This is the road, decided and written down. The realm runs on a fixed 1.12 ruleset — talents, balance and interface never change — and we open the content one chapter at a time, from Molten Core to Naxxramas, across about fifteen months. Then the road stays open.
Set, and written down. The roadmap below is fixed. What's still ours to choose is where the road goes after Naxxramas — say your piece on Discord or in the realm Council.
One client, the finished 1.12 ruleset from your first login — talents, balance and interface never change. What moves is the content: we open each raid by hand, roughly one chapter every two months, across about fifteen months from Molten Core to Naxxramas. Then the road stays open.
In simple words
Simple words: the game is already the finished version. Your character and buttons never change. We just open the big raids one at a time — about one every two months — until everything is open a little over a year in. You download once and never again.
Launch
The Climb
Open now
Levelling 1–60 — all endgame sealed
The realm opens to level first; every raid stays shut. The 80×60 gate lives here — the first raids open 2 weeks after 80 accounts reach level 60. The house climbs together before the first door opens.
Gate + 2 weeks
Embers of the Mountain
Up next
Molten Core · Onyxia's Lair
2 weeks after the gate is met — 80 accounts at level 60. The Mountain and the Broodmother open together.
The Dire Maul
Sealed
Dire Maul
≈ two months after the Mountain. A 5-man catch-up step that lifts the whole roster — not a day-0 freebie.
Edge of the Gods
Sealed
Zul'Gurub (20)
≈ two months on. The Atal'ai stir in the heart of Stranglethorn — and the debuff cap rises 8 → 16.
The Black Flight
Sealed
Blackwing Lair
≈ three months after the Mountain — the first of the big raids, which keep a roughly three-month gap. Nefarian's brood, and the Tier 0.5 questline alongside.
Call to Arms
Sealed
Dragons of Nightmare
≈ two months on. The four dragons wake in the world; honor and the Battlegrounds ride the same beat — PvP is never a headliner of its own here.
The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj
Sealed
Ahn'Qiraj — Temple (40) · Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (20)
≈ three months after the Black Flight. The War Effort comes first — the whole realm builds toward the Gong before the gates ever open.
The Fall of Naxxramas
Sealed
Naxxramas
The aspirational close of the road, and the one chapter with no fixed gap in front of it — it opens on Ahn'Qiraj's progress. The necropolis stands above the plaguelands, the last door on the map.