Looking for the wow factor in Warlords of Draenor

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In a little over a month from now, World of Warcraft's fifth expansion will be released. Titled Warlords of Draenor, the new expansion raises the level cap to 100, introduces a new garrison system to give players a permanent sense of place in the world, and ushers in the usual feast of new dungeons, raids and player-versus-player content.
As with previous expansions, there'll also be a teaser patch before the bulk of this new content arrives. Fan-favourite dungeon Upper Blackrock Spire has been re-imagined for Level 100 - complete with the corpse of WOW's most famous player, Leeroy Jenkins - but Level 90 players will be able to tackle an appropriately re-tuned version of it before the expansion's November release. A world event heralding the start of the new storyline will also see swarms of the Iron Horde invading the world through the Burning Crusade's Dark Portal.
The bulk of the changes detailed in the patch notes have little to do with new adventures though, and a good deal more to do with the systems that purr away beneath the bonnet: the normalisation of a decade's worth of rapidly inflating stats, for example, not to mention the de-cluttering of character skill sets which have slowly bloated over the course of four expansions.
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