of the Horde met with the uninquent orcs from the Mag’har tribe, who did not participate in the invasion of Azerot. During the campaign in the heavy, the allied troops were increasingly linked in conflict with the Legion, also by the hellidan’s ranges, the rage of Bury, who extended his influence to all corners of the destroyed world.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
The second addition to the World of Warcraft, announced on August 3, 2007 and published on November 13, 2008.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level is increased to 80th
– New class Knight of Death
– New Continent Nordskol
– New profession
– Added siege tools
– New fields of the battle of the ancients and the island of conquests
– Added destroyed buildings
– added hairdressers, allowing you to change the character’s hairstyle
– an increase in the maximum value of skills to 400, professions to 450
– Talent branches expanded to 71 talents
– new zone of the open PVP Lake of Ice Ok
– Unusual objects from Norskol

The effect of the addition takes place on the cold northern mainland Nordskol, in the possessions of the king of the dead, the fallen prince Artas Menetil. When the solar well was cleared of filth, calm came in the world, and so serene that it simply could not but arouse suspicion. Suddenly, as a signal, the troops of the whip began a systematic attack on cities throughout Azerot and outside the eastern kingdoms. The leader Trail was forced to take decisive measures and sent to Norskol the expeditionary corps under the start of Garrosh of the hellish scream. Meanwhile, the King of the people of the Rinn version finally returned to Stormgrad and took his rightful place on the throne. He put up an impressive army of the Alliance under the command of the Bolvar Fortragon to battle the King of Lich, in addition, the alliance warriors should have suppressed any resistance of the Horde.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

The third addition to the World of Warcraft, which was announced on August 21, 2009, and released on December 7, 2010.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level is increased to the 85th
– a change in the appearance of many locations in the game in connection with the return of Deathlal
– Two new races: goblins sided with the Horde, Vorgen to the side of the Alliance
– New high -level zones
– New auxiliary skill archeology
– the possibility of using air vehicles
– Heroic versions of the low -level dungeons of the fortress of the dark fang and dead cream
-New PVP zone Tol Barad
– New group and raid dungeons
– extensive processing of low -level tasks and locations
– the possibility of developing guilds, the emergence of guild achievements and awards

The plot tells us about how, expeditions to Norskol returned with the victory, but suddenly angry elements fell on Azerot that the return of the dragon aspects was coming to the destroyer. He left his lair and brought destruction to Azerot, opening passages to the kingdom of the elements through which the raging elementals and their lords poured. They intend to help deadlings and the disgusting cult of the twilight hammer bring closer the time of twilight and destroy all living things in Azerot. The main event of the addition is the return of Deathlass, the once defeated ancient dragon aspect, which disappeared many years ago. Deathcraculo wants to get out of the space of elements and get into the azerot. If this happens, the barrier between the two worlds will disappear, and a wave of destruction will ride along Azerot.

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

The fourth addition to the World of Warcraft, announced on October 21, 2011 and released on September 25, 2012.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level is increased to the 90th
– processed system for obtaining skills and talents
– Most characteristics of the characters have been changed
– New continent pandaria
– New race Pandarins
– Game classes monk

Events of additions take place about a year after the end of the recovery of the cataclysm. Now that the deadly defeated is defeated, the horde and alliance continued the war again, but they opened the new continent to the pandaria and the new Panaren Rasu. Some Pandarins joined one of the fractions. The horde and alliance began the expansion of the new continent, but their appearance led to the awakening of Sha – the physical embodiment of negative emotions: fear, despair, anger, cruelty, doubt. In addition, the ancient race of warlike can, once holding all the races of pandaria in slavery and subsequently overthrown during the uprising, choosing the right moment, began active actions to revive my empire. Gathering magic artifacts in ancient ruins, they plan to resurrect their first emperor, Le Sheny, whose one name causes shudder even now, thousands of years after his death. In this addition, Blizzard introduced new characters, at the same time developing the old ones, for example, a lot of attention was paid to Anduin Rinnu, the son of Varian Rinn. In addition, Garrosh Orc is gradually shown on the other side, ready for everything for the sake of power and victory over the alliance. After the attempt on his life, Vol’Jzhin, the leader of the black spear trolls, goes underground and eventually organizes an uprising against Garrosh and his personal guard Kor’cron. In search of a dark power, Garrosh finds the heart of the ancient god ’charaja in an eternally flowering share. To remove it from the state of animation, it defiles the water of an eternally flowering share, which is why most of the share is destroyed. For this reason, the leaders of the Horde and the Alliance are united to overthrow the cruel leader.

