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Twelve days after the C&D, Ascension's CoA became a self-hosting repack
The realm shut down Sep 4 after Blizzard's lawsuit. By Sep 16 a community guide on GitHub documented running the repack locally or online, files distributed through Discord, with a bot package alongside.
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RP-PvP is coming to Forever at launch, and names can be reserved there on October 27
Aggrend's blue post reverses the earlier hesitation: the Roleplay-PvP ruleset ships on November 4, and Blizzard is working to make it selectable for name reservation starting October 27.
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Podcast episode 5 is out: the end-of-beta special, with Aggrend and the leads
The official podcast's episode 5 is a feature length end-of-beta conversation with four Blizzard developers, published alongside Blizzard's own article. The ruleset RP-PvP reversal comes out of this thread of episodes.
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October 2026
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- Twelve days after the C&D, Ascension's CoA became a self-hosting repack The realm shut down Sep 4 after Blizzard's lawsuit. By Sep 16 a community guide on GitHub documented running the repack locally or online, files distributed through Discord, with a bot… WoW
- RP-PvP is coming to Forever at launch, and names can be reserved there on October 27 Aggrend's blue post reverses the earlier hesitation: the Roleplay-PvP ruleset ships on November 4, and Blizzard is working to make it selectable for name reservation starting October 27. WoW
- Podcast episode 5 is out: the end-of-beta special, with Aggrend and the leads The official podcast's episode 5 is a feature length end-of-beta conversation with four Blizzard developers, published alongside Blizzard's own article. The ruleset RP-PvP reversal comes… WoW
- Warlockguy wins the Forever Open: a 20th seed Warlock takes 50,000 dollars The community duelling tournament finished with a Warlock grand final: Warlockguy, the twentieth seed, beat fellow Warlock Neepzen 3-1 for the 50,000 dollar prize and the Death's Duelist… WoW
- Blizzard's economy crackdown, in two parts: no GDKP, and Temporary Economy Holds for RMT Forever bans gold-bid raids outright and introduces an enforcement tool that freezes suspected RMT accounts out of trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House while Blizzard… WoW
- The Forever beta's last 24 hours are a send-off party, not a shutdown Blizzard is running 24 hours of in-world events through the beta's final day, which ends at 10:00 a.m. PDT on October 23. The morning outage after the stress test was a build update snag,… WoW
- Anachronos launches officially today, capped at level 20 The Brazilian Vanilla server arrived at its own gate on the day it named two weeks ago: launch on October 22 with the cap raised to 20, marching to 60 across seven phases with 45 days of… WoW
- A browser WotLK project bundles a client built from decompiled Blizzard code Pucur/wotlk-browser delivers client files in 64 KB blocks and bridges browser WebSockets to a real 3.3.5a server. The 8.7 MB WebAssembly client inside it carries build paths from a C++… WoW
- Project Epoch Reborn locks in Friday 16:00 UTC, and registration is open Two days before launch, the revival's own site now states a start time the October 7 read did not have, confirms the 3.3.5a build 12340 client plus its launcher, and lists what has been… WoW
- Someone turned vanilla WoW into a survivors game, and it runs entirely on your own PC Hordes of Azeroth is a GPL-3.0 survivors mode for 1.12.1: auto-firing spells, a level-up choice, dodgeable boss attacks and an endless horde, on a VMaNGOS server the launcher starts on… WoW
- Forever's soundtrack is out, and its nineteen tracks map the new world Blizzard released the Forever original soundtrack through streaming services. Nineteen tracks, roughly 43 minutes, five composers, and a track list that reads as a tour of Zephras Isle, the… WoW
- Blizzard dates all three Forever raids to December 9, which settles the Onyxia question An October 20 raid overview gives sizes, locations, boss counts and entrances for Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia's Lair, states that all three unlock on December 9 with weekly… WoW
- Nine Forever dungeons, level 13 to 60, and the faction gates on the first two Blizzard's dungeon overview names all nine five-player dungeons with their level ranges and locations, from a Hall of Thanes beneath Ironforge at 13 to 18 up to Blackmaw Hold in Azshara and… WoW
- Forever name reservations open October 27, and Blizzard finally published the start times Early Name Reservation runs October 27 to November 3, opening at 18:00 CET and 1:00 p.m. PDT, with up to three characters counted across every ruleset rather than per ruleset, and available… WoW
- Blizzard shows the road past level 30: the Riverglades, Mount Hyjal, and a raid under the mountain An official seven minute video from the World of Warcraft channel walks the post-30 leveling path: the Riverglades with its two broken factions, Mount Hyjal reopened for the first time… WoW
- A community duel tournament inside the Forever beta has 6,000 players signed up The beta hosts a community-run one versus one tournament with 6,000 signups, a prize pot doubled by a streamer, and a top 32 duel arena pulled forward into the beta itself. Hundreds of… WoW
- Forever's internal build moves to 70502 while the beta client stays on 70450 The playable beta has not changed since October 16. The separate internal track picked up build 1.60.1.70502 on the evening of October 20, two days before the beta closes. WoW
- Forever's beta is extended to Friday October 23, and the stress test now has end times Kaivax announced on the evening of October 20 that the beta closes at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday October 23, two days later than the product page says, and published the full stress test… WoW
- Forever's battleground matchmaking will keep solo players away from premades From episode 4 of the official WoW: Forever podcast: premades face premades, solo queue never meets a premade, a two or three player small-group option is still being tuned, war games work… WoW
- Conquest of AzerothCore now has a one-click Windows server manager, and it runs the Wildcard realm CoA Server Manager is an AGPL-3.0 Tauri app that installs, updates, backs up and launches a Conquest of Azeroth server from signed packages, switches between the CoA and Wildcard realms,… WoW
- Benilla-WotLK: a 3.3.5a client written from scratch in Rust now reaches the world A standalone fork of the Benilla client targets Wrath build 12340, authenticates against real servers, renders streamed terrain and runs the stock FrameXML interface plus third-party… WoW
- benilla-re publishes the address book for the 1.12.1 client: 37,967 functions, cited by offset The reverse engineering behind the Benilla client is public under Apache-2.0 or MIT: a symbol per function, system docs with the bytes that decide each mechanism, exports for Ghidra, IDA,… WoW
- Open Vanilla puts a playable Vanilla realm in a browser tab, with guest mode and a public server package An alpha project running a from-scratch 1.12.1 client written in Rust and Bevy, playable at play.openvanilla.app without installing anything. Guest play needs no sign-up, the realm itself… WoW
