The worlds are so much more visually rich, more radically scaled. As much as Burning Crusade Classic Gold my veteran soul might be stirred by the sight of this canyons of Thousand Needles or the windswept Borean Tundra, there's not anything from the old game that may touch your first sight of this excellent, burnished ziggurats of Battle for Azeroth's Zuldazar.

The story is so much more confident, pulled from the pursuit text and into the action, while your advancement through the game is provided a strong thematic spine: base-building, a war effort, a pursuit for a great artifact weapon. An invisible slot machine sometimes upgrades your quest-reward items using a flourish, just because you deserve it. It's such a lavish experience. In the event you need to trudge through 10-year-old content to get to this? Of course you should not.

Obviously, there are a number of oddities. Whilst the level climbing handles many situations perfectly well, it is sometimes evident that you're playing what was initially high-level content although not yet from your teenagers: Legion's class-specific quests, by way of example, sometimes set up enemy patterns intended for skills you do not have . Chromie Time, meanwhile, isn't clearly signposted and a little confusing at present.

You can, it seems, scatter between expansions at will using the present geographical links, rather than requesting Chromie to time-shift one to if you would like to go, but it throws up some inconsistencies and scrambles some quest-lines (at one point, I entered Orgrimmar's great hall to locate equally Sylvanas and Garrosh were Warchief, simultaneously).

What this overhaul really does is change World of Warcraft by a game that is organised geographically, as a monumental odyssey by its numerous storied landmasses, to one that is organised chronologically. No, scratch that - narratively. WOW is no longer set over its whole history. It's set over the last two years. You can choose out of that if you need, but the game as good as points out to you that you are bending the rules to achieve this and taking an unwarranted trip to buy TBC Classic Gold the past. Why return?