Experience Event / Pre -patch

[Elorael-remulos]

The Joyous Journeys event will be the 6-8 weeks prior to Release:

Joyous Journeys – Summer XP Buff Event

As we continue work on Wrath of the Lich King Classic, we want to celebrate the defeat of Kil’Jaeden and the Burning Legion (again!) with a bit of a special event to help get players ready for their adventures in Northrend. In the coming weeks, we will implement a global buff that we’re calling “Joyous Journeys”. During the time this buff is active, all sources of experience points will award 50% additional XP. We haven’t locked down the specific timeframe for when this buff will activate, but…

They’ve also said that Pre-Patch will be 2-6 weeks, and people are expecting 4:

Brian Birmingham💙

So assuming the Pre-Patch is 4 weeks, there’ll be 2-4 weeks of XP, then 4 weeks of Pre-Patch, before release. Which means we have at least 2 weeks after they start the XP buff before we hit Pre-Patch, and they haven’t done it yet.