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October 29 will be a big day inWorld of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic, as the Rage of the Firelands update will go live on the last Tuesday of the month. Just over a week later, on November 7,World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classicwill release The Firelands raid, including seven bosses, such as the fan-favorite villain Ragnaros the Firelord.
Based on the originalWorld of Warcraft: CataclysmPatch 4.2 released in the summer of 2011, Rage of the Firelands focuses on Ragnaros' forces laying siege to the World Tree, Nordrassil, located on the summit of Mount Hyjal. Players are tasked with aiding Malfurion Stormrage and Cenarius in their counteroffensive campaign to take down Ragnaros, who is allied with Deathwing,Cataclysm’s main antagonist. To bring players up to speed ahead of the Rage of the Firelands update, a 50%Joyous Journeys experience buff will be activethroughout October.
One week afterWorld of Warcraft: The War Within’s 11.0.5 updategoes live, Cataclysm Classic’s next patch will include more features than the original release.According to Blizzard, Rage of the Firelands will launch on Tuesday, October 29. The update will allow players to experience the Elemental Bonds questline featuring Thrall and Aggra, with a cloak rewarded upon completion. A new dungeon difficulty option called Elemental Rune Dungeons: Protocol Inferno will also be added for players to challenge. Once the update goes live,World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classicwill introduce a High-Definition Textures option to the game’s graphics settings. This will provide some visual fidelity enhancements to armor and weapons while preserving the classic aesthetics of the races that wield them.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic Reveals Firelands Update Details
Although The Firelands raid will not be available immediately at release,World of Warcraftplayers will not have to wait long to face Ragnaros and his lieutenants. The raid will become available on Thursday, November 7, and include seven bosses forWorld of Warcraft’s raiding guilds to challenge. Once the raid is open, Caster DPS players can accept a lengthy quest series that will reward the legendary staff called Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest. Rage of the Firelands will be the penultimate chapter ofCataclysm Classic’s ambitious roadmap, as the expansion’s final major update, Hour of Twilight, is tentatively scheduled to launch in January 2025. It remains to be seen if that release window will change.
Between the challenging encounters of The Firelands andnew transmogs for players to collect, Rage of the Firelands will giveWorld of Warcraft: Classicplayers plenty of content to enjoy during the rest of 2024. Only time will tell how this iteration will compare to the 2011 version.
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