Coming Later This Year: Shadowlands Season 4

[Stoy]

Coming Later This Year: Shadowlands Season 4

Now that Season 3 is well underway and players are pursuing all of the seasonal aspects of Mythic+ and competitive PvP, we’d like you to join us in considering what might come afterward. Later this year, after the current season has run for a typical duration, we’re planning to conclude Season 3 and begin Shadowlands Season 4, a fresh take on what a season of WoW might include.

In Shadowlands Season 4, your PvP efforts will reward you with a new higher tier of PvP gear along with other Season rewards, such as mounts and titles. We’re planning for the highest ranking title to be Eternal Gladiator, a fitting capstone for your Shadowlands PvP accomplishments.

We’re excited to announce that we’re going to shake things up in Mythic+ and raiding in Season 4. We’d like to change up the Mythic+ dungeon pool so that it would include 8 dungeons that span the last four expansions of WoW:

• Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
• Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
• Operation Mechagon: Junkyard
• Operation Mechagon: Workshop
• Return to Karazhan: Lower
• Return to Karazhan: Upper
• And two dungeons from Warlords of Draenor

To that end, we’ve started a community poll where you’ll help us decide which two Draenor dungeons are included in the Season 4 Mythic+ rotation. You can click here to vote to select two dungeons from among: Auchindoun, Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Everbloom, Grimrail Depot, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, Skyreach, and Upper Blackrock Spire.

For Season 4 raiding, we’re imagining adding a progenitor-themed affix system to infuse some new mechanical twists into Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and Sepulcher of the First Ones. Our intention here would be to make all three raids relevant in Season 4, with increased difficulty and more powerful levels of raid loot dropping throughout all of them.

Feel free to reply here and let us know what you think of these experiments, and we’ll have more details on all of this for you soon. Also, please vote for your preferred Warlords of Draenor dungeons.

Thank you!

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As an addendum:
There will be no Hall of Fame for Season 4. We’re not looking to position this as a competitive event.

[Biomega]

This is unexpected.

Not sure how I feel about the mega dungeons, I was never a big fan. But I guess they're popular with people.

I'm also wondering if the gear level will increase, or if we'll just have new dungeons/items.

[rhorle]

Interesting to include raids and past dungeons. I wonder if this is a one off to cover a content drought due to pandemic-related delays until next expansion or if it will be standard method going forwards to keep all content relelvant/rotating.

[Gurbz]

Tell me we're not getting the next expansion for over a year without telling me we're not getting the next expansion for over a year.

[Caprias]

Tell me we're not getting the next expansion for over a year without telling me we're not getting the next expansion for over a year.

While i fear exactly this it's still an awesome idea, would have never expected this

[Morgaith]

rip wow if seasonal raids happen.

[MidnyteTV]

Affixed raiding! I called it!

[LordVargK]

will we be able to get AotC achievements again in those raids?

[Onikaroshi]

While i fear exactly this it's still an awesome idea, would have never expected this

Hopefully between a season 4 and Wrath classic they can take the time to make the next expansion actually good and not rush it out the door.

[Ilnez]

Wow, so those of us without Dom slots and fully upgraded dom gems just... have to quit the game in Season 4?

Good design.

[BreakerOfWills]

Wow, so those of us without Dom slots and fully upgraded dom gems just... have to quit the game in Season 4?

Good design.

Why would you think that?

[Takure]

So the expansion leak about the seasonal shit in retail is correct?

[Onikaroshi]

Why would you think that?

Yea, they'll likely disable dom sockets/gems and tier sets in season 4 if they do it.

[kamuimac]

sweet jezus this no wonder we had "i quit" announcements today .

they are beyond saving at this point - instead add casual friendly content they cater further only to toxic elitests.

[varren]

Wow, this is going to be the biggest gap between expansions by far.

Also the beginning of "raid M+", have fun clearing all the raids for the entirety of the expansion cycle from now on!

[bledgor]

This is unexpected.

Not sure how I feel about the mega dungeons, I was never a big fan. But I guess they're popular with people.

I'm also wondering if the gear level will increase, or if we'll just have new dungeons/items.

They have some fun unique loot like the mechagon rings, will allow for some extra power.

[Klive]

What the fuck is this shit

[Video Games]

Well, 10.0 next summer confirmed

[TheAngryGazebo]

Wow, so those of us without Dom slots and fully upgraded dom gems just... have to quit the game in Season 4?

Good design.

We have absolutely no reason to believe they would re-enable Dom crystals in a subsequent Season. Most likely, even ZM Tier will be disabled in Season 4 content, that's how they've treated those powers all expansion.

[[Apok]]

Here's hoping that this isn't a prelude to next month's announcement on the future direction of wow, no new expansions just differently themed seasons ala d3