World of Warcraft Upcoming Content Preview

If you’d like to know what Blizzard Entertainment has in store for their long-running MMORPG World of Warcraft, you might want to watch this video where Blizzard’s game director Ion Hazzikostas talks about the upcoming content for World of Warcraft Classic and the game’s Battle for Azeroth expansion. On the Classic side of things, we can expect the Dire Maul dungeon to open its doors ahead of schedule on October 15, 2019. The dungeon will soon be followed the second Classic phase, and you can learn what to expect from it by reading this recent PC Gamer interview with Hazzikostas.

And when it comes to Battle for Azeroth, the massive Visions of N’zoth content update should be going live soon. The update will push the story forward and revolve around Azeroth’s fight with the Old God N’zoth. This confrontation will be represented by a new raid and repeatable open world PvE skirmishes. The update will also introduce two new allied races (Vulpera and Mechagnomes) and revamp the game’s Auction House functionality.

Here’s the video itself:

This article provides an overview of the new allied races. Check it out:

VULPERA

Clever and resourceful, the vulpera of Vol’dun have survived amidst the sands for generations. Eager to join the ranks of the Horde, their caravans have departed from the dunes in search of adventure.

The serpentine sethrak have taken to subjugating anyone they can as slaves, and the vulpera are an easy target for their machinations. If you’ve taken steps to liberate the vulpera from these overseers, they’ll join the Horde on the battlefield.

Available Classes: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior

Racial Traits:

• Bag of Tricks: Use a trick on an enemy to damage them, or an ally to heal them.
• Rummage Your Bag: Change the contents of your Bag of Tricks. Now where did you put that… ?
• Make Camp: Set your camp location outdoors.
• Return to Camp: Teleport back to your camp location.
• Nose for Trouble: Take less damage from the first strike inflicted by an enemy.
• Vulpera Survival Kit: Find extra goods when you loot humanoids.
• Fire Resistance: Take less damage from fire.
• Racial abilities, effects, and icons are subject to change.

TO UNLOCK THIS ALLIED RACE:

• Reach Exalted with Vuldunai
• Earn Achievement Secrets in the Sands
  • Complete the following Vol’dun storylines: “Unlikely Allies,” “The Warguard’s Fate,” “The Three Keepers,” “Atul’Aman,” “Dangers in the Desert,” “A City of Secrets,” and “Storming the Spire.”

When the next content update goes live, players who’ve completed the requirements will gain access to a quest chain to recruit the vulpera as an Allied Race. Once you complete the chain, you’ll receive the achievement Allied Races: Vulpera and can create a new vulpera on the character selection screen. You’ll also unlock a new mount—the Caravan Hyena—for your collection at character creation, which all of your Horde characters can ride.

NEW HERITAGE ARMOR

Leveling your new vulpera from 20 to 120 will earn a cosmetic Heritage Armor set that is unique to this new Allied Race.

MECHAGNOMES

Though they once sought to mechanize themselves completely, the mechagnomes now seek a balance between flesh and steel. Emerging from years of isolation on Mechagon, they bring both ingenuity and aptitude to the Alliance.

They left Gnomeregan to construct a metal metropolis, Mechagon. However, their once wise and ambitious ruler King Mechagon now ruthlessly rules over them with an iron fist.

Work together with the Rustbolt Resistance to overthrow their tyrant so these mechanical mavericks will join the Alliance.

Available Classes: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, and Warrior

Racial Traits:

• Re-Arm: Automatically heal yourself when your health drops to a low life total.
• Combat Analysis: Get stronger as you fight the same enemy.
• Hyper Organic Light Originator: Summon decoys of yourself to distract foes.
• Skeleton Pinkie: Open locked chests.
• Mastercraft: Function as a personal set of crafting tools for professions.
• Racial abilities, effects, and icons are subject to change.

TO UNLOCK THIS ALLIED RACE:

• Reach Exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance
• Earn Achievement The Mechagonian Threat
  • Complete the following Mechagon Island quests: “The Legend of Mechagon,” “A Quick Ear Hustle,” “This is Our Vault Now,” “Let’s Get It Started,” “You Must be This Height,” “Machinations for Mechagon,” “Only the Best Will Do,” “To Mechagon!,” “Prospectus Bay,” “We Come in Peace…and Profit,” “The Resistance Needs YOU!,” “Rescuing the Resistance,” “My Father’s Armies,” “We Can Fix It,” “Drill Rig Construction,” “Send My Father a Message,” “Welcome to the Resistance,” “Operation: Mechagon – The Mechorginator.”

When the next content update goes live, players who’ve completed the requirements will gain access to a quest chain to recruit the mechagnomes as an Allied Race. Once you complete the chain, you’ll receive the achievement Allied Races: Mechagnomes and can create a new mechagnome on the character selection screen. You’ll also unlock a new mount—the Mechagon Mechanostrider—for your collection at character creation, which all of your Alliance characters can ride.

NEW HERITAGE ARMOR

Leveling your new mechagnome from 20 to 120 will earn a cosmetic Heritage Armor set that is unique to this new Allied Race.