Elwynn — live now. World of Warcraft 1.12, kept exactly as it shipped: x1 rates, no custom content, no boosts. A faithful Normal PvE realm with cross-faction play and gated raids that open one at a time, Molten Core through Naxxramas. Bots are watched around the clock, but a human makes every ban. Download the ready-to-play client and you’re in.

Barrens — coming. One realm that moves forward together: Classic, then The Burning Crusade, then Wrath of the Lich King, crossing each gate on the same day. Catch-up experience so starting late never means starting alone, cross-faction throughout, hard phase caps — and the same promise as Elwynn: no shop, nothing for sale. It opens when it’s ready, no fake countdowns.

One account works on both. Don’t like the gate? Free realm transfer from Barrens to Elwynn, anytime.