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Everything We Know About World Of Warcraft‘s Rumored Classic+
Listen up, everyone. We’ve got…a rumor on our hands. A rumor of a brand new World of Warcraft…thing. We don’t quite know what it is yet. It might be nothing. But as more and more teases crop up of some big, new project related to World of Warcraft Classic, and as Blizzcon 2026 looms, it’s about time we start taking this rumor a little more seriously.
The rumor is of a new World of Warcraft project, referred to by the community as Classic+. Here’s what we know so far.
The completely honest answer is: We don’t actually know. For now, Classic+ is just a rumored…thing…that Blizzard seems to be working on. Fans have been slowly putting together puzzle pieces from recent Blizzard activities to uncover the existence of Classic+, including some recent takedowns against private servers and the datamining of something called Project Camelot. There were also some hints dropped in Blizzard’s 2025 yearbook, and a tease that a bunch of World of Warcraft Classic streamers visited Blizzard’s campus recently. It’s clear that Blizzard is working on something related to World of Warcraft Classic, we just don’t have confirmation of what that is yet.
What people think it is is a revamped World of Warcraft Classic, a reimagining of the earliest days of the game. There are lots of ideas about what this could mean, but popular theories include new zones, quests, dungeons, and essentially a brand new take on what World of Warcraft could have become had it taken a different path over the years than it did.
World of Warcraft Classic began as a way to revisit the original days of WoW, mostly faithful to how the experience was back in the day. Classic has been successful for Blizzard, and has run in tandem with the retail game ever since 2019 with a robust community of players. In the years since, Blizzard has introduced patches and expansions in the order they originally arrived in the game, and Classic is currently on the verge of wrapping up the Mists of Pandaria expansion.
Which presents a problem. World of Warcraft Classic isn’t really…Classic anymore. Mists of Pandaria is old, sure (it launched in 2012), but it’s hardly representative of the original game. Though there are still servers running vanilla World of Warcraft for those who want it, with no updates or content, there’s very little reason for people to pick it up. Blizzard has introduced some fun variations, such as Season of Mastery and Hardcore mode, but all of those have lost their luster over time, and Blizzard isn’t continually updating them.
So if people want the feeling of playing World of Warcraft from back in the day, there’s really no good way to get that feeling right now without going to private servers. Blizzard would prefer you didn’t do that, so it makes sense for them to try to find ways to draw those interested in a Classic experience back in.
One thing players are looking to as a model for what Classic+ might look like is Season of Discovery.
Season of Discovery was a popular WoW Classic event that began in 2023, essentially a version of vanilla WoW with some new content dotted throughout. There was a new class ability system, additional dungeon bosses, new and revamped raids and dungeons, and more. Season of Discovery was legitimately great. Level gating and careful hiding from dataminers made it so that players discovered the new content together as a group, adding to a very old-school sense of newness and adventure. Many players asked Blizzard for more content like Season of Discovery, but the final update in 2025 was confirmed to be the last one.
A lot of fans of Season of Discovery have suggested it was effectively a trial run for a Classic+. All the pieces were there: it was essentially an alternate-universe version of the WoW vanilla world, and if Blizzard had committed to it, it could have kept going forever. Players are assuming that a potential Classic+ will have more and bigger changes than Season of Discovery did. Mostly, they’re hoping it’s more than