Burning Crusade Classic Release Date

Release Date of Burning Crusade Classic

World of Warcraft®: Burning Crusade Classic will launch in the Americas, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand at the same time. Wherever you live and whatever path you choose to take, you can be part of one global adventure beyond the Dark Portal.

Check the details below for the exact time you can start playing and begin your journey into Outland.

Americas (PDT) Europe (CEST) Taiwan (CST) Korea (KST) ANZ (AEST) UTC Countdown
3:00p.m.
June 1st
12:00a.m.
June 2nd
6:00a.m.
June 2nd
7:00a.m.
June 2nd
8:00a.m.
June 2nd
10:00p.m.
June 1st
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Burning Crusade Classic Release Date

Preparaton: make your choice

Beyond the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands lies a realm shattered by the machinations of the Burning Legion: Outland, the once beautiful orc homeworld of Draenor. Seek out its mysteries beginning June 1 when Burning Crusade Classic™ launches around the world.

Before that, however, every hero must make a choice. Beginning on May 18, after each regional scheduled maintenance, the Burning Crusade Classic Pre-expansion Patch will be released, and each character must choose whether to advance onward to Burning Crusade, move to a Classic Era realm, or use the Character Clone service to play in both games. 

Heroes who choose to cross the Dark Portal will find themselves in Hellfire Peninsula, an aptly named barren wasteland, where fel orcs and cruel demons roam free. The established outposts of Thrallmar (for the Horde) and Honor Hold (for the Alliance) are not able to deter this endless tide of darkness on their own. It is up to you to fight for this shattered world to rid it from evil. . . or watch its demonic denizens consume everything you hold dear.

World of Warcraft Character Clone

With the pre-patch of the Burning Crusade Classic, all WoW Classic realms will move or progress to the Burning Crusade Classic expansion. Simultaneously, we will open new Classic Era realms which will remain at the Shadow of the Necropolis patch 1.13.6. See our Realm Types article for more information.

The Character Clone service will give you the choice to continue playing your existing characters on the realm type you prefer: Burning Crusade Classic Progression realm or Classic Era realm.

What is a Character Clone

A clone is a snapshot copy of your WoW Classic character taken right before the Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch.

WoW Classic characters that existed before the Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch will each be automatically cloned onto their respective Classic Era realm. You don’t have to do anything. 

The Character Clone service gives you a choice: you can —for free— activate your Progression realm clone and play the Burning Crusade Classic expansion, or you can —for free— activate your Classic Era clone and continue playing WoW Classic. You can pay a fee to activate both.

How to Activate a Clone

After pre-patch, the Battle.net App will give you the option to launch the Burning Crusade Classic game client or the WoW Classic game client.

The first time you log in with your character in either client, you will be asked if you want to activate your Burning Crusade Classic Progression clone or your Classic Era clone. This choice is free, and you will have to make it for each of the characters you had before pre-patch.

  • If you activate your Burning Crusade Classic Progression clone, the Classic Era clone will be deactivated and become unplayable
  • If you activate your Classic Era clone, the Burning Crusade Classic Progression clone will be deactivated and become unplayable

Want to make both clones available for play? After your initial free choice, you can purchase the paid Character Clone service to activate your deactivated clone.

Blizzard Customer Support cannot assist with mistakes activating the wrong clone.

Limitations

  • Activating a clone is irreversible. Once a clone is activated, it cannot be deactivated
    • If you activate the wrong clone for free, you can purchase the paid Character Clone service to activate the clone on the other realm type
  • A clone is a snapshot copy of your WoW Classic character taken right before the Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch
    • Includes your inventory, items in the bank, items in the mailbox, and friends list
    • Characters created after pre-patch are not cloned. This means you cannot activate the clone of a Draenei or Blood Elf character on a Classic Era realm. By extension, you cannot activate the clone of an Alliance Shaman or Horde Paladin on Classic Era realm
    • Any game progress you make on the Burning Crusade Classic Progression realm after pre-patch will not translate to Classic Era
    • Characters you deleted before pre-patch are cloned and can be activated, as long as you can undelete the character
  • You can hide deactivated clones from your character selection screen. However, a deactivated clone still counts against your total character limit on your realm
    • You can delete and undelete clones as any other character
  • Activating a clone on a Classic Era realm type does not give you a choice of realm
    • Your character will remain on the same realm it was before pre-patch. For example, if you played on Ashbringer in WoW Classic, you can activate your character on Classic Era Ashbringer, or on Progression Ashbringer, or pay to activate both
    • If you want to transfer to another realm, you can purchase a Character Transfer service from the character selection screen
  • It is not possible to transfer a character (either a clone or a newly created character) between a Progression realm and a Classic Era realm
    • You can transfer a Burning Crusade Classic Progression character to another Burning Crusade Classic Progression realm
    • You can transfer a WoW Classic Era character to another WoW Classic Era realm
  • Characters activated on a Classic Era realm are all guild-less, including Guild Masters. On Classic Era realms, all guilds must be recreated

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