What’s surprising about Plunderstorm is how much it isn’t simply ‘World Of Warcraft but battle royale’.

You have no class, for starters, with your abilities determined by what you loot in the arena.

These aren’t just regular WoW abilities either, offering weird bespoke abilities not found in the main game.

Pirates battling over treasure in World Of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm key art.

So every match you’ll end up a different novel wizard.

It’ll support solos and duos, put in separate matches.

Plunderstorm is a separate mode, accessed through a whole separate option on the main menu.

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The Plunderstorm update starts rolling out today in North America, due to hit European servers tomorrow.

See Blizzard’sPlunderstorm announcementand theUpdate 10.2.6 patch notesfor more info on everything.

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The Pirate Pepe parrot pet in World Of Warcraft: Plunderstorm.