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    Celebrate World of Warcraft During the 20th Anniversary

    Celebrate World of Warcraft During the 20th Anniversary
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    The 20th Anniversary Celebration of World of Warcraft® is almost here, and we have many exciting activities and rewards to share with you as we look ahead to what’s in the works. It’s a big year for World of Warcraft, so we’ve created a variety of events and rewards spanning over a couple of months. Here’s an overview of what we have planned.

    Quick Facts

    Here’s what you can look forward to during the 20th Anniversary Celebration:

    • Look for the 20th Anniversary Celebration event all through the months of November and December.
    • Earn and spend a new currency— Bronze Celebration Tokens— to spend on new items for your collection.
    • Engage in the Blackrock Depths Raid dungeon
    • Collect Iconic Tier 2 transmog appearance sets
    • Go Timewalking through Classic World of Warcraft Dungeons
    • Earn a New Mount, Blizzard Employee Service Award cosmetics, and More
    • Celebrate with an expanded event at the Caverns of Time
    • Join Chromie on a new time-bending adventure with the Codex of Chromie
    • Discover new secrets and solve them with Guest Relations
    • Defeat Party-Crashing World Bosses including the Sha of Anger and Archavon the Stonewatcher
    • Go back for some PvP revenge during Korrak’s Revenge in Alterac Valley
    • Celebrate 30 Years of Warcraft with Warcraft III themed back appearances on the Trading Post



    New Currency

    Take part in quests and activities to earn Bronze Celebration Tokens to spend on items during the 20th Anniversary Celebration, including returning items from previous anniversaries and new ones.



    Go Back to the Blackrock Depths Raid


    Join Moira Bronzebeard as the bronze dragonflight grants her a look back in history, guiding us all through a journey through eight epic boss raid encounters.

    Players can queue for this epic raid with the Raid Finder (Group Finder Hotkey I) or create their own groups of 10 to 15 players by speaking with Moira for Normal and Heroic difficulties.



    Get Tier 2 Armor Appearance Sets


    Paladin


    Death Knight, Hunter, Mage


    Warrior, Druid, Priest


    Monk, Shaman, Evoker


    Warlock, Demon Hunter, Rogue

    We’ve modernized some very classic Tier 2 sets for all classes, including those that didn’t exist at the time these sets were introduced—such as Monks and Evokers—for a total of thirteen class sets! Each set comes as an ensemble of 9 pieces, including a cloak, making sure you look the part from head to toe.

    • Death Knight: Pale Rider's Eternal Armor
    • Demon Hunter: Netherwalker's Eternal Armor
    • Druid: Stormrage Raiment
    • Evoker: Earth-Warder's Eternal Armor
    • Hunter: Dragonstalker Armor
    • Mage: Netherwind Regalia
    • Monk: Eternal Battlegear of the August Acolyte
    • Paladin: Judgement Armor
    • Priest: Vestments of Transcendance
    • Rogue: Bloodfang Armor
    • Shaman: Then Ten Storms
    • Warlock: Nemesis Raiment
    • Warrior: Battlegear of Wrath

    Step back in time and show off your class pride when you purchase these appearances with Bronze Celebration Tokens earned during the 20th Anniversary Celebration.



    Timewalking Through the Classics

    Take part in a new Timewalking event that will take you through the original version of Deadmines, Zul’Farrak, Dire Maul (east and west wings), and Stratholme’s living and undead dungeons for epic new rewards. Queue up via the Adventure Journal or the Group Finder with players level 10 and above.




    Players will have the option to visit special vendors to get new mounts, pets, and transmog appearances.

    Here are just a few items you will find on the Timewalking vendors starting with the 20th Anniversary:

    • Enchanted Spellweave Carpet (from Wrath of the Lich King)
    • Amani Hunting Bear (from the Burning Crusade)
    • Frayfeather Hippogryph (from Classic World of Warcraft)



    Earn a New Mount, Service Award Appearances, and More

    Blizzard employees earn special service awards during their time at the company. We’ve taken inspiration from these awards to create a new mount that is fully armored in a similar style—the Coldflame Tempest mount. This blue-flamed flying mount takes after its fiery cousin, the Ashes of Al’ar, and will let you show off your own years of service to Azeroth.

