Everything Coming In Shadowlands: What you NEED to Know - Complete Guide to New Features & Changes

[@michaelguarino9152]

I can't wait to make a decision I'll regret later!

[@ThatOneDudeNick]

Thanks. I'm coming in hot, resubbing the day before expansion after being gone for a few years. I knew nothing about Shadowlands before this.

[@VeriStrawberi]

I watched all this and I'm still so confused.

[@Timhardscope]

same here haha

[@no-trick-pony]

Blizzard back then: "Let's prune talent trees, they are far too complicated." Blizzard now: "Hey, let's introduce talents on top of your talents for some covenant factions you have to choose and more talents from a talent tree from some weird conduit thing. Oh and you have to level them again too!" Yeah fuck that.

[@Thrall966]

They fixed it now with dragon flight or ? Would love to hear your opinion about this

[@mps7962]

Thx alot for the video, saved me, didnt know how the different features worked so this help tremendously. Keep it up

[@stevenalexander5762]

You have definitely done your homework. This video is so informative. Well done Selwen!

[@dusk1947]

Exceptional review of the majority of various content coming, in a nice stand alone video. Nice job

[@jake212]

I'll accept this as a birthday present. Thank you! Big rip to M+ though.

[@prephampaul]

I made it through! Thanks for dedicating all this time to this! I'll probably remember 1/3 of it but it'll be in my head lol

[@SelwenG]

Hehe no worries, each main system will have a dedicated guide closer to the game launch ^^

[@Zaaz]

I love your videos man i love your voice i just love every content you do thank you 💪🏻

[@BloodElfB]

Dalauan Sparrow and?

[@BloodElfB]

Dalauan Sparrow your opinion.

[@Porthin]

Go marry him

[@Zaaz]

Lmfao you guys gotta have some real problems in your life

[@egemenozan5641]

@Dalauan Sparrow ur disgusting.

[@sharkbytesgaming]

Also great shadowlands content videos selwen you never seem to dissapoint

[@uspatriot6414]

Great job on this guide. It helped me a lot. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@MrGMottas]

Such a good informative video. Congratulations and thank you!

[@kroven009]

I hope they have the "keep it simple stupid" saying in their mind through out this expansion unlike bfa of course

[@kroven009]

well this comment aged poorly..

[@Montenegro651]

Awesome video! Thank you for the great content! Definitely worth the sub.

[@beny988]

Great video Selwen

[@ajparent87]

Thanks for putting all the work into making this video! I'm only half way through but I can't help but feel dramatically less interested in playing another WoW expansion. All of these mini grind systems cobbled together just sound completely mind numbing. I just want a game thats fun to play without having to watch a 40 min video just to understand whats going on lol.

[@SelwenG]

I appreciate that! And hey maybe this will help...maybe not but much of what is discussed here isn't 'mandatory' content. A lot of it is optional if you chasing after cosmetics or to have fun upgrading things like Anima and the Sanctum. There is a lot of new features for sure but outside of renown and soul ash grind (for legendarys) which is a total 2 hours or so of play time to do in a full week, there are no other 'grinds', for player power at least. SL is more of a time-gated grind in comparison to the more typical grind of the past 2 xpacs, if that makes sense. Everything else is more...play/do what you want.

[@wollyram6248]

So, Selwen, in your opinion, which is more appropriate for Shadowlands, cautious optimism or cautious pessimism?

[@SelwenG]

For me cautious optimism, I feel Shadowlands has more good than bad, though the bad is more broadly outspoken due to obvious reasons with covenant powers(abilities soulbinds, etc) I don't think covenant powers will ruin the expansion, though I'm with the vocal majority against locking these powers behind what should've been just cosmetic and thematic choices, it would've created a much more healthy and fun environment if players were discussing their allegiances to these covenants based on what appealed to them in terms of theme and what they represent in the Shadowlands...not this glorified talent ability...that said, ultimately it will just make some gameplay aspects frustrating and annoying for a lot of players, while sadly removing that fun thematic choice due to the power attached. At the end of the day I think we'll have a Legion like expansion with the legendary issue being replaced by the covenant powers but overall fun enough xpac.(no TF though!) It's just sad that we could have an amazing expansion as opposed to a potentially good enough one with some repeated mistakes and design faults.

[@puffyeato]

I dont understand crafting and professions that well Is there somewhere I can go to learn so Im ready for it in shadowlands? Its all very confusing I just dont know what im looking at

[@McDeezy4sheezy]

Thanks for the video. Very informative. I also like your UI. What add ons are you running?

