Players upgrade their characters prior to the release of the expansion

In a different forum post, Blizzard also announced a 50 percent XP boost event, dubbed "Joyous Journeys" will be available to WoTLK Gold servers prior to the Wrath of The Lich King Classic's launch. This will help players upgrade their characters prior to the release of the expansion. Blizzard hasn't announced any specific timeframe or the date of the start of the XP boost at the moment however they anticipate that the event will last approximately 6-8 weeks prior to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King Classic. It is expected that the XP boost will be available on the fresh start servers for Wrath of the Lich King Classic fresh start servers in preparation for the patch. Blizzard recently announced that WoW's brand new expansion Dragonflight is scheduled for released in 2022, before the year's end.  An Overview of World of Warcraft So Far See More WoW: Dragonflight Is, Surprisingly Due This Year Preorders Are Live Dragonflight, the next World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight is available to order. As a surprise to many players were not expecting the expansion is also scheduled to be released by the end of 2022. There are four different versions that come with Dragonflight are available to preorder There is a standard edition of $50 and a $70 heroic edition the epic edition costs $90 and an $130 physical collector's edition (which includes all the digital features included in Epic Edition). The standard edition includes an in-game pet, as well as the expansion itself, and premium editions featuring bonuses like a boost to your level game timer, an special mounts, and various cosmetics. The preorders indicate that the expansion will launch "on or by the 31st of December 2022." This news is shocking for players, who were hoping for the game to launch around the beginning of 2023, given the release dates for previous expansions, the possibility of a prequel novel and the possibility that an alpha version of Dragonflight is not accessible for testing on the game's testing realm. When Blizzard unveiled the expansion in April, the company didn't include an exact deadline or even an announcement timeframe for Dragonflight in the first place, with WoW director of games WOW WoTLK Classic Gold stating Blizzard was adopting the "when it's available" approach to the expansion's launch.