Players will be able to fight the first three bosses from the revised edition of the Upper Blackrock Spire

Oct 6, 2014 13:01 GMT  ·  By

Blizzard Entertainment has revealed the first eight dungeons that gamers will be able to enjoy in the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft, also pointing out that players will be able to get a sneak preview of one of them a little earlier than scheduled.

Warlords of Draenor is only a month and a week away, set to drop on November 13, when Blizzard's long-standing massively multiplayer online role-playing game celebrates its tenth anniversary, and the company has decided to give its fans a preview of the things to come.

The eight dungeons revealed are divided into two tiers, the first four being geared toward players looking to level their character from level 90 to the new level cap of 100, with the latter four being created for max level characters to test their mettle.

Old places will see new life

One of the max-level dungeons coming in the upcoming expansion is Upper Blackrock Spire, a reimagined version of the classic vanilla World of Warcraft instance of the same name.

Veteran players will no doubt remember the quirky by today's standards dungeon, a more experimental affair hailing from the days when content was not as streamlined as it is today and Blizzard was still testing the waters.

The overhauled Upper Blackrock Spire is under the management of the Ironmarch Vanguard, and three of the Spire's five new bosses will be made available to level 90 players to fight before Warlords of Draenor drops, in a pre-expansion version of the dungeon, to be released shortly.

The rest will all explore a bit of the Warcraft universe's massive lore, being familiar to long-time fans of the franchise but at the same time also delivering some juicy new details.

The four leveling dungeons will have four bosses each, and the three remaining level cap ones will present some of the expansion's new villains.

Many new features

In an effort to deliver a completely novel gameplay experience to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game's audience, Blizzard has even arranged for one of the upcoming dungeons, The Grimrail Depot, to take place completely on a moving train.

Warlords of Draenor will explore an alternate timeline from the franchise's past, taking place on the world of Draenor, the original home world of the proud orc clans. Players will get to explore the lush world before the catastrophic events that led to its transformation into Outland, the broken husk that gamers visited in The Burning Crusade expansion.

In addition to a new setting, the expansion will also introduce a ton of gameplay tweaks, altering almost every aspect of the game in one way or another, in order to further tweak the gameplay experience, based on feedback collected over the course of the Mists of Pandaria expansion.