wow Deathwing Shirt Hints at Cataclysm Classic Announcement at BlizzCon 2023

[Staff 1,183]

Blizzard has put up a Deathwing-themed shirt for sale in the Blizzard Gear Store ahead of BlizzCon 2023. Could the shirt potentially hint at a Classic Cataclysm announcement?

Blizzard now sells a Deathwing black t-shirt on the Blizzard Gear Store for $35. One of the images even has the BlizzCon logo in it.

With only Phase 5 left for Wrath Classic, many probably wonder what's next in store for Classic. The next chapter happens to be Cataclysm and BlizzCon's just around the corner.

Do you prefer Cataclysm Classic or Classic+? Let us know in the comments!

[DevilsMilitia 0]

i prefer RETAIL - classic is shyte

[Arcling 822]

Are there many people so eager to play Cataclysm again? It's usually regarded as one of the worst expansions.

[Dahaka99 39]

32 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Are there many people so eager to play Cataclysm again? It's usually regarded as one of the worst expansions.

Cata was really underrated but had the major World Revamp Neltharion aka Deathwing was really masterpiece from the books . I would play that instead WOTLK  Everyone was like "oh Lich king  dead wow is over, no more" in cata. 

[Migol 421]

49 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Are there many people so eager to play Cataclysm again? It's usually regarded as one of the worst expansions.

Exactly my reaction.    If you keep going forward at some point it's hard to call it "classic".    And Cata definitely suffered with the amount of time they spent on world revamping vs. other stuff, and where the story really went off rails in places, etc.

[Swarf 65]

In so far as how the hype compared to the actual product, no expansion ever disappointed on the level of Cataclysm.  The trailer was badass AF and made Deathwing seem like the most incredible, amazeballs pure BOSS that we'd ever have the privilege to face -- someone to rival or even surpass the Lich King.  What we actually got though is a whiny, sniveling, petty, immature, poorly voiced, astoundingly obnoxious, pieced together brat of a dragon who forced us to pop his back acne and paint his toenails.  Never have I felt so freakin' let down in the history of the game.  It still angers me to think of it.  And yes I did say poorly voiced, because he was.  I don't care what other accolades that voice actor has, because he absolutely sucked pure donkey ballz with Deathwing.  The character is unequivocal, pure unadulterated obnoxiousness incarnate.

[Arcling 822]

2 hours ago, Migol said:

Exactly my reaction.    If you keep going forward at some point it's hard to call it "classic".    And Cata definitely suffered with the amount of time they spent on world revamping vs. other stuff, and where the story really went off rails in places, etc.

Yeah, it doesn't have the same following as TBC and WotLK had. I also don't remember it having any great mechanics, playing my class during this expansion felt rather annoying (also something personal, my original guild and my old server died during Cata, game became like a solo experience, no pugs, even capitals barely had any players there so I decided to take a break).

3 hours ago, Dahaka99 said:

Cata was really underrated but had the major World Revamp Neltharion aka Deathwing was really masterpiece from the books . I would play that instead WOTLK  Everyone was like "oh Lich king  dead wow is over, no more" in cata. 

I hated both Deathwing fights, annoying mechanics!

[Cham79 59]

Sounds like this is the Blizzard incident for Blizzcon this year. Instead of releasing classic+ they go with Cataclysm, seems like a terrible choice and is highly possible.

[Prophet001 479]

IDK... I wasn't here for cata but actually don't have much interest in it.

MoP on the other hand. Love me some MoP.

[Ragingwolf 274]

If they were to release it there may only be one server for it not multiple.  Same for MoP, WoD, and Legion.  Just 1 server to do a slow expansion release to give players some ounce of nostalgia and something to stay subbed by monthly.

[Teufel 327]

21 hours ago, Arcling said:

Are there many people so eager to play Cataclysm again? It's usually regarded as one of the worst expansions.

It's WoW playerbase you're talking about. They'll be whining and complaining about thing even if those are good. 

As it is, Cata's first half was pretty good, Cho'gall and Ragnaros being among my favorite bosses, it's the tail end where thing started to go south. Plus the (in)famous 5-man dungeons at the beginning of the expansion where suddenly "pull 10 packs and AoE" stopped working - you can say Blizzard probably started to think up of a better way to make 5-ppl more intreresting whith all the whining, so the next expasion we got Challenge Mode, and one more later - M+.

[TheRagingwolf 193]

Cata sucked. The final Deathwing fight was horrible and even today it is a pain to try and complete.

On 10/19/2023 at 10:12 AM, DevilsMilitia said:

i prefer RETAIL - classic is shyte

Potato tomato.

[Guz 19]

Literally no one wants a cata classic cuz it’s not classic. 

[Unholyknight 9]

Can't wait for Dragonflight Classic

[Topman 9]

Deep Freeze on a frost mage on a boss and see absolute crazy dmg. Hearing Nefarian satire comments in Blackwing Decent on boss kills to. His experiments raid is defo idea form 10.1 Raid today. Getting blasted and killed by Deathwing in Uldum leveling up, To actually seeing his scale was nuts! It's not the worst expansion in my opinion. 

[Borgoff33 87]

in about 6-7 years we will have Dragonflight classic at this rate