    Players can also earn appearances based on the employee sword, shield, and crown to show off in-game, along with a version of the employee ring as a toy.




    Stand out with a 20-Year balloon toy and two adorable baby dreadlord pets—Lil’Kaz and Lil’Doomy— you can add to your collection.

    For a limited time, you will also see some returning Anniversary items that can be also purchased with Bronze Celebration Tokens when you visit Storekeeper Reginald in the Celebration Pavilion and peruse his inventory.

    • Core Hound Chain: Teaches the Core Hound mount.
    • Lil’Nefarian: Teaches the Lil’ Nefarian pet.
    • Molten Corgi: Teaches the Molten Corgi pet.
    • Onyxian Whelpling: Teaches the Onyxian Whelpling pet.
    • Hatespark the Tiny: Teaches the Hatespark the Tiny pet.
    • Baby Blizzard Bear: Teaches the Baby Blizzard Bear pet.



    Join the Celebration at the Cavern of Time

    This year’s celebration event has expanded, and the bronze dragonflight have taken the activities just outside the Caverns of Time with various new and exciting things to do.

    Show off your transmog at the Fashion Frenzy stage hosted by Althaea. Mount up to match Abigail Cyrildotr at the Mount Mania arena and show off your mount collection. Join Lorewalker Cho at the Storyteller stage for an epic tale you can’t help but join in on. Take a photo with guildmates, venture to epic vistas, disguise yourself as your pet, cosplay as famous heroes or villains, skate on the rink, or take a balloon for a lazy ride around the event space. There’s plenty to see and do as you join the celebration in Tanaris, and it’s available to players at level 15 and above.



    New World Bosses


    There are gate-crashers at nearly every party, and that’s true of our anniversary celebration. We’re bringing back some classic World Bosses from the past, including Doomwalker, Azuregos, Lord Kazzak, and the Dragons of Nightmare, along with a couple of additional party crashers in the sands of Tanaris— the Sha of Anger and Archavon the Stonewatcher.

    Players can join in bouncing them out of the celebration beginning at level 15 to earn some great rewards and anniversary currency.



    Codex of Chromie


    Chromie is up for any challenge, but due to her unique role, she has not kept her codex in order. When asked to put together time tours of the opening of the Ahn’qiraj gate, she’s discovered things are in a jumble. She’ll need help from Azeroth’s heroes to put things to rights once more and send out of place enemies in the sands of Silithus back to where they belong. Players can queue up using the Group Finder for this 10-20 player scenario beginning at level 15.



    Help Wanted at Guest Relations


    Often a thankless job, guest relations has a new volunteer, Alyx, stepping into the role with the lofty hopes of doing a better job than their predecessor. As visitors pour into the celebration, Alyx is under pressure and could use a little help making it an event to remember. Thankfully, they have found a secret-sleuthing tuskarr family who have become the perfect helpers in getting players up to speed with the tools of the secrets trade.

    Assist Alyx each week with resolving new guest mysteries by using your new secret-finding skills, and be on the lookout for stolen celebration goods. Follow the rumors and solve the mystery— if you can. We’re counting on you, secret finders.



    Korrak’s Revenge Returns

    Run down your enemies, raze their fortifications, and exchange the tokens you loot from their corpses to summon mighty reinforcements in Korrak’s Revenge, a throwback Battleground inspired by the earliest days of Alterac Valley.

    Players who complete the quest, “Korrak’s Revenge,” will be rewarded one of two mounts based on your character’s faction: the Stormpike Battle Ram (Alliance) and the Frostwolf Snarler (Horde).

    Players taking part in the battlegrounds during the anniversary celebration can also click on the Alliance Armory or the Horde War Supplies located in the starting areas of battlegrounds to don the appearance of PvP sets from times past.



    Celebrate 30 Years of Warcraft with the Trading Post!


    Celebrate 30 Years of Warcraft with November’s Trading Post. Players will be able to fill the month’s bar to earn four iconic back appearance shields representing the factions of Warcraft III— Orc, Human, Night Elf, and Scourge.



    20th Anniversary Wallpapers




    Stay tuned to the official World of Warcraft news site for more information as we get closer to the launch of our celebration!

