Hardcore Classic and Ranking System Release Date Announced
August 1, 2023 • Dwarflord
It has been weeks of waiting for Hardcore Classic and the Ranking System, both equally game-changing in their own rights. Now we finally get to know the dates for these two major r…
New Vanilla Ranking System: Changes Explained
July 15, 2023 • Dwarflord
After the initial announcement that the ranking system was changing for the first time since launch, we finally have the details for those changes. There is a very lengthy explanat…
Official Hardcore Rules Explained
June 28, 2023 • Passion
Today we have received our first official clarification on the rules of the official Classic Era Hardcore servers that are releasing soon™. Beginning with the obvious one, death is…
Changes Coming for Vanilla Honor System, With A Progress Reset
May 26, 2023 • Dwarflord
It is well known that the Vanilla ranking system is extremely time-intensive, and those who seek to get rank 14 might be investing upwards of 40-60 hours per week PVPing in battleg…
Classic Era’s Two-Year Anniversary: Revisiting the History
May 20, 2023 • Dwarflord
On May 18th, 2021 The Burning Crusade prepatch came out and Classic servers were split: you could choose to send your character swirling through the Dark Portal to Outland, or you…
Official Hardcore Servers Announced
May 13, 2023 • Passion
During the Hardcore All-Stars Speedrun Tournament Finale, Sarthe was joined by Aggrend, the Senior Game Producer for WoW Classic for a mystery announcement. As many predicted, that…
Classic WoW Internal Dev Client Updated to 1.15.0
April 22, 2023 • Passion
Just over a year after the last WoW Classic update, 1.14.3, we seem to be teetering just on the edge of something. Developer clients for the game have been updated to 1.15.0. This…
Classic Era Guild Clears Naxxramas in New Record Time
April 3, 2023 • Dwarflord
For most people, simply clearing all of the fifteen bosses in Naxxramas at level 60 in vanilla is enough of a challenge. Not for this guild, though: <ACTIVE> is a Classic Era…
Firemaw (EU) is Now the First High Population Server on Classic Era
March 28, 2023 • Dwarflord
I never thought I would see the day! Classic Era has just gotten its first high population server. The Firemaw cluster on the EU servers is now high population as of March 26th, 20…
Season of Mastery Realms Permanently Closing!
February 15, 2023 • lettara
Season of Mastery realms are permanently shutting down this Tuesday, February 21st. You will still be able to access your character list in order to initiate a free server transfer…
Classic Era Servers Now Medium Population!
February 14, 2023 • Dwarflord
On June 1st, 2021, WoW Classic players rushed through the Dark Portal with everyone else — well, almost everyone. What about those that stayed behind, those who had no concern whe…
Best Servers on Vanilla WoW (Classic Era) for a New/Returning Player
February 2, 2023 • Dwarflord
Many players, new and old, are returning to Vanilla WoW, now called Classic Era. This is the permanent level-60 version of the game, initially released in 2019. And yes, people are…
How to Transfer Your SOM Characters to Classic Era
February 2, 2023 • Dwarflord
If you weren’t aware yet, the SOM realms are closing on February 14th, 2023. If you still have a Season of Mastery character remaining on those servers, you are likely thinking of…
WoW Classic: Season of Mastery Servers Close Feb 14th!
February 1, 2023 • Dwarflord
The Season of Mastery realms that opened on November 16th 2021 as an experimental version of classic WoW are closing on February 14th 2023. That’s the same day as Valentine’s day i…
WoW Classic: Season of Mastery Transfers Broken
November 2, 2022 • lettara
Blizzard is encountering technical issues with the SoM to WotLK transfer service they made live yesterday. This surely comes as a massive disappointment to the SoM community, compo…