World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will obtain three extra content material updates forward of the arrival of the MMORPG’s subsequent growth, The War Within, in the summertime of 2024.
That is in keeping with Blizzard’s 2024 content roadmap for WoW, which outlines what gamers can count on to be coming each to the present model of the MMO and the assorted variations of WoW Traditional Blizzard is now working concurrently.
Dragonflight’s Seeds of Renewal replace can be coming in January, including the power to run dungeons with NPC companions and bringing Dragonflight’s dragonriding to all of Azeroth. The recreation’s 10.2.6 patch is a thriller, however is marked on the roadmap by an ominous cranium and crossbones. Then, within the spring, Dragonflight Season 4 will kick off, with Blizzard retooling Dragonflight’s current raids in a manner seemingly much like that of Shadowlands Season 4 whereas additionally introducing new open-world rewards.
It is with patch 10.2.7 later in Spring 2024 that the build-up to the brand new growth really begins, with the introduction of latest story quests regarding The Harbinger–aka the Previous God servant Xal’atath–a character that Blizzard has already revealed could have a big position to play in The War Within. That replace will even introduce long-awaited Heritage Armor quests for Trolls and Draenei characters, in addition to a brand new vacation occasion. Alpha testing for The War Within will kick-off within the spring, with beta testing coming in the course of the summer season.
The subsequent growth’s pre-patch, replace 11.0.1, will come later in the summertime forward of The War Within’s launch. That replace will embrace the extremely anticipated Warbands function that made an enormous splash when it was initially revealed at BlizzCon 2023, one that can permit completely different characters on the identical account to share development and rewards.
The War Within will obtain one content material replace earlier than yr’s finish, one that can introduce new story content material in addition to introduce WoW’s twentieth Anniversary occasion, particulars of which Blizzard is retaining underneath wraps for now.
On the WoW Traditional aspect of the equation, WoW Season of Discovery will see new content material launched each few months, with a solo-self discovered mode for Hardcore gamers coming nearer to the spring. WoW Cataclysm Traditional will launch in the course of the summer season, with a number of content material updates to comply with earlier than yr’s finish.
That is the second yr Blizzard has posted an in depth roadmap of what the way forward for WoW seems like. In a weblog submit, govt producer Holly Longdale mentioned that “promising a factor is a far distant second to truly delivering on that promise,” and that she is grateful to the WoW improvement group for “seeing all of it change into actual.”
“We stay dedicated to delivering content material in all flavors of World of Warcraft so irrespective of the way you play, you will not need to look far forward to know one thing is true across the nook for you!” Longdale mentioned.
The War Within would be the first growth in what Blizzard revealed at this yr’s BlizzCon to be a three-expansion-long story known as The Worldsoul Saga. Warcraft govt inventive director Chris Metzen mentioned on stage at BlizzCon that Blizzard could be seeking to get The Worldsoul Saga to followers faster than traditional, seemingly hinting at a sooner growth launch cycle for Blizzard’s MMO than its traditional every-two-years cadence.