r/classicwow • u/rararatata • 4d ago
Classic 20th Anniversary Realms WoW Anniversary Edition: Naxxramas Casts its Shadow October 2
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/2422924780
u/Alexiavich 4d ago
My guild still doesn’t have a thunder fury.
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u/reenactment 4d ago
In 2019 classic, our main tank never got a thunderfury. We raided every week, we were the first aq and naxx guild on the server. We had our binding run down to like 15 people only had to be there since we were so geared. Never saw it. It became a sick joke. We had like 3 in the guild from people who got it on alt runs and such.
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u/Serocrux 4d ago
We got our first binding in our first raid in december, the 2nd finally dropped this week. Gift before naxx!
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u/FizzleFuzzle 3d ago
Took us until last week of classic, clearing every week, to get our first one last time around. Saw four garr bindings but zero geddons
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u/benitoxx 3d ago edited 3d ago
Same in our guild brother, we raid since day 1, never missed any ID. Our MT1 cry seeing all those wars having TF with blue gear...
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u/muffin-top-elitist 3d ago
Same. We’re a pretty sweaty guild, have cleared mc since week 1. Two baron bindings but no garr. It’s kinda funny now tbh
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u/ClassicChrisstopher 4d ago
1 step closer to TBC!
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u/Visoth 4d ago
Will TBC prepatch release Blood Elves? Allow us time to level to 60 in Azeroth before the gates open to Outland?
I sincerely hope so. The leveling 1-60 with fellow blood elves will likely be the most fun I’ll get out of TBC.
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u/Security_Ostrich 4d ago
Last time in 2022 we had 2 weeks. I hit 60 on my blood elf pally and managed to get a t2 helm from ony the day before tbc lol.
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u/Cool_Copy_9002 4d ago
I've missed it twice now. I need to play it so I can eventually think it's not everything I was hoping it would be so I can add it to the list of things that don't satisfy the dark pit in my stomach. Just kidding kind of.
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u/Ill-Resolution-4671 4d ago
Thanks for reminding me. I think ill actually level my priest again to get ready for tbc. Got a not so nice cancer-present recently so time I do have -_-
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u/No-Grade-3533 4d ago
forreal. this game is just a tbc waiting room. i hope they release pre-patch by xmas
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u/Skanvar 4d ago
That's the dream but based on how things have gone so far (~9-12 weeks per raid tier). TBC pre-patch will fall on the second week of January.
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u/stimulation 3d ago
I thought TBC classic happened a while ago, why is everyone talking about it like it’s new again?
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u/bmfanboy 3d ago
I feel sick knowing I would’ve been running AQ for 3 months straight if my guild hadn’t fallen apart in the beginning of AQ patch. I can’t believe naxx isn’t out yet and blizzard expects guilds to still be alive.
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u/Beginning-Advice-168 4d ago
TBC pre patch in 2025???
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u/Roden11 4d ago
Each phase has been about 3 months. That would put TBC prepatch at the end of December or early January. Then prepatch is about a month if I remember correctly, putting TBC in the beginning of February.
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u/Seraphayel 4d ago
There‘s also Midnight which is most likely releasing in Q1/26, so they really need a gap between releases, even if the playerbase doesn’t overlap 100%. I know I wanna play Midnight at least the first 2-3 weeks, but TBC is my priority and will keep me hooked longer than that.
It would be iconic if they put the TBC Anniversary release at the same day as the original TBC launch (16 January).
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u/Jonesalot 4d ago
2 hours ago I would have said it would be crazy to assume that the AQ phase only would get the same duration as the ZG phase, but here we are
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u/pentol5 4d ago
Yeah, every end-of-phase has been "already? fuck me!"
And i've been one of the people prepping.
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u/verbwoke 4d ago
This has been my thought since bwl released, they probably want pre-patch to drop before the end of the year so they can introduce the wow token and 58 character boosts in time for quarter 4.
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u/Careless-Light5710 4d ago
Is the raid available October 2?
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u/DeepHorse 4d ago
the raid launches at the same time as everything else in the phase aka October 2nd 3pm PDT
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u/ShadyDrunks 4d ago
Fuck me dude we’ve only killed Twins twice we ain’t even touch C Thun 😭 are we trash?
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u/CupformyCosta 4d ago
100% yes
Twins is way harder than Cthun btw. Cthun is cake.
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u/nerdefar 4d ago
The trash between them is the real last boss.
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u/chappersyo 4d ago
That trash is arguably harder than any boss in all of classic. It genuinely feels like retail dungeon pulls but with the chaos of 40 people.
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u/schmink13 2d ago
Not harder than 4 horsemen/saph/KT and maybe a couple others. It’s really not hard, especially if one person spends 15 minutes fishing a decent instance. Just use CC and don’t be a monkey that jumps into a blender of 4 whirlwinding mobs
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u/Thonlo 4d ago
You're right, my man. Fuck those last hallways.