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

The fifth addition to the World of Warcraft, announced on November 8, 2013 and published on November 13, 2014.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level is increased to the 100th
– the ability to build their own controlled garrisons controlled
– New locations of the native planet of the orcs of the drainora

The plot of additions develops immediately after the events that occurred in the addition of the fogs of the pandaria. Around the world, Drenor, the native planet of the orcs even before its destruction and the occurrence. In addition, such legendary characters in the world Warcraft, like a thundercle Hell’s scream, gul’dan, Ner’zul and others. In the course of the development of the plot of the fogs of the pandaria, the Hell’s Hell was overthrown by the joint efforts of the Alliance and the Horde and was detained in the Pandarian prison. Thus, he had to answer for all the atrocities caused to his people. However, Garrosh manages to escape before the court with the help of Kairozdorm, who freed him from imprisonment and transferred him to the Drenor of the past from alternative reality. Garrosh gets into the Drenor before the emergence of the old horde and changes the course of history with his actions. 35 years before the siege of Stormgrad, the thunderbar of Hell’s scream refuses to take the blood of Mannorot, and Garrosh begins the attack on the forces of a flaming legion. The orcs are united in the Iron Horde, led by a thunderbar with a hellish cry who does not know who Garrosh actually. Using the skills of Garrosh, who told them about the modern technologies of Azeroth, they begin to conquer drainoras and rebuild the dark portal to invade Azerot.

World of Warcraft: Legion

The sixth addition to the World of Warcraft, announced on August 15, 2015 and released on August 30, 2016.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level increased to 110th
– artifact weapons for each class specialization
– new Azerota zone split islands
– New heroic class hunter for demons
– added thirteen dungeons and five raids

The events of the game unfold on the split islands, after the storyline of the Drainor leaders. The split islands are located next to the whirlpool in the middle of the Great Sea. Initially, being part of the supercontinent of Kalimdor, the islands separated and ended up in the southern part of the Great Sea.
Magne Egvin, the keeper of Tirissfal, used the islands to imprison the Avatar of the Dark Titan of Sargeras. During the events of Warcraft II, the leader of the orcs Gul’dan raised the islands from the sea of ​​sea in search of his tomb, later Illidan investigated the tomb in Warcraft III. The city of Dalaran, which served as the neutral capital of Norskol during the events, the anger of King Lich, is now moved to the southern part of the region in order to become a stronghold for the forces of the Alliance and the Horde in the fight against the invasion of demons. Later, the main actions were transferred to the planet of the Aredarov Argus, where the flaming legion was destroyed. Gul’dan was expelled from Draenor Archimond and sent to the split islands to start the invasion of the flaming legion in Azerot. There, he found and freed Illidan’s rage of storm, whom Mayev’s chamber Mayev chased the crystal in the casemates of the guards after the battle in the Black Temple. The Supreme Mage of Kadgar, having learned about this, goes to Stormgrad, to King Varian Rinn in order to warn him about the threat.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

The seventh addition to the World of Warcraft, announced on November 3, 2017 and published on August 14, 2018.

From the innovations:
-the maximum level is increased to the 120th
-New continents kul-tyras and Zandalar
– removed the division of servers into PVP and PVE
-You can turn on and off the PVP mode only in the capitals

The narrative of a new addition begins shortly after the end of the events Legion. At the cost of huge victims, the peoples of Azerot managed to stop the largest invasion of the flaming legion and win the Argus. However, the Alliance and the Horde were not ready to forget the former insults, as a result of which a new war for resources and influence that covered the whole world flare up. The warring parties strive to take possession of Azerite – a resource that appeared on the surface of the world shortly after the war with the legion. At the very beginning of the New War, called the Spike war, events occurred between the factions that led to the burning of the world Teldrasil Teldrassil and the New Battle of Lorderon.
According to the results of these battles, the Horde occupied the dominant position in Kalimdor, and the alliance strengthened its position in the eastern kingdoms. To continue the conflict, both sides critically need a powerful fleet. The search for new allies and navy led warring factions to the previously insulated territories of the Great Sea. The Alliance found help from Kula Tiras of a powerful naval state, the birthplace of Jaina Praudmur. At the same time, the Horde concluded an alliance with the ancient Empire Zandalar, the ancestral home of all trolls.

This is the unique and interesting story of World of Warcraft so far ends. I see no sense about World of Warcraft Classic, since this is not a continuation of the story, but it seems like a return to the past. I will also soon make a topic about the history of Warcraft, which begins back in 1994.