Era server for TBC, phases, pre-patch duration

Patrick Dawson and Tim Jones from the Classic team at Blizzard were available to a WoWHead writer for an interview about WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Classic. We have summarized for you the most important insights around era servers, pre-patch duration, class balance and more.

Since WoW: Dragonflight and Wrath of the Lich King Classic were announced on April 19, 2022, numerous interview sessions with Blizzard developers have taken place, in which a lot of additional details came to light. We ourselves, for example, had the opportunity, talk to Game Director Ion Hazzikostas about Dragon Isles, Dragon Class and Dragon Riding..

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New info nuggets about

In fact, most of the interviews revolve around Dragonflight. However, a writer from WoWHead also had the chance to talk to Patrick Dawson (Production Director) and Tim Jones (Technical Designer) from the Classic team about WotLK Classic. Below we summarize the most important new findings:

  • Unlike the transition from WoW Classic to TBC Classic, the transition from TBC Classic to WotLK Classic will have no era servers for Burning Crusade will exist. Possibly these will follow at a later time.
  • There will definitely be a another – Season of the championship for Classic give.
  • Currently there are no plans for the services people and faction change. However, they will continue to monitor player feedback.
  • There are currently no plans to lift the restrictions on PvP servers with WotLK Classic (i.e., being able to have a Horde and Alliance character on a PvP server at the same time came with patch 3.2 back in the day).
  • What the Class balance in WotLK Classic, patch 3.3.5 is the benchmark, to which the developers adhere. For systems and features, that doesn’t have to be the case.
  • With WotLK Classic, players in the PvP an individual rating instead of a team rating earn an individual score. So you can freely change your teammates for the arena.
  • The Pre-patch phase of WotLK Classic is supposed to be at least two, maximum six weeks long. Currently the tendency is three to four weeks.

These are the phases of WotLK Classic

According to Tim Jones, the content phases of WotLK Classic could be as follows:

  • Pre-patch event (two to six weeks long).
  • Phase 1: Release of WotLK Classic
  • Unlocking the raid instances Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity, Obsidian Sanctum (about a week after release).
  • Phase 2: Ulduar
  • Phase 3: Test of the Crusader, Argent Tournament
  • Phase 4: Icecrown Citadel
  • Phase 5: Ruby Sanctum

Our Overview of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Classic can be found here. In addition, we have already summarized for you which differences between WotLK from 2008 and WotLK Classic from 2022. will exist.


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