World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic

	; World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic
Developer(s)	Blizzard Entertainment; Portion of Team 2
Publisher(s)	Blizzard Entertainment
Platforms	Microsoft Windows, macOS
Release	WW: June 1/2, 2021;
Latest release	2.5.4
Genre(s)	Expansion
Classic chronology

For other uses, see Burning Crusade (disambiguation).

World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic (shortened as BC Classic or BCC and often called TBC Classic) was a server option for The Burning Crusade. It was transitioned to Wrath of the Lich King Classic on 30 August 2022.

Release timeline

Like with World of Warcraft: Classic, content in Burning Crusade Classic was released in phases. This is the release timeline over the lifespan of Burning Crusade Classic:

16 February 2021: Announced at BlizzConline along with its content phases
3 March 2021: Closed Alpha was released
23 March 2021: Closed Beta was released
6 May 2021: Release Date Announced as 1 June 2021
18 May 2021: Pre-Patch released which unlocked the Draenei & Blood Elf races
1 June 2021: Phase 1 (Launch) went live with patch 2.5.1: Karazhan, Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair raids, Arena Season 1
31 August 2021: Patch 2.5.2 released: LFG Tool, Guild Bank
15 September 2021: Phase 2 (Overlords of Outlands) went live: The Eye & Serpentshrine Cavern raids, Ogri'la and Sha'tari Skyguard Daily Content, New Profession Recipes, Engineering Goggles & [Swift Flight Form] for Druids, Arena Season 2
17 January 2022: Patch 2.5.3 released: Incubus Warlock pet, Arena Season 3
27 January 2022: Phase 3 (The Black Temple) went live: Battle for Mount Hyjal & Black Temple raids, Netherwing Daily Content, Epic Gems
22 March 2022: Patch 2.5.4 released: Epic Gem Updates, Badges of Justice
24 March 2022: Phase 4 (The Gods of Zul'Aman) went live: Zul'Aman raid
10 May 2022: Phase 5 (Sunwell Plateau) went live: Isle of Quel'danas, Arena Season 4, Sunwell Plateau raid (opened 12 May 2022)
30 August 2022: All Burning Crusade Classic servers were transitioned to Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

Planned changes

Change	Original behavior	Reason
[Seal of Blood] and [Seal of Vengeance] will be available to both factions.	Only blood elf paladins had access to [Seal of Blood] while Alliance paladins had [Seal of Vengeance].	To better balance both factions. Overall, [Seal of Blood] just deals more damage and it's a big incentive to roll Horde over Alliance.
Players will be able to create draenei and blood elf characters during the pre-patch and level them before the Dark Portal opens.^[2]	Players were not able to create characters of the new races until Outland was open.	To avoid players that want to play with characters of the new races to be stuck in the old world during the first weeks of progression. This also makes paladins and shaman available to the other faction during launch.
Arena teams will be able to hold double the normal amount of players.	Arena teams were only able to hold enough players for their bracket (e.g. a 2v2 Arena team could only have two players).	To give more flexibility to PvPers, as this system made it impossible to play if one of the members didn't log in.
Throughout Burning Crusade Classic, using Leatherworking drums will invoke the [Tinnitus] debuff, preventing reuse for two minutes.^[3]	Groups could use drums in sequence, benefiting from a higher uptime the more leatherworkers they had.	To avoid making Leatherworking "mandatory" on raids. This change brings the optimal number of leatherworkers per raid to one per group.

Notes and trivia

The announcement of Burning Crusade Classic at BlizzConline was foreshadowed by the inclusion of Moon-Touched Netherwhelp in The Celebration Collection.
Originally, players were given the option of continuing to play in World of Warcraft: Classic or transitioning their characters over to Burning Crusade Classic on the new expansion servers. Additionally, players who chose to remain on Classic servers could create a copy of their character on BC Classic for an additional fee and continue playing on both servers. The option to purchase a character copy remained for most of BC Classic, being removed only a month before the BC Classic servers were updated to Wrath of the Lich King Classic.^[4]