Here is how the week of November 27, 2023 split across retail and Classic.
Season of Discovery went live on November 30, 2023 with an initial level cap of 25. Its defining feature was rune engraving, which let classes pick up abilities far outside their usual kit and opened genuinely unconventional roles, such as tanking Warlocks. The cap was set to rise in phases over the season, climbing from 25 toward 40, 50, and eventually 60.
The level-25 endgame centered on a reworked Blackfathom Deeps, rebuilt as a 10-player raid with new bosses, mechanics, and loot tuned for the early cap. It gave fresh characters a real raid to chase within hours of hitting 25, which set the tone for how compact and fast Season of Discovery would be.
On the retail side, the week of November 28 unlocked Raid Finder Wing 3 of Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope. The wing, called The Viridian Weave, added the Council of Dreams and Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle to the queueable difficulty, leaving only the final wing with Tindral Sageswift and Fyrakk to come. Players catching up on the tier could browse our WoW raid boosts to clear the wings without the Raid Finder queue.
The bonus-event slot ran Legion Timewalking, sending players back through Legion dungeons and the Mage Tower for Timewarped rewards, while the scheduled PvP Brawl was Comp Stomp, the casual brawl against a team of bots. The week's promotion was a softer one: the WoW Lofi Mixes arrived on Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer, turning Blizzard's atmospheric zone music into a study-and-chill playlist.
As November closed, attention turned to December's Trading Post. The Trading Post refreshes on the first of each month, so the December lineup was previewed in the final days of November and went live with the December 1 rotation. Players who filled their Traveler's Log earned that month's Trader's Tender to spend on the rotating mounts, pets, and transmog sets.
With the week's calendar covered, here are the questions players asked most about it.
Season of Discovery launched on November 30, 2023 with an initial level cap of 25. The cap rose in phases across the season, moving up toward 40, 50, and 60 as new content unlocked. Its signature system was rune engraving, which reshaped how every class played.
Blackfathom Deeps was reworked into a 10-player raid for Season of Discovery's level-25 endgame. It kept the underwater Ashenvale setting but added new bosses, mechanics, and loot, giving fresh characters a real raid target almost immediately after reaching the cap.
Raid Finder Wing 3 of Amirdrassil, called The Viridian Weave, contains the Council of Dreams and Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle. It opened the week of November 28, 2023, leaving the final wing with Tindral Sageswift and Fyrakk the Blazing for the following reset.
The WoW Lofi Mixes were official lo-fi reworks of World of Warcraft zone music, released to Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer in late November 2023. They repackaged familiar Azeroth themes as relaxed background music rather than adding anything in-game.
The Trading Post refreshes on the first of every month. The December 2023 lineup went live on December 1, with the reveal circulating in the last days of November. Spending Trader's Tender earned from the Traveler's Log unlocks that month's rotating cosmetics.
Rune engraving let classes take on roles they never had in classic WoW. The marquee example was the tanking Warlock, but the system also handed out healing, tanking, and ranged options across classes through rune-granted abilities, which is what made the early meta so experimental.
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