With the release of all phase 3 content being less than 10 days away, Blizzard has finally given us a finalized list of patch notes for patch 2.5.3 — its corresponding patch number. We have already covered most changes listed in the patch notes, excluding bug fixes and minor quality of life changes. The most…

It seems that Blizzard is not done tweaking things in anticipation of the release of phase 3. Following their announcement of PvP changes just 5 days ago, Kaivax is coming in with another PvP-focused change. Specifically, the Mind Quickening Gem mage class trinket will be disabled altogether while inside the arena. The original plan was…

It seems that the torrent of phase 3 related changes is not quite over yet, with tier 6 raids finally being announced and a host of PvP changes coming with the new season. In a new post on the development forum, Kaivax just announced that several changes are in the works. Specifically: Serpentshrine Caverns and…

Following the official announcement of a release date for phase 3 content at last, Blizzard is disabling the new raids on the patch 2.5.3 PTR, presumably having gotten enough data to consider these raids release-ready. Kaivax clarified that the PTR itself will remain up and available for players to log on and test other things…

Along with the announcement of an official release date for phase 3 content, Blizzard sneakily made a smaller, but surely just as impactful for many, PvP-related announcement. In specific, Kaivax announced that after monitoring season 2 queue data, Blizzard are unhappy with the length of queues and will be expanding the range of possible opponents.…

After over a month of total silence on the subject, Blizzard finally chose to officially announce the release of phase 3 content, through a post on their official news blog. Phase 3 content will be released on 2 separate days: January 17th and January 27th. The week of January 17th will see the beginning of…

Players testing the Black Temple raid on the 2.5.3 PTR server have discovered that the Illidan Stormrage encounter has a fairly major bug that makes the encounter slightly more challenging than intended. When Illidan’s HP is reduced to 30%, he traps players in Stasis prisons and begins emoting, until he is interrupted by Maiev Shadowsong.…

There has been a lot of buzz on the topic of the tier 6 raids in phase 3 every since players discovered that we are getting the nerfed versions of that content right away. Players had become used to take on the pre-nerfed versions of content at first, and then have it nerfed shortly before…

Players have been in a frenzy trying out the PTR servers, looking for changes made since the last time they were up. One of the most apparent things that players are keeping an eye out for is the new PvP gear coming with arena season 3 in patch 2.5.3 / phase 3. Players quickly discovered…

It would seem that Blizzard is gearing up for the release of phase 3 and tier 6 content, aka patch 2.5.3. To that end, Kaivax just announced that the TBC Classic PTR servers are once again back up for players to test the new content and submit feedback and bug reports before its release. The…