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The War Within™ Season 1 and Raid Schedule Overview

The War Within™ Season 1 and Raid Schedule Overview

The War Within™ is almost upon us and with it, a new season  will begin with new dungeons, new rewards, and new challenges.

Just the Facts

  • 7/22: Dragonflight Season 4 PvP Ladder Closes and Mythic+ 0.1% title rating qualification ends.
  • 7/23: Pre-Expansion Content Update Goes Live
  • 7/30: Pre-Expansion Event Goes Live
  • 8/20: PvP Pre-Season begins with weekly resets
  • 8/22: The War Within Early Access begins, Normal Dungeons open
  • 8/26: The War Within Goes Live Globally at 3:00 pm PDT with Heroic Dungeons and Dragonflight Season 4 PvE rewards are retired.
  • 9/10: The War Within Season 1 Begins with Normal and Heroic raid difficulty, Raid Finder Wing 1, Mythic 0 Dungeons, Heroic Seasonal dungeons, a new World Boss, and PvP Season 1
  • 9/17: Mythic raids and Mythic+ dungeons open, Raid Finder Wing 2 opens, raid Story Mode opens
  • 9/24: Raid Finder Wing 3 Opens

Dragonflight™ Season 4 End Dates

The current season of PvP content will end at 10:00 pm PDT the night before maintenance in each region—July 22 at 10:00 pm PDT for NA, July 23 at 22:00 CEST for EU, and July  24 at 22:00 in Korea and Taiwan.

With the season’s end, it will no longer be possible to earn PvP seasonal rewards, titles, or Dragonflight Season 4 rankings, and titles will be awarded in the weeks after the season ends:

  • Draconic Gladiator: End Dragonflight PvP Season 4 in the top 0.1% of the 3v3 arena ladder (requires 150 games won in Dragonflight Season 4).
  • Draconic Legend:  End Dragonflight PvP Season 4 in the top 0.1% of the Solo Shuffle ladder (requires 50 games won in Dragonflight Season 4).

Players can still queue for rated PvP modes for Honor, Conquest, and progress toward the faction-themed Vicious Dreamtalon mount for Horde or Alliance.

Mythic+ 0.1% title rating qualification ends will also end on July 22 at the same time as the PvP season ends.

All PvE rewards currently available within Dragonflight Season 4 will no longer be available as of August 26.


The War Within

With the start of Early Access on August 22, Normal difficulty dungeons will become available.

Dungeons
  • Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (Levels 70-80)
  • Priory of the Sacred Flame (Levels 70-80)
  • The Rookery (Levels 70-80)
  • The Stonevault (Levels 70-80)
  • Cinderbrew Meadery (Level 80)
  • City of Threads (Level 80)
  • Darkflame Cleft (level 80)
  • The Dawnbreaker (Level 80)

With the launch of the expansion on August 26, Heroic difficulty dungeons will be available to play.

On September 10, The War Within Season 1 will begin with Heroic and Raid Finder Wing 1 of Nerub-ar Palace opening, Mythic 0 dungeons also become available along with Heroic Seasonal dungeons and the new World bosses.

World Bosses
  • Kordac, the Dormant Protector
  • Aggregation of Horrors
  • Shurrai, Atrocity of the Undersea
  • Orta, the Broken Mountain

On September 17, Mythic raids, Raid Finder Wing 2, Mythic+ dungeons and raid Story Mode will open.

On September 24 Raid Finder Wing 3 will open.

Dungeon Item Rewards:

Difficulty

Pre-Season

Season 1

Great Vault

Normal

554

554

-

Heroic

Explorer 4 (567)

Adventurer 4 (580)

Veteran 4 (593)

Mythic

-

Veteran 4 (593)

Champion 3 (603)

+2

-

Champion 1 (597)

Champion 4 (606)

+3

-

Champion 1 (597)

Hero 1 (610)

+4

-

Champion 2 (600)

Hero 1 (610)

+5

-

Champion 3 (603)

Hero 2 (613)

+6

-

Champion 4 (606)

Hero 2 (613)

+7

-

Hero 1 (610)

Hero 3 (616)

+8

-

Hero 1 (610)

Hero 4 (619)

+9

-

Hero 2 (613)

Hero 4 (619)

+10

-

Hero 2 (613)

Myth 1 (623)


Stay tuned to the official site for more information on The War Within.

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