- Lighthaven turns its 3.3.5a realm into a browser game that streams the files it needs The educational AzerothCore realm now plays in a browser tab, with a first visit costing about 60 MB before character selection instead of 186 MB. Its changelog also documents touch… WoW
- Forever's final class deep dive rewrites how Paladin Seals work Blizzard closed the nine-class series on October 15. Judgement no longer eats the active Seal, Consecration is capped at four targets for threat, and Seal Twisting is removed from the… WoW
- RavenCraft is moving to a 1.14 client and carrying every character over The Turtle successor announced a jump from its 1.18.1 base to the modern 1.14 client, with accounts, characters and custom content migrating and a new cross-platform launcher replacing… WoW
- The WotLK and Cataclysm clients have been decompiled to C++, with the source public Two repositories rebuild the 3.3.5a and 4.3.4 game clients as compilable C++ source, with per-function addresses kept for comparison, no game data, and build notes for a 64-bit client.… WoW
- Warmane dates Onyxia's Ruby Sanctum for November 7 Warmane's own front page dates Onyxia's next phase, including The Ruby Sanctum, to November 7 at 14:00. It also corrects our September reading of that phase block, which we had called a… WoW
- Project Reforged dates its Classic+ launch to November 6, and Evergreen HC opens a hardcore vanilla realm Project Reforged's own front page now carries a launch countdown reading 06.11.2026 18:00 CET, on a realm it already lists as online with 32 characters. Evergreen HC opens a permanent… WoW
- Forever is already being self-hosted, weeks before launch A TrinityCore fork runs the Forever beta client against a VMaNGOS-derived world, and a second packaged stack published today wraps it in Docker with a launcher. The beta gate explains the… WoW
- WoW Circle opens a fresh Legion x5 realm on October 17 The network's own news dates a fresh Legion 7.3.5 x5 realm to 19:00 Moscow (16:00 UTC) on October 17, the first of three planned fresh realms alongside Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. WoW
- GrimfallWoW opens Conquest of Azeroth, its second product line Phase 1 of GrimfallWoW's Conquest of Azeroth went live October 16 with 21 new custom classes, a level 20 cap and scaled Heroic and Mythic dungeons. The name now belongs to several unrelated… WoW
- Blizzard moves the Forever stress test to October 21, and it is free to join Announced October 15 for October 19, moved on October 16 to October 21. No subscription, Game Time, invitation or beta access required. Characters are wiped afterwards to clear the field… WoW
- ChromieCraft's October 14 outage: the server shut itself down because item IDs ran out A post-mortem published October 15 explains it: item GUIDs reached the 32-bit ceiling, overflowed to zero, and the server's own cleanup code wiped equipment from character inventory, mail,… WoW
- October 16 launches: uWoW opens Mists of Pandaria x10 and Nozdor opens DUNE, with lordaeron.eu next Two fresh realms were gated to 19:00 Moscow and a third to 19:00 CEST. Here is what each project's own page says about today's launches, and what the tracker will and will not rate. WoW
- Sulvus Reforged opens today, and it is a different Sulvus from the one we track A WotLK 3.3.5a PvP realm opens at 16:00 UTC on a new in-house core, and it shares a name with an unrelated instant-80 server. Here is which one is which. WoW
- Forever podcast episode 4 turns to PvP Blizzard's fourth Forever podcast lands today with PvP as the subject, after a stretch of written PvP and class previews. WoW
- Forever adds Temporary Economy Holds, its hardest anti-RMT tool yet Blizzard's October 13 post confirms a new enforcement system that freezes trade, mail, guild banks and the auction house on accounts suspected of real-money trading, applied automatically… WoW
- Forever class deep dives: Rogue and Warlock close out eight of nine classes Blizzard's October 7 deep dive covers the last two classes in the series: poison charges and axe-rogues, Banes and pet-scaled Warlocks, plus a new 16-point talent milestone and Dual Spec at… WoW
- Scene scan: 14 new servers added, and why a listing catalog overstates the count A sweep of a 179-entry listing catalog turned up 87 slugs we did not track. After de-duplicating against our own URLs and probing every domain, 14 are real enough to grade, three were… WoW
- Both Forever tracks jump to 70374, again on different binaries Beta and dev both read 1.60.1.70374 within 36 minutes on October 13. Same version string, different build configs and product configs. Beta's build landed three times with three different… WoW
- UwowSA 7.2.0 check: realm online at 602, launch unconfirmed from first-party The October calendar promised a same-day check on UwowSA's October 10 Legion 7.2.0. We publish it two days late, and the honest result: the realm is up, the announcement is unchanged, and… WoW
- lordaeron.eu: a new 3.3.5a project opening October 16, borrowing a name from Warmane An independent free 3.3.5a project, two realms sharing one account and shop, opens October 16 19:00 CEST. Its name is Warmane's flagship realm's name, but it is a separate server with no… WoW
- Quissy's October roundup clarifies the dungeon XP cut and lists class changes Level 30 cap with Excavation Site, a 50 percent cut that applies to bonus XP only, Tiger's Fury removed, Honor costs up with the cap raised to 25,000. WoW
- A dual-class realm and a 19-player Russian realm lead batch five Kinspire lets one hero hold two classes and says population is single digits by design. Skufograd reads 19 online beside 255 labeled bots. WoW
- Kaivax notes: Dalaran dungeon live, 16 free Legacy points, dungeon XP up 20 percent Development notes after extended maintenance: new level-30 dungeon, Legacy testing currency, Classic looting restored, weapon-swap fix, party XP penalty fixed. WoW
- Orc and troll racials flagged too strong, weapon passives may be replaced Podcast episode 3 opened on racials at 1:32: orc and troll actives potentially over-tuned, weapon passives possibly replaced entirely, Skyborne models confirmed for early next year. WoW
- Podcast ep 3 names Blackmaw Hold and keeps Onyxia's attunement Developers detailed the Azshara dungeon at 39:07 and raid attunements at 53:33. Blackmaw Hold settles our naming question; Onyxia's chain stays with no account-wide version at launch. WoW
- Beta and dev tracks converge on 70334 with different binaries Both tracks read 1.60.1.70334 within four hours, but build configs differ per track as usual. No notes, no fan diffs yet. WoW
- Beta build 70291 is live with a new build config Single push on the beta track with build config e8dd824c, distinct from 70245. No fan reference has covered it yet. WoW
- Beta build 70291 is live, coinciding with the Dalaran notes Single push October 8 at 20:27 UTC with a new build config. Kaivax's Dalaran dungeon notes landed the same day; the notes name no build, so the coincidence is stated, not claimed. WoW
- WarCrown opens a Latin American realm October 31 A dedicated LATAM server for lower regional latency, same 3.4.5 experience, EU unchanged. The sixth dated claim on our calendar. WoW
- Five dated claims converge in the next three weeks A PAX dungeon reveal tonight, a Legion content drop Saturday, two launches on the 16th, and a realm gate on the 23rd. Every dated claim we hold, in one place. WoW
- Four more from the backlog, including the most honest bot count we have seen EvolvedWotLK reports 749 online as 1 human plus 748 labeled bots. Plus a 255 funserver, a pre-launch TBC realm, and a zero-online TBC ladder. WoW