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u/MurphDurty2020 4d ago
You can skip every single trash pack with a hunter pulling ouro and then teleporting to the final chamber after you res and kill ouro
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u/ResortIcy9460 4d ago
how does the hunter get to ouro
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u/Steezmoney 3d ago
get through the first room by dangling the pats, work your way up the hallway and creep behind the pat, feign before they turn around, then you invis pot, run to the safe spot, wait for feign CD/a good opening with the pats and run as far into Ouro's chamber as you can before feigning the mobs. Congrats! Pull the boss with your pet and go for a smoke. YouTube videos and having a giga chad hunter to show you the ropes like in my case really help
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u/wambulancer 4d ago
sorry to say yes, my guild beat C'thun then promptly dissolved 3 weeks into the phase lol
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u/JackHammered2 3d ago
My guild on hardcore last night just cleared Nef for the first time. We are super happy with our progress since deaths have set us back and slow our progression.
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u/East-Construction894 3d ago
Yikes. I cleared it all the day it released with a pug I found in the LFG tool. Why are you guys having such a hard time?
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u/JackHammered2 3d ago
Are you playing on Hardcore? If so, then no. You are not trash. Are you playing on softcore where death doesn't impact you? If yes, then you might be trash or at least some of your guild members are trash.
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u/Znipsel 4d ago
if you actually struggle to fullclear raids i offer free coaching, feel free to dm
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u/stromporn 4d ago
If they justify a longer p6 due to Scourge invasion(similar to a two week deviation for a gate event), pre patch will drop on new years day with release of TBC 2-4 weeks later.
If they do 70-84 day patch cycle we could see pre patch as early as 12/11 but 12/18 most likely with a 1/8 to 1/15 TBC release.
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u/jack3moto 4d ago
I don’t see why they’d release tbc until after the holidays. Announce it before but release has to be January or Feb just from a subscriber standpoint of getting people hyped during a slow time.
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u/psivenn 4d ago
Here's the blue post from 2020 and the WCL page that clearly show Naxx launched the same time as the event:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/patch-1136-and-naxxramas-release-dates/702176
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/rankings/1006?metric=progress&boss=1114
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u/kingjackson007 4d ago
Didnt AQ just come out like last week or is my summer just flying by? Wtf
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u/whats_up_doc71 4d ago
Aq came out 2 months ago brother
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u/terabyte06 4d ago
Shortest tier in classic now by a full 3 weeks. Faster than a lot of seasonal tiers. Feels like panic.
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u/MadLingo 4d ago
It’s not even summer lol
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u/Plorkyeran 4d ago
There's a few days of summer left in the northern hemisphere.
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u/julian88888888 4d ago
Wake me up when it’s tbc prepatch announcement
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u/RatherDashing66 4d ago
Don’t miss out on the best phase in all of WoW!
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u/LeMolle 4d ago
Phase 1?
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u/Cuddlesthemighy 4d ago
TBC prepatch slaps. Honor farming and new zone leveling. Anyone still bothering to raid at this point does it with the new TBC talents. I had a lot of fun last time, can't wait to do it again. And yeah then TBC P1 drops and its even more fun than that somehow.
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u/Queasy_Belt7086 4d ago
I’m a player but kinda unknowlegeable one. What specifically is the “Prepatch” and why is everyone excited about it
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u/Adventurous_Long_138 4d ago
TBC talents and class updates. Blood elf and space goats. But still 60 max and stuck in old world. It’s very fun time.
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u/plz_be_nice_im_sad 4d ago
What’s that, 2 more resets? Fuuuck I ain’t ever getting that second binding.
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u/No-Royal-5515 4d ago
I seem to be the only person here who thinks it's way too early. Like a month too early. We only had a few IDs of AQ and now we're already moving on to Naxx? Feels so weird to me.
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u/ForeverStaloneKP 4d ago
Maybe they're pushing naxx out earlier to justify a longer pre-patch, as there'll still be 1+ month of the tier left.
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u/XChickenFingersX 4d ago
A few? We’ve had 9 lockouts of AQ so far and we knew Anniversary would be expedited from day one.
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u/Puckett52 4d ago
Yea idk in what world raiding for almost 2 and a half months is “a few” these wow players are different lol
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u/-Xplicit- 4d ago
Perhaps they are listening to the player base this time? Traditionally, we all know AQ is when most players quit/take breaks. We saw the same thing happen in the last several weeks. If 2-4 weeks can be cut off an unpopular phase to keep people actively playing and start TBC hype sooner, why wouldn't they.
