On Wednesday, Blizzard Entertainment held a Direct livestream for the 30th Anniversary of the Warcraft franchise and shared lots of news and info about what’s on the horizon for World of Warcraft going into 2025.
Here’s an overview of what was announced and how it relates to Zygor Guides.
World of Warcraft Retail
- Patch 11.0.7 “Siren Isle” is expected December 17th with new story content and quests. We’re currently working on guides for this.
- Patch 11.1 “Undermine(d)” is expected Quarter 1 of 2025 and will add the Goblin city of Undermine as an actual zone to explore. There will also be a new dungeon and raid, and new delves. You’ll be able to align yourself with one of 4 Cartel’s for Renown, rewards, and a new vehicle. You’ll get a special customizable D.R.I.V.E. ground mount with drift and accelerate abilities to traverse this area. We will be releasing updates to cover the new content.
- Midnight Expansion will be revealed in the Summer of 2025. It was hinted that Blizzard may finally be adding player housing to this expansion.
World of Warcraft Classic
- Fresh Classic Progression Servers for Vanilla Classic are coming next Thursday, November 21st, giving players a fresh start with some quality of life improvements like the Chronoboon Displacer to save your world buffs. A Looking for Group (LFG) tool is being added and a services chat channel to advertise services such as portals, summons, and tribute buffs. Self Found mode will be available right away for Hardcore realms. We expect our existing Classic Leveling guides will work just fine for this release.
- Season of Discovery Phase 7 will be the last phase. We will have the Phase 6 update when that launches next Thursday and will have an update for Phase 7 when it launches early 2025.
- Cataclysm Classic Patch 4.3 “Hour of Twilight” will also be coming early 2025.
- Mists of Pandaria Classic – Blizzard have confirmed that Cataclysm Classic will be followed up with Mists of Pandaria Classic and Zygor will be there ready on Day One with full updates when this launches.
Other News
Guest Relations has also been updated and extended for this week.