- Forever PvP runs on Honor plus Rank Points, with a weekly cap and two gear sets Blizzard's October 7 PvP post: Honor buys a blue set and an epic set, ranks run to High Warlord and Grand Marshal with weekly caps, and Alterac Valley loses its efficiency monopoly. WoW
- Four more Forever classes deep-dived, and the talent structure holds Mage, Shaman, Rogue and Warlock posts dated October 7 bring coverage to 8 of 10 classes. The 16-point milestone appears in all four, and Mage gets a new minor tradeskill. WoW
- Forever's new battleground is 15v15 for levels 30 to 60, first to 2,000 points Battle for the Darkspear Islands, dated October 7: four capture points plus a central flag, two reputation tracks with gear, queueable from capitals and faction bases. WoW
- Thirteen days to beta close, nine questions still open The Forever beta ends October 21 against an unresolved 21-versus-22 split. Every open item on our verification list, with what would close each one. WoW
- Anachronos opens early access today, capped at level 10 A Brazilian Vanilla project starts today with a staged march to 60: official launch October 22 at cap 20, 45 days prep before the first raid, seven content phases. WoW
- Our build watcher was reading the wrong track, and three beta builds passed through unseen The watcher read Blizzard's internal dev track while players download the beta track. Fixed today: both tracks are now read, the player build is 70245 not 70249, and the 70124 mystery is… WoW
- Second straight hotfix post with no Forever in it Blizzard's October 6 hotfixes cover the same six products as October 1. Forever is absent again, while its own fixes ship through realm restarts instead. WoW
- Kaivax restarted the beta realms October 6 with three fixes Realm restarts at 3:00 p.m. PDT picked up fixes for missing restocked quest items, elevator disconnects, and guild join errors. The first documented beta fixes in four builds. WoW
- Project Epoch Reborn still shows October 23, sixteen days out The community-run Classic+ revival holds its October 23 launch date with the realm Closed. Name reservations reportedly opened October 2, but nothing on the homepage confirms it. WoW
- Eight more from the backlog, led by a roleplay realm with positional voice Third nostalgic batch: a realm where voices carry by yards and strangers have no names, a two-world Russian operator, a Cataclysm realm on patch 4.0.6, and a maintenance page read correctly… WoW
- Whitemane has a MoP realm in beta and a TBC realm coming, and Frostmourne did 8,500 at launch Stormstout shows Beta Online, Sunwell shows Coming Soon, and the network's Frostmourne realm opened September 19 with over 8,500 players. All from their own front page. WoW
- Four days to the Forever dungeon reveal: the one question it has to answer Clay Stone presents a new Forever dungeon on October 9 at 01:00 UTC. New layout with Classic mechanics, or new mechanics in a Classic layout? Everything hinges on which. WoW
- NycterMoon is now Microbot WoW, and the old name appears nowhere on its own site A tracked Vanilla server rebranded completely: five mentions of the new name, zero of the old, and the domain is the only thing that still says NycterMoon. WoW
- Nine more servers from a vote-ranked list, and six of its entries are dead domains A 22-realm directory yielded nine new entries after first-party reads. Six of its listings point at domains that do not resolve, including its number-two ranked server. WoW
- Frontier is coming soon, and the beta has an independent health monitor A Vanilla+ PvP project with nothing published beyond its positioning, plus a fan-built probe monitor showing the Forever beta at 97.8% uptime with zero outages. WoW
- Five days out: UwowSA's 7.2.0 is still on for October 10 Re-checked the October 10 content drop with five days to go: still announced, still dated, no movement. Plus the rest of this week's calendar in one place. WoW
- Eight more from the directory backlog, including a realm that opened two days ago Second batch from the 94-entry backlog: a two-day-old Spanish progressive realm, a Russian Vanilla server with a dated October 31 patch, and four separate zero-online readings. WoW
- Ten more from the nostalgic directory, and why 90 others are waiting A 175-server directory diffed against our tracker left 94 true unknowns. Triaged by their activity figures, audited first-party, ten added. The rest are queued, not ignored. WoW
- Blizzard takes Forever to PAX Aus with a dungeon deep dive on stage Holly Longdale opens PAX Aus as Storytime keynote October 9 with Clay Stone presenting an in-depth look at a new Forever dungeon. Streamed live, hands-on beta at the booth all weekend. WoW
- Four new Forever references, and 70205 finally has documented content: nothing Three fan references on the current build plus a talent calculator on 70170, all found tonight. Two of them independently diffed 70205 against 70170 and found zero player-facing changes. WoW
- Fifteen servers we did not track, found on a competitor's list A rival tracker publishes 75 server pages with project URLs. Sixteen were missing from ours; one was our own Duskhaven under a fuller name. Fourteen new entries plus a lead, all verified… WoW
- Draevor is building Farahlon, the zone Blizzard cut from Warlords of Draenor A dev project announced today it is building the scrapped Farahlon island as a full endgame zone. Currently in development with no date, which is exactly what its announcement says. WoW
- The stale queue is empty, Sirus reads 18,468, and two more tags from the bad sweep All 135 live entries are now checked within the window. Sirus carries the largest single-site counter we have recorded. GryffinWow's domain is for sale. Two Vanilla+ tags came from the same… WoW
- Beta build 1.60.1.70205 is live, and all four regions moved together A fifth build in seven days, up from 70170. Four regions in parity, and the published record on this branch is now three builds behind with no notes for any of them. WoW
- Emberveil put Classic WoW on an Android phone, and publishes a devlog worth reading Our entry understated the mobile client as signups pending. The client now runs on Android with a closed beta in waves, and the project publishes dated posts with real numbers including a… WoW
- Azeroth Universe's host is down, and a flaw in how I have been running this sweep Azeroth Universe returns Cloudflare 521. Separately, counting the queue today showed 24 entries checked and unchanged still carrying a five-week-old date, which is a method bug that stopped… WoW
- Vanilla+'s own counters read zero, and we would rather downgrade than repeat a number we cannot source Our entry claimed 60 to 80 players on weekdays peaking at 200 on weekends. The site's counters read zero accounts, zero players and zero faction split, and we cannot tell whether that means… WoW
- UnlimitedWoW was six PvP seasons out of date, and its Tier 16 raid has been live since March Our entry said Season 11. The site's own ladder reads Season 17. The same page also shows Tier 16 Secrets of Ulduar released 27 March 2026, which our entry did not mention at all. WoW
- Stonetavern runs two Vanilla realms, puts progression changes to a vote, and has a dated October gate Six weeks of stale data on an entry we already had. Elwynn is unaltered Vanilla opened June 2026, Barrens is progressive at level cap 50 with player-voted changes, and the next gate is… WoW
