Cataclysm

The Sundering ripped the world of Azeroth apart, splitting the united continent of Kalimdor into pieces.

Just over ten years ago, Burning Crusade ushered in a brand new way to experience World of Warcraft that for better or worse would change the game irrevocably: flying.

Since the release of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans back in 1994, Blizzard has been building a massive universe around the world of Azeroth.

Although I've been severely delayed to level 110 by various bugged quests and server instability, I'm catching up to progress again on the Warlock class order campaign.

Well, it's happened now -- Legion has been dated and we know exactly when we're going to be getting our Burning Legion invasion.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how mature WoW is, and how the game effectively pressed the reset button with Cataclysm to bring in a new audience and update the world to a more modern state (while moving the story along, of course).

After multiple decades of constant threats to Azeroth's very existence, I think there comes a point its denizens -- Horde and Alliance -- must realize they're fighting for ruins.

Lord Darius Crowley likely never meant to be a hero.

In an Azeroth where dragons have seemingly expended the last of their powers, there's one flight that doesn't appear to have been affected by the events of Cataclysm at all.

It occurred to me the other day that I literally can't go back to the first zone I played in on my main, because in Cataclysm they utterly changed it, changed it so completely that it doesn't even resemble the place I remember.