Blizzard Announces Fated Raid Schedule for Shadowlands Season 4

Posted 2022/07/20 at 4:44 PM by Squishei

As we are approaching closer to the launch of Season 4 on the week of August 2, we wanted to provide the Fated Raid schedule in advance so that raid groups can start their preparations and planning.Fated Raids will be on the following weekly rotation:

August 2 – Fated Castle Nathria
August 9 – Fated Sanctum of Domination
August 16 – Fated Sepulcher of the First Ones
August 23 – Fated Castle Nathria
August 30 – Fated Sanctum of Domination
September 6 – Fated Sepulcher of the First Ones
And so on until the rotation is removed and all raids are Fated later in the season.

While a raid is Fated, it will only be available in Fated difficulty, but the other two raids will still be available that week in their non-Fated difficulty.See you in Season 4!

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Comment by MrTerkyManCoolComment by AmberftwCan't we just select if i want to do it Fated or not some ppl still trying to farm mythic sylvanas mount

-And so on until the rotation is removed and all raids are Fated later in the season.Comment by GodsFaith3 raids x 4 fated affixes = 12 weeks of season 4?Comment by SaviorofAzerothSweet! Looking forward to it.Comment by DemiseZJDoes that mean no heroic or mythic during a fated week?Comment by SublimeChaosCan't we just select if i want to do it Fated or not some ppl still trying to farm mythic sylvanas mount

-And so on until the rotation is removed and all raids are Fated later in the season.Comment by SublimeChaos3 raids x 4 fated affixes = 12 weeks of season 4?Comment by nisxLast sentence sucks... A lot of people are forming grps to farm M CN for transmogs right now and also i can see people farming the mount from M Sylvanas (and jailer maybe) once we have S4 gear. This wont be possible if all 3 raids are on Fated difficulty. There should be a way to enter the legacy version...Comment by dokeefe1986is fated going to be harder than mythic? sorry if stupid question...Comment by 19108283 raids x 4 fated affixes = 12 weeks of season 4?Comment by dd614Last sentence sucks... A lot of people are forming grps to farm M CN for transmogs right now and also i can see people farming the mount from M Sylvanas (and jailer maybe) once we have S4 gear. This wont be possible if all 3 raids are on Fated difficulty. There should be a way to enter the legacy version...Comment by Jagi79LFR when? Gonna make us wait again and go out of sequence to get Slime Kitty?Comment by Markov41I hope this doesn't mess with Sepulcher extended lockouts on its fated weeks.Comment by Chueyb3 raids x 4 fated affixes = 12 weeks of season 4?here

As written above, players clearing 10 Fated bosses per week would acquire their season’s limit of Dinar (the currency used to buy Fated raid items) by 6 weeks at the earliest. We’re going to lower the number of kills required on each quest such that it’ll land somewhere in the 4.5/5 week range instead.
We’ve also heard a lot of feedback about how if you joined late into Season 4 or had alts you wanted to play, you’d be met with a pretty large wall of Quests/Boss Kills necessary to access the system, which felt like it ran counter to the lessons learned with the Creation Catalyst. Exact details TBD, but after a certain period we’ll be heavily reducing the requirements for these 3 quests. This way the initial progression experience of early Season 4 is intact, but that the later it goes, you’ll be able to raid on a new character or with a new friend without being so far behind.
Just to mention it, we’re not currently looking at changing the rate of acquiring the materials to upgrade a Fated item to Heroic or Mythic. It’ll stay as a 100% droprate from Heroic & Mythic bosses, and then require 20 to transform.

Comment by couchpotato20133 raids x 4 fated affixes = 12 weeks of season 4?Comment by Deathcamso if this "rotation" ends does that mean we can no longer farm the non fated version of lets say sylvanas mythic for the mount?
if so pls change it so we can go back to non fated if we choose so.Comment by dvfaaDoes that mean no heroic or mythic during a fated week?Comment by Humtolso if this "rotation" ends does that mean we can no longer farm the non fated version of lets say sylvanas mythic for the mount?
if so pls change it so we can go back to non fated if we choose so.Comment by Nevcairielso if this "rotation" ends does that mean we can no longer farm the non fated version of lets say sylvanas mythic for the mount?
if so pls change it so we can go back to non fated if we choose so.Comment by AmberftwCan't we just select if i want to do it Fated or not some ppl still trying to farm mythic sylvanas mount

-And so on until the rotation is removed and all raids are Fated later in the season.

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