Warcraft

I keep thinking about how, from the end of Legion and into Battle for Azeroth we added ten playable races to World of Warcraft and nobody batted an eye.

Unlocking Allied Races can be a lot of effort — particularly if you didn't actively play during the expansion in which they were released.

The PTR for Shadowlands patch 9.1.5 is in full swing now!

I've been thinking about this one for a while -- with timewalking basically extending the life of various dungeons in World of Warcraft almost indefinitely, there's a lot of cool stuff in there, and it scales up to level -- what if we could run old raids with a group of five players and get loot scaled for the current expansion, perhaps even run those raids as Mythic+ dungeons?

With the tantalizing possibility of the Mage Tower returning during Legion Timewalking, I immediately started thinkng about other gameplay elements that were once big and which fell out of favor in later World of Warcraft expansions.

The Shadowlands iteration of the mission table is different from previous versions.

There are new heirloom upgrades coming in patch 9.1.5, and they are expensive -- 12,500 gold for each upgrade for armor, and 18,000 gold for the weapon upgrade.

On the patch 9.1.5 PTR, we're seeing a change that many expected -- the Eredar city formerly called Mac'Aree is now named Eredath.

Shadowlands patch 9.1 added a good number of rares to Korthia and the Maw, but like the daily quests they're not all created equal.

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