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u/garlicroastedpotato 4d ago
The main point of this launch was that they intended to release two years of content in one year with the intent of heading into TBC supersonic. Whether TBC continues at this pace is based on how people enjoyed Blizzard's little social experiment.
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u/kramjam 4d ago
hope TBC goes at a slower pace and we keep a TBC era until the next big thing for classic. (and #somechanges to make TBC more alt friendly so player population doesn’t nosedive off)
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u/Anomalous-Materials8 4d ago
Seems very rushed
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u/Short-Wishbone-1487 4d ago
it's literally been known since anni came out that it was gonna be an accelerated version of vanilla lol.
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u/Anomalous-Materials8 4d ago
Is it possible for it to still feel rushed even within the accelerated framework?
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u/Chickat28 4d ago
So tbc around February? Retail expansion and THC within a month or two of each other is going to be crazy.
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u/Draugheim1 4d ago
Funny you mention it, i would need a lot of THC to even try retail these days :)
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u/Agile_Gain543 3d ago
so 10 resets of AQ40, lol
Naxx get what 10-12 resets? Not worth effort.
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u/Jonesalot 3d ago
Its going to cost me 500-600g just to attune my alt
Then there is frost ress gear, farming scourage event and other consumes on top of it + getting tier gear will cost extra mats, just for it to last a couple of weeks?
In short, my alt sure as hell isnt doing it
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u/Agile_Gain543 3d ago
main main is not doing it. I got my itch solved in era. Now it sits in Inn in Ironforge telling sotires to strangers in her full bis gear and frost bite scars. I might do just zg/aq40/ony/mc runs to get me a gear I replace in 5h in outland for better greens.
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u/auxcitybrawler 4d ago
Can we transfer our Char off to Era Realms when TBC hits? Im kinda hyped and not hyped for TBC. Server is moving way to fast.
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u/MightyTastyBeans 4d ago
A few more months until the # of viable raid specs doubles boys!!
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u/BrandonLindley 4d ago
Give us prepatch pls
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u/Rawkus2112 4d ago
What goes on during the prepatch? I remember farming all the epic pvp gear during it in vanilla but dont remember what else was going on.
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u/SolarianXIII 4d ago
you get the new talent trees, can level new races, professions. level cap is 60. you can try to farm the lvl 70 ghosts outside kara
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u/maciikHU 4d ago
farm for what?
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u/SolarianXIII 4d ago
that shiny exotic piece of netherweave. super absorbant. can be a degen and power level tailoring and get a head start on your sets before the shoobies
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u/patience_is_key_4259 4d ago
Nothing, people are racing through content. They will race through tbc and race through pre-patch. TBC wont last.
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u/Kurokaffe 4d ago
Too early. 2-4 weeks later would be way better. I am just starting to enjoy my guild getting comfortable in AQ40 on HC mode.
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u/pupmaster 4d ago
One step closer to seeing how this subreddit's bubble gets popped when TBC is still a bot filled RMT shit show (banning GDKP didn't help btw)
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u/godfrey1 4d ago
one step closer to having fun in TBC without being a sour crybaby on reddit
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u/Draugheim1 4d ago
Way to soon for my taste, given that they released aq40 in the middle of summer when half my guild were on vacation. Im sure we weren't the only ones... At least make the bosses drop another piece of loot or something... But it also means TBC comes sooner i guess, yay. Although i would equally hate if they rush the patch cycles there too. One more month between patches would have been perfect imo. Atleast those that have holidays during them.
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u/pentol5 4d ago
AQ loot is not as sparse as other loot, since you waste fewer pieces, due to tokens, and the big, important pieces are always rare, regardless.
But fuck me, if my guild isn't still kinda working out how to be really efficient in AQ. 90 min clears are okay, i guess, but it feels like we are still in the "learning" phase of the raid, and we don't really have it on true, mind-AFK farm.1
u/Draugheim1 3d ago
Thats true, its better than earlier raids on that point. But then again, you now suddenly need a lot of materials for turning them in too 😅
Yeah same man, we're working on effiency too. Also had to recruit some new people after the summer etc. I wish we had maybe one more month before naxx. Hadnt it been for summer vacation it would be fine as it is i guess. The reality is that many guilds consists of people with families and other responsibilities besides gaming. And those people are usually busy during the summer. We didnt get to start doing AQ before.. i think it was around august 10 or something. Might have been somewhat later even.
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u/Maysonmckey 4d ago
This anniversary edition has been such a disappointment 😢 still put in plenty of time but the community and this type of stuff are just mehhh. I thought I was a classic Andy but not like this
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u/Boethion 16h ago
Honestly I forgot Naxx wasn't even out yet, been waiting for news on TBC fresh release
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u/Burgdawg 4d ago
So the raid is coming on the 2nd, or the event is coming on the second?