Lower level dungeons in World of Warcraft are always fun to solo at level 100, but with a new feature called “Timewalking”, players will be able to run these again with their gear and levels scaled down accordingly.


The concept of this feature is actually not new. It was hinted several times in the past in various forum posts and Blizzcon panels and supposed to hit in an earlier patch.

But it seems like Blizzard finally figured out how something like this could be appealing and rewarding for players, and it’s coming in patch 6.2. This is how it’ll work:

In Patch 6.2, we’re introducing seven different weekend events that will run from noon Friday through noon Monday every week. Two of those events will be Timewalking weekends, in which you’ll be able to queue up for a randomly selected old-school dungeon with a new sort of “heroic” difficulty: When you Timewalk these dungeons, you’ll find that your character’s power and gear has been scaled down to a fraction of what they normally are. For the first time in years, some dungeons you outgrew long ago will once more put your skills to the test. A good challenge deserves a good reward, so to go along with scaling you down, we’re going through most every piece of loot in each Timewalker dungeon and scaling it up.


And these are the dungeons coming on the Public Test Realms for testing with the Timewalking mode turned on:

The Arcatraz

Black Morass

Mana-Tombs

The Shattered Halls

The Slave Pens

Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom

Gundrak

Halls of Lightning

The Nexus

Utgarde Pinnacle

New players will finally be able to experience the true horrors of The Shattered Halls and probably The Oculus too, two 5-man dungeons that were pretty hard back in the day.

