WoW Classic 20th Anniversary Boosting

Starting January 13, 2026, WoW 20th Anniversary will launch a new stage via TBC Pre-Patch! This means you can start playing TBC Anniversary version directly through server conversion without needing to acquire additional expansions!

Following the pre-patch, the game is expected to release new phases according to the regular WoW update schedule. You can choose to continue playing your converted WoW Classic 20th Anniversary character, or create a new character to try the new race!

The two new races added to TBC Anniversary are Blood Elves for Horde and Draenei for Alliance, with Draenei consistently being extremely popular among Alliance players.

Based on this, we will review the main features of Draenei race and how to level up as a Draenei character in Burning Crusade Anniversary.

Why Do You Need To Level As A Draenei?

If you've been following the game's developments, you'll know that TBC Anniversary pre-patch introduced Dark Portal Pass, which allows you to instantly level up your character to level 58 (near the maximum level), allowing you to focus on the new content.

Unfortunately, these two new races are not eligible for this mechanic. Perhaps because they are part of the new content themselves, even if you played them in Burning Crusade or Classic expansions, you should still try them out.

Draenei Gameplay Overview

Generally, after choosing your race, the next step is to select a class. Different races offer different classes. The classes available for Draenei in TBC Anniversary include:

• Shaman
• Warrior
• Paladin
• Hunter
• Priest
• Mage

It's worth noting that currently only Draenei can play Shaman in Alliance, so if you're an Alliance player wanting to experience this class, using Draenei is your only option. In addition, Draenei's selectable class trainers are located at:

• Crash Site on Ammen Vale
• Azure Watch on Azuremyst Isle
• Capital city Exodar on Azuremyst Isle

What Are Racial Traits?

Each WoW race has its own unique traits, granting special abilities in combat or daily gameplay. All traits can be divided into active and passive forms, with each race possessing at least one active and several passive traits.

All Draenei racial traits include:

• Gemcutting: Directly increases Jewelcrafting skill points by 5.
• Gift of the Naaru: Restores 50 health to a designated party member over 15 seconds.
• Heroic Presence: Increases the hit chance of Warrior, Paladin, and Hunter allies within 30 yards by 1% in combat.
• Inspiring Presence: Increases the spell hit chance of Priest, Shaman, and Mage allies within 30 yards by 1% in combat.

The second trait is better suited for solo play, allowing you to focus on healing yourself. The latter two presence-related traits enable you to play a reliable support role in raids.

How To Level Up?

In Anniversary TBC, the level cap is 70, and the leveling system has undergone several changes compared to WoW Classic, aiming to optimize and enrich the expansion's playability.

These changes include adjustments to XP required for leveling up, and variations in quest levels and quantities. Based on this, leveling up in all races, including Draenei, can be divided into three phases:

Level 1-10

Due to Draenei's popularity, you'll expect to encounter many players in the starting area after the pre-patch begins, making competition more intense.

In the early stages, your strength will be relatively weak, so it's best to avoid competing with others in the capital city. Instead, try to use magical teleportation or find a waypoint within the city to travel to less populated zones to farm XP.

Early on, earning XP primarily involves completing quests. To improve efficiency, you can pick up all quests in your current town and complete them one by one according to their distance, avoiding the wasted time of repeatedly picking up and delivering quests.

Alternatively, you can refer to the following quest guide:

• Pick up and complete the quest "You Survived!" from Megalon in Ammen Vale.
• Complete more Ammen Vale quests to reach level 5.
• Start completing related quests on Travel to Azure Watch and Odesyus's Landing until you reach level 10.
• When you reach level 8, you will also unlock two special quests on Azure Watch: "The Missing Fisherman" and "Learning the Language".

