World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Discovery servers could have exhausted all of vanilla WoW’s authentic content material, however that does not imply the season is over. Blizzard is as a substitute progressing previous vanilla WoW’s regular endpoint and introducing new endgame content material within the type of a brand new raid, in addition to giving gamers the prospect to wield one in every of WoW’s most legendary weapons–the Ashbringer.

Section 8 of WoW Classic Season of Discovery will start on April 8, Blizzard has announced. That can be when gamers will be capable of discover new quest content material centered across the Scarlet Campaign stronghold of New Avalon. Then, on April 10, gamers can enterprise into the brand new Scarlet Enclave raid, the place a splinter faction of the Scarlet Campaign is looking for assist to overthrow an “insidious evil” that has taken management of the stronghold.

The Scarlet Enclave is the place Paladin, Warrior, and, sure, even Hunter gamers can embark on a brand new legendary questline to reforge one in every of WoW’s most iconic weapons, the holy two-handed sword Ashbringer. It will likely be the primary time WoW Classic gamers will be capable of get their palms on a non-corrupted model of the weapon, regardless of gamers again within the vanilla WoW days tirelessly making an attempt to find a technique to no avail. Nonetheless, gamers of the trendy “retail” model of WoW had been in a position to make use of Ashbringer as a part of the sport’s 2016 Legion growth.

How, precisely, gamers will purify the Corrupted Ashbringer and restore it to its former glory continues to be underneath wraps, however the datamining sleuths at Wowhead have some theories. If you do not need spoilers, cease studying now! Primarily based on datamines, in typical WoW Classic vogue, the search to revive Ashbringer seems like will probably be a globe-trotting affair. The quest could even take gamers to beforehand unseen areas in WoW Classic like Mount Hyjal and the Nicely of Eternity.

Wowhead has additionally datamined potential bosses for the Scarlet Enclave raid, and one in every of them can be a really acquainted face to longtime WoW gamers. Spoilers if you do not need the contents of the raid revealed, however it seems like gamers will face off in opposition to none aside from Lillian Voss. In fashionable WoW, Voss is a distinguished undead character who first appeared within the sport’s Cataclysm growth, the place she infiltrated the Scarlet Campaign in a quest of revenge in opposition to those that wronged her.

Earlier than she was turned undead, she was a fanatical member of the Scarlet Campaign, however her actual backstory, or the way of her loss of life, has by no means been revealed. Simply as was the case when gamers believed Season of Discovery included appearances from WoW: The Struggle Inside’s essential villain Xal’atath, it seems like Blizzard is as soon as once more tying collectively its two eras of WoW in an thrilling approach.

As for the raid’s closing boss, that additionally seems to be a well-recognized face–the dreadlord Balnazzar. Beforehand seen within the sport’s Stratholme dungeon posing as a member of the Scarlet Campaign, it seems like he has now tried a full-blown coup, and will probably be as much as gamers to dethrone him as soon as and for all.

What can be subsequent for WoW Classic Season of Discovery continues to be unknown, however Blizzard has mentioned the experimental seasonal servers will live on in some kind even after new content material is not in improvement. In the meantime, WoW: The Struggle Inside simply acquired its goblin-themed Season 2 replace, as Blizzard continues to share extra particulars on the MMORPG’s extremely anticipated participant housing system.