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World of Warcraft: Legion’s launch trailer shows Azeroth’s peril

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Blizzard is preparing us for Legion’s launch.

World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion comes out tomorrow, and the developer has marked the occasion by releasing a new trailer. World of Warcraft was once a phenomenon with over 12 million subscribers, but those numbers have fallen for the nearly 12-year-old online game. Blizzard no longer reports those numbers, but a new expansion can bring old players back and introduce new ones to the massively multiplayer title.

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The trailer shows familiar Warcraft characters like the mage Khadgar, Sylvanas Windrunner (the leader of the Undead Scourge faction), human king Varian Wryn, and the back-from-the-dead demon hunter Illidan.

Legion introduces Demon Hunter as a new class, and it opens up the Broken Isles as a new land to explore. Players also earn and empower Artifact weapons and join Class Halls, new locations where they can hang out with other players from their same class.