- Six servers we rated tiny or small, downgraded because we cannot find them any more Six playable entries had no URL and were rated on Discord counts or old estimates we can no longer check. All six are downgraded to unknown, with every domain we probed recorded. None is… WoW
- Midnight's 12.1.5 lands October 13, and it shows what Forever is being built alongside Retail's next expansion update arrives October 13 with a single-boss raid, a nine-chamber Labyrinth and Season 2. Read next to Forever's launch on November 4, the overlap is the story. WoW
- A Wow Weekly that is really a Forever content index Blizzard's 25 September WoW Weekly is mostly a list of Forever explainer posts. Useful as a completeness check against our own coverage: six of the eight items we had not written up. WoW
- Two Forever systems settled at level 40 and level 10, and one of them is not what Classic did Talents unlock at level 10 in both deep dives, Dual Specialization at level 40, and a 16-point milestone joins the original 11, 21 and 31. Cross-checked against our existing reporting. WoW
- Shadow Word: Death arrives at level 32 in Forever, eight levels early The single largest deviation from Classic in the published deep dives. A level-40 ability moved to level 32 as a baseline, and what that means for Shadow Priest is worth spelling out. WoW
- Every region is on the same build, and that turns out to be checkable We had never checked whether wowdev2's four regions agree. They do, across six consecutive builds. Sharding betas normally diverge, so this is a small finding that constrains a big question. WoW
- Forecast: the Forever podcast's second episode is about class design and speedrunning Episode 2 went up on October 1 with Sodapoppin and three Blizzard designers. It is a video post with no written notes, which is the opposite of the class deep dives published the day before. WoW
- Blizzard broke down the Legacy System in numbers, and the cap is the whole design A 23 September post explains the account-wide horizontal progression system: 65 challenges across six categories, points account-wide, and a hard cap of 16 per character at launch. WoW
- Blizzard's October 1 hotfixes exist, and almost none of them are for Forever A 107,000-character hotfix post dated October 1 lists Midnight, MoP Classic, Season of Discovery, TBC Classic, Classic Era and Hardcore. Forever is not on the list. WoW
- Blizzard has deep-dived four of ten classes, and we are counting which Hunter, Druid, Priest and Warrior have published class deep dives. Six classes have none, which means the 16-point talent milestone is currently specified for under half the game. WoW
- Blizzard published its first Forever class deep dives, and the milestone talents moved Hunter and Druid, then Priest and Warrior, both dated 30 September. The one structural change in both is the same: talents gain a 16-point milestone alongside the familiar 11, 21 and 31. WoW
- Beta build 1.60.1.70170 is live, and the last three builds have no notes A fourth build in five days, up from 70100, and unlike yesterday's double upload it is a single clean push. Nobody, including us, has written notes for 70058, 70100 or 70170. WoW
- Three servers are called Conquest, only one of them is the one people mean Conquest Reborn is a third independent Conquest project, unrelated to the Ascension realm that shut down in September or the AzerothCore continuation that is live now. It is in closed… WoW
- A Diablo 3 remake inside WoW, and the dead Conquest of Azeroth that is not dead Two servers added from first-party reads. Torment rebuilds WotLK as a full Diablo III action RPG and opened alpha on September 30. Conquest of AzerothCore is the 22-class project running on… WoW
- Four entries rated playable with no address at all, and one of them owns the search result Thirty tracker entries carried no URL. We located and verified four: Incursion, Eternyum, Warlords of Azeroth and TranscendWoW. Eternyum is at a .ro address because the .com is a domain for… WoW
September 2026
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- Beta build 1.60.1.70100 is live, and it is one build, not three A third manifest push in 24 hours, up from 70058. Comparing buildconfig across all three shows exactly one new build and one CDN re-point. Nobody has written notes for 70058 or 70100,… WoW
- A tracker entry was demoted to satisfy a spreadsheet, not a server Epsilon had no URL on file and was moved from playable to dev by a data-cleanup sweep that never opened the site. It is a finished product with a phasing system, a live Discord, and no… WoW
- A server we called playable has been shut down since 2022, and its page still shows a live player count Stale sweep batch 3. ArgusWoW closed four years ago and we had it as playable with medium population. Three tracker entries turned out to be one project under three brands, a TBC tag on a… WoW
- Sunwell.pl is down to four players, and our tier was wrong Second stale-sweep batch. A famous blizzlike WotLK realm reads 4 players across two realms with no news in five years, our largest TBC entry had its two realms backwards, and one of our… WoW
- Two servers announced dated content drops for October, and both are re-checkable uWoW opens a Mists of Pandaria realm on October 16 and UwowSA brings Legion 7.2.0 on October 10. Both are first-party claims with dates, which is the category of claim our stale sweep has… WoW
- Beta build 1.60.1.70058 is live, and the fan sites have not noticed A new Forever beta build landed on the CDN early on September 29, up from 70009. Our build watcher caught it. All three fan references we track are still on 70009. Nobody has published… WoW
- Project Epoch Reborn launches October 23, restoring a Classic+ realm from the dead The community-run continuation of Project Epoch has a date: closed now, launching October 23, 2026, on its own 3.3.5a client. Epoch shut down; this is a revival, not a reopening. WoW
- We dated a raid unlock six days early, and two launch dates had already expired Three entries were wrong in the same way: a date we recorded from somewhere we can no longer reconstruct, on a server we had no working status signal for. All three corrected today, old… WoW
- We downgraded IceDNicco from large to tiny, and why we were wrong Our entry read the realm's headline population figure at face value. That figure counts bots. The same dashboard showed 4 real players. The old value stays on the page with a date. WoW
- TBC5Legends sets its Tier 6 gates: Mount Hyjal October 17, Black Temple October 24 Two Saturdays, 18:00 CEST, one week apart. Also: the Shaman tank's armor no longer depends on a temporary buff, and both world bosses were switched off with their loot preserved. WoW
- Frostbound joins the tracker: 650 reported online, Warband AI alts, and a client you should not trust yet Frostbound is a Spanish-first custom WotLK realm built on AzerothCore where four player-owned AI alts form a Warband. Its first-party API reports 650 online, but its full clients ship… WoW
- Tim Jones and Nora Valleta on Forever: 27 viable trees, a raid cadence, and mid-level zones A September 22 Windows Central interview gives the strongest first-party statements yet on class viability, raid delivery cadence, difficulty philosophy, Retribution Paladins, player… WoW
- Beta finds roundup: an Alliance Kodo, a Kalimdor set bonus, a murloc transformation and layering complaints Testers documented an Alliance Kodo mount, a Blessing of Kalimdor rare-spawn set, Horde-only Skyborne relics, a murloc transformation food, a trainer rank bug, and open-world PvP continuity… WoW
