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Wrath of the Lich King Could Pose WoW Classic's Biggest Challenge Yet


World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic has just been confirmed to be in development at BlizzConline 2021. The announcement has given many fans hope that subsequent expansions could be given their own servers as well, allowing players to enjoy their favorite by-gone eras of WoW.To get more news about buy WoW items, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic could be the last version of the game that will work well with Blizzard’s current Classic content model, however. The next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, poses some huge challenges for WoW Classic’s content release model, and could be one of the long-running MMO’s biggest hurdles to date.

World of Warcraft Classic brought fans of the franchise back to Azeroth as it was first introduced all the way back in 2004. Since then, Blizzard has released content patches for Classic servers following the same basic outline as Vanilla WoW’s release schedule. This meant that while WoW Classic servers launched in August 2019, content which was released later in Vanilla WoW’s cycle like the Ahn’Qiraj 40-man raid wouldn’t be released until nearly a year later.

This model can also be applied to The Burning Crusade with relative ease. The Burning Crusade’s major patches added new end-game content like The Black Temple and Sunwell Plateau, but didn’t significantly change the way that WoW raids and other end-game content worked beyond reducing the number of players needed to 25 players.

The same can not be said for Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion likely to get its own re-release if Blizzard continues down the path of releasing expansion-specific servers. Based on how many players the release of WoW Classic brought back to the game, that seems likely. Wrath of the Lich King may have been one of WoW’s best expansions, but over the course of its run it also transformed the game, setting many precedents which resemble WoW’s current retail release far more than they do Vanilla or The Burning Crusade. Some of these changes were purely good. Questing, for example, saw a huge upgrade in Wrath of the Lich King from the grind-fests of previous patches into compelling story-driven questlines that saw players run up against the Lich King himself long before he was released as a raid boss.

Later Wrath of the Lich King patches, however, fundamentally changed the way the game was played, and the kind of communities it was able to foster. Patch 3.3 introduced Icecrown Citadel as a raid and focused on the fall of the Lich King. However, it also introduced Dungeon Finder, a feature which may cause huge problems for WoW Classic.