
In
Cataclysm, everything is changing; we know that much. But it’s hard to actually describe
how much the entire world has changed without having you, the reader, actually sit down and play the expansion to see for yourself. It’s not just geography. For nearly every zone, the changes
also involves completely re-working quest lines, in some cases culling or replacing them completely.
Zones like Redridge and Westfall benefit from years of feedback and the overall shift in Blizzard’s design philosophy when it comes to questing — but they don’t change much geographically, which is fine. A zone like Western Plaguelands, on the other hand, benefits from the fact that a huge change just makes sense, given the events of the previous expansion.
And what we’re getting is a huge change. Spoilers abound after the break, as I take you on a tour through one of Cataclysm’s major success stories. Bear in mind that the zone’s revamp isn’t 100% complete and several quest lines can’t yet be completed. This is also from the point of view of an Alliance character.
To summarize in a sentence: Western Plaguelands is all about new beginnings.
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