Pre-Expansion Event

The War Within pre-expansion event, Radiant Echoes, is live through August 26, leaving the heroes of Azeroth (that's us) several weeks to contend with the planet's memories of the last 19 years of World of Warcraft.

WoW's Dragonflight Primal Storms pre-expansion event is now live! Though we're still a couple of weeks away from Dragonflight launch day on November 28, the pre-patch event gives us a lot to do — even if you aren't spending the day customizing and leveling a new Dracthyr.

I just can't even. World of Warcraft has broken me.

The Shadowlands pre-expansion event, Death Rising, is now live, complete with a new World Boss: Nathanos Blightcaller.

So, now that we've had a bit of time with the pre-expansion event bridging Battle for Azeroth with Shadowlands, what do we think?

The current Death's Rising event that serves as a bridge between Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands has a lot going on.

We don't know when World of Warcraft will get its Shadowlands expansion, but it's in the middle of its alpha test, and we're likely going to see the beta start during the summer, and we're told the expansion will drop this year.

We've had expansions to World of Warcraft come in with plagues of undeath, with a big dragon driving the elements insane, with Theramore getting blown up, with Orcs invading from the Dark Portal, with the Legion attacking everything, and with Darkshore under Horde attack.

With Tuesday's reset, we will be in the final week of Legion -- yes, next week is the launch of Battle for Azeroth. This means that the final bit of patch 8.0 content will become available, and it will be available to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have pre-purchased Battle.

Battle for Azeroth launches in less than a month, and the pre-patch event has officially begun!