- Blizzard confirms Forever beta auto-shot bug, fix promised for a later build Kaivax confirms the 0.5-second cast before a Hunter auto-shot or wand use is not working, so ranged fire barely interrupts. The fix is promised for an upcoming build and is absent from the… WoW
- Classic Forever launcher ships reproducible builds and a hash I could verify The Classic Forever launcher moved to v1.1.2 with GitHub Actions builds, published SHA-256 in release notes and a sidecar file, build 1.60.1.70009 support, and Linux/Proton paths. The… WoW
- Two AzerothCore tools ship in a day: a quest authoring app and a texture atlas inspector ACORE Quest Creator v0.1.0 turns quest chains, scripting and NPCs into reviewable SQL patches, and Atlas Inspector resolves texture atlases into Lua region tables with an MCP server for… WoW
- OutlawCraft's September changelog adds boats, champion zombies, and economy fixes OutlawCraft's first-party September 23 changelog adds champion zombies, boats, vehicle and building changes, Black Site timing updates, and fixes for crafting, hunger, thirst, and… WoW
- RestedXP Guides v4.11.9 expands Forever and Skyborne routing RestedXP's September 22 release adds #classic routing on Forever, expands Skyborne leveling instructions, and adds new crafting, racial, travel, and deathskip macros. WoW
- WoW Forever Podcast episode 1 tackles the beta launch Blizzard's first Forever Podcast episode features Josh Greenfield, Tim Jones, Countdown To Classic, and Xaryu discussing the beta launch. The article carries no new patch dates or system… WoW
- Blizzard adds more Forever Collector's Edition restocks Blizzard's September 24 update adds English Collector's Edition restocks in North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, with delivery expected in February 2027. WoW
- Forever beta update: memory leak fixed and class tuning expands Blizzard's September 24 beta notes fix a performance memory leak, expand class tuning, add a limited Cooldown Manager and gamepad options, and list new known issues. WoW
- Classic Forever 1.60.1 server project reaches the beta, with launcher risk A Reddit project maps to a public Classic Forever repository with live status, but access is private and its unsigned launcher patches the beta client. Treat it as a security-sensitive… WoW
- Official Forever video says Onyxia's Lair is available at launch Blizzard's September 23 explainer says the 40-player Onyxia's Lair raid is available at launch, while its September 12 roadmap says new raids unlock December 9. The first-party date… WoW
- Blizzard teases stronger storms for selected WoW Forever beta zones Blizzard's September 23 beta post previews increased weather in selected Forever zones, including a heavy Elwynn Forest rainstorm. No rollout date or complete weather list is confirmed. WoW
- Three more servers verified: Azekai Reincarnated, Elderhide and Project Rx Reconciliation pass adds three verified servers: Azekai Reincarnated (text-RP full-loot PvP), Elderhide (Vanilla 1.12.1 on VMaNGOS) and Project Rx (all-GM roleplay with private-world… WoW
- Freedom WoW verified and consolidated: Ukrainian WotLK with 531 online and smart cross-faction Freedom WoW verified and consolidated in the tracker: Ukrainian WotLK 3.3.5a at x5, 531 concurrent at site check, arena season 8, 120-player Wintergrasp, cross-faction groups with… WoW
- Forever warns before a layer change, with a get-safe button Blizzard is shipping a UI warning with a countdown before a world refresh moves a player to a new layer, built for Hardcore but live game-wide, per principal designer Chris Zierhut at… WoW
- Enchanting catalog surfaces: necklace slot, campfire exclusivity, biome-doubled trinkets Blizzard Watch catalogs the new Forever Enchanting recipes: a new necklace slot, campfire items exclusive with class buffs, and trinkets that double in matching biomes. WoW
- Datamined mount catalog names Forsaken Charger, eight Galestriders, Devilsaurs and more Tavern's pre-beta datamine lists the Forever mount catalog: eight Skyborne Galestriders, the Forsaken Charger name for undead paladins, Devilsaur and Warden Saber sets, plus the Spectral… WoW
- Beta PvE census: Undead Paladins dominate, Skyborne rank second for both factions A September 20 level-20 census of the Forever beta PvE ruleset counted 1,173 Undead characters with about 63% Paladins, High Order second among Alliance races, Windshaper second among Horde… WoW
- Beta build 69977 ships Mac fixes and controller repair, unblocks Zephras quest Blizzard shipped Forever beta build 69977 with Mac display and stability fixes, controller navigation in character select, gamepad quest-item interaction, and a hotfix unblocking Windshaper… WoW
- Battle Mage discovery: Comprehension decodes the Scroll of the Saber into a Coldflame Saber Two sources now report a beta Mage interaction: Comprehension decodes scrolls, the Scroll of the Saber combines with the Blade of Silverlaine to make a Coldflame Saber with bonus damage to… WoW
- Wowhead retracts XP-reduction report after Blizzard clarification Wowhead withdrew its claimed Forever XP reduction after Blizzard clarified required values match Classic, with the caveat that matching values do not establish identical leveling time. WoW
- Skyborne origin and art caution: Metzen wanted elves, Greenfield asks reserve of judgment Josh Greenfield credits Chris Metzen for the Skyborne push and asks players to reserve judgment on datamined models until seen in game and in context. WoW
- Blizzard publishes official racials, closing three open conflicts Blizzard article 24304075 officially names Windshaper and High Order Skyborne, settles Gnome Engineering for reliability and Night Elf Quickness at 1% dodge plus 2% run speed. WoW
- No shared tagging in Forever, and Recent Allies is the plan instead Aggrend confirmed no shared mob tagging on social-pillar grounds and detailed the Recent Allies system: re-encounter nudges, colored names, friction designed into bonds. WoW
- Forever GPU floor and system requirements: GCN 1, Maxwell, Skylake and up Blizzard sets the Forever graphics floor at AMD GCN 1, NVIDIA Maxwell and Intel Skylake for RGBA16F UAV compute shaders, with full minimum and recommended specs published. WoW
- Dungeon-set bonuses surface: Defias, Postmaster, Necropile, Bloodmail Beta-client reports name dungeon-set bonuses for Defias, Postmaster, Necropile and Bloodmail sets, with equipment tradeoffs and stated datamine limits. WoW
- Forever controller support tested at BlizzCon: radial menus, 20-plus binds, alpha limits BlizzCon hands-on reports describe Forever official controller support: instant toggle with radial UI, 20-plus ability assignments, shoulder-button targeting, and area effects centered on… WoW
- Black Market Auction House live in beta at Powderfuse Port Beta scan finds the BMAH operating in Powderfuse Port under Madam Swyndle with pets, TCG items, Tier 0 and rare mounts at starting bids from 100g to 3000g. WoW
- Beta reception by numbers: 800k Twitch peak, craziest numbers in 17 years The Forever beta peaked near 800,000 Twitch viewers against Classic's 1M+, with Aggrend calling them the craziest numbers of his 17 years at Blizzard. WoW
- Forever beta post-mortem: one regional realm, Oracle tables, hot WORLD pools Blizzard producer Tom Ellis breaks down the Forever beta day-one failures: a single regional realm bottleneck, Oracle tables needing a manual analyze, and WORLD pools running hot on empty… WoW
- Retail learns from Forever: Last Titan gets Heroic world tier Ion Hazzikostas confirmed The Last Titan ships a Diablo-style Heroic world tier for challenging open-world play, citing Forever-style friction and ruling out go-play-Classic as an answer. WoW
