By this point, your average World of Warcraft player has thoroughly saved the island of Khaz Algar during The War Within. We’ve dethroned a queen, punched a giant bug with our best buddy Brann Bronzebeard, and run so many Mythic+ keys that our eyes are ready to fall out of our heads if we do another one. What we need is something new, something exciting, something… goblin-y.
We won’t have to wait too long: Undermine(d), patch 11.1, launches on February 25, so soon we’ll be sinking our (metaphorical) teeth into all that brand new Season 2 content. Here’s the schedule of when you can expect things to launch during Season 2.
- February 25: Patch day! This is likely when Season 1 will officially end. There’s no word yet on whether we’ll have access to the new dungeon pool on Mythic 0 immediately, but we can start adventuring in Undermine with the goblin cartels, getting used to our D.R.I.V.E., and experience the patch’s lead-in story.
- March 4: Season 2 starts! In a throwback to how Dragonflight Season 3 worked, Blizzard is throwing open the gates to almost everything on the first day of Season 2. On March 4, you’ll be able to access all of the following:
- Normal, Heroic, and Mythic Liberation of Undermine raid.
- Raid Finder Wing 1 (Shock and Awesome), featuring Cauldron of Carnage and Rik Reverb
- Mythic+ Season 2, with its brand new and changed dungeon pool, which includes TWW launch dungeons Cinderbrew Meadery, The Rookery, Priory of the Sacred Flame, Darkflame Cleft; throwback dungeons Theater of Pain (Shadowlands), The MOTHERLODE! (Battle for Azeroth), and Operation Mechagon: Workshop (Battle for Azeroth); and brand new dungeon Operation Floodgate.
- PVP Season 2, for those of you determined to continue to put the war in Warcraft — plus a new arena, the Cage of Carnage!
- Delves Season 2, featuring lots of changes — including two all-new Delves! — also launches this week.
- This is also very likely when the Matrix Catalyst in Dornogal will open, allowing you to start converting Season 2 gear into your brand new tier sets.
- March 11: More raid wings open for lower difficulty tiers.
- Raid Finder Wing 2 opens this week, nicknamed Maniacal Machinists, starring Sprocketmonger Lockenstock and Stix Bunkjunker.
- Story Mode for The Liberation of Undermine opens this week as well; much like the last Story Mode, this will pit you and an army of NPCs against a heavily stripped-down version of the Chrome King Gallywix fight.
- March 18: Raid Finder Wing 3, Two Heads Are Better, opens this week, pitting players against Vexie & the Geargrinders, the One-Armed Bandit, and Mug’Zee.
- March 25: The final wing of Raid Finder, allowing LFR players to fight Chrome King Gallywix.
We still have a few questions about the release schedule, such as when the Mythic 0 dungeons will unlock and when the Matrix Catalyst will become available, but we’ll update this post as we learn more.