I quote what I (and you too probably) got in the mail yesterday:
The final chapter of Season of Discovery unfolds on 8 April!
Darkness grips the Scarlet Enclave, twisting its crusaders into something unholy. Disguise yourself and infiltrate the New Avalon outdoor zone, where earned trust is your key to unlocking new recipes, exclusive rewards, and hidden paths to powerful raid treasures.
Warriors, Hunters, and Paladins are called upon to shape the fate of a fallen blade in a new Legendary Weapon Questline. Will you cleanse the blade and redeem its original owner or forsake it to the darkness?
On 10 April, the final fight arrives as the Scarlet Enclave raid opens, calling heroes to reclaim Tyr’s Hand from a sinister force. Face eight challenging bosses, battle for new eight-piece armor sets, and prove your strength against the horrors that now rule the stronghold.
seems to be so, after they said "culminates’ they kinda killed it for me. It seems that this is last thing in their experiment, and then maybe it is just becomes era, kinda sad, that they finish on the first phase with full new content
No indicate on another phase right?
As i remeber aggrend said on YT comment that sod still have “months of content”. And at least horde pala / alliance shamans NPC, i dont think they added those NPC without reason so probably we will have at least 1 more patch with paladins/shamans, but not sure about will it just be pala/shamans or also other content.
With months of content he meant you can still play sod months to come even tho its no more updates​:smiling_face: people can still enjoy all enjoy old raids just like in era classic for months 
I don’t think the devs themselves know for sure if they’ll go for another phase or not.
They did what they were asked to do in terms of length for a seasonal server but maybe if the demand remains high enough they’ll continue breathing life into it.
I reckon they go along as they are shaping a Classic+ version. They might add content if they feel like testing some more class balance/mechanics/difficiulty levels etc.
Sod is classic+, in fact. It is exactly what i can call classic+. Rebalanced classes and raids, rebalanced economics, some new content. WHat else you mean by classic+? Yes, sure blizzard can do other custom fresh server, maybe using some lessons learnt from sod, but it will be just other custom classic server, it will be same “classic+” as sod.
It’s been hinted that they want to release a complete new version of Classic and that SoD was a testing ground to see what would and wouldn’t work.
Nothing certain as to what they’re preparing or have in mind but there’s a strong chance that either SoD becomes the classic+ - and we might see more phases after that one - or that once MoP ends they’ll bring a more polished classic+.
Yes i am sure that they will prepare some kind of new custom server but it’s just not true to call it “classic+” because sod is already classic+. We will see ofc what they are preparing.
Use common sense. There won’t be anything past phase 8.
Just enjoy the last tier and move on.
Use common sense. Don’t pretend to know what’s gonna happen when you don’t.
only server maintenance and emergency hot fixes.
just no major content drops, new runes, new zones, new weapons etc.
Phase 8 is the final chapter as stated by blizzard on two occasions.
Mop is hitting this summer.
The 2025 roadmap doesn’t include sod past summer.
Classic+ or a new season is clearly in development and creating more sod content would cannibalise that.
Sod active raiding population stats are low, will peak for a month in April/May, then steadily decrease as it comes to an end. No company would green lit further development based on that assumption.
Common sense. Read the tea leaves.
Season of discovery is over.
sup doomers.
you were wrong.
the show goes on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5nyLLjDV3o
skip to 7:53
does that sound like “we’re shutting it down” to you?
how many times have Aggrend come out and said “listen guys, its not over yet, stop dooming”
you people gaslight yourselves.
You’re a fool who’s not listening.
Learn to read between the lines.
A thank you video at the final curtain call? Sound familiar??
It’s like a behind the scenes video after a film has come out…and ended.
They also do not say what’s next. Absolutely no info at all apart from a look back at the history of sod. That to me says it all. It will be on life support only and this is it.
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It’s over bro.
Do the final secret agent questline. The dev team shows up and thanks you for playing lol.
then sell out.
quick, undercut by 50g on orbs, get what you can before it ends, right?