Players have long complained that gearing up alts is a tedious process, as you have to grind through multiple normal dungeons in order to be able to do heroics, which drop useful items for new characters. No more! In a post on the official forums, Aggrend confirmed that starting in Phase 4, coupled with the…

In a post on the official forums, Aggrend announced that the TBC Classic PTR for patch 2.5.4, including the Zul’Aman raid and phase 4 content, will be temporarily going down. He estimates that it should become available to players sometime before 12 pm PST tomorrow, Friday, March 11. It is unclear why the PTR went…

Kaivax has announced today that Blizzard has released the Zul’Aman raid instance on the public test realm for Burning Crusade Classic as part of patch 2.5.4.

We’re just 2 weeks into Phase 3 and the metagame has not had time to settle yet, including the WarcraftLogs parsing metagame. But players have already come up with all sorts of “cheese” strategies in order to achieve otherwise unreachable parses, which damaged the integrity of competition on the site, to the dismay of a…

Following a quiet announcement from late January, Blizzard has finally expanded the Free Character Migration (FCM) programme on TBC servers, after previously doing so for SoM servers. This adds multiple servers to the pool of source servers that players can transfer from, but also a couple to the pool of destination servers that players can…

5 days ago, Blizzard made an announcement regarding changes to the Gnomish Battle Chicken, wherein a change made to creatures in general caused the Battle Squawk buff the chicken casts ignore its cooldown period. This is what allowed players to guarantee the Battle Squawk would occur by utilizing a very specific trick. With this change,…

In a passing comment in his post regarding free character migrations (FCMs) being planned for SoM servers, Aggrend coincidentally announced that Blizzard is planning to expand the current FCM service on TBC Classic servers, by enabling it on additional servers. It is currently unclear if by this Aggrend means more servers will be eligible to…

Chinese players are getting their own version of the new 6-month subscription rewards, which is a fairly common phenomenon as they get a fundamentally different version of the game, managed by gaming and technology company NetEase, which operates multiple western online games in China. While the Chinese retail players are also getting the Wen-Lo mount…

Players on the Firemaw server have been experiencing significant lagspikes over the past few days, particularly during the evening, when player congestion is high with multiple major guilds raiding concurrently. The server struggled in many ways, with players additionally getting frequent disconnects, into lengthy queues, preventing them from raiding altogether in many cases. As it…

Following the brief period of time when the cost of PvP gear was incorrect on the PTR, a lot of players expressed a similar sentiment: PvP gear costs are far too prohibitive, and the game would be better off with some changes in that department. WoW Community Council member Zualesa made a post on the…