If you missed the announcement two weeks ago, Shadowlands Alpha begins. Because this is an early version of Alpha, only a small amount of content can be tested. But as time goes on, the content will be more and more. When Alpha is launched, you can use the WOW Classic Gold fortress and the new starting zone.
Exile's Reach is an island new characters are going to be sent to upon creating their first character. Players who are already playing and build alts are going to be able to pick between this new zone and doing the old race-specific starting areas. Allied Races start at level 10 and don't have a starting area anymore, they simply go right into BfA content, though once the opposite expansions getting rescaled, we should always have a choice of expansion content on Allied Races in addition. Since Exile's Reach is that the default for brand spanking new players, the experience is geared toward teaching all of them about the fundamentals of playing World of Warcraft.
As a replacement player experience, Exile's Reach is great. As Blizzard has said, the new character is an element of an expedition sent to seek out another team that has gone missing. In some ways, the set-up felt paying homage to the quest line within which we got shipwrecked during BfA.
Another upside to Exile's Reach is it also introduces some freedom to explore the realm and find random things like treasure chests. All of those things were more prominently marked than they sometimes are, which helps in training players to appear for them. There's even an optional group quest to introduce the thought some mobs have to be tackled with a gaggle. I've got to imagine none of this has been balanced yet because once I went through, we steamrolled everything. Visit MMOWTS to buy WOW Classic Gold. They will provide you with quality service and the Classic WOW Gold required security.
One concern I discussed in my previous column was I didn't want to lose the race identity players got from the first starting zones. Unfortunately, it's like this is often the case as everything is targeted on the player's role within the Alliance and helping them. It makes the race you decide on to seem to be a purely cosmetic or min-max (for racial) choice. I'm not really into RP, but I always appreciated knowing the final outlook and approach to the planet each race has, then within that context how they fit into their faction.