[@SelwenG]

ELvui

[@glb1993]

I haven't played wow since the northrend expansion so I'm a bit lost here but did you say level 50 to 60? Did they drop the level caps since I last played years ago or something. If they did that's fine but I'm just surprised lol.

[@SelwenG]

Yep level squish

[@Darkvoltrox]

This expansion seems to be quite flexible to the average casual player. Would you agree?

[@SelwenG]

Yea I would agree with that.

[@deaconsyxx322]

I think you’re right, I think it deffo favours casual over elite players atm

[@Thrall966]

@@deaconsyxx322 not true at all

[@wolfpwr1897]

So if i'm already loaded on honor and conquest points i'm gonna be able to get my pvp gear and upgrade it to top day 1 ???

[@TheAnimeNerds]

I imagine it’s gonna be reset every season

[@skipp7433]

Awsum guide mate... As usual the wow go to guru😁

[@kunqq1477]

Your Videos are awesome ! Great Work Dude !

[@Szemi3k]

Thank you for this video.

[@GameStorm68]

Where do you get the enhanced quest markers?

[@nickidavies6658]

Thank you for this video very informative really help me out

[@dashrendr]

No one will ever accuse this guy of brevity.

[@cssghostPL]

I have a question: are mobs still adapt to item level i wear? What's the point of having better gear when it takes exact same time to kill a random mob at world map?

[@SelwenG]

I think thats still in place, I definitely still feel the difference of ilvl though, especially in the maw.

[@k4br1ta]

What is your interface addon?

[@cata774g]

Elvui

[@Sillen95]

WHO even asked for all these stupid systems Blizzard

[@99glen]

Wait can someone game me up! I'v been out of the loop for awhile. So what happens to all characters that are over lvl 60 that i already have. What will happen to zones...are they now where you can lvl in any zone? Does it scale? thanks

[@eriknilsson1174]

So during the prepatch every character got level squished to 50 as the max cap is going to be 60 in shadowlands. For the zones, yes all zones including BFA even is playable as soon as u create a character from my understanding and it every zone scales. Hope that answers all of your questions, if not feel free to ask more. :)

[@99glen]

@@eriknilsson1174 thanks for the reply! So every character that I have over 60 will be squished to 50 once Shadowland is released? Also do you know how many dungeons 50-59 there will be?

[@eriknilsson1174]

@@99glen I may have been unclear about the level squish. My friend made a Demon Hunter before the squish and when it came it dropped from level 98 to level 39. So u only get squished down to 50 if u were 120. Im not rly sure what levels get squished anymore, but as far as the amount of dungeons there will be 8 different 50-60 dungeons on launch i assume. They probably will add more.

[@99glen]

@@eriknilsson1174 Thanks! Clears it up for me!

[@mugszy7101]

Do you have to have a crafting profession to make a legendary item. or can you buy in the AH from other players? I have not kept up with my professions in a long while.

[@SelwenG]

You can buy from AH, no problem.

[@wookietoots5179]

Great job....thank you!

[@FFX2P]

Are you from Portugal? Your accent seems to suggest so, correct me if I'm wrong

[@SelwenG]

yep

[@harnaskrogor2577]

Well this game didnt change at all still world of worldquest, beacuse there is nothing better after leveling for 20 hours to hitting lvl cap and still do quests

[@EleosGames]

I have to say i am hyped to start playing SL, waiting for pre-patch now to choose a main and an alt . Going Most likely for main MM Hunter Venthyr/Rogue Malraxxus or Venthyr. and Alting DK Necrolords or WW Monk but most likely Unholy Dk for Alt. What are all of you going to main and alt?

[@Sillen95]

Warlock Main, Alt maybe Hunter, rogue or feral

[@MahatmaLektro]

What add ons do u use for health bars and backpack ?

[@SelwenG]

Elvui

[@jodyboles8208]

still hate that we dont get any new class though. necromancer would be perfect here!!!

[@ForTheForsaken]

yep or a voodoo witch doctor who also summons the undead like in diablo 3

[@hvdiv17]

shadowlands will be a broken pile of fun and still better then bfa i cant wait give me pre patch now blizzard!!!!!.

[@8ysix]

What UI do you use in the video? Looks nice

[@SelwenG]

Elvui.

[@jbustabust]

WOW is becoming more and more of a korean mmo by the expansion

[@bryanbreezy]

What do you mean by that?

[@syatek]

anyone feel like the stat squish is too much? critting 400 feels very weak...

