In World of Warcraft, players assume the roles of legendary heroes and interact with thousands of other players online as they explore and adventure across a vast world.

Whether journeying together or questing on their own, players will engage in heroic battles, develop friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.

The game features customizable character classes with thousands of weapons, spells and abilities. With an innovative, easy-to-use interface, an action-packed combat system, and thousands of quests that build an immersive storyline, "World of Warcraft" offers a MMORPG experience that will appeal to both veteran and casual players alike.

WoW Classic is Blizzard Entertainment’s authentic recreation of the original Azeroth before its seven game-changing expansions. The game invites players to return to an era of wonder and danger as they experience adventures previously lost to time, reconnecting with old allies and forging new friendships along the way.

The explorers of Azeroth that have adventured through the Season of Discovery will soon be able to complete the final leg of their leveling journey when Phase 4 kicks off on July 11.

The World of Warcraft Classic development team details some of what players can expect as they reach level cap including a new timeline for when content will be playable in Phase 4 outlined below.

• Live on July 11
  • The level cap increases to level 60 and all remaining quests and zones will be playable.
• Live on July 18
  • Two world bosses will be accessible via new instance portals: Azuregos, the blue dragon that wanders the southeastern edge of Azshara and Lord Kazzak, the doomlord who patrols the southwestern regions of the Blasted Lands.
• Live on July 25
  • Molten Core raid unlocks: refashioned as a 20-player raid with 10 classic bosses, revamped loot, redesigned Tier 1 sets…and more.
  • Onyxia’s Lair opens: the infamous black dragon and her many whelps await daring adventurers.

What’s in Store

We’re leveling up Season of Discovery Phase 4 with a variety of leveling changes, new rune discoveries, class adjustments, professions and reputations updates, dungeon updates, PvP Class Sets, updated events, raid content, world bosses, and more.

• Level from 50 to 60
• Updated Discoverer’s Delight buff
  • Level 1-50 150%
  • Level 50-60 50%
• New Runes for each class to discover.
  • New Cloak rune slot
• Utility Runes: These class agnostic utility runes will provide additional bonuses to a variety of skills such as additional bonuses to a variety of stats such as weapon skill, spell hit, and more.
  • New Ring rune slots
• Class Adjustments: Many classes will experience changes such as select runes becoming baseline abilities and new runes will become available.
• Profession and Reputation Updates: New and enhanced professions recipes for Argent Dawn, Thorium Brotherhood, Hydraxian Waterlords, and Timbermaw Hold.
• Nightmare Incursions updated to daily quest hubs.
• New Stranglethorn Vale and Blood Moon Rewards and Currency
• Dungeon Updates: updated rewards and new dungeons available at level 60:
  • Blackrock Depths (2nd half)
  • Blackrock Spire
  • Dire Maul (3 wings)
  • Scholomance
  • Stratholme
• PvP Class Sets for Rank 10

Molten Core Raid Dungeon

Experience Molten core as a 20-player dungeon with 10 classic bosses, revamped loot, redesigned Tier 1 sets, and more. Players will also be able to turn up the heat with a new variable difficulty mechanic. Don’t forget your fire resist gear! You are going to need it. We’ll be adding one more surprise to this classic raid dungeon for intrepid adventurer’s to discover.

World Bosses Updates

Experience Lord Kazzak and Azuregos as brand-new instanced versions of these encounters. These encounters can be experienced with up to 40 players but will be tuned as 20-player content.

Onyxia will also be adjusted to accommodate 40 or fewer players along with some additional loot adjustments.

We’ll have more to share in the coming weeks beyond this brief overview and have more in development for this phase we can’t wait for you to discover.