- Serpent Form found in beta: full Viper set from Wailing Caverns unlocks secret druid transformation Beta players found that equipping the full re-itemized Embrace of the Viper set from Wailing Caverns unlocks a secret druid Serpent Form, confirmed intended by Blizzard with per-race colors… WoW
- Ruins of Lordaeron quests mapped: 10 entries, Horde routes confirmed, Alliance data-only Quissy mapped the Ruins of Lordaeron quests in beta: six Horde entries with pickup routes, four Alliance entries from data only, dual Crest of Lordaeron versions, all with verification… WoW
- Naming mechanics: hideable surnames, combined filters, reservation window Blizzard detailed Forever's two-name mechanics: secondary names hideable in world but visible in chat, filters evaluate both names together, family surnames allowed, reservation October 27… WoW
- Gold buyers face permanent bans as Greenfield admits Blizzard was too lenient Blizzard will very aggressively punish Forever gold buyers up to permanent account bans, admits past leniency, and notes gold buying is already happening in the wiped beta. WoW
- Book quests work in Forever, and mages get a Research profession SoD book collection quests function in Forever with neck and ring rewards, and mages completing them unlock the new Research profession for crafting spell scrolls, already bugged in beta. WoW
- Forever beta name enforcement moves to forced changes and access removal Blizzard's official September 24 guidance confirms forced name changes and beta-access removal for severe violations, with development-reviewed actions and no Customer Service appeal path… WoW
- Frostmourne launches with 8500 peak after 30-minute DDoS outage Whitemane's Frostmourne WotLK+ realm launched Sep 19 with 8500 players online at peak, a large-scale DDoS attack downing all services for the first half hour, and stable operation since.… WoW
- Silver of the Waves: first documented Forever quest chain solved in Loch Modan Warcraft Tavern solved Silver of the Waves, a new Forever quest starting from an underwater toolbox in Loch Modan: monogrammed hair clip, initials-only clue, Khara Deepwater turn-in. WoW
- First Forever dungeon mapped: Hall of Thanes entrance, 5 quests, lava deaths Warcraft Tavern mapped the Hall of Thanes in-game: entrance under Ironforge at 43.5/52.0, five quests including a hidden Dun Morogh breadcrumb chain, boss Faldrim Anvilmar, and a lava path… WoW
- Forever addon ecosystem: Questie ships, DBM ports, WeakAuras stops, ClassicUI restores The first Forever addon census, updated with RestedXP v4.11.9: Questie has a Forever release, Details is compatible, DBM is being ported, WeakAuras authors stopped, Blizzard ships built-in… WoW
- Forever systems roundup: Familiar Faces grouping, reagent bags, bigger banks, profession patterns Second-wave Forever details: Familiar Faces phases familiar players together on realmless mega-realms, a reagent bag plus a roughly 96-slot default bank expands inventory, and profession… WoW
- Forever datamine round two: crafted Artisan tier, raid-dis enchant reagents, rep-gated equip limit Icy Veins' Anshlun datamined Forever's crafted Artisan tier sets: BoE pieces built with Malleable Essences from disenchanting Hyjal and Barrow raid loot, a one-piece equip limit rising to… WoW
- Forever beta player workarounds: lighting crash fix, VPN lag fix, and a contested addon claim Day-two Forever beta notes from players: a Secondary Lighting workaround for login crashes, VPN-to-US for non-US lag, and a disputed claim that the beta loads old beta addons. WoW
- Centurion merges two realms into one: world vs tournament characters Centurion merged Legionnaire+ and Barracks+ into a single realm on Sep 18, characters carried over: world characters for leveling, tournament characters for instant PvP, plus BG cooldown… WoW
- Frostmourne roadmaps original raids: Scourging of Karazhan, Echoes of the Sunwell, Fall of the Sunwell Whitemane's WotLK+ Frostmourne announces three original raid arcs around its Sep 19 launch: Scourging of Karazhan (Antonidas), Echoes of the Sunwell (Kel'Thuzad resurrection), Fall of the… WoW
- OutlawCraft's Survival Handbook: full-death zombies, Black Sites and a 60-yard render cap OutlawCraft's survival guide, updated with the September 23 changelog: full-wipe death, hunger and thirst, five zombie tiers, timed Black Sites, claims and code locks, vehicles, and a… WoW
- Miststorm joins tracker — MoP+ with a custom Mythic+ system in closed alpha Miststorm, a Mists of Pandaria Plus+ project, joins the tracker in closed alpha: custom Mythic+ for dungeons and raids, solo-queue arenas, crossfaction battlegrounds, accelerated 1-90.… WoW
- WoW Forever Q&A answered — no GDKP, no heroics, no rated PvP, and a seasonal Honor track The September 17 Forever Q&A panel answered the tracker's open questions: GDKP raiding is banned, no heroic dungeon/raid versions, no cross-faction raiding, a seasonal Honor track instead… WoW
- WoW Forever devs detail campsite rules, biome-specific gear and bigger banks BlizzCon interview with Josh Greenfield and Jeff Parrott: how campsites work (placement, 10-minute life, one-hour cooldown, buff replacement), biome-specific item effects like Whitemane's… WoW
- WoW Forever: First Aid now crafts Healing Potions, moving them out of Alchemy The WoW Forever beta's First Aid overhaul: Healing Potions from Minor (skill 55) through Major (275) move out of Alchemy into First Aid, and the recipes now also need cooking spices like… WoW
- Forever client data teases beyond the nine dungeons — Dalaran City, Karazhan Crypts, Azshara Crater and more (datamined) Captures from the Forever client surface instance maps Blizzard never announced: Dalaran City, Hyjal Crater, Warsong Gulch (Winter), Battle for Gilneas, Half-Pint Tavern, Manor Mistmantle,… WoW
- Forever beta goes live today — servers open after the Q&A, PvP locks one faction, loot stays a surprise WoW: Forever beta goes live September 17: Blizzard says servers open after the Forever Q&A segment (10:30 a.m. PDT), per WoW Classic's official Reddit. Plus two new confirmed systems: PvP… WoW
- Forever beta day one: Blizzard's known-issues list — pets, spells, Waylaid crates and UI bugs The WoW Forever beta is live after a brief delay, and Blizzard's Kaivax posted the first official known-issues list: Hunter/Warlock pet display bugs, Waylaid crate problems, glancing-blow… WoW
- Forever beta datamine round one: loot locked behind 8 missing keys, and stats are now server-side classicwowforever's six-part read of the Forever beta client (build 1.60.1.69893): items, spells and quests are double-encrypted with all 8 keys withheld from the client, item stats are now… WoW
- classicwowforever reference expands — raid tracks, Hardcore Legacy carryover, dungeon XP curve Two-week-old reference site classicwowforever.com expanded with raid-size tracks (10/20/40), Hardcore details (Legacy carryover, world-refresh warning) and the official dungeon XP curve —… WoW
- Bronzebeard DB mirror preserves Ascension realm items — unofficial database bronzebeard.bendo.lol mirrors item data from Ascension's Bronzebeard (Warcraft Reborn) realm: 12,874 items including Worldforged/Bloodforged custom gear and Mystic Scrolls, phase-3 snapshot… WoW
- Azeron and OutlawCraft join the tracker — Legion open beta, custom survival WotLK Two new tracker entries: Azeron, a Legion 7.3.5 open beta (x10 XP, wipe before release), and OutlawCraft, a solo-dev custom full-death-loot WotLK realm in beta since Sep 16. Both listed dev… WoW
