Cataclysm Expansion Features

Cataclysm Expansion Features is a set of articles released by Blizzard Entertainment that previewed the expansion prior to its release.

• Tol Barad
• Stonecore
• Reforging
• Archaeology
• Tinkertown
• Gilneas Battleground
• Twilight Highlands
• Grim Batol
• Twin Peaks Battleground
• Halls of Origination
• Echo Isles
• Vashj'ir
• Hyjal
• Abyssal Maw
• Faces of Cataclysm
• Gilneas
• Lost Isles

• Goblins
• Worgen

• Ashenvale
• Azshara
• Darkshore
• Southern Barrens

Adventure as one of two new races--the cursed worgen with the Alliance or the resourceful goblins with the Horde.

Earn new abilities, tap into new talents, and progress through the path system, a new way for players to improve characters.

Familiar zones across the original continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms have been altered forever and updated with new content, from the devastated Badlands to the broken Barrens, which has been sundered in two.

Explore newly opened parts of the world, including Uldum, Grim Batol, and the great Sunken City of Vashj'ir beneath the sea.

Enjoy more high-level raid content than previous expansions, with optional more challenging versions of all encounters.

Explore Azeroth as a gnome priest, blood elf warrior, or one of the other never-before-available race and class combinations.

Progress as a guild to earn guild levels and guild achievements.

Take on PvP objectives and daily quests on Tol Barad Island, a new Wintergrasp-like zone, and wage war in all-new rated Battlegrounds.

Master a new secondary profession to unearth valuable artifacts and earn unique rewards.

Explore Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms like never before.

And much, much more...

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