World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Prepare to tread once again through the Dark Portal and into the fel-scarred realm of Outland!

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New Features and Adventures Await

Your journey continues with a level increase to level 70, an increased level cadence, and a slew of other features:

• The Exiled World of Outland
• Playable Races: Blood Elves and Draenei
• January 13: Level 58 Character Boost Standalone Purchase Available
• February 17: PvP Arena Season 1 Begins (With Each Region's Weekly Reset)
• February 19: Three Challenging Raids: Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, and Magtheridon's Lair Unlock
• Take to the Skies on Flying Mounts
• A New Profession: Jewelcrafting
• Guild Bank

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The Exiled World of Outland


Unite against the Burning Legion! Champions level 60 or higher, join fellow heroes and rally together to confront the formidable forces of the Burning Legion. Adventure across the shattered skies and torn lands of Outland, an exiled world fraught with peril and mystery, as you strive to protect Azeroth from destruction.

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Playable Races: Blood Elves and Draenei


Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition introduces two new playable races to World of Warcraft. Get ready to harness new powers as Draenei and Blood Elves and explore an Azeroth untouched by the world-breaking Cataclysm during the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition Pre-Patch Update, before you prepare to enter the Dark Portal and cross over into Outland.

The Blood Elves and Draenei enrich the game's lore and offer players unique racial abilities and new areas to explore.

Blood Elf

Devastated by the Burning Legion's past invasion, these vengeful outsiders offer their aid to Azeroth's factions off-world in Outland. Survivors of the Burning Legion's devastating invasion during the Third War, the powerful Blood Elves seek revenge on the demonic invaders who slaughtered their people and corrupted their beloved font of power, the Sunwell.


Blood Elves can take up the fight as Mages, Hunters, Rogues, Priests, Warlocks, and a class previously exclusive to the Alliance, Paladins.

Draenei

Exiled from their home world and pursued across the cosmos by the Burning Legion, these gifted renegades arrived on Azeroth to join the Alliance and end their Fel-touched enemies once and for all.


Draenei can take up the fight as Warriors, Paladins, Priests, Mages, Hunters, and a class new to the Alliance, the Shaman. Draenei characters also get an edge on the new Jewelcrafting profession with Gem Cutting. This passive increases their Jewelcrafting skill so they can make rings and neck pieces, along with gems that can be socketed into gear to make it more powerful.

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January 13: Level 58 Character Boost (Anniversary) Standalone Available

There comes a time in every hero’s journey when they need a helping hand—kick off your adventure through the Dark Portal and jump straight to the fight against the Burning Legion with a Level 58 Character Boost (Anniversary).

The Level 58 Character Boost (Anniversary) available in the Outland Epic Pack, will be available as a standalone purchase on January 13. Instantly boost your characters to level 58, so they’re prepared to join the fight in WoW®: Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition, and for the adventures in Outland!

Blood Elf and Draenei characters can also use the Level 58 Character Boost (Anniversary) in the rally against the Burning Legion.

The Level 58 Character Boost (Anniversary) is only available for use on WoW® Classic Anniversary realm characters and on the WoW® game account for which it was purchased or redeemed as a gift.

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February 19: Three Challenging Raids Unlock

Dive into the three challenging Raids unlocking at 3:00 pm PST on February 19.

Karazhan

The decrepit tower of Karazhan once housed one of the greatest powers Azeroth has ever known: the sorcerer Medivh. Since his death, a terrible curse has pervaded the tower and the surrounding lands. The spirits of nobles from nearby Darkshire reportedly walk its halls, suffering a fate worse than death for their curiosity.

More dangerous spirits wait within Medivh's study, for it was there that he summoned demonic entities to do his bidding. However, the brave and foolish are still relentlessly drawn to Karazhan, tempted by rumors of unspeakable secrets and powerful treasures.

Gruul's Lair


Gruul the Dragonkiller is worshipped as a deity by the ogres of Blade's Edge Mountains. His powerful sons ravage both the spires of their home and the plains of Nagrand. Gruul's unparalleled strength and experience in battle would pose a serious threat if he ever chose to attack Horde or Alliance forces in Outland.

Magtheridon's Lair


Magtheridon, former lord of Outland, has been imprisoned in the citadel by Illidan Stormrage and now looks to reclaim Outland as his own. Gather fellow defenders to bring him down, once and for all.

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February 17: PvP Arena Season 1 Begins

Are you ready to rumble? Burning Crusade PvP Arena Season 1 requires the finest combatants in all of Outland to converge and compete in three arenas—Ring of Trials in Nagrand, the Circle of Blood in Blade’s Edge Mountains, and the Ruins of Lordaeron above Undercity.

PvP Season 1 begins on February 17 with each region’s weekly content reset.

Up for grabs are gear, mounts, title rewards, and most importantly—immortal glory. Step into the arena, champion, and test your mettle.

There will not be a ranking system associated with the honor system, so you won’t need to worry about keeping a rank or standing. Players still interested in ranking up by battling others can participate in the Arena system.

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Take to the Skies on Flying Mounts

Players can now hop into the saddle of a flying mount, granting access to the most remote and dangerous regions of Outland. This new mode of transportation opens previously unreachable areas, so get out there and explore the heights and lows of Azeroth.

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A New Profession: Jewelcrafting

Craft rings, amulets, trinkets, healing statues, and gems to augment your gear. To learn Jewelcrafting, look for the Master Jewelcrafting trainers in Hellfire Peninsula. Heroes of the Horde can learn it from Kalaen at Thrallmar, and champions of the Alliance can learn it from Tatiana at Honor Hold.

