Blizzard Shares World of Warcraft 2024 Roadmap; Cataclysm Classic Beta Signups Open

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Ahead of World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary alongside the 30th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise, Blizzard has shared the World of Warcraft 2024 roadmap.

Last month, during BlizzCon 2024, Blizzard revealed its ambitious 'Worldsoul Saga' for World of Warcraft, including three new upcoming expansions - The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan. Alongside the announcement of WoW's next major story arc, Blizzard released an impressive dark-looking cinematic trailer featuring Anduin and Thrall. We've included this trailer below in case you haven't seen it yet:

In a new blog post on the official World of Warcraft forums, executive producer Holly Longdale has now provided a roadmap of what to expect in 2024 in both modern WoW and Classic WoW. As detailed on the blog, early next year, players can look forward to the Seeds of Renewal content update (patch 10.2.5) as well as follower dungeons, Dragonflight epilogue quests, the Cataclysm Classic Beta (signups open today), Season of Discovery: Phase 2, Level 40 Level Cap with Gnomeregan as the new level-up raid and Stranglethorn Vale as the new world PvP location, and Hardcore Realms: Solo Self-found Mode.

We've included images of the modern WoW and Classic WoW roadmap for next year below:

"In modern World of Warcraft, you’re going to see three more content updates for Dragonflight arriving before World of Warcraft: The War Within releases next year", Longdale writes on the WoW blog. "In these updates, we’ll be wrapping up the story for this expansion and laying the foundation for our next one. Dragonflight Season 4 will revisit Dragonflight’s dungeons and raids, along with outdoor content, featuring updated rewards, and a few new twists. Then, in the  Spring/Summer, we’ll ask