Blizzard first detailed Shadowlands at Blizzcon 2019. The expansion includes five new zones for TBC Classic Gold players to explore, a revamped leveling system that compresses the old one to 60 levels and new personalization options, including the option to change the gender of your character without paying a fee.

The brief centers on a familiar face in the Warcraft universe: Uther. If you played Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, you'll understand the prior Paladin as mentor of Arthas Menethil, the character who'd become one of Warcraft's most infamous villains.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands big pre-expansion event is live on the test servers and it has unleashed an unfathomably big zombie plague on gamers, turning Azeroth's capital cities to undead wastelands. Countless zombies are stalking the streets, devouring any NPC they could find--even including a few that provide quests--and turning them into the undead. Players that get within arm's reach can also be infected, so providing them special zom-bilities and letting them attack other players to spread the disease.

To be clear, this is not occurring in the live version of the match but on its public servers. It's here that Blizzard evaluations upcoming changes to the game, such as the coming level cap squish (max level players will only be level 50, with all the new level cap being 60 if Shadowlands releases) along with the overhauled new player experience. But, sometime later this fall, this event will launch on live servers--and when it is anything like what's happening now, it is going to be a bloodbath.

I am not exactly sure if the event is working as intended. Right now, Stormwind is absolutely overrun with ghouls that are rampaging through the streets and slaughtering everything that moves. The auction house, vendors, and even the lender are all unusable--that may be frustrating for gamers who, when the event is really live, are just trying to go about their day to day business.

Over on the WoW subreddit, players have also found ways to attract the zombie infestation outside of capital cities, making whole areas of Azeroth uninhabitable. It is funny to realize how much the mirrors a real zombie plague, as slain players and NPCs equally transform to ghouls so their numbers are constantly growing.

Fortunately, WoW game developer Jeremy Feasel affirmed the zombie invasion part of the event will only be active for a few hours through the day rather than all the time. I'm actually a bit disappointed with that, frankly, because I believe it'd be fun to see yet another all-out, 24/7 invasion which players have to attempt to contain--something similar to World of Warcraft's infamous Corrupted Blood incident.

The Scourge Invasion is only 1 portion of Shadowlands' pre-launch event. Players may also venture to the frigid wastes of Northrend to battle bosses and buy WOW Classic TBC Gold make strong loot, and there's also a new story quest to try .