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World of Warcraft: Legion

2016 expansion set for World of Warcraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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World of Warcraft: Legion is the sixth expansion set in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Warlords of Draenor. It was announced on August 6, 2015 at Gamescom 2015. The expansion was released on August 30, 2016.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, Warcraft and Legion can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2016 expansion set for World of Warcraft. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “World of Warcraft: Legion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.