Onyxia TBC Content Tier 4 | Zul'Aman Release

Greetings Warmane community,

The call to arms now turns north-east toward the cursed Ghostlands.

We are excited to announce that Onyxia will transition into Phase 4 on July 26, 2025 at 14:00 server time, unlocking the 10-player raid Zul'Aman.

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There will be no downtime; the raid will become instantly available at the time above. Grab your trusted allies, hone your strategies, and prepare to challenge the Amani warlord Zul'jin and his lieutenants within their ancient stronghold.

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Content cadence

This phase is planned to last roughly 2 months, giving players ample time to farm Badges, secure the coveted War Bear, and gear alts before we set our sights on the Sunwell Plateau later this year.

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Battlegroup II – Season Continuation

Arena Season will continue unchanged throughout Phase 4. A precise end date will be announced separately.
We remind all players that normal rules regarding wintrading, MMR dropping, and account sharing remain in full effect. Violations will result in disqualifications or account sanctions.

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Looking ahead

Phase 4 is your chance to:

• Obtain catch up gear for characters stepping into Tier 5 and Tier 6 raiding
  Stockpile Badges of Justice for the powerful Sunwell vendor items coming in Phase 5
• Show your mastery by securing the limited time Amani War Bear mount before the event is retired at the end of the TBC progression phase of Onyxia.

Onyxia continues its journey as Warmane’s premier progressive realm.

See you in the Ghostlands!
Warmane

Release date and details are subject to change; any alterations will be communicated in this thread and via our social channels.

What are the plans for reset days? Every 3 days like it was in the original or something else?

Hope its a 3 day reset

It would be 3 days like it always has been. There isn't anything suggesting otherwise.

If I could make a suggestion. Add Zephyr in this phase to teleport players to Caverns of Time. It was originally added in Sunwell, but they added it in phase 4 of Classic. That to me is more of a qualify of life change than anything. It just cuts down wasted raid time traveling and makes picking up tier pieces less of a headache.

I would like to know if there is going to be Realm 1st Achievement because i hear rumors that you will add it which is not good if it is true because ZA has to be ''catch up raid'' as you said in description above. Don't forget that Zull Gurub and AQ20 were ''catch up'' raids as well and they did not have Realm 1st Achievement, and also some people ask ''Why did Karazhan have realm 1st Achievement when it's 10man raid?'' , well answer is simple Karazhan has Tier 4 head token that were dropping.

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Originally Posted by Buckili1995

I would like to know if there is going to be Realm 1st Achievement because i hear rumors that you will add it which is not good if it is true because ZA has to be ''catch up raid'' as you said in description above. Don't forget that Zull Gurub and AQ20 were ''catch up'' raids as well and they did not have Realm 1st Achievement, and also some people ask ''Why did Karazhan have realm 1st Achievement when it's 10man raid?'' , well answer is simple Karazhan has Tier 4 head token that were dropping.

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Why would it matter if there was an achievement or not? That's a custom thing here. I thought people did realm first because they liked to play the game that way. The guild I was in last year got realm first AQ20 by hours actually because the last boss was bugged to be hard mode basically. But it was a lot of fun competing against other guilds that weren't in the 25 man raid. Didn't matter if we got an achievement or not.

koz realm first matters

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Originally Posted by Buckili1995

I would like to know if there is going to be Realm 1st Achievement because i hear rumors that you will add it which is not good if it is true because ZA has to be ''catch up raid'' as you said in description above. Don't forget that Zull Gurub and AQ20 were ''catch up'' raids as well and they did not have Realm 1st Achievement, and also some people ask ''Why did Karazhan have realm 1st Achievement when it's 10man raid?'' , well answer is simple Karazhan has Tier 4 head token that were dropping.

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how would it harm anyone or anything if there was a feat of strength for it?

should be issued a realm first turd burglar.

Just out of curiosity, what will happen to the current raid tier boxes on Blackrock? Will the rating requirement be lowered or stay the same?
Will current phase gear come out on store?

Hey folks.
Are we going to have attunes removed for BT/Hyjal as it was in latest TBC classic.

“Blizzard has clarified that attunements to Black Temple and Hyjal Summit raids are being removed in The Gods of Zul'Aman Patch 2.5.4”

While IMO at this point attunements removal should be healthier for the server in general, i belive Warmane will follow the same path as "vanilla" TBC did. If this is correct, attunements will not be neccesary since SWP and not ZA.

Are we able to buy MH / BT gear in store affter Za release ?

I feel like Realm Firsts are more about bragging rights than any actual benefit. That said, for a catch-up raid like ZA, it might not really be necessary. A lot of players at this stage are just trying to gear up alts rather than compete for progression.