WoW Classic’s final raid
Testing for the patch, and
parts of the Naxxramas raid, has been going on throughout October. And
as a part of a blue post on the WoW forums, the developer said the raid
and the game’s “Scourge Invasion” will “unlock at the same time for all
realms in the world on December 3.”To get more news about buy WoW Classic gold, you can visit lootwowgold official website.
This
move by Blizzard puts the last Classic raid release extremely close to
when players are expecting retail’s raid to come out, shortly following
Shadowlands’ Nov. 23 release date.
While Shadowlands originally
had an earlier release day of Oct. 27, the postponed expansion release
is closer to any Classic raid release than any other retail content. In
the past, Blizzard has been relatively mindful of distancing content
releases in the two games to prevent overlap. Meanwhile, the release of
Naxxramas, while expected by some, is coming earlier than it did during
vanilla WoW’s timeline.
So far, Blizzard has released raids in a
time frame almost identical to the way the game originally came out.
But in vanilla, Naxxramas dropped on June 20, 2006, 24 weeks after the
Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (AQ). In Classic, Naxxramas is now set to come out
just 20 weeks after AQ—almost a full month earlier.
One
potential reason for this difference could be the timing of raid
releases around the holidays. If Blizzard waited a few more weeks to
drop Naxx, it’d be putting out a raid around Christmas and New Years,
something the developer has repeatedly avoided at all costs.Another
reason for the difference could have to do with the way that modern
players have been able to plow through content more easily than they
could in the mid-2000s.
While AQ was originally released on Jan.
3, 2006, the first boss in the instance wasn’t killed by any guild
until Jan. 23 and the final boss of the instance, C’thun, wasn’t downed
until April 25.
In Classic, the entire raid was cleared by every
top guild within a few hours of it becoming accessible and they’ve all
been farming those bosses for loot since, making the typical Classic
raider significantly more geared than those from 2005.