Shadowlands Expansion Live Today!

[Stoy]

Shadowlands Expansion Live Today!
Shadowlands goes live globally today, releasing at the same time for everyone!

• The level cap has been raised to 60!
• Official Patch Notes - Check out the official patch notes for the expansion.
• Patch 9.0.1 Recap - The prepatch introduced a lot of new things to go with the expansion.
• Class Guides - Learn more about your class abilities going into the expansion.
• The Shadowlands Zones - Learn about the new leveling zones this expansion.
• Covenants - Learn more about the new covenants feature.
• Torghast - Learn about the new rogue-inspired Torghast repeatable dungeon!
• Legendaries - Learn more about crafting and acquiring your legendaries in Shadowlands.
• Shadowlands Dungeons - Preview our dungeon guides for Shadowlands!
• PvP Vendor - Learn about the return of PvP vendors in Shadowlands.
• World Boss Guides - Learn about the new world bosses in Shadowlands.
• Reputation Guides - Learn how to reach exalted as quickly as possible with all of the new reputations in Shadowlands!
• World Quests and Callings - There have been a few changes for World Quests in Shadowlands.
• Mounts - Shadowlands adds a bunch of new mounts to obtain.

What is Not Coming This Week?
Blizzard has broken down the release of certain content post expansion launch!

• The Castle Nathria Raid
  
  • Normal and Heroic difficulties - December 8th
  • Mythic Castle Nathria, Raid Finder Wing 1 - December 15th
  • Raid Finder Wing 2 - January 5th
  • Raid Finder Wing 3 - January 19th
  • Raid Finder Wing 4 - February 2nd
• Mythic Plus Season 1 - December 8th
• Shadowlands PvP Season 1 - December 8th
• Torghast
  
  • Layers 4 to 6 - December 8th
  • Layers 7 to 8 - December 15th

Leveling Tips
DesMephisto shared his leveling guide for Shadowlands, which allowed him to reach 60 very quickly! Be sure to check out all of the tabs for helpful addons and tips.

Official Patch Notes
Check out the official 9.0.2 patch notes!

Patch 9.0.1 Recap
If you are just coming back, be sure to take a look at the Patch 8.0.1 recap for all of the system changes made to the game.

Class Guides

Death Knight

• Blood Death Knight Shadowlands Guide
• Frost Death Knight Shadowlands Guide
• Unholy Death Knight Shadowlands Guide

Demon Hunter

• Havoc Demon Hunter Shadowlands Guide
• Vengeance Demon Hunter Shadowlands Guide

Druid

• Balance Druid Shadowlands Guide
• Feral Druid Shadowlands Guide
• Guardian Druid Shadowlands Guide
• Restoration Druid Shadowlands Guide

Hunter

• Beast Mastery Hunter Shadowlands Guide
• Marksmanship Hunter Shadowlands Guide
• Survival Hunter Shadowlands Guide

Mage

• Arcane Mage Shadowlands Guide
• Fire Mage Shadowlands Guide
• Frost Mage Shadowlands Guide

Monk

• Brewmaster Monk Shadowlands Guide
• Mistweaver Monk Shadowlands Guide
• Windwalker Monk Shadowlands Guide

Paladin

• Holy Paladin Shadowlands Guide
• Protection Paladin Shadowlands Guide
• Retribution Paladin Shadowlands Guide

Priest

• Discipline Priest Shadowlands Guide
• Holy Priest Shadowlands Guide
• Shadow Priest Shadowlands Guide

Rogue

• Assassination Rogue Shadowlands Guide
• Outlaw Rogue Shadowlands Guide
• Subtlety Rogue Shadowlands Guide

Shaman

• Elemental Shaman Shadowlands Guide
• Enhancement Shaman Shadowlands Guide
• Restoration Shaman Shadowlands Guide

Warlock

• Affliction Warlock Shadowlands Guide
• Demonology Warlock Shadowlands Guide
• Destruction Warlock Shadowlands Guide

Warrior

• Arms Warrior Shadowlands Guide
• Fury Warrior Shadowlands Guide
• Protection Warrior Shadowlands Guide

New Zones
Check out our previews of the 4 new leveling zones and 1 max level zone in Shadowlands!

Covenant Guides
Learn more about the 4 major covenants in Shadowlands and what you can expect if you choose them.

Torghast Preview
One of the main new features added in Shadowlands is Torghast, Tower of the Damned. This repeatable dungeon is inspired by roguelikes and is where you will go to collect resources to craft your new legendaries! Check it out!

Legendary Crafting Preview
Shadowlands introduces a new system to craft your own legendaries with materials from professions and Torghast! Check out the preview!

