World of Warcraft: Classic Season of Mastery Players Must Transfer Characters Before They Are Gone Forever

With the firstWorld of Warcraft ClassicSeason of Mastery coming to an end, players on these realms must transfer their characters or else lose them forever. To facilitate this,World of Warcrafthas opened up free, one-way realm transfers from these servers to a small selection ofWrath of the Lich King ClassicorClassicEra realms.World of Warcraft ClassicSeason of Mastery is the game’s one-year re-run cycle of VanillaWoWit began during theBurning Crusade Classicera. After starting about a year ago, the first Season of Mastery cycle has nearly come to an end.RELATED:World of Warcraft: Frostbrood Proto-Wyrm Mount is Going Away when Dragonflight LaunchesThis has ledWorld of Warcraftto announce how future Seasonswill end. Once the servers close, all characters still left on the Season of Mastery realm will be permanently deleted. To avoid this,World of Warcraftis offering free transfers to a select group of low-population servers. The server transfers are irreversible and final, andWorld of Warcraft Classicplayers will be unable to change it once the selection is made.

World of Warcraft Classichas not given a precise date when the Season of Mastery would end yet. The season first began on May 13, 2025, and was planned to run for between 11 and 13 months. Players can probably expect the Season of Mastery to formally end on May 13, 2025 –coinciding with the second phase ofDragonflight’sPre-Patch– or December 13, alongside the opening of theDragonflightraids. A new Season of Mastery will probably be announced some time after.

Players are sad to see theClassicSeason of Mastery come to an end, but knew it was inevitable all the same. Players were uncertain what would happen to their characters at the end of the Season of Mastery cycle, and are glad they can keep their characters at all.

That said, many players are annoyed at the heavy restrictions on which realms are available for transfer. North American players can only transfer to Atiesh, Eranikus, Remulos, or Yojamba forWrath Classicrealms, and Mankrik and Whitemane forClassicEra, alllow-population realms inWorld of Warcraft Classic. Many players have characters on other realms, and are annoyed they can’t bring their Season of Mastery characters onto their main worlds, especially since doing so does not actually change the server’s population. Nevertheless,World of Warcraft Classic’sSeason of Mastery is ending soon, so players have little choice but to accept the restrictions if they want to save their characters.

World of WarcraftandWrath of the Lich King Classicare available on PC.

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