If you’re anything like me, you grew up playing Warcraft 3 and thinking Illidan Stormrage is a total bad-ass. The amount of players whose names are a variation or mis-spelling of other popular Warcraft / fantasy characters like “Legolasx” and “Arthass” simply paled in comparison to the sheer number of names like “Illidanzz” in 2005-7…

The state of TBC Classic servers has been among the biggest and most heated conversations between players for quite a while now. We initially reported on the topic back in October of 2021, then Blizzard opened up free character migrations in November to alleviate the issue, and yet somehow, 2 months later, it’s still arguably…

In a post made on the official WoW news blog, Blizzard just announced that the arena season 2 of TBC Classic will be ending on January 11, 2022. The post goes on to clarify that season 3 and phase 3 content will be coming at a later date in early 2022, not specifying an explicit…

If the terms “WarcraftLogs” and “parsing” mean anything to you, you have probably heard of the Gnomish Battle Chicken. This vanilla-era engineering item has single-handedly dominated the parsing metagame with its powerful Battle Squawk buff, which grants 5% melee haste for 4 minutes to your entire party, stacking up to 5 times for a total…

Players testing the new phase 3 raids — Black Temple & Mount Hyjal — discovered something interesting: some of the bosses were in their “post-nerf” states and certain aspects of the raids reflected their state after changes had been made to them in patch 2.2, a full patch cycle after their release. So naturally they…

Blizzard appears to be set on their phase 3 testing strategy of making the tier 6 raids available for limited time periods. Kaivax announced that the PTR is once again up for the players to test the new raids, starting this very moment and lasting until Monday 3 pm EST for NA servers and 9…

With all of the nerfs to tier 5 content and tier 6 raids becoming available for testing on the TBC PTR, it is clear that Blizzard is gearing up for the release of phase 3 / tier 6 content. The question on everyone’s mind is simple: when will it be released? Blizzard has been really…

With tier 6 raids becoming available for testing on the PTR as of last night, there is currently a lot of phase 3 hype. Illidan and Archimonde are extremely important lore characters, and their respective raids, the Black Temple and Mount Hyjal, are iconic in TBC. Plus the new loot, like the Warglaive of Azzinoth…

There was a lot of confusion after last night’s announcement by Blizzard of tier 5 content nerfs. Specifically, Kaivax said: Please be reminded that all bosses in Serpentshrine Cavern and The Eye will be adjusted to their final “nerfed” state with the weekly reset in each region next week. Kaivax Many players pointed out that…

Blizzard has given final confirmation that Serpentshrine Cavern and The Eye raid tuning (nerfs) will be happening with Tuesdays regular maintenance on December 14th. Attunements for both raids will also be removed at the same time, allowing players who haven’t completed the rigorous attunement process to be able to enter.