As the beta for WoW Classic’s fresh start “Season of Mastery” servers has come to a close, players looking to go through the classic journey from the very beginning are closer than ever to the start. In fact, name reservations for the eight servers — located in U.S. West, U.S. East, and Australia — are going live on Thursday. Players can reserve a single character name per account to use on one of these shards.
In this period between beta and launch, the dev team also took the opportunity to defend its design decisions for the Season of Mastery. Some of the more notable (and controversial) calls included making Tier 0.5 sets available at launch, not making any major patch changes, and increasing the rate of PvP honor rank-ups. Some proposed raid adjustments are still in flux as the team continues to evaluate them.
Blizzard revealed what’s going to happen at the end of the Season of Mastery: “When Season of Mastery concludes, you’ll have the option to permanently transfer your character to an existing Classic Era realm in your region. This free service will become available for a limited time at the conclusion of the season.”
