When did WoW start having seasons?

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And what does a season even mean? I’ve been here 18 years and never heard of a WoW season until everybody started talking about Season 4. Were there 3 seasons before that? When did they start and end? What did they entail?

Why is this happening?

I don’t think I like WoW having seasons, but maybe I just need to hear why WoW has seasons and what purpose they serve.

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Since tbc for pvp.
Since patch 3.2 when ToGC made doing ulduar worthless (and carried forward for all tiers since).
Since patch 7.0.3 for dungeons with m+.

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PvP seasons have been around since BC, M+ Seasons started in BFA

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When Blizzard decided that WoW should be an eSport. I dunno though. Seasons don’t really have a reason to exist in an RPG but that is just my opinion.

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So, it’s only related to content I’ve never done?

No wonder I don’t know what it is. XD

So literally, this is all about PvP and M+? That’s it?

Man, Blizzard really has forsaken us.

Thanks for the quick responses.

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M+ started in legion (7.0), not bfa (8.0). Even if it didn’t have mount rewards then, it still came with complete gear bumps per major patch (or other metric needed).

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Pretty much. Was originally just a PvP thing, then they felt the need to tie M+ into it, pushing the “e-sport” thing.

Pretty stupid. More useful for you to just ignore these terminologies.

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Season = New Raid tier till M+ then it 99% of the time stays the same. Like Pre Patch isn’t part of the last season per say but M+ doesn’t change anything usually.

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yeah, it really sucks when content exists that other people enjoy but i don’t. that’s basically a personal insult to me

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Actually every raid patch was a new season.

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While mythic+ started in Legion, during Legion they weren’t calling any PvE content “Seasons”. PvP seasons were unrelated to what was happening in PvE at that time.

It was always called a “tier”.

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18 years and you know nothing?

I am also here for 18 years but I know something. I remember Season started with Arena in The Burning Crusade. They started as Season 1, 2, 3, til Season 15 … End of Mists of Pandaria.

Then they rename the Seasons into:
Warlords Season 1 to 3
Legion Season 1 to 7 - Legion 7.0, Legion 7.2, Legion 7.2.5, Legion 7.3, Legion 7.3.2, Legion Post Season, BFA Pre-Season

  • Mythic+ came in on Legion and somehow followed Season name convention of Arena

BFA Season 1 to 4
Shadowlands Season 1 to 4

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They weren’t unrelated though cause blizz made sure to keep ilvl parity (as best they could) between both pvp and pve then. Hence the bumps in ilvl when the tier actually came out for both pvp and pve. Cause look at broken shore. 7.2 was season 3 and had a certain spread of ilvls for m+ and pvp as defined by the tier (which nighthold was current then) of an upperbound of 925. Then when 7.2.5 dropped and tomb came out a week later blizz bumped pvp to season 4 and bumped up m+ dungeon loot to match with an upperbound of 955 for titanforging.

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Changing of PvP seasons was unrelated to the timing of the next raid patch.

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The concept of seasons in raiding is stupid.

I unsubbed because of it. They made a hamster wheel even worse.

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Wrong. Holinka mentioned in an interview with venruki why they don’t do more pvp seasons like in legion. When replying, they said they didn’t feel comfortable having 2 seasons per tier with there being a low/high rise of ilvl in pvp.

And even then in bfa they did restrict a new pvp season until the new tier (major patch) started anyways.

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They only pertain to PvP, M+ and raids given each has a limited time set of mounts, achievements and armor sets. Pretty much started when the AWC did, and then was followed with the world first race and M+ MDI. Blizzard has been trying hard to make WoW and esport game, yet its amusing to watch it flounder around.

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It is a bad choice by Ion to tie m+, pvp and raiding into the same season. It is much easier on the designers, of course.

But this is why raiders have to zoom through content to be “raid ready” in two weeks after an expansion drops, blowing through all of the good stuff.

Sure, the pvp guys and the m+ guys really want to jump in and play but the burden falls on the raiders: bad design choice, unchanged.

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I can recall arena seasons being a thing since the beginning, but dungeon seasons is pretty recent.

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The concept of seasons in wow really annoys me.

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