{"id":176423,"date":"2024-04-09T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=176423"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:58:17","slug":"cataclysm-classic-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/04\/09\/cataclysm-classic-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic players, get ready for the Day that Deathwing Came (again): Cataclysm Classic release date is May 20, 2024!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/world-of-warcraft\"><em>World of Warcraft<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s next <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/wow-classic\">Classic<\/a><\/em> expansion will be\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/11\/03\/cataclysm-classic-wow-2024\/\"><em>Cataclysm Classic<\/em><\/a>, launching on May 20, 2024<\/strong>. This fits right in with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/12\/19\/wow-classic-2024-roadmap-covers-upcoming-releases-cataclysm-classic-season-discovery\/\"><em>WoW Classic <\/em>roadmap<\/a>, which pinned the release date somewhere between spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p>There were two major events prior to the release of\u00a0<em>Cataclysm<\/em>: the faction scenarios of Operation Gnomeregan and Zalazane&#8217;s Fall (currently live in <em>Wrath Classic<\/em>), and the Elemental Invasion leading up to the Shattering and the revamped maps. Operation Gnomeregan and Zalazane&#8217;s Fall was released on March 26, and the Elemental Invasion and the Shattering are releasing together on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>The interval between the release of the final phase of\u00a0<em>Warcraft Classic<\/em> and the first phase of <em>Burning Crusade<\/em> <em>Classic <\/em>was six months and from\u00a0<em>BCC\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>Wrath Classic<\/em> was four-and-a-half months. With the final phase of\u00a0<em>Wrath Classic<\/em> launching on October 10 of this year, that sets a potential release of\u00a0<em>Cataclysm Classic\u00a0<\/em>between the end of February and mid-April. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/season-of-discovery\">Season of Discovery<\/a> is having a significant impact on\u00a0<em>WoW Classic<\/em>&#8216;s plans for the first half of the year, as there will be two major updates prior to the <em>Cataclysm Classic <\/em>prelaunch events. In addition, the Hardcore mode will have an update as well in the first few months of 2024. Even with the longer delay before release, however, the phases of <em>Cataclysm Classic\u00a0<\/em>will be coming at a quick cadence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Pre-patch \u2013 April 30 <\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><em>Cataclysm Classic<\/em> \u2013 May 20 <\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Rise of the Zandalari (original patch 4.1) \u2013 July 2024 <\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Rage of the Firelands (original patch 4.2) \u2013 October 2024 <\/span><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Hour of Twilight (original patch 4.3) \u2013 January 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pre-patch brings the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Player Races: Goblin and Worgen<\/li>\n<li>New Race and Class Combinations<\/li>\n<li>Leveling Updates: Level through a changed landscape in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms from level 1 through 60.<\/li>\n<li>Class Updates: New Talents, Trees, spells and More<\/li>\n<li>New Race and Class Combinations<\/li>\n<li>New Profession: Archaeology<\/li>\n<li>New Feature: Transmog Collection<\/li>\n<li>Updated Character and Gear Stats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Upon release of\u00a0<em>Cataclysm<\/em> <em>Classic\u00a0<\/em>on May 20 you&#8217;ll also have access to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 new zones: Mount Hyjal, Vash\u2019jir, Twilight Highlands, Uldum, Deepholm, Kezan, and Gilneas.<\/li>\n<li>9 new dungeons<strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Blackrock Caverns, Throne of the Tides, Vortex Pinnacle, The Stonecore, The Lost City of Tol\u2019vir, The Halls of Origination, Grim Batol, Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep<\/li>\n<li>Dungeon Journal<\/li>\n<li>3 new raids: Throne of the Four Winds, Blackwing Descent, and Bastion of Twilight<\/li>\n<li>Flexible raid lock system: Allowing players to do both 10 and 25-player raids in the same week.<\/li>\n<li>Tol Barad PVP Zone<\/li>\n<li>Darkmoon Island: Discover the mysteries Silas Darkmoon has in store for you.<\/li>\n<li>Flying in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Originally published November 4, 2023. Updated April 9, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft&#8216;s next Classic expansion will be\u00a0Cataclysm Classic, launching on May 20, 2024. This fits right in with the\u00a0WoW Classic roadmap, which pinned the release date somewhere between spring and summer. There were two major events prior to the release of\u00a0Cataclysm: the faction scenarios of Operation Gnomeregan and Zalazane&#8217;s Fall (currently live in Wrath&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":175407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40416],"tags":[156,76536],"yst_prominent_words":[19918,23535,19917,19914,19915,19913,56945],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182331,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176423\/revisions\/182331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176423"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=176423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}