Ah, the Midsummer Fire Festival in World of Warcraft, the time of year when everything feels like it’s already on fire so you might as well just lean in and wear some shoulder armor that is actually on fire. It’s a noble event with a long history, and it’s back around again until July 5th for both the retail realms and the WoW Classic servers exploring The Burning Crusade. If you love yourself some cosmetic fire toys and gear, now is absolutely your time to claim that.
Meanwhile, the Classic side of the game is full steam ahead toward Wrath of the Lich King Classic, with plans to deploy a buff on the existing realms offering a 50% experience buff so that players can level up faster ahead of the expansion launch. (Relaunch… whatever.) It’ll even be active on the fresh start realms! There’s also a preview of the extensively changed and redeveloped Group Finder interface coming with Wrath Classic, as Blizzard continues to insist that it’s not going to add in the dungeon finder which was (we will note once again) actually part of the expansion and something fans have been asking for extensively. We’ve included the explanation for this new tool below.
You might be thinking, “no one likes restrictions”. In an ideal world, each individual player would build their groups using whatever tools they deem best for the job. However, we’ve observed that group finding is a social coordination problem, and there’s value in funneling everyone through the same system. If we can create a single “source” through which all group finding is done, all players will reap the benefits.
Veteran players will note from the description and screenshots that this is not substantially different from the modern Group Finder tool, which makes it less of a fix for the issues players have noted in the Classic experience (lack of meaningful leveling groups, slowness in assembling groups for leveling dungeons, lack of access to endgame past level cap for all but the most dedicated players, etc) and more of a back-porting of an existing feature. But, you know, that ship has sailed.
The Midsummer Fire Festival has flaming hot rewards and ice-cold bounties.
Celebrate June 21 – July 5. pic.twitter.com/H3lCPJICOS
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) June 21, 2022
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