World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is getting one final update

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands represents the culmination of a storyline that has been brewing for years, with Sylvanas Windrunner's character bump-off drawing towards its whimpering conclusion.

For the past few expansions, we've seen fan-favorite Horde heroine Sylvanas Windrunner inexplicably commit genocide, while betraying the Horde, and her kingdom of Lordaeron for reasons unknown. In the most recent update, Blizzard revealed Sylvanas was "tricked" all along by The Jailer, Shadowlands' promising but ultimately disappointing villain, who manipulated the so-chosen "master tactician" Sylvanas with the virtually predictable plot in the history of writing.

Bitterness bated, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is picking upward one final update, dubbed ix.ii, which volition end what has been ane of the to the lowest degree successful World of Warcraft expansions of recent retention. Despite being a major driver of profits for Activision still in 2022, Shadowlands has seen Blizzard's monthly active users dip to their everyman levels in v years, as the visitor battles lawsuits from the U.S. regime over its handling of women in the workplace. Will 9.2 change Shadowlands' fortunes? My estimate is no, but if you're one of the few people still following WoW news in the hopes it will one day be good again (like me), hither's what you're getting in 9.2.

Zereth Mortis: Zereth Mortis is a new endgame zone populated by the "Beginning Ones," who are an alien race responsible for the cosmos of the Shadowlands, and play a heavy role in structuring the rules behind life and expiry. Zereth Mortis will feature a unlockable storyline involving the study of the Kickoff I's native linguistic communication, as players assist in fighting dorsum The Jailer and his shadowy forces that have seeped into Zereth Mortis.

Blizzard claims that Zereth Mortis is "truly alien," featuring otherworldly creature prototypes that have still to be fully completed past the First Ones architects. If I was contemptuous, I'd suggest that they're prototypical because this patch was rushed out as Blizzard pivots difficult in an attempt to brand up lost ground by developing a new expansion, but hey.

Sepulcher of the First Ones raid: The Sepulcher of the Commencement Ones is the final raid of the expansion, and is prepare to feature Dreadlords, an Algalon-manner Titan boss, culminating in a fight with The Jailor and a corrupted Anduin Wrynn. So far at that place doesn't seem to be anything particularly unique about this dungeon. But looks can exist deceiving.

Form Tier Sets: Players have been asking Blizzard for years for a return of unique class sets for raid dungeons, alas, they may wish they hadn't after seeing what Blizzard managed to cook up for this final tier. The tier sets follow the Sepulcher'southward pattern just want for detail and flair, looking more like a entry-level dungeon fix than what we used to make it Legion and before.

Those are the chief additions, across separating Tazavesh' mega-dungeon into two parts, and a vague "much more."

Blizzard has rushed out patches like this in expansions past when it shuts downwards expansions early on to move ahead into the adjacent one. Cataclysm comes to mind, whose terminate raid took place in an existing zone, featuring bosses comprised entirely of existing assets without fifty-fifty the slightest changes. Blizzard is probable putting the majority of its resource alongside the next expansion, which will be looking to make upwardly for the terrible writing and unpopular features of the last two expansions, faced with insurmountable contest from a resurgent Final Fantasy Xiv, who is getting a new expansion of its ain in the form of Endwalker in a few short weeks.

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is at present getting Android 11

After a very long wait, the original Surface Duo is now eligible to receive its over-the-air OS update to Android 11. Here is what is new and stock-still with the biggest update yet for Microsoft's start dual-screen Android device.