World of Warcraft Classic Cataclysm/Season of Discovery Q&A – ‘We Want to Explore Some of the Unfinished Bits’

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For a long time, the World of Warcraft vanilla experience was relegated to private servers (such as Nostalrius, which was shut down) until Blizzard finally decided to accept the community's feedback and create World of Warcraft Classic.

Launched in August 2019, WoW Classic turned out to be a big success and is considered to be nearly as popular as the modern version of the MMORPG. As such, Blizzard has continued to dedicate resources to this version of the game, advancing Classic through the various expansions: The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King.

At BlizzCon 2023, it was announced that Cataclysm is indeed coming to World of Warcraft Classic in the first half of 2024. Moreover, a new Season of Discovery is coming on November 30 with major changes like rune engraving (allowing different builds like Mage healers or Shaman tanks), a reimagined Blackfathom Deeps 10-man raid, and more secret discoveries.

While at BlizzCon, we had the chance to join a roundtable press interview with Tim Jones, Assistant Lead Designer, and Linny Cooke, Game Producer, to learn more about their exciting plans for World of Warcraft Classic going forward. Here's the edited transcript.

Obviously, you have vanilla, you have The Burning Crusade, you have Wrath of the Lich King, and now you have Cataclysm, so people are already expecting Mists of Pandaria. Eventually, is it just going to be where every expansion has its own server at some point? How is that going to go?

Tim Jones: I think we continue to evaluate what expansion or what people want to do on progression servers on a case-by-case basis. Does it make sense that we eventually land on Classic Dragonflight? I'm not sure. But we've had some special moments with attendees here today.