WoW Classic
How should we expand on WoW Classic’s Seasons of Mastery?
The Season of Mastery concept is a game changer for WoW Classic -- it basically allows the game to constantly reinvent itself and keep what will otherwise become a very limited set of content (the original WoW and two expansions) into something evergreen.
Be Prepared! This is what’s in Burning Crusade Classic’s five content phases — Phase 5 is now live!
Like WoW Classic, Burning Crusade Classic starts at a late patch (2.4.3) but game content will roll out over the course of five phases, as well as a prepatch interval I'm terming "phase zero." It mimics the original game release to an extent, but there will be some items whose availability will be unlocked as well over the course of the phases, which we've noted below.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic will run on patch 3.3.5 — but what does that mean?
In the wake of the announcements of Dragonflight and Wrath of the Lich King Classic, we learned that like Burning Crusade Classic, Wrath Classic will run on its final patch -- patch 3.3.5.
Wrath Classic will incorporate customizations which used to cost real money in the Barber Shop for gold
For its time, the ability to change your hairstyle and other features via the Barber Shop added in Wrath of the Lich King was a pretty big deal.
Burning Crusade Classic servers will become Wrath Classic when it launches, but BCC might return in a new Season of Mastery
Back when Burning Crusade Classic rolled out, Blizzard allowed characters to either stay on a pure "Classic Era" server that stopped at level 60, or to progress to a Burning Crusade Classic server to play the new content.
Wrath Classic won’t have a Dungeon Finder
The chaos gremlin in me is a little disappointed, but I think we all knew that Wrath Classic was going to require the sacrifice of the Dungeon Finder.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic is coming in 2022
Though many may have guessed after WoW Classic and Burning Crusade Classic, now it's official: Wrath of the Lich King Classic will be the next expansion to WoW Classic.
How does a game’s UI affect the actual gameplay experience for you?
One of the things that really makes it hard for me to play WoW Classic is the UI.
It took 47 minutes from the time BWL opened to kill Nefarian in WoW Classic Season of Mastery
We talked about the developers adding new mechanics to Blackwing Lair for the WoW Classic Season of Mastery -- especially end boss Nefarian -- ahead of its release in Phase 3 in an attempt to increase the challenge for players.
WoW Classic Season of Mastery changes up Nefarian in Blackwing Lair
You may have heard that Blackwing Lair is getting seriously buffed in WoW Classic's Season of Mastery, with significant changes to almost every single fight -- perhaps every fight, but we don't know what's up with Broodlord Lashlayer yet -- but while some of these fights are pretty radically altered, none is as complicated as the upcoming Nefarian changes.
