Blizzard has finally revealed the next World of Warcraft expansion, WoW Dragonflight.
With that, here's everything we know about WoW Dragonflight so far, including its release date, the Dracthyr race unique class, the Evoker, to updates for Profession and Talent systems.
UPDATED - WoW Dragonflight launches in less than a week!
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight launches in less than a week!
In just a couple of days, World of Warcraft's dragon-themed expansion will be live. Players will be available to play through tons of new content and experience several new features.
To celebrate the hype of the new expansion, Blizzard Entertainment released a new ad.
WoW Dragonflight Release Date
It's finally confirmed, the WoW Dragonflight release date will be Monday, November 28, 2022.
This puts the new expansion's release approximately two months after WoW Classic WotLK, which will keep things fresh for players looking to play both.
READ MORE: WoW Dragonflight Pre Order: Price, Rewards, and Editions
New Cinematic Trailer
WoW Dragonflight was revealed on Tuesday, April 19th, with a massive cinematic trailer.
This trailer shows the awakening of the Dragon Isles and the removal of a fog that hid them for years.
Check out the action-packed cinematic reveal trailer below!
WoW Dragonflight Editions: Pre-Order Info, Price, & Rewards
As always with a new WoW expansion, players can pre-order it and receive some goodies. Additionally, they can take advantage of some of the expansion's perks early as well.
The Dragonflight expansion will come with four editions all varying in price. The Base Edition sits at $49.99, the Heroic Edition at $69.99, the Epic Edition at $89.99, and the Collector's Edition at $129.00
As always, the higher the version, the higher the rewards, and for Dragonflight Blizzard isn't skipping a beat in what goodies players can obtain.
Here are the rewards for each edition:
- WoW Dragonflight Base Edition ($49.99):
- Drakks pet
- WoW Dragonflight Heroic Edition ($69.99):
- Drakks and Murkastrasza pets
- Tangled Dreamweaver flying mount
- Instant access to a Dragonflight Character Boost (level 60)
- WoW Dragonflight Epic Edition ($89.99):
- Drakks and Murkastrasza pets
- Tangled Dreamweaver flying mount
- Instant access to a Dragonflight Character Boost (level 60)
- 30 days of game time
- Timewalker's Hearthstone effect
- Diadem of the Spell-Keeper (Head slot transmog)
- Wings of Awakening (Back slot transmog) in 5 color variants, one for each of the major Dragonflights.
- WoW Dragonflight Collector's Edition ($129.99):
- Drakks and Murkastrasza pets
- Tangled Dreamweaver flying mount
- Instant access to a Dragonflight Character Boost (level 60)
- 30 days of game time
- Timewalker's Hearthstone effect
- Diadem of the Spell-Keeper (Head slot transmog)
- Wings of Awakening (Back slot transmog) in 5 color variants, one for each of the major Dragonflights.
- Dragonflight art book
- Five pins featuring the five Dragon Aspects
- A mousepad with the Dragonflight key art featuring Alexstrasza.
Players can preorder WoW Dragonflight here before launch day.
WoW Dragonflight Content
New Race: Dracthyr
WoW Dragonflight will add a new playable race to the game, the Dracthyr.
Dracthyr is a dragon-humanoid race that can glide with their wings, and take to the skies to fly during combat with different abilities.
Dracthyr will be unique in that they have no default faction, much like Pandaren.
New Class: Evoker
WoW Dragonflight introduces the Evoker class, a new hero class coming to the game. This class is unique in that is only available to Dracthyr, and Dracthyr can also only be Evokers.
As a hero class, Evokers will start at level 58 like Death Knights. They will also have their own unique start and questline like Death Knights for players to play through their backstory.
This class has the explosive potential to fly above the battlefield and shoot down fire, and will reflect their Dracthyr and Dragonflight counterparts in abilities and systems with two specs - Devastation (Ranged DPS), and Preservation (Healer).
New Zone: Dragon Isles
Each new WoW expansion takes players to new areas or enhanced versions of places we once knew. WoW Dragonflight will be no different in this regard.
WoW Dragonflight takes players to the Dragon Isles, and introduces a new starting zone for Dracthyr Evokers within it as well.
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Gameplay Changes
WoW Dragonflight will introduce some massive gameplay changes to the retail experience - and these are still being revealed now!
Classes (New Talent Trees)
WoW Dragonflight will see the return of traditional talent trees as seen before the release of Cataclysm in 2010 - and courtesy of two new reveals, we now know all of the WoW Dragonflight talents for Druid and Death Knight!
These new trees offer plenty of more customization across class and spec abilities, and will shake up gameplay across the board for PVE and PVP alike.
Professions
WoW Dragonflight will introduce a new system for professions that will include work orders, talent trees, and more!
UI
WoW Dragonflight will introduce new changes to UI to allow players better control over raid frames and what information is visible vs hidden.
This means more nameplate control, and incorporating some popular features from addons as old as time into WoW directly.
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