Players from the regular “WoW Classic” land in the “Season of Mastery” – chaos is perfect. And it is unfair.
The Season of Mastery in World of Warcraft is still quite at the beginning. In this “WoW Classic+”, players experience the original phases of World of Warcraft Classic at a faster pace, but once again can experience the different content phases in succession.
But now there has been a devastating error: Completely overpowered characters from the old “Classic” servers have appeared in the Season of Mastery.
What happened? In the past few days, there have been strange sightings on some of the “Season of Mastery” realms. Players have been seen with equipment that they should not yet possess at all. The best possible PvP gear or mounts like the Black Qiraji Drone from the AQ opening event have been sighted.
The conclusion: Some players were able to take their “finished” characters from the old Classic realms and transfer them to the Season of Mastery.
What are the consequences? Quite devastating. The transferred characters already possess gear from the later phases of World of Warcraft and roam around with T3 sets from Naxxramas or weapons like “Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker” in the game world. In PvE, they are devastating killing machines and in PvP, they mow through enemies who can do nothing against them.
Moreover, these characters also brought items and gold with them during the transfer, which can harm the economy of the realms in the long term and permanently, if Blizzard does not remove the characters and their possessions from the game in a timely manner.
The YouTuber “Life is Moot” made a small video about this and shows how he discovered such a player in the Season of Mastery:
How could this happen? It is not entirely clear. It should actually not be possible to transfer characters from a conventional “Classic” realm to the realms of the Season of Mastery. But apparently there was a bug or glitch that enabled players to do exactly that.
Especially humiliating for Blizzard: The players who were apparently able to carry out the transfer have also given themselves mocking names, like “Indiecompany” in reference to the sarcastic saying that Blizzard is just a “little indie company” that could not avoid such mistakes – which is, of course, nonsense for a billion-dollar company.
It can be assumed that the characters will soon be removed from the Season of Mastery. Whether the seasonal servers will suffer long-term negative consequences remains to be seen.
