World of Warcraft's most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough

World of Warcraft's latest patch has delivered on its promise of a compact, polished piece of mid-expansion gameplay—and has done a good job of keeping players entertained until new versions of timewalking rewards and Plunderstorm's battle royale sail in as early as Tuesday.

Released in mid-December, Content Update 11.0.7 delivers a solid, iterative improvement on Blizzard's "island of limited gameplay" mode, which has been a feature of World of Warcraft ever since the Isle of Thunder and...