Blackwing Lair

The iconic Blackwing Lair raid returns to WoW Classic on September 26 at 1pm pacific time when Season of Discovery Phase 5 goes live.

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.

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.

Folks who played at the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King definitely experienced Naxxramas, the expansion's first tier of raiding.

Blackwing Lair being fully cleared within 40 minutes of it going live in WoW Classic was inevitable.

Blackwing Lair is one of the best raids, and also the most frustrating raids, that World of Warcraft has ever produced.

It's finally happened -- you've hit level 60 in World of Warcraft Classic and have decided you want to raid.

While doing a recent Ulduar run, the conversation turned to the atmosphere of the raid.

Okay, yeah, this one's mostly for me.