- WarCrown goes live on WotLK Classic 3.4.5 client — Crystalsong open WarCrown, a WotLK server built on the modern 3.4.5 client rather than stock 3.3.5a, transitioned to 3.4.5 on September 12 with Crystalsong available. Phase 1 Tier 7 progression is in… WoW
- Project Alterac shuts down: WotLK private server closes citing Forever beta and CDN costs Project Alterac, the progressive WotLK server that launched Phase 3 Aug 8, is shutting down. The operator cited the Forever beta starting Sep 17 and out-of-pocket CDN costs. WoW
- WoW Forever design details: no shaman tanks at launch, raid tier structure, PvP rank 14 Kotaku's post-BlizzCon interview with lead designers Tim Jones and Michael Nuthals confirms the first raid tier structure, addon restrictions, and that Season-of-Discovery-style role swaps… WoW
- Emberveil one month in: 340+ bugs fixed, Dungeon Finder live, Android invites pending Emberveil's one-month report: 340+ bug reports closed, 97 client revisions, 15 client patches, 9 hours of DDoS weathered. Dungeon Finder and Group Browser are live; Android closed beta… WoW
- BlizzCon 2026 esports results: Korea wins Overwatch World Cup, Liquid takes MDI, Gators Back take AWC Every BlizzCon 2026 esports champion: Korea takes the Overwatch World Cup over Saudi Arabia, Team Liquid wins MDI, Gators Back beat Echo in the AWC, plus Hearthstone Masters and Classic Cup… WoW
- Ascension archive opens: community project preserves CoA game data before it's gone A community-run Ascension Archive now collects WDB and addon data from former Ascension players to preserve Conquest of Azeroth game data. Backed by the same 21-class AzerothCore port… WoW
- WoW live Q&A Sep 17 — the Forever questions we'd ask Blizzard's live WoW Q&A is Thursday — modern at 10AM PT, Forever segment at 10:30AM PT (per Blizzard's watch post). The 10 questions that would settle our flagged claims: Onyxia's date,… WoW
- WotLK Anniversary not announced at BlizzCon — where Classic progression stands No Wrath of the Lich King Anniversary reveal at BlizzCon 2026: ceremony, What's Next and Deep Dive panels all passed without one. Forever is the Classic headline; TBC Anniversary continues. WoW
- Whitemane Frostmourne launches Sep 19 — WotLK+ with Heroic Naxx, Personal Loot, Collections Whitemane's Frostmourne WotLK+ realm launches Saturday Sep 19: mechanically reworked Heroic Naxxramas, player-first Personal Loot, account-wide Collections, item quality upgrades, Vulkan… WoW
- WoW: Forever Deep Dive and Found Photos recap - Paladin rework, realmless servers, 6 new combos Forever Deep Dive recap: realmless rulesets, Paladin rework with Seal of Fury taunts, 6 confirmed class-race combos, Legacy points economy, itemization overhaul, Found Photos content… WoW
- Forever beta verification hit list — 10 claims to check on Sep 17 Every flagged Forever claim in one checklist for beta day: Onyxia's date, beta close discrepancy, dungeon names, Skyborne subtype names, Legacy ranks, Spearing Strike, Heroic price, 2027… WoW
- Diablo 4 Season 15 launches tomorrow — Hell's Legacy eve roundup Season of Hell's Legacy starts Sep 15: Season Blessings, Horadric Cube rework, earlier difficulty unlocks, Mythic crafting changes, free bear pet, Dark Wanderer theme. PSN patch landed… Diablo
- No BlizzCon in 2027 expected — Slasher points to 2028 BlizzCon may skip 2027: Rod 'Slasher' Breslau says the show probably won't return before 2028. Not an official cancellation; Blizzard promised more game news early next year. Roundup
- Blizzard clarifies Krol'dok Stronghold is level 40-45, and Forever will have no WoW Token or boosts Blizzard corrected the Krol'dok Stronghold level range to 40-45 and published the full level brackets for all nine Forever dungeons. A BlizzCon interview confirms no WoW Token or boost… WoW
- WoW: Forever Skyborne racials and new class combos surface from pre-release captures Pre-release captures transcribe Skyborne racials (Walk on Air, Skysight, Read Ley Line), new combos including Gnome Priest and Undead Paladin, plus redesigns to most Classic racials. WoW
- WoW: Forever roadmap 2026-2027 - raid date conflict, Hardcore, and the 2027 content cadence Blizzard's roadmap places Hyjal Summit and the Barrow Deeps on December 9 while the official explainer says Onyxia's Lair is available at launch. Hardcore and 2027 content blocks are also… WoW
- WoW: Forever pre-purchase editions — Skyborne Heroic $29.99, Epic beta, Collection with Warcraft III Forever pre-purchase opens with three Skyborne packs: Heroic, Epic with beta access and 30 days, and the limited Warcraft III Collection. Name reservation runs October 27 to November 3. WoW
- Talebound: Midnight's new PvE action-RPG mode revealed at BlizzCon Blizzard revealed Talebound, a new PvE action-RPG game mode for WoW: Midnight arriving with the Echoes of the Worldcore update — 4 macabre stories, 3 classes, PTR preview in October. WoW
- StarCraft shooter revealed at BlizzCon 2026: open-world, Dan Hay directing, 2030 Blizzard announced an open-world StarCraft shooter at BlizzCon 2026, launching 2030, directed by Dan Hay. ARG paid off. StarCraft
- StarCraft ARG: Transmission 04 reveals Project Spellbind cover-up, hours before ceremony Transmission 04 landed overnight: Dominion censorship terminal, Veil IX incident (72 dead, gas-leak cover story), Project Spellbind spanning Roxara, Candore, Veil IX. Verified live on the… StarCraft
- Overwatch at BlizzCon 2026: vampire Support Doctrine, Grimsvötn map, Sombra rework Overwatch reveals: Hero 54 Doctrine (vampire Support, trial through Sep 14), Watchpoint: Grímsvötn map, Sombra moves to Support, Season 5 October 6. Overwatch
- Xal'atath enters the Nexus September 28: HotS reveal at BlizzCon 2026 Heroes of the Storm gets Xal'atath on September 28 — sustained area-pressure assassin with a limited Heartseeker skin in the Harbinger of BlizzCon bundle. Roundup
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds gets Aberrations minion type September 22 BlizzCon reveal: Aberrations join Hearthstone Battlegrounds in Patch 36.6.1 on September 22 — discard synergies, C'Thun/Y'Shaarj Deities, Naga rotated out. Roundup
- Diablo V announced: Spring 2029, a Sanctuary where Diablo won Blizzard revealed Diablo V at BlizzCon 2026: fallen Sanctuary, defeated heroes, Spring 2029 window. Panel today 1:45 PM PT. Diablo
- Diablo at BlizzCon 2026: D5 dated Spring 2029, Netflix series, Amazon 2027, 30th season Every Diablo announcement from the BlizzCon 2026 ceremony: Diablo V Spring 2029, Netflix animated series, Amazon class 2027, Season of Hell's Legacy, Switch 2 launch. Diablo
- BlizzCon 2026 day one recap: every announcement from the opening ceremony Full BlizzCon 2026 day-one recap: WoW: Forever (Classic+, Nov 4), Midnight Eclipse and WotLK Remix, Diablo V, StarCraft open-world shooter, Warcraft 3 Forsaken Kingdom, and more. WoW
- World of Warcraft: Forever revealed — Classic+ is real, Skyborne Elves, beta Thursday, launch Nov 4 Blizzard revealed World of Warcraft: Forever (Classic+) at BlizzCon: alternate-timeline Vanilla, Skyborne Elves, 3 new zones, 9 dungeons, SD/HD toggle, beta Thursday, November 4 launch. WoW
- Everwood Announced: Hard-RP Classic With No Leveling, No Raids, Permadeath Everwood is a Classic hard-RP project with no MMO mechanics at all: hex turn-based combat, fief sim, player economy, permadeath. Closed alpha planned September 2026. WoW
- AORUS Dark Portal Teaser: Closed Portal, Azeroth-Only Hints, One Day Out A deleted AORUS BlizzCon teaser shows a darkened Dark Portal under 'All Eyes on Azeroth'. What is verified, what is single-source, and what it means for private servers. WoW
