World of War craft: legion
Warcraft has changed. The twists and
turns of the Warcraft story have taken
the heroes of Azeroth to some strange
places, and pitted them against threats
barely hinted at in those three original strategy
games. As someone who hasn’t played WoW
seriously since Cataclysm, it’s clear to me that I’ll
never catch up with it all.
This latest expansion, Legion, promises a
different type of change. There’s a faint air
of ‘reboot’ surrounding Warcraft in
general at the moment, from the
upcoming Duncan Jones movie retelling
the story of the very first game to this
latest turn for WoW, which marches the
story forwards and backwards at the
same time. Forwards because this is very
much a successor to Warlords of Draenor
and kicks off where that expansion ended.
Backwards because it uses Warlords’
time-travel conceit to not only bring back
old arch-enemy Gul’dan, but through him
the Burning Legion – the ultimate threat
encountered at the end of Warcraft III –
and Illidan Stormrage, the fan-favourite
elven anti-hero famous for insisting, in the
strongest terms, that you’re not prepared.
I played through the starting
experience for Legion’s new player class,
the Demon Hunter – essentially a great
big collective act of Illidan cosplay. Your
new character even begins life as the
commander of the Illidari, a cross-faction
squad of brooding elves who like Illidan so
much they named their club after him. I’d
have gone with ‘Illi-fans’, myself.
Kicking off at level 98, you’re a melee
damage-dealer with powerful ranged
magic damage potential embroiled in a
war against the Burning Legion in an
strong Diablo overtones. Demon Hunters
can sprout wings to glide after a jump,
dash to cross gaps and deal damage, and
place heavy emphasis on massive critical
hits – landing one discounts the resource
cost of your most potent damage ability.
Just in time to deal the killing blow to
the Legion’s leadership, you’re given your
metamorphosis power. This lets you leap
into the air and smash back down to earth
as a smouldering, super-powered demon
elf. By the time I reached the boss, I was
accompanied by a mob of fellow Illi-fans.
The sight of us all transforming was cool
and silly all at once: a dilution of one of the
series’ iconic images, in one way, but also
a treat precision-tooled to please fans.
That’s Legion as a whole, as I see it:
indulgent but not unwelcome. It’s rare for
any game series, let alone a single game,
to reach WoW’s fine old age. It’s earned a
victory lap or two. Legion could amount to
a best of both worlds: a way to draw back
former fans with nostalgia, while finally
giving those dedicated lifers the toys
they’ve wanted to play with for a decade.
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