Shadowlands Dungeons
Shadowlands adds 8 new dungeons to the game. Check out our previews below for boss abilities and more!

PvP Vendor
PvP vendors have returned in Shadowlands. Click the banner below to see what's changed.

Reputation Guides
Shadowlands introduces 4 new reputation factions! Check out out guides for rewards and tips to reach exalted!

World Quest Changes
World quests are still very similar to how they have been in the past. The only thing that has changed is that there are only a few up per zone at at a time. Furthermore, they sometimes are a little more involved than what you would expect because of how few there are.

• World quests reward 125 reputation with the faction of the zone they are in.
• World quest rewards include"
  
  • Extra reputation
  • Gold
  • Anima
  • Gear
  • Conduits

Covenant Callings
Callings replace emissaries and function similarly to them in that three are available at a time and they last 3 days.

• Callings are available in your Covenant Sanctum. They appear as daily quests from NPCs and can be seen in your quest log and Covenant menu once you pick them up.
• You can preview the available Callings and rewards from your Sanctum Report window from anywhere in-game.
• Callings don't always ask you to do the same things. You could be asked to do world quests in specific zones, collect anima, collect items from Torghast, or several other options.
• Callings reward caches with chances at gear, anima, and more.

Shadowlands World Bosses
Shadowlands has 4 new world bosses that cycle much like in BfA and Legion. One boss will be active per week and they all drop item level 207 gear as well as many different conduits and legendary recipes. They will likely go active on December 8th when Castle Nathria launches.

Shadowlands Mounts
A ton of new mounts are coming with this expansion! Check out our preview below!

[Msi]

Finally!! Goodbye BFA!

[Wreckington]

Waiting all day for launch.... should have just gone to work.

[Tommy T]

Great collection of guides.
Thanks for putting it together.

[Depakote]

Honestly i hate guides. Wish people would just learn things in game with their group/friends. That's more fun anyway.

[LoLcano]

Honestly i hate guides. Wish people would just learn things in game with their group/friends. That's more fun anyway.

Nobody is forcing you to read them , go have fun your way.

[ryjkur]

Honestly i hate guides. Wish people would just learn things in game with their group/friends. That's more fun anyway.

You dont have to read guides, youll understand how everything works in under 1 week by playing the game.

[oldgeezer]

Well, I enjoyed the hell out of BFA, damn your eyes.

[Rokkuman]

Does anyone know if login on companion app counts to activate bonus exp after Shadowlands launch?

[Aggressive]

Thank God Almighty. Goodbye to the worst expansion ever. I want corruptions and azerite gear to be a damn memory.

[dope_danny]

Man if i didn't visit mmochampion i legitimately would not know it was coming out this week let alone today. Is there just not marketing this time? Legion and BfA were basically unavoidable in banner ads, youtube adverts and twitter spam in the weeks before launch. This post is straight up the first thing saying Shadowlands is out today i've seen.

[1know]

Let's go already seus bando de arrombado!!!

[Daedius]

I am ready for the lag. Evident the servers can't cope with large groups with them Rares in ICC... :|

Though maybe ICC wasn't sharded, so hopefully it'll be a non-issue?

[Ealyssa]

Honestly i hate guides. Wish people would just learn things in game with their group/friends. That's more fun anyway.

What about you do you and let others have their own fun ?
I hate people imposing their view on others...

[Nalam the Venom]

What about you do you and let others have their own fun ?
I hate people imposing their view on others...

My theory is that his "Method" might be slower than something you can just read/watch and he does not want to be "Behind" just for playing the game the way he wants to, Or maby he just dosen't want the "Bad" players to be able to be as fast with information & progress as he is.

I get very Anxious about new expansions.. as all these new systems and things just feel very overwhelming, so i appriciate these guides very much.

[rrayy]

My theory is that his "Method" might be slower than something you can just read/watch and he does or want to be "Behind" just for playing the game the way he wants to, Or maby he just dosen't want the "Bad" players to be able to be as fast with information & progress as he is.

THen that is a him problem. He shouldn't be trying to dicate how everyone should play so he can play his way. HE needs to paly his way and not think aobut what everyone else is doing.

[Icelin]

All aboard the hype train. Yeeeaaaa ~
Hope everything goes smoothly.

[MasterHamster]

We'll see if they manage to provide a proper sense of character growth, I doubt it, but would like to be proven wrong. Probably won't buy Shadowlands until 9.1 or 9.2 though. The game design of Shadowlands is waaaaaay too close to BFA still for a purchase from me.

[Sanguinerd]

Jesus effing hell the lag on Draenor EU is already unbearable IF youre not getting random dcs that is.

Looks promising...

[Fawkess]

Quick question, once shadowlands launches should I be in Icecrown or Orgrimmar to start?