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    I will be honest.
    I generally do not like Retail WoW but i have to admit this is fuck ton of cool content i did not expect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendzia View Post
    I will be honest.
    I generally do not like Retail WoW but i have to admit this is fuck ton of cool content i did not expect.
    I know right! This is really awesome, the HD of the classic tiers is a really nice addition! I do admit I do love what they did with TWW so far! I dig it!

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    Ok this looks damn cool… also timewalking classic? Yeah, that’s definitely a thing they’re testing with plans to introduce it at some point. Can’t wait!!

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    I can't believe they made Paladin and Rogue tier 2 look worse... pala set looks like the artist played too much Dragonflight xpac... it looks...too delicate...you are supposed to look like you a leading a crusade, not throw a ballet... and what is up with that belt?...

    This is what we wanted blizz, why don't you hire the guy?



    Rogue set should be darker n more ominous...

    Warlock, Mage, Shaman n Druid look better than the originals though
    Last edited by Ihavewaffles; 2024-09-04 at 06:34 PM.

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    This is a massive amount of content, color me shocked.

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    this whole event looks really sick, the dh and monk sets kinda look like ass tho

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    So much FOMO tho? How are we suppose to have time for both this and TWW content?

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    I wonder if we will get the standard EXP boost as well? no mention of it thus far

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    Quote Originally Posted by doledippers View Post
    this whole event looks really sick, the dh and monk sets kinda look like ass tho
    I think they look amazing Monk especially.

    I haven't bought TWW yet, nor am I subbed, but I cannot lie this event stuff has me tempted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stoffe View Post
    So much FOMO tho? How are we suppose to have time for both this and TWW content?
    Take some time out of TWW and do this. TWW will be there when this is gone.

    Someone said that the 20th anniversary has to be damn good and you know what... they cooked. This looks great and shouldn't be missed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stoffe View Post
    So much FOMO tho? How are we suppose to have time for both this and TWW content?
    Regular Seasonal content also rewards the currency. I doubt youll struggle to get what you want from it.


    Vanilla timewalking will also enter the timewalking rotation after the event. So you're really talking about the Stuff from the bronze currency vendor that you can only get during 11.0.5.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ihavewaffles View Post
    I can't believe they made Paladin and Rogue tier 2 look worse... pala set looks like the artist played too much Dragonflight xpac... it looks...too delicate...you are supposed to look like you a leading a crusade, not throw a ballet... and what is up with that belt?...

    This is what we wanted blizz, why don't you hire the guy?



    Rogue set should be darker n more ominous...

    Warlock, Mage, Shaman n Druid look better than the originals though
    People really will moan about anything.
    1) Load the amount of weight I would deadlift onto the bench
    2) Unrack
    3) Crank out 15 reps
    4) Be ashamed of constantly skipping leg day

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ihavewaffles View Post
    I can't believe they made Paladin and Rogue tier 2 look worse... pala set looks like the artist played too much Dragonflight xpac... it looks...too delicate...you are supposed to look like you a leading a crusade, not throw a ballet... and what is up with that belt?...

    This is what we wanted blizz, why don't you hire the guy?



    Rogue set should be darker n more ominous...

    Warlock, Mage, Shaman n Druid look better than the originals though
    That's nice and all but unless you wanna lag with 5 fps in cities you don't want people wearing such high quality stuff.

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    Dang they ruined the Hunters Dragonstalker Set ....damn glad I have the Original set I got back in Cata.....

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    This looks amazing the retail W's just keep coming

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    Quote Originally Posted by stoffe View Post
    So much FOMO tho? How are we suppose to have time for both this and TWW content?
    I highly doubt we will be getting 11.1 this year. so by the time that this event rolls around, the raid will have been out for about 2 months and lots of people will have finished with it. then this event pops up and draws people back in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stoffe View Post
    So much FOMO tho? How are we suppose to have time for both this and TWW content?
    TWW will be there for could years. You have plenty of time.

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    Pretty crazy that they couldn’t do a Blizzcon this year for an anniversary this big.

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    Overall, this event and patch is a W. I wonder if this patch will have some TWW content as well.

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