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Guild Bank

Unlike Burning Crusade Classic, the Anniversary Edition will deliver you and your Guild a place to store all your items and gold to be shared among guildmates, right out the gate.

The Guild Bank is found inside the bank and accessible by clicking on the vault near the bankers. There are eight purchasable tabs with 98 item slots each; unlike regular banks, bags are not needed for these slots. The price for the first tab is 100 gold, and increases for each successive tab.


Players with the appropriate permissions can store items and money for use by the rest of the guild, with the guild master giving different permissions to each tab as needed.

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Anniversary Realm to Classic Era Realm Transfers

For those Classic Anniversary players who do not want their characters to continue to WoW: Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition, we will open up free character transfers from Anniversary Realms to Classic Era realms for a limited time starting November 25. This choice to move Classic Anniversary characters to Classic Era realms will last until January 12, 2026.

After January 12, 2026, the transfer option will no longer be available, and you will not be able to transfer your Classic Anniversary characters to Classic Era realms. Any characters remaining on Classic Anniversary realms will continue to Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary.

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Additional Media

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Heroes who choose to cross the Dark Portal—it is up to you to fight for this shattered world to rid it of evil... or watch its demonic denizens consume everything held dear.

Hello, we have made the following changes to M+ dungeons on beta:

Maisara Caverns

• Dread Souleater
  
  • Necrotic Wave
    
    • Healing absorb reduced by 15%
• Vordaza
  
  • Lingering Dread
    
    • Damage reduced by 10%
• Rak’tul
  
  • Soulbind Totems
    
    • Prefers separate initial targets for Soulbind
  • Deathgorged Vessel
    
    • Damage reduced by 10%

Magisters’ Terrace

• Degentrius
  
  • Void Destruction
    
    • Initial damage reduced by 40%
    • Periodic damage reduced by 75%
    • Duration increased from 10s to 40s
    • No longer marked as deadly in the dungeon journal

Windrunner Spire

• Restless Heart
  
  • Squall Leap
    
    • Periodic damage reduced by 11%
  • Storming Soulfonts
    
    • Radius reduced by 10%
  • Tempest Slash
    
    • No longer removed by Turbulent Arrows
    • Damage vulnerability reduced to 40% from 200%
    • Damage increased by 18%
    • Knockback force increased by 8%
    • Now has a 10 second duration instead of an indefinite duration

Seat of the Triumvirate

• Viceroy Nezhar
  
  • Mind Flay
    
    • Periodic damage reduced by 12.5%

Skyreach

• Araknath
  
  • Fiery Smash
    
    • Updated spell visual during spell cast
• Rukhran
  
  • Burning Pursuit
    
    • Periodic damage reduced by 17%

Pit of Saron

• Adjusted the enemy composition of some creature packs
• Forgemaster Garfrost
  
  • Health reduced by 6%
  • Siphoning Chill
    
    • Damage reduced by 6%
  • Ore Chunks
    
    • Radius reduced by 5%
  • Glacial Overload
    
    • Frost vulnerability increased to 75% per stack from 50% per stack
• Ick and Krick
  
  • Shade of Krick
    
    • Health increased by 7%
• Scourgelord Tyrannus
  
  • Frost Spit
    
    • Damage increased by 10%
  • Rotling
    
    • Health increased by 12.5%
  • Scourge Plaguespreader
    
    • Health increased by 8%
  • Festering Pulse
    
    • Damage reduced by 7%
• Wrathbone Enforcer
  
  • Sunderstrike
    
    • Damage vulnerability increased to 15% per stack from 10% per stack
• Ymirjar Graveblade
  
  • Fixed an issue where the visual for Dark Rupture would not be displayed on the stairs prior to Forgemaster Garfrost

This was not implemented in-game yet.

At about 4:00 p.m. PST today, we got this cleaned up on the Beta environment.

As a result of that cleanup, the changes that for Holy Paladin this week are as follows:

• Flash of Light healing increased by 35%.
• Shield of the Righteous now grants 140% more Mana.
• Holy Shock mana cost reduced by 20%.
• Holy Shock healing increased by 15%.
• Shield of the Righteous damage increased by 100%.
• Shining Righteousness damage increased by 100%.

Housing

• Square Draenic Table is now available for purchase.

Items

• Fixed a bug that could cause Timewalking rewards to provide an incorrect item level.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where players who race changed to Dracthyr were unable to start the Dragonflight campaign in Stormwind or Orgrimmar.

Trading Post

• The Trading Post activity “Love is in the Air: Launch Pink Fireworks While Wearing a Rose” has been removed for this month.

Twilight Ascension Event

• Twilight’s Call events now have a visible timer showing how long is left before the event shuts down for the next one to start.

The Burning Crusade Classic

• The book ‘Soothsaying for Dummies’ has been re-enabled.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent warlock players from being able to complete the quest “What is Love”.
• Fixed a bug where The Prophet Skeram would incorrectly purge buffs from players when transitioning between phases.

With the release of the second pre‑expansion update, we’re rolling out additional class updates and a host of quality‑of‑life improvements—including user interface (UI) enhancements to Damage Meters, Boss Alerts, and more—as we make our final preparations for the launch of Midnight.

Check out the current update notes here to learn more about all the changes.

Whether you’re refining your rotation, dialing in your interface, or just preparing for what’s ahead, this update is all about getting ready for Midnight.