Four years have passed since the aftermath of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and a great tension now smolders throughout the ravaged world of Azeroth. As the battle-worn races begin to rebuild their shattered kingdoms, new threats, both ancient and ominous, arise to plague the world once again.

World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world and trying to stay alive at the same time.

Features:

· Adventure together with thousands of other players simultaneously.
· Explore an expansive world with miles of forests, deserts, snow-blown mountains, and other exotic lands
· Choose from three server types and find the one best suited for your own playing style: Normal, Player versus Player, and Role-playing
· Join the Horde or the Alliance as one of 8 playable races
· Encounter many familiar and new Warcraft characters and monsters.
· Learn the continuing story of Azeroth by completing a wide variety of challenging quests.
· Journey through an epic world filled with dungeons of different styles and depths.
· Explore 6 huge capital cities, which serve as major hubs for the races inhabiting them
· Practice various professions to help locate reagents, make and enhance custom items, acquire wealth through trade with other players, and more
· Purchase tickets for travel along a number of air routes flown by creatures such as Gryphons and Wyverns. For global transportation, travel by Boat or Goblin Zeppelin
· Once a certain level has been achieved, players can choose to purchase permanent personal mounts
· Establish a guild, purchase a custom guild tabard, and promote or demote recruits to different ranks within the guild.
· Mail gold, items, or messages to other players, or send them to your own characters for easy muling.
· Sell your items or search for items for sale via the automated auction house.
· Locate and engage other players with easy-to-use features and tools, including chat channels, friends lists, and animated and audible character expressions.
· Customize the game's interface via XML.
· Enjoy hundreds of hours of gameplay with new quests, items, and adventures every month


What's New in This Release:

World PvP
· Players will no longer lose the Silithus or Eastern Plaguelands PvP buffs after dying in the zone.
· Players will now port to the Crown Guard Tower graveyard if they die in Fungal Vale while their faction controls the tower.
· Players will no longer be interrupted while sitting down in Eastern Plaguelands when contested towers change ownership.
· Players will no longer be interrupted while sitting down in Silithus when a side collects 200 Silithyst and wins the event.
· In the Silithus World PVP event, the dust cloud graphic that appears on a flag carrier will now properly trail behind the character while running.
· Players will no longer receive honor if a tower in Eastern Plaguelands is captured while they are stealthed.
· Lordaeron's Blessing buff from Eastern Plaguelands is no longer dispellable.
· Players on Windows machines will now hear the victory music when their faction fully captures a tower in the Eastern Plaguelands.
Warlocks
· Players that log out of the game and back while having a pet summoned will now be properly credited a Soul Shard.
· Warlock pet sounds have now been added in all languages.
Warriors
· Canceling Bloodrage while in PvP or dueling will no longer remove you from combat.
Items
· Most enchantments on items are no longer counted against the maximum limit of effects a player can have on them, so it should be much harder for a player to exceed their max limit on effects and have one be removed involuntarily.
· Fixed a graphical error with the Dreadnaught Helmet.
· Fixed an issue in which the "Blessing of the Claw"from the 6 piece Dreamwalker set was causing players to stand up after trying to eat or drink.
· Fixed an issue where multiple armor set bonuses were not applying correctly when switching out pieces.
· Fixed an issue where the four-piece Plagueheart set was not properly applying to corruption.
· The Blade of Eternal Darkness will now only proc when damage is done.
· Fixed a graphical error with the Dreadmist mask in which it would float above the Tauren Females' head.
· Fixed a graphical error in which enchantment glows were not updating if the same item with a different enchant or no enchant was equipped.
User Interface
· UI windows will now be positioned correctly if the right action bar is activated.
· When going from Windowed mode to Full-Screen mode, player names will no longer be replaced with "..."
· The Quest Tracker will now properly display purchased quest items.
· The Battle Map in Outdoor PvP and in the Battlegrounds will no longer get stuck when dragging with the cursor in windowed mode.
· The Battle Map in Alterac Valley will no longer switch off whenever a graveyard,tower or mine changes ownership.
Bugs
· Players will now be able to complete the quest,"Target: Hive'Ashi Sandstalkers".
· Fixed an issue where players could be afflicted by "Withering Touch" more than once at a time.
· The Plaguewood teleporter will now teleport players to the correct location within Naxxramas.
· Fixed an issue where players were getting the message "Invalid" when trying to select flight paths.
· Fixed an issue where if the disenchant window was forced closed, a player would lose both their reagent and the item they were disenchanting.
· Fixed an issue where players could crash while fighting Anub'Rekhan.
· Fixed an issue in which players trying to disenchant an item with a full inventory and then casting a spell afterward would lose the reagent and the item.
· Fixed an issue where weapon procs will now work with instant abilities.
· Pet buffs will now apply and remove properly.
· The Priest talent Spirit Tap will no longer sometimes proc off of totems.