Level 10-60

At this stage, you can choose to level up through dungeons, completing quests, or a combination of both, depending on your situation. The available mission zones will vary depending on your current level, including:

• Level 10-20: Bloodmyst Isle, Darkshore, Loch Modan, Westfall
• Level 20-25: Ashenvale, Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains
• Level 25-30: Duskwood, Hillsbrad Foothills, Wetlands
• Level 30-35: Stranglethorn Vale (North), Thousand Needles
• Level 35-40: Arathi Highlands, Desolace
• Level 40-45: Badlands, Dustwallow Marsh, Stranglethorn Vale (South)
• Level 45-50: Feralas, Searing Gorge, Tanaris, The Hinterlands
• Level 50-55: Azshara, Blasted Lands, Felwood, Un'Goro Crater
• Level 55-60: Burning Steppes, Eastern Plaguelands, Western Plaguelands Winterspring

If you choose to level up by exploring dungeons, you can team up with friends or players you find through the in-game chat. Of course, you must choose dungeons that match your level; otherwise, you might suffer extra losses due to the excessive danger.

It's worth noting that some dungeons have a significant difference between their maximum and minimum entry levels. Therefore, if you can find high-level teammates, they can handle the combat while you wait at the dungeon entrance to collect XP!

The dungeons expected to be explorable during this phase include (from highest to lowest level):

• Ragefire Chasm
• Wailing Caverns
• Deadmines
• Shadowfang Keep
• Blackfathom Deeps
• The Stockades
• Gnomeregan
• Razorfen Kraul (30-40)
• Scarlet Monastery
• Razorfen Downs
• Uldaman
• Zul'farrak
• Maraudon
• Sunken Temple
• Blackrock Depths
• Lower Blackrock Spire
• Upper Blackrock Spire
• Scholomance
• Stratholme (Living)
• Stratholme (Undead)

After Level 60

After reaching level 60, you can travel to Outland to level up to the maximum level by completing more dangerous content and PvP battles. However, you will need to obtain reliable gear to complete these battles before that.

The available Outland leveling routes are as follows:

• Level 58-63: Hellfire Peninsula
• Level 60-64: Zangarmarsh
• Level 62-65: Terokkar Forest
• Level 64-67: Nagrand
• Level 65-68: Blade's Edge Mountains
• Level 66-70: Netherstorm
• Level 67-70: Shadowmoon Valley

The reason for starting from level 58 is that if your overall strength is reliable and you are eager to level up, you can enter Outland directly without waiting to reach level 60.

That concludes this guide. If you plan to play Draeni, this guide should be helpful!

The release date for Phase 6 of WoW Classic 20th Anniversary has been roughly confirmed. The official announcement states that the pre-patch for TBC Anniversary will begin on January 13, 2026, later than players expected.

This pre-patch includes the general content of TBC, but it differs from TBC Classic in many ways. Let's take a look at the general content of this pre-patch.

Pre-patch Content

The pre-patch includes the new expansion's systems, but not all TBC content itself. For TBC, the pre-patch will include:

• New playable races: Blood Elves for Horde and Draenei for Alliance.
• Class changes: Updated Talent Trees and Spell Mechanics.
• Profession upgrades: Players can begin upgrading their professions.

Outland will remain locked during the pre-patch period until the official release of the expansion. The official release date for WoW TBC Anniversary has not yet been announced. However, based on the experience of TBC Classic in 2021, and considering the community's criticism of the two-week pre-patch period at that time, the pre-patch duration is expected to be at least three to four weeks. Therefore, the official release date is speculated to be around February 3rd to February 10th, 2026.

Character Transfers

The official period for players to transfer characters is from November 25th, 2025 to January 12th, 2026. Players can transfer their characters from Anniversary Realms to Classic Era Realms for free during this period, or enter TBC Anniversary Realms, and there is no intermediate option. All WoW Classic 20th Anniversary gold, items, and levels will be retained.

Hardcore

The official statement indicates that no TBC hardcore servers will be created. Regarding the handling of hardcore characters during WoW Classic 20th Anniversary, players can choose to transfer their hardcore characters to a regular (non-hardcore) anniversary server during the transfer window. The character will then continue playing TBC content as a regular character.

If the transfer is not completed before January 12th, the character will remain on the current hardcore server, but the subsequent transfer destination will be a non-hardcore Classic Era Realms.