[@wyrmtung8700]

I like the squish feels very wrath like numbers Hopefully power creep wont get out of control and we stay around 30k dps by end of expac. Personally loving all the wrath vibes and the numbers play a big part into that. By the time we start hitting 6 figure dps it start to feel like a Jrpg with just nonsense numbers with a bunch of extra 0's that require meters to make any sense of. Lower numbers just make it easier to digest.

[@syatek]

@@wyrmtung8700 I agree, I played a lot of end game wrath. I remember hitting 38k on Deathbringer Saurfang H ICC 25 & it was stupid high. But I dont recall how much DPS people were doing going into Naxx - do you?

[@Sp4rks]

Joe Cardillo i think rogues hit around 7k on patchwerk

[@jippy33]

I can't wait to deposit my enema at my enema reservoir.

[@SelwenG]

I would say its the best resource to date.

[@Sillen95]

Will legendary items be available to use in Arenas?

[@SelwenG]

Yep

[@christianvanderniet]

fun optional content, you mean the grind of collecting stuff you "need" to have

[@alwoodel8900]

I don't like a new system every xpac. Pick one that works and just tweak and expand it. Spend all that effort on content for the players.

[@mandus7510]

wouldn't work lol, you know how much people change and get bored of shit. No matter how good a system is, over time, people will want change.

[@Thrall966]

They heard you ! No more systems with dragonflight

[@user-nz2qu6qd3j]

What bear mount is that at 03:05??

[@narakagaming1862]

Looks like the caged bear/Blackpaw from Darkshore.

[@dimwillow7113]

these mini games makes me lol

[@ForTheForsaken]

A turtle has made it to the water

[@Hateweek1984]

I'm a noob and have been drinking from a firehose since day 1... lol

[@joshheinink]

Can you show the armors weapons

[@SelwenG]

I show some on this video but cosmetics will be show in more detail on more specific videos or this one would've been 2 hours long :P

[@joshheinink]

@@SelwenG just wondering😁

[@TheLW12]

campaign covenant campaign quest, say that 5 times fast.

[@diddledaddle]

I dont have enough keybinds for all of this new shit

[@xxkyky]

Bro same here. When I go in ptr I’m like okay now I’m fucking confused what to smash especially with no covenants yet also!

[@SelwenG]

Yep there's more buttons in Shadowlands, running out of keybinds myself :P

[@JamesJones-do8rj]

1,2,3,4,5,Q,E,R,T,F,G,Z,X,C < Repeat with shift / CTRL, scroll button + mouse buttons (2-12) ample amounts of keybinds.. p.s if you dont like CTRL use caps lock and rebind CTRL with caps lock on your PC. (Look up a vid)

[@NotClosedMinded]

Farmable rep ! Yas! Time gated rep with louzy world quests is beyond frustrating.

[@Pancakespls]

So, Torghast is based on Palace of the Dead and Heaven on High from FFXIV. I hope the WoW devs give credit where credit is due, to the FFXIV devs....lol

[@Trygvar13]

I find that Shadowlands is a lot closer to ESO then FFXIV. I never liked FFXIV but I love ESO. And I love Shadowlands :) Even the new alts system is a lot closer to ESO.

[@Pancakespls]

@@Trygvar13 Well, I'm talking about an in game system taken from FFXIV and tweaked by WoW devs, not that WoW plays like FFXIV, because it doesn't. I think it's cool they borrowed this system, and maybe WoW can make a deep dungeon better than FFXIV, as PoD and HoH our deep dungeons are pretty much dead in Shadowbringers. I'm going to try out WoW, Shadowlands, and I'm looking forward to Torghast. I think it's more than fine for MMOs to have similar in game systems to each other, but with tweaks. So no shade from me, just acknowledgement that FFXIV innovated this system. Also, imitation is the highest form of flattery, so there is that.

[@Trygvar13]

@@Pancakespls I tried FFXIV on several occasions but never got past the first zone. So I really have no idea what I'm talking about :) WoW "copied" Everquest and for 10 years every other MMORPG copied WoW. I enjoyed every expansion but I preferred Burning Crusade, Lich King. Warlords of Draenor (yes I really liked it) and Legion. BFA was not as bad as Pandaria but I quickly got bored. I never did the final raid or the visions. All I did was level alts... or play ESO. But what I tried so far in Beta is really interesting. I still have not decided which class will be my main.

[@dalekkgames5430]

Good Ole palace of Lvling alt jobs

[@Pancakespls]

@Tronam I'm not going to type out a huge ass explanation, Google is your friend.

