So you want to get into World of Warcraft.

 Hello, welcome! Please, take a seat. Yes, this is Sarah's blog. Yes, you are meant to be here. Besides, you wanted to start playing World of Warcraft, right?

No? Well, get the fuck out then.

Nah, I'm kidding. Hey there, welcome back. The last time you were here, you most likely read about me screaming about the first few hours of Dice Roll the game. Yeah, well, today is different. Recently, I haven't been playing that because Blizzard dropped the new Pre-patch for WoW's next expansion, Shadowlands. While this patch does not add much of Shadowlands (well, other then the fact all the Alliance leaders are missing now and people have taken their place), it does pretty much implode the base game in the best way possible. 

A lot of people have asked me if now is the best time to get into WoW, and I decided I'd make a whole blog post explaining 'YES, IT IS THE BEST TIME.' Now, more then ever, is the best time to jump back into the world of Azeroth, because let's be honest, they need heroes now more then ever. Here in this little blog post, I will be explaining three reasons why now is the best time to jump into WoW, and why you need to jump in now as possible. 

I promise this isn't sponsored because let's be honest, I will never be popular enough for that. 

1) OH MY GOD, THE CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION. 

What, did you not think I would talk about this? So before, for those who didn't know, there was maybe close to 8-9 (I'm exaggerating, but there really wasn't a lot) of customization options for human characters in World of Warcraft. You basically could make the same human as literally thousands of other players, with the only thing different being your transmog and even your name. But now? Oh my god, now it's amazing. They have actually added better hairstyle, better eye colors, scars, THEY EVEN HAVE MORE SKIN COLORS, GUYS. Here, go ahead and appreciate my badass Worgen. 

But anyway, the character customization doesn't just stick to human characters. You even more options for pretty much every single species in the game. Everywhere from gnomes to night elves to orcs and blood elves. It's absolutely insane what they have added to character's and how they can look like, it's honestly severely impressive. You can make characters basically anyway you want now, and it's great for new players jumping in. Besides, who doesn't want an elf that actually kind of looks like them?

2) OH MY GOD EXILE'S REACH.

Yes, all of these will be in capital letters because I am so excited. So before, characters that were brand new basically started in Stormwind (if you were Alliance) and Orgrimmar (if you were Horde) and worked your way through the expansions past the starting area. Now, this is completely changed. All characters who start at 1, gets to ten through an area called Exile's Reach. What this island is, is basically tutorial island. You learn about abilities and subclasses and everything in between.

Basically, Blizzard has smushed the 1-10 experience to it's own isolated bubble. War-mode cannot be turned on, you learn how to do your class specific abilities and even do your first tutorial dungeon to end the area. It is the more comprehensive leveling experience that the game has created, and honestly, the best way for newcomers to jump in. 

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Now, the best part of the new pre-patch actually comes in a crazy new leveling feature that's even better then exiles reach! 

I give you...

3) OH MY GOD LEVELING THE WAY YOU WANT TO! 

Wow, okay, let's dive into this. So before, for those who first jumped into WoW, you had to follow the game in expansion order. Which, let's be honest, wasn't that fun. The game basically forced you to go through all of the expacs to get to max and do end game content. And let me tell you, as someone who did a lot of leveling alts and doing the same content over and over in the same order...

Whoa, sorry, lost me a bit there. 

Anywho, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT ANYMORE! Now, the new leveling experience is done however the hell you want it to go. You can go into any order you want, however you want it, with whoever friends you want to run with it. Here, let me give you a quick rundown/example on how it works. 

So when you finish exiles reach, you will see a small hourglass on the map. Go to it, and you'll find a Dragon gnome named Chromie! There, you can choose whatever expansion you want to level up in, You are given, literally, free reign to start wherever you want! 

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The image above is everything you are going to see when you start the leveling experience. That's right, exactly like I said, total freedom! You want to start at Wrath of the Lich King? Go ahead! Why not Warlords of Draenor? Right on! Honestly, WoW has never been better then it is now, giving you as much freedom as it has. 

As of now, it is absolutely the best time to jump back into World of Warcraft. From making better looking characters to the leveling experience and the total freedom that brings, you can't think of a better time, honestly. 

I was never an MMO person before I started World of Warcraft. I fell in love with the world and the endless back and forth of the Alliance, the Horde, Azeroth and the space they all occupy. I would love to see brand new players jump in and learn about the lore their own way, and slowly fall in love with it as much as I have. 

For the end of this post, I will be putting in my unboxing of the Shadowlands Collectors Edition! If you do end of trying WoW, do post what your characters look like in the comments section! I'd love to see them.