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Should there be a Cataclysm Classic?

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.

This week we discuss the announcement to make Blackwing Lair in WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery a lot tougher, how the introduction of Buddies has changed Hearthstone, and the ramifications of Diablo 2 Resurrected prepping to introduce the ladder scoreboard system.

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.

Back in November, Blizzard launched the first Season of Mastery realms for WoW Classic.

I've said before that World of Warcraft should steal more ideas from the Diablo franchise, and the WoW Classic Season of Mastery has done exactly that, introducing the Soul of Iron buff/Tarnished Soul debuff system to make Hardcore play possible.

We know that the Season of Mastery makes some changes to the WoW Classic formula, and those changes are aimed at a faster paced leveling experience and a more challenging feel to raid encounters that players basically blew through when WoW Classic dropped in 2019.

WoW Classic will introduce the new Season of Mastery November 16, which promises to be a fresh restart of the game with faster leveling and more challenging bosses.

This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez explore the history of the many iconic zones that make up The Burning Crusade's Coilfang Reservoir including the 5-man dungeons The Slave Pen, The Underbog, and The Steamvault, as well as the Serpentshire Cavern 25-man raid instance.

Recently, players noted a new Classic Era PTR dropped for WoW Classic. After logging on and exploring using older characters from a previous PTR cycle that hadn't been deleted -- because character copy had been disabled for the current PTR -- it seemed that for whatever reason, the PTR was on a different phase than live Classic Era servers.