Battle for Azeroth, the game’s seventh and latest release, is opening fire in less than a month. What results instead is something that feels fresh, a little darker, and with more immediate stakes. Perhaps wisely, Blizzard chose not to try and top that with the latest expansion. World of Warcraft: Legion was the culmination of a years-long crescendo of rising stakes and comic-book theatrics, ending with the apparent defeat of the biggest-bad in all of Warcraft.
