Changes: World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic

	; World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic
Developer(s)	Blizzard Entertainment; Portion of Team 2
Publisher(s)	Blizzard Entertainment
Platforms	Microsoft Windows, macOS
Release	TBA
Genre(s)	Expansion

Revision as of 00:15, 14 April 2021

For other uses, see Burning Crusade (disambiguation).

World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic (shortened as BC Classic) is a server option for The Burning Crusade announced at BlizzConline.

Characters on progression realms will be able to continue forward to Outland while characters on era realms will continue on World of Warcraft: Classic. Players will also have the option to pay to create a copy of their character in order to continue playing on both realms.

Release

Like with World of Warcraft: Classic, content in Burning Crusade Classic will be released in phases. The phases as announced at BlizzConline are:

Phase 1 (Launch): Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, and Magtheridon's Lair
Phase 2: The Eye and Serpentshrine Cavern
Phase 3: Battle for Mount Hyjal and Black Temple
Phase 4: Zul'Aman
Phase 5: Quel'Danas and Sunwell Plateau

Planned changes

Change	Original behaviour	Reason
[Seal of Blood] and [Seal of Vengeance] will be available to both factions.	Only blood elf paladins had access to [Seal of Blood] while Alliance paladins had [Seal of Vengeance].	To better balance both factions. Overall, [Seal of Blood] just deals more damage and it's a big incentive to roll Horde over Alliance.
Players will be able to create draenei and blood elf characters during the pre-patch and level them before the Dark Portal opens.^[1]	Players were not able to create characters of the new races until Outland was open.	To avoid players that want to play with characters of the new races to be stuck in the old world during the first weeks of progression. This also makes paladins and shaman available to the other faction during launch.
Arena teams will be able to hold double the normal amount of players.	Arena teams were only able to hold enough players for their bracket (e.g. a 2v2 Arena team could only have two players).	To give more flexibility to PvPers, as this system made it impossible to play if one of the members didn't log in.

Notes and trivia

The announcement of Burning Crusade Classic at BlizzConline was foreshadowed by the inclusion of Moon-Touched Netherwhelp in The Celebration Collection.

Gallery

Key art
An official blog header for Burning Crusade Classic news
Blood elves
Draenei
An edit of Through the Dark Portal's art, from the official site

Promotional screenshots

Fel Reaver
Karazhan
Nagrand Nether Ray
Netherstorm Netherwing
Paladin vs. shaman
Villains

Videos

''WoW Classic: Burning Crusade'' Announce Trailer

References

^ Burning Crusade Classic Developer Interview with John Hight and Brian Birmingham. Retrieved on 2021-03-06.

External links

Official Burning Crusade Classic site

[1] Burning Crusade Classic Developer Interview with John Hight and Brian Birmingham. Retrieved on 2021-03-06.

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 *Phase 2: [[Eye (Tempest Keep)|The Eye]] and [[Serpentshrine Cavern]]
 *Phase 3: [[Battle for Mount Hyjal (instance)|Battle for Mount Hyjal]] and [[Black Temple]]
-*Phase 4: [[Zul'Aman (removed)|Zul'Aman]]
+*Phase 4: [[Zul'Aman (BC Classic)|Zul'Aman]]
 *Phase 5: [[Quel'Danas]] and [[Sunwell Plateau]]
+==Planned changes==
+{|class="darktable sortable zebra"
+!Change!!Original behaviour!!Reason
+|-
+|[[Seal of Blood]] and [[Seal of Vengeance]] will be available to both factions.
+|Only blood elf paladins had access to [[Seal of Blood]] while Alliance paladins had [[Seal of Vengeance]].
+|To better balance both factions. Overall, [[Seal of Blood]] just deals more damage and it's a big incentive to roll Horde over Alliance.
+|-
+|Players will be able to create [[draenei]] and [[blood elf]] characters during the pre-patch and level them before the [[Dark Portal]] opens.<ref>{{ref web |url=https://www.twitch.tv/videos/922152607/ |title=Burning Crusade Classic Developer Interview with John Hight and Brian Birmingham |accessdate=2021-03-06}}</ref>
+|Players were not able to create characters of the new races until [[Outland]] was open.
+|To avoid players that want to play with characters of the new races to be stuck in the old world during the first weeks of progression. This also makes [[paladin]]s and [[shaman]] available to the other faction during launch.
+|-
+|Arena teams will be able to hold double the normal amount of players.
+|Arena teams were only able to hold enough players for their bracket (e.g. a 2v2 Arena team could only have two players).
+|To give more flexibility to PvPers, as this system made it impossible to play if one of the members didn't log in.
+|}
 ==Notes and trivia==
 *The announcement of ''Burning Crusade Classic'' at [[BlizzConline]] was foreshadowed by the inclusion of [[Moon-Touched Netherwhelp]] in [[BlizzConline#The Celebration Collection|The Celebration Collection]].
-*Players will be able to create Draenei and Blood elf characters during the pre-patch and level them before the Dark Portal opens.<ref>{{ref web |url=https://www.twitch.tv/videos/922152607/ |title=Burning Crusade Classic Developer Interview with John Hight and Brian Birmingham |accessdate=2021-03-06}}</ref>
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
 Burning Crusade Classic key art.jpg|Key art
+BC Classic - blood elves and draenei.png|An official blog header for ''Burning Crusade Classic'' news
+BC Classic - blood elves transparent.png|Blood elves
+BC Classic - draenei transparent.png|Draenei
+BC Classic - Through the Dark Portal edit.jpg|An edit of ''[[Through the Dark Portal]]''<nowiki/>'s art, from the official site
 </gallery>

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