April 19 (UPI) — Blizzard Entertainment announced a new expansion to its long-running massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft on Tuesday.
The upcoming update, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, is the ninth expansion for the popular MMORPG and will introduce players to a new race called the Dracthyr. The dragon-human hybrids can join either the Horde or the Alliance and are exclusively tied to the Evoker class.
Dragonflight will take place on the mythical Dragon Isles, a land that has awoken after 10,000 years of being dormant. Also included in the new expansion is dragon riding, a new method of traversing the isles that allows players the ability to customize their own dragons.
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In addition, Dragonflight expands the player level cap to 70 and introduces four new leveling zones to get players there: the Waking Shores; the Ohn’ahran Plains; the Azure Span; and Thaldraszus.
Draconic characters who have previously had major roles in World of Warcraft lore — such as Alexstrasza, Kalecgos, Ebonhorn and Wrathion — will return for key storylines. As usual, the expansion will add quests, dungeons and raids that are tied to the new area.
Blizzard has yet to announce a release window for Dragonflight, though the expansion is expected to release later in 2022.