Blizzard has announced that they will soon be releasing a 50% XP buff to all Burning Crusade Classic realms that will last through the WotLK Classic pre-patch until the full launch.

Brian Birmingham has posted an update on Twitter clarifying that Sunwell nerfs in TBC Classic will not be applied until the pre-patch for Wrath of the Lich King Classic. Currently there is not a confirmed release date for WotLK but it’s generally accepted that pre-patch will be coming withing 2-3 months. Pre-patch for Lich King…

Blizzard finally decided it’s time to take action on the server population situation, with Kaivax just announcing that Blizzard will be consolidating several low population realms in order to address population issues. What this means in practice is that players will be unable to log onto those realms following the weekly maintenance of August 9,…

It’s been just 4 days since Kaivax’s post on the EU official forums, essentially saying that Blizzard do not plan to address the issue with queues on the Firemaw server, which left many players deeply unsatisfied, to put it mildly. It would appear that Blizzard noticed players’ discontent and begun taking measures on the situation:…

PvP mounts are typically sent out to eligible players 2 weeks after a PvP season is over. It has been 18 days since season 3 ended however, and the mounts have not yet been sent out, causing players to be understandably worried — but thankfully, Kaivax has arrived to ease player concerns. Specifically, Kaivax clarified…

Players started noticing a peculiar phenomenon on the Isle of Quel’Danas, following its release not even 10 days ago. No matter the time of day, what layer you are, or what part of the island you were at, the weather seemed to never change: it was constant heavy rain! A couple of threads on the…

Many players transferred away from their dead servers after the very sharp population decline that TBC servers experienced in July & August of 2021. This saw the rise of “mega-servers”, servers where very large numbers of players transferred to from other servers, hoping to avoid a situation where their server dies again. For the EU…

Back when TBC Classic was first announced, Blizzard made an unprecedented move: they allowed us to “clone” our characters, keeping 1 copy on the eternally vanilla Classic Era servers, and another copy on the current serves, which transitioned normally to TBC Classic. The service wasn’t extremely popular and was widely criticized for having an absurdly…

With Sunwell Plateau having just released, the top speedrunning guilds all got right to racing to be the first to clear the raid by killing Kil’jaeden. Many of the previous phases’ top guilds, such as Old School, Avatar, Progress, Exodus, Calamity, BEEF BAR, Statement and Fusion, participated in the race. Alas only one can be…

Blizzard is cranking up the pace with their content release schedule, as it has been just 2 days after the end of arena season 3, and yet we have an official announcement for the release date of Sunwell Plateau and Phase 5 content — May 12, at 3:00 pm PDT (NA servers) or May 13…