
World of Warcraft: The War Within has enjoyed, overall, a pretty decent response from the playerbase at large. A surprisingly solid story, a premise that screams high fantasy, and some peak quality of life upgrades that've made the game all the more alt-friendly has, by and large, led to a real sense that WoW is back, baby.
But now the real endgame begins—alongside the inevitable judgement of whether The War Within truly is the banger expansion it's promising to be. Released yesterday for the US and today for the EU, this first season brings with it the Nerub-ar Palace raid, Mythic Dungeons, higher tiers of delves, and a fresh PvP season. Let's go through the marquee features, as revealed in a pre-release blog on the World of Warcraft website (and this handy infographic, courtesy of Blizzard).