Wow Classic Phases

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.

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.

WoW Classic's Phase 6 launch date has finally been announced, and it's sooner than you may have anticipated.

If you're a WoW Classic player, you should know that you'll be getting some updates fairly soon, as Phase 5 of the content rollout is being tested on the WoW Classic PTR right now.

WoW Classic is now live, but whether you're stuck waiting in a login queue or you're trying to get a feel for the game before you get playing, here's everything you need to know about this long-awaited blast from the past.

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