Shadowlands: Castle Nathria and Season 1 Goes Live November 10

[chaud]

Shadowlands Launches October 26 (NA) / October 27 (EU)

Shadowlands: Castle Nathria and Season 1 Goes Live November 10 (US) / 11 (EU)

In just a few weeks after the release of Shadowlands, Season 1 will begin and the gates of Castle Nathria will open as the expansion’s first raid experience.

Castle Nathria
Infiltrate the iron-barred walls of Castle Nathria, a 10-boss raid located in the shadowy realm of Revendreth. Face off against unfathomable horrors in a race to uncover a sinister plot and save these lands from a dark and twisted future.

Raid Unlock Schedule (North America):

• November 10 – Normal and Heroic difficulties
• November 17 – Mythic Castle Nathria, Raid Finder Wing 1
• December 1 – Raid Finder Wing 2
• December 15 –Raid Finder Wing 3
• January 5 – Raid Finder Wing 4

Shadowlands Season 1
Once the gates of Castle Nathria open on November 10, Shadowlands Season 1 will also begin which introduces a new seasonal affix in Mythic Keystone dungeons along with a new season of PvP action.

[Onikaroshi]

Perfect, 2 weeks to get everything set is well enough time.

[Onikaroshi]

season 1 start date, expansion launch date.

no pre patch date?

Legion prepatch was announced July 15 and launched july 19
BfA prepatch was announced July 12 and launched July 17

Wouldn't expect the announcement til the week before at the earliest, but we should get the two week announcement.... two weeks before lol

[valax]

season 1 start date, expansion launch date.

no pre patch date?

Expect it 1 month from now. We have 3 episodes left for each covenant to build the hype, maybe (if they thought about it) a final episode about current shit going on in azeroth ( leaders kidnapping by Sylvanas?). 4 weeks from now you get 1 month of prepatch culminating into SL launch.

If I had to trace a deadline for my BFA goals , at this point I'd try to have all set by mid September

[Toybox]

Not only is the expansion launching sooner than expected, but the raid is coming pretty damn quickly as well! I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing given the state of the beta or not, but screw it, I'm in for the ride.

[exochaft]

Expect it 1 month from now. We have 3 episodes left for each covenant to build the hype, maybe (if they thought about it) a final episode about current shit going on in azeroth ( leaders kidnapping by Sylvanas?). 4 weeks from now you get 1 month of prepatch culminating into SL launch.

If I had to trace a deadline for my BFA goals , at this point I'd try to have all set by mid September

Also, the pre-patch event appears to have 4 phases, so 4 weeks. Fairly safe to say pre-patch is a month out. Also gives players a month to play with SL class changes, giving time to make adjustments before SL content goes live.

[Firebert]

Ugh, raiding over Christmas.

[Onikaroshi]

Ugh, raiding over Christmas.

Was always going to be that, unless they were to release second week of dec and delay raiding for 5 weeks anyway.

[Feral Druid ist Op]

2 weeks letz go i cant wait for 4 hc splits instead of 2 thx blizz

[Doffen]

Seems they went with the best possible solution regarding the dates. Sounds good.

[Wramp]

well, looks like my early season ski trip just got moved to February...

[Twdft]

well, looks like my early season ski trip just got moved to February...

Y'all should stay inside anyway not go on ski trips drag your germs all over the country or bring them home from the trip. Blizzard doing their part fighting the pandemic.

[Firebert]

Was always going to be that, unless they were to release second week of dec and delay raiding for 5 weeks anyway.

If they moved the release date back two weeks to the 12th/13th, we wouldn't be raiding over Christmas. They could then retain their schedule.

[Onikaroshi]

If they moved the release date back two weeks to the 12th/13th, we wouldn't be raiding over Christmas. They could then retain their schedule.

You might not but other guilds would /shrug, can't please everyone.

[Clozer]

What's with m0? EU has 33 hours after the release of SL its first reset. Does this mean you can level up in the first 10, then do all m0 and torghast + dailies etc? Then sleep have reset and do it all over again?

[MrLachyG]

season 1 start date, expansion launch date.

no pre patch date?

I initially thought October 6 but given that the final Afterlive animation comes out September 17 it could also come out September 22/29. Depends how much questline they have for us.... after playing through the first 2 weeks on the PTR I thought 3 would be what they would go with but maybe not

[Onikaroshi]

What's with m0? EU has 33 hours after the release of SL its first reset. Does this mean you can level up in the first 10, then do all m0 and torghast + dailies etc? Then sleep have reset and do it all over again?

/shrug, you could do that in the US if you were crazy fast too (we have like 16 hours only though)

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I initially thought October 6 but given that the final Afterlive animation comes out September 17 it could also come out September 22/29. Depends how much questline they have for us.... after playing through the first 2 weeks on the PTR I thought 3 would be what they would go with but maybe not

4-6 weeks that they've already stated would be somewhere between the 15th and the 29th

[IndCold]

If they moved the release date back two weeks to the 12th/13th, we wouldn't be raiding over Christmas. They could then retain their schedule.

Yep, 2 weeks later would've fit their previous scheduling (as in other xpacs) perfectly, but they must have a reason to want to release everything earlier other than fitting the spooky theme, lol.

[Malico]

Typical Blizzard how they want to unlock raids. What about to unlock normal heroic and first part of LFR?

[GUZ]

I haven’t played the beta but this seems rushed