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If you have been waiting for Ahn’Qiraj’s war effort to begin, you have exactly one more month before you can start delivering all the resources you have been gathering.
Blizzard announced today on their forums that Ahn’Qiraj content will be released after World of Warcraft Classicweekly reset on July 29.
The new phase five content will not immediately include a band launch. Instead, a war effort will begin on servers that will force Alliance and Horde players to gather resources and complete a chain of missions before they can open the Gates of AQ, making two new raids available.
Blizzard has already been testing elements of the new content, including AQ’s 20-man instance. Additionally, the developers conducted a stress test in the public test arena earlier this month as a way to see how capable the servers were of handling the infamous AQ gate opening event that was fraught with delay when it originally occurred. during Vanilla in 2006.
While much of the phase five content is being tested, Blizzard announced that the largest 40-man Ahn’Qiraj raid instance, including final boss C’thun, will not be available for testing. This will prevent top guilds seeking to achieve “World’s First” assassinations from effectively raiding repeatedly before launch.
The July 29 start time for Phase Five content is in line with how Blizzard originally released the content for World of warcraft in the mid-2000s. Up to this point, every Classic The raid is available within a week or so of the game’s original timeline.
