World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary with events starting October 22nd and going all the way until January 7th. Starting October 22nd, Blizzard is dropping huge content updates for The War Within including new currencies, new vendors, as well as legacy transmogs, pets, and mounts that players can collect.
World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary on November 23rd, 2024, and to celebrate 20 years of expansions, raids, and dungeons, the game is dropping new content for players to enjoy. Below are details for all of the anniversary events, new currencies, new and returning anniversary items, and all of the vendors for these events.
Anniversary Events:
Starting on October 22nd, players can immediately start enjoying the anniversary events, like the return of the Blackrock Depths raid. This classic raid has been reimagined as a 10-15 player raid and will be available on LFR, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
There will also be new Timewalking dungeons featuring classic maps like Dreadmines, Dire Maul, and Stratholmes. Players will also be able to defeat legacy world bosses to collect celebration tokens. For the first week of this anniversary event, the returning world bosses are the Sha of Anger from Mists of Pandaria and Archavon the Stonewatch from Wrath of the Lich King.
Players will be able to enjoy a festival located outside the Caverns of Time, featuring plenty of tents, vendors, and fun mini events like Mount Match and Fashion Frenzy.
Finally, there's a new scenario called Revisiting the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. This is a 10-20 player scenario that will be available in Group Finder. Chromie is using a codex to help players revisit the past, where they'll need to defend Azeroth against Scourge, Legion, and Qiraji. Furthermore, Tichondrius, Ossirian, and Kel'Thuzad will be available as legacy world bosses.
New Currencies available for Anniversary Items:
Starting October 22nd, WoW players will be able to collect three new currencies to use to buy nostalgic mounts and other gear. Bronze Celebration Tokens are used to purchase Anniversary items and Tier 2 transmog sets.
Bronze celebration tokens can be earned from completing the following events:
Event quests
Chromie's codex
Guest Relations secret event
Blackrock Depths
World bosses
The War Within weekly quests
Timewalking
Defeating Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Weekly PvP events
Timewarped badges can be used to purchase legacy PvP gear, Anniversary items, and timewalking items.
Timewarped Relic Coffer Keys will be used for buying Blackrock Depths raid gear and will be earned by completing Blackrock Depths on any difficulty.
Anniversary Items:
WoW's 20th Anniversary features a ton of returning mounts, pets, transmogs, and toys that players who may be newer to the game will be able to collect. Blizzard is also adding new mounts like the Blue Armored Phoenix, and new pets like Baby Dreadlords.
During this event, players will be able to use Bronze Celebration Tokens to purchase items from previous anniversaries:
Core Hound mount
Lil' Nefarion pet
Molten Corgi pet
Onyxian Whelpling pet
Hatespark the Tiny pet
Baby Blizzard Bear pet
Blizzard is also bringing back the Tier 2 armor sets. On top of the sets for the original 8 classes, Blizzard created sets for all of the new classes! All 13 classes will have their own unique armor set to collect during the WoW 20th Anniversary.
WoW 20th Anniversary Achievements:
Certain WoW 20th anniversary event achievements will reduce the cost of anniversary items, rewarding players for doing as much content as possible. Here are the ways players can reduce the cost of the anniversary items:
Earn 100 Bronze Celebration Tokens to unlock extra activities for bonus tokens
Buy one Tier 2 transmog set to reduce the cost of future sets (from 60 to 40)
"Classy Dresser" achievement reduces tier set costs to 20 tokens
"A Cool Twenty Years" is an anniversary achievement that unlocks the Coldflame Tempest mount. Players will have to complete all of the following to unlock this meta-achievement:
I Have That One! - Match 1 mount during Mount Mania event
Fashion Critic - Cast 1 vote at the Fashion Frenzy event
Pet Mischief - Use a pet disguiser to look like your pet
Balloonist - Ride one of the celebration balloons
Peanut Gallery - React to Lorewalker Cho's stories
An Original - Defeat one of the anniversary world bosses (Azuregos, Lord Kazzak, Lethon, Emeriss, Taerar, Ysondre)
A Gatecrasher - Defeat one of the following world bosses (Doomwalker, Sha of Anger, Archavon the Stonewatcher)
Codex Editor - complete the scenario "The Codex of Chromie."
Completing all of these events will earn players the meta-achievement "A Cool Twenty Years" and unlock the Coldflame Tempest mount.
WoW 20th Anniversary Vendors:
There are over 6 new vendors coming with the WoW 20th Anniversary with tons of nostalgic items like Tier 2 transmogs, Anniversary rewards from previous years, classic timewalking pets, toys, and mounts, and legacy PvP gear. Here are all of the WoW 20th Anniversary vendors, what they sell, and what currency they require:
Vendor | Items Sold | Currencies |
Traeya | Tier 2 transmog ensembles | Bronze Celebration Tokens |
Storekeeper Reginald | Anniversary rewards from previous years | Bronze Celebration Tokens, Gold |
Historian Ma'di | New and returning anniversary items | Bronze Celebration Tokens, Timewarped Badges |
Bobadormu | Classic Timewalking pets, toys, mounts, gear, cosmetics, and reputation | Timewarped Badges |
Time-Displaced Thanthaldis Snowgleam and Jorek Ironside | Legacy PvP weapons and armor | Timewarped Badges, Marks of Honor |
Braggi Brazenbrass, Kraegan Emberforge, Hilda Hellforge | Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic Blackrock Depths gear | Relic Coffer Keys |
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