[@warlordbk]

Why are Undead not getting any love!?? We need Undead-tauren, night elf/blood elf orcs all that good stuff to be playable as a race

[@Altercepez]

what i dont like about wow system is that every expansion seems nullified or make prev expansion obsolute , i've been grinding azerith power armor, but i guess it will be wortless in shadow lands

[@budlikycz2445]

Yep, first green and you can take your 2 years of grind and flush it down the shitter :)

[@ForTheForsaken]

lol you can sweet talk daily chores as much as you like but I am not sure after the huge steaming pile at the end of BFA we just came from we will be at all welcoming of the idea. DAILY BAD in simple terms lol

[@SelwenG]

Well, the maw is becoming more and more the daily chore...

[@ForTheForsaken]

@@SelwenG Yeah but the maw can be grindable no? Like you can stay in there indefinitely if you choose which would not feel so daily to me

[@SelwenG]

@@ForTheForsaken Not exactly, The Maw itself is a daily since you can only grind a set amount of things there in a day before you get kicked out by the Eye of the Jailer mechanic. And you will need Stygia for sockets. so to maximize that you need to do it daily. Unless you don't care about sockets or the extra conduit upgrades(still fuzzy rn)

[@ForTheForsaken]

@@SelwenG damn that really sucks the fun out, they really had me sold on the 'endless dungeon' feature but I guess it was too good to be true

[@SelwenG]

@@ForTheForsaken The 'Endless Dungeon' feature, is Torghast, it's separate to the Maw zone itself, not sure if you confusing the 2, that one you can run it whenever and as much as you want but it's not endless. Ends at 18 floors or 6. With various difficulties.

[@patsydf]

Enemas? lol

[@TSunshineful]

I unsubscribed this expansion. Talk about grinding! Too, too much.

[@dota2mas7er84]

This expansion will see the lowest engagement to date

[@derekz5724]

Second

[@gerdgrubel902]

i stopped playing wow, when the dude in dalaran gave me a quest to go to dalaran. I then found out, that there are ten different dalaran and timezones which made me immediately deinstall that shit. You are overwhelmed with content in wow these days, they need to really clean that shit up. its confusing af. Same goes for the whole base/covenant/Garnison/Quest system/anima/necklace crap.Its like the devs are desperate to introduce new, exciting systems, but instead make the game even more confusing, at least to returners/new players. its meh, really. just let me go grab 10 dinosaur eggs and reward me with gear. make it simple...

[@crimmy0204]

who would ever want to play this?

[@shahbeghgill6333]

Electric Lawn Services who wouldn’t?

[@jodyboles8208]

who wouldnt? its great lol

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

Ok so more fake crap tacked on to make you feel like your getting something but then when the next expansion comes out it’s just all gone ? Cool beans. I was really hoping we would get some of what classes used to be back in this expansion.

[@budlikycz2445]

It was always like this with wow. You grind for 2 years for some pesh loot and after new expansion all your hard work is just flushed down the shitter with the first green....

[@Sanchez9531]

im 13 minutes in and all i can think of is: this is fucking garbage it's like people want to buy the same boring stupid expansion for the 3rd time?

[@1stfu]

So confusing. Not your video. Just all this weird content in wow.

[@gunzink9488]

im glad i watched this, now i know i wont we wasting my time playing this shit game, oh lord what happended to wow

[@jneff6456]

The more I see, the worse Shadowlands looks.

[@Spankerdig1]

we all know you gonna play it on release anyway hypocrit.

[@sharkbytesgaming]

First

[@421spaceman]

Really don’t like the lvl squish.. why not just let us lvl to 130? I really don’t understand their reasoning.

[@xavierboomershine5255]

Because a lvl 130 grind is just daunting and unsatisfying to new/returning players.

[@421spaceman]

Xavier Boomershine if people think it’s a “grind” to play a game, maybe they should be doing something else with their lives 🤔

[@xavierboomershine5255]

@@421spaceman Shouldn't the goal of a dynamic game like WoW be to improve it's appeal to players of all kinds to keep revenue high and sustain the updates we enjoy? Besides alot of people want to get their friends involved but the 120 lvl grind is extremely boring and hard to get through especially if what they are looking for is playing the post 120 lvl content such as raiding, gear grinding, and so on. The lvling experience should be a tutorial and hook for new players not an barrier to their ability to enjoy the game.

[@AstariahJW]

I think level 80 would have been good. Its weird going back to level 60 which wow classic is at. It's like wow going backwards. Most mmo's lvl are at 80

[@MonkeyDLuffy-cm4fm]

Thanks for the video.

[@Marvek700]

Third