![]() ![]() The last expansion that WoW’s community seemed to unequivocally enjoy was 2016’s Legion, and Longdale pointed to it as an inspiration for the way Blizzard wants Dragonflight to evolve. Setting out the plans in a frank post, executive producer Holly Longdale acknowledged “the need to do better than we have at times in the recent past,” gesturing toward the (at best) mixed reception from players to the ongoing endgame experience of last two expansions, Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. The rest of the Seasons will release with each new phase, except for phase 4 (Zul-Aman) which won’t bring a new Arena Season.For the first time, Blizzard has shared a content roadmap for World of Warcraft, committing itself to six significant updates to the Dragonflight expansion in the next year. That won’t change here, however, we’ll be working off of the Season 4 balance patch, making the TBC Classic Arena Season 1 a very different affair. In TBC at release, Arena Season 1 started shortly after launch. The second major change comes in PvP, specifically Arena. This change should solve that problem, allowing guilds more time to gear up before Phase 2. In reality (and speaking from experience) what happened was guilds got stuck in Karazhan as feeder guilds for larger 25-man guilds looking to push content. In OG TBC, however, the idea was to have Karazhan (releasing in phase 1 as normal) as the smaller raid, with teams moving onto the larger 25-man raids. Ultimately, having both Tier 4 and Tier 5 raids out at the same time goes against Blizzard's formula for content releases. The two most notable changes are that Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Caverns won’t launch at the same time as TBC, instead, they’ll move to phase 2. In a slight detour from the philosophy of Classic, Blizzard has sought to make changes to TBC Classic, especially the content release. The Nagrand Arena will be host to many an Arena match during TBC Classic With Season 1 items (bar the old launch raids) but Season 4 balance changes. Ultimately, this makes for an unknown world of Arena. For a start, we’ll be getting Arena Season 1 at launch, with what would have been Season 4 balance changes. ![]() With TBC Classic, one thing that’s changing is the way Arena, and PvP balance will work. If we assume Blizzard pace it out like Classic, we’d expect content to drop in 4-6 month intervals. As for the other phases, we won’t know a date until closer to their release. Phase 1 will launch when TBC Classic goes live on June 1st. When will each phase of TBC Classic release?
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