No Character Clone Service

In 2021, the official team offered a service that allowed players to retain their TBC Classic and Classic Era Realms characters ($35/character), but TBC Anniversary will not offer any form of character cloning service.

There has been no announcement regarding this service, which is unexpected by the community. Players who wish for this service need to actively provide feedback to the official team.

Balance Changes

The skill changes for TBC Anniversary are being tested on PTR.

Bloodlust And Heroism

Their effects have changed from affecting only Shaman's party to affecting the entire raid. A new 10-minute exhaustion debuff has been added for all teammates. Crucially, this debuff only resets after a boss kill or a wipe.

This will greatly simplify raid progression, as Bloodlust and Heroism can be used on the entire raid once per boss fight, eliminating the need to swap Shaman parties to maximize benefits, while Shamans remain crucial due to their totem buffs and high demand.

Terocone Adjustments

The spawn rate and additional spawn points for Terocone have been increased. This is because in TBC Classic, Terocone was primarily used to craft one of the most important potions, Haste Potions. Due to its low refresh rate, it is often in short supply, resulting in a high gold value. Coupled with the even larger player base on the anniversary Mega Realms, this change is necessary.

Attunements Simplified

Heroic Dungeon

A player's first character still needs to complete the introductory questline by grinding the corresponding reputation to Revered. However, upon completion, a Bind on Battle.net Account key can be traded and mailed to an alt. The alt only needs to reach Friendly reputation to use the key to enter Heroic dungeon.

Raid

A player's first character still needs to complete the full raid introductory quest chain. Once completed, the raid will be unlocked for all characters on the player's Battle.net account.

This significantly lowers the barrier to entry and effort required to participate in high-difficulty content with alts, preventing burnout from repeatedly grinding introductory quests.

Raid Difficulty Adjustments

All TBC raids will be in their post-nerfed state upon release.

Tier 4

Tier 4 includes Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, and Magtheridon's Lair. These raids have undergone multiple nerfs, with bosses like Nightbane in Karazhan raids having their health and damage significantly reduced.

Tier 5

Serpent Shrine Cavern and Tempt Keep raids have been significantly nerfed. Boss and trash mob health has been drastically reduced, with some monsters and bosses even being nerfed by 40%.

Lady Vashj's final phase mind control has been removed, and Kael'thas Sunstrider fight has been shortened. Several other boss mechanics have also been modified.

Tier 6

Tier 6 changes primarily affect Black Temple and Mount Hyjal. Because they are inherently easier than Tier 5, the nerfs are less significant. The most major nerf is to the fight against M'uru, with his main body and related units having their health reduced.

With the changes to Bloodlust and Terocone, the consumables and buffs for each boss are significantly simpler than in 2021 TBC Classic, with the most noticeable decrease in difficulty for Tier 4 and Tier 5 gear.

PvP And Arena Changes

Personal Rating system replaces Team Rating, with each character starting at 1500 rating. Each character can have their rating reset to 1500 weekly using gold (only if it's below 1500).

Simplified PvP Gear Acquisition

Except for shoulders (requiring 2000 rating) and weapons (requiring 1700 rating), all other PvP gear has no rating requirements and can be traded using Arena Points and Honor.

Faction Reputation PvP gear will be sold at the start of Season 1, and its set bonuses have been merged with Honor gear, allowing players to mix and match gear and enjoy set effects.

QoL Improvements

Guild Banks will be available from day one of TBC Anniversary launches, allowing players to store gold and items.

The official website will sell upgrade packs containing transmog items, mounts, and more. Unlike previous packs, these will include a flying mount.

Group Finder Tool and Dual Talent Specialization features will soon be added to Classic (both Normal and Hardcore). Edit Mode will be added to both Era and WoW TBC Anniversary, allowing players to customize the UI without addons.

Overall, the developers are significantly making The Burning Crusade Anniversary significantly more accessible. Whether these changes are good or bad is uncertain, but they should help attract more players.