Season Of Mastery

Prior to BlizzCon 2023, it was a solid bet that the next season of WoW Classic content was going to follow in the footsteps of Season of Mastery: a short form, level 1-60 experience in Classic/vanilla Azeroth.

This week, Wrath of the Lich King Classic Phase 4 arrives and will bring players new and old in a direct showdown with the Lich King himself atop Icecrown Citadel.

World of Warcraft Classic is officially wrapping up its first Season of Mastery on February 14, at which time players will be unable to enter Season of Mastery realms.

The WoW Classic team announced that players of Season of Mastery characters now have the choice to transfer to Wrath Classic or Classic Era servers -- because Season of Mastery servers are going to be closed, and the characters remaining there straight up deleted, at a later date yet to be announced.

We're well into WoW Classic's Season of Mastery, with its accelerated release cycle sending players zooming through the whole of Classic at a speedy pace. Unlike the initial roll out of WoW Classic, the Season of Mastery plans to release Phase 6 within 12 months, so you'll experience the whole game — plus some new challenges — within a year.

WoW Classic game producer Aggrend recently posted on the forums to announce there will be a way for people to carry over their Season of Mastery characters into either Wrath Classic or into a regular Classic server.

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.

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.

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.