{"id":189852,"date":"2024-09-03T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=189852"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:50:42","slug":"wow-classic-season-discovery-phase-5-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/09\/03\/wow-classic-season-discovery-phase-5-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"When is WoW Classic Season of Discovery Phase 5? Probably late September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/warcraft\/wow-classic\/\">World of Warcraft Classic<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/season-of-discovery\/\">Season of Discovery<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/season-of-discovery-phase-5\/\">Phase 5<\/a> has no official release date at this moment but the arrival of the PTR last week hints that it&#8217;s set to arrive soon, and we think it&#8217;ll launch on <strong>September 26,<\/strong> <strong>2024<\/strong>. This phase has extra guesswork involved since the <em>WoW Classic\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/02\/21\/wow-classic-2024-roadmap-covers-upcoming-releases-cataclysm-classic-season-discovery\/\">2024 roadmap<\/a> doesn&#8217;t specifically have Phase 5 on the roadmap, rather there&#8217;s a marker for &#8220;End Game Updates&#8221; scheduled to release around the same time as <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/cataclysm-classic-phase-2\/\"><em>Cataclysm Classic <\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/25\/cataclysm-classic-phase-3-october-2024\/\">Phase 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This roadmap was also released before the delay of Season of Discovery <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/tag\/season-of-discovery-phase-4\/\">Phase 4<\/a> so it&#8217;s unsure what any impact could have had on Phase 5&#8217;s release. Phase 4 was also the first Season of Discovery phase to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/05\/21\/wow-classic-season-discovery-phase-3-extended\/\">PTR<\/a> which lasted around 4 weeks. If we apply a similar timeline to Phase 5&#8217;s testing, that puts Phase 5&#8217;s release at the end of September. Again, this is all guesswork but we&#8217;ve seen Blizzard adhere to a consistent release structure.<\/p>\n<p>As we wait for news about Phase 5&#8217;s release, let&#8217;s peek at what content it will bring to Season of Discovery!<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s in Season of Discovery Phase 5?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackwing Lair<\/li>\n<li>Zul&#8217;Gurub<\/li>\n<li>New Ring runes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/season-of-discovery-patch-1154-development-notes-and-known-issues\/1936702\">PTR testing focus<\/a> confirmed that the Blackwing Lair and Zul&#8217;Gurub raids will be coming in Phase 5 in different capacities &#8212; Blackwing Lair as a 20-40 player raid and Zul&#8217;Gurub as a 10-20 player raid. Blackwing Lair also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/classic\/news\/blackwing-lair-scaling-difficulty-system-on-season-of-discovery-phase-5-ptr-346319\">four difficulty modifiers<\/a> named after the various dragonflights are available in Blackwing Lair and function similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/26\/molten-core-now-three-difficulty-modes-wow-classic-season-discovery-phase-4\/\">Heat levels<\/a> in Molten Core by introducing unique mechanics. Three new Ring <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/11\/28\/rune-abilities-wow-classic-season-discovery\/\">runes<\/a> targeted for Hunters and casters are also immediately available for testing, though once Phase 5 officially launches they&#8217;ll need to be discovered like any other rune:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ranged Specialization rune &#8212; Increases changes for Beast pets to hit by 2%<\/li>\n<li>Healing Specialization rune &#8212; Increases healing by up to 26<\/li>\n<li>Meditation Specialization rune &#8212; Increases Mana regenerated for 5 seconds by 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There has also been quite a bit of datamined content from the PTR, so if <strong>you&#8217;d rather not be spoiled this is your warning to stop here<\/strong>! If you continue, just remember that datamined content <em>could <\/em>come any time during Phase 5 or not at all. Up to three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/classic\/news\/new-dungeons-and-heroics-possibly-coming-to-season-of-discovery-patch-1-15-4-ptr-346286\">new dungeons<\/a> were datamined from the PTR and since Phase 4 also added a new dungeon, this isn&#8217;t totally unexplored territory. Some new and updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/classic\/news\/new-weapon-models-datamined-season-of-discovery-phase-5-ptr-346318\">weapon models<\/a> were also found in the PTR files, including some Ahn&#8217;Qiraj themed weaponry, hinting at the Ahn&#8217;Qiraj war effort event arriving sometime during Phase 5.<\/p>\n<p>We expect to hear an official Phase 5 announcement in the coming weeks and once we do, we&#8217;ll keep you updated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft Classic&#8216;s\u00a0Season of Discovery Phase 5 has no official release date at this moment but the arrival of the PTR last week hints that it&#8217;s set to arrive soon, and we think it&#8217;ll launch on September 26, 2024. This phase has extra guesswork involved since the WoW Classic\u00a02024 roadmap doesn&#8217;t specifically have Phase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":53308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40416],"tags":[77858,78895,77989],"yst_prominent_words":[27197,67337,10675,49796,53993,57619,8571],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189852"}],"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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189943,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189852\/revisions\/189943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189852"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=189852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}