World of Warcraft’s<\/em> eighth expansion led players beyond the veil of life and death. In Shadowlands<\/em>, we embarked on a quest to find and sentence Sylvanas Windrunner for all the atrocities she committed during Battle for Azeroth<\/em>, namely the burning of Teldrassil and the murder of Saurfang. The expansion was released on Nov. 23, 2020, and it will officially come to an end on Nov. 28 when Dragonflight<\/em> launches worldwide.<\/p>
Blizzard Entertainment originally imagined Shadowlands <\/em>as the expansion that would finally explore the concepts of life and death<\/a> that, in the history of WoW<\/em>, only existed as two sides of the same coin. Although the previous expansions brought relevant lore characters back to life, during the expansion, we learned the line between life and death is rather vague. Inspired by the re-release of WoW Classic<\/em><\/a> <\/em>on Aug. 26, 2019, Shadowlands <\/em>was supposed to be a huge step up from Battle for Azeroth<\/em><\/a>\u2019s borrowed power and bland class design that left all classes feeling like the iterations of the same class. But the expansion left a bitter taste in the mouth with tons of borrowed power systems like covenants, time-gated content with Renown, and a similar class design to BfA<\/em>. <\/p>