- Hardware Watch: What BlizzCon 2026 Means for Your Setup D4 on Switch 2, housing system load, Legion-era emulator clients, and what to know about running Blizzard's 2026 games on the hardware you already own. Hardware
- BlizzCon 2026 Bingo Card: Every Phrase, Reveal, and Crowd Reaction to Watch For Print this out. Tick the boxes. See how many you get by Sunday night. Roundup
- The $600K Question: AWC and MDI at BlizzCon 2026, Betting Favorites and Format Eight teams compete for $600,000 combined at the AWC and MDI Grand Finals this weekend. Who's through, what's at stake, and how the brackets play out. WoW
- Blizzard Union Ratifies Contract Covering 1,900 Workers Across WoW, Diablo, Overwatch CWA contract wins layoff protections, recall rights, AI bargaining, salary floors, and locked hybrid work for all Blizzard unionized units. Roundup
- Tempest-WoW 255 launches Sep 5, Anachronos brews LATAM Vanilla Instant-255 funserver Tempest-WoW opens Sep 5 (TopG rank 3, site walled). Anachronos runs LATAM Vanilla beta toward launch. Both on watch. WoW
- Tavern rebuilds Battle.net login for retired Classic clients Rust replacement for Blizzard account services keeps retired Classic builds loggable. Three services, explicit scope: dead clients only, never live ones. WoW
- StarCraft ARG escalates: Transmission 03 brings breach and takeover Transmission 03 recovered today: 11 logs, 3 patients with O₂ above 100%, population counter going haywire, vent horror, Keri Parker breach, D. Alvarez warning. Four days to BlizzCon. StarCraft
- No Diablo campfire before BlizzCon — Season 15 held for the stage Duskforge: no pre-season stream because BlizzCon replaces it. PTR was partial by design. Season 15 rest waits 4 days. Diablo
- BlizzCon 2026 preview: every fixture, every leak, every question that matters The definitive BlizzCon 2026 preview. StarCraft shooter, Classic Plus, HotS revival, D4 Switch 2, YOASOBI, and every leak from Corden, Schreier, and the ARG. Roundup
- Wrathstorm joins tracker — classless WotLK with high-risk PvP Classless 3.3.5a with reforging, high-risk PvP, boss bounties, 8v8 rated BGs and Mythic+ raids. First classless WotLK since Ascension died. WoW
- Season of the Crusade joins tracker — Vanilla world, TBC systems Vanilla Azeroth with 2.4.3 talents at 60, Blood Elves and Draenei, jewelcrafting, arenas. Counter read 1 online — thin, listed honestly. WoW
- OctoWoW DDoS Round 9: the accusations, the counter-theories, no proof OctoWoW's forums hit DDoS Round 9 today with Ravencraft accusations, gold-seller and mafia counter-theories, and staff refusing to name names. Allegations only, no verified attribution. WoW
- Keldurn plays Vanilla in the browser, Vaelith builds honestly in the dark Keldurn: 1.12 in-browser with live login. Vaelith: ground-up WotLK dev with the most honest status page in the scene. Both tracked. WoW
- Emberveil puts full client on Android — separate realm, wave invites Emberveil opened Android beta: full client (combat, quests, voice, AH) on an isolated wiped realm. Device survey first, invites in waves. WoW
- DLSS5 confirmed working on a 3.3.5a client via feeder DLSS5-Feeder status table lists World of Warcraft 3.3.5a as user-confirmed: 4K via DXVK on RTX 5080/5090. First DLSS-on-WoW data point. WoW
- Fan ports Ascension's 21 classes to AzerothCore, promises open release Reddit user Jealous-Sound-3067 rebuilds Conquest of Azeroth's 21 classes on AzerothCore plus transmog, bots and retail classes planned. Server files go public when classes land. WoW
- StarCraft ARG advances: Transmission 02 recovered as old channel goes dark Fans recovered Transmission 02 from a new channel after Blizzard severed the old one. Mainstream press (Polygon) joined the hunt. Seven days to BlizzCon. StarCraft
- Camelot bumps to 69704 — Dev 2 moves again seven days out Overnight CDN watch ticked WoW Dev 2 from 1.60.1.69638 to 1.60.1.69704. Encrypted as usual, contents unknown. Seven days to the Sep 12 Opening Ceremony. WoW
- Ascension team pivots to original MMO after Sep 4 shutdown Ascension.gg is live as a standalone MMORPG with launcher download. Accounts carry over, cash-shop currency becomes founders cosmetics, opt-in alpha first. WoW
- Architect WoW joins tracker — Spanish WotLK x2, all raids open Spanish progressive WotLK 3.3.5a PvP at x2 with Naxx through ICC unlocked, onsite armory and rankings. Thin pop at press time — watch whether LATAM fills it. WoW
- Starfall Cata Mythic+ and IceDNicco large WotLK join tracker Two toplist finds go live on the tracker: Starfall progressive Cata with custom Mythic+ and IceDNicco 10x WotLK with 2000-5000 online. Read what each fills. WoW
- StarCraft Twitch drops return for BlizzCon 2026 — first carrot in years StarCraft gets BlizzCon drops: 10-day XP boost for one hour watched. Filler, not cosmetics — cheap heat timed to the ARG week. StarCraft
- Rivals Beyond playtests Sep 12-13 — WoW MOBA on BlizzCon weekend Free WoW rebuilt as MOBA opens 38-hour playtest Sep 12 09:00 to Sep 13 23:00 Brussels time. Read champions, Essence and Nexus, plus why a MOBA playtest on BlizzCon weekend matters. WoW
- Liquid takes Mythic Ula'tek world first — fifth race win in a row Liquid kills Mythic Ula'tek in 307 pulls after thinking they'd lose. Echo half hour later. Method still grinding third. WoW
- GrimfallWoW releases Sep 5 — day after Ascension goes dark Classless Vanilla+ at 60 leaves open beta Sep 5 at 11am CT with Wildcard, 10+ races, scaled dungeons and prestige. Read how the timing fills the classless gap Ascension leaves. WoW
- Felskorn relaunches Sep 1 — Vanilla content on WotLK 3.3.5a with Corruption and Prestige Custom Vanilla+ server rebuilt on WotLK 3.3.5a relaunches Sep 1 with level 60 Vanilla content, WotLK classes, Corruption and Prestige progression, Random Enchants, Awakened Items and… WoW
- Project Legacy crosses 1,000 accounts — highest concurrent since launch Independent Vanilla+ server on VMaNGOS pulls its biggest player wave since launch day. Open beta accounts get a permanent Murky companion reward; the milestone is the first real growth… WoW
- Centurion joins the tracker — Vanilla 1.12 mechanics on a 3.3.5 client Solo-dev project porting Vanilla 1.12 class mechanics, ranks, cast times and CC into the WotLK 3.3.5 engine. Legionnaire+ is the live PvP realm; Barracks+ is the open-beta PvE sister. No… WoW
- How to watch BlizzCon 2026 and earn WoW drops — Sep 12-13, free stream, Twitch and YouTube Blizzard confirmed the free stream and the Twitch and YouTube drop window for BlizzCon 2026, then itemized the bucket (Trader's Tender, Grrgle decor, Quilt mount, banner) with Twitch… WoW
- BlizzCon 2026 schedule — dates, venue, free stream and what Classic players watch for BlizzCon 2026 runs Sep 12-13 at Anaheim Convention Center (badge pickup Sep 11). Opening ceremony and main-stage panels stream free. Here is the schedule, floor map, viewership guide and… WoW
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- Firestorm BFA: Reforged arrives Aug 31 — Plunderforged Bay, >3600 queued, Felsong merge live Battle for Azeroth: Reforged launches on Firestorm August 31 at 11:00 AM CEST . The network's final heads-up post 567 confirms the fresh BFA realm — not… WoW
- Camelot watch: no new build Aug 30 — why 3 builds in 25h still reveal nothing No new Project Camelot build on Aug 30 — 1.60.1.69609 (Aug 29 02:16 UTC) remains the tip. Our watcher still polls wowdev2 via Blizztrack and cdn-last.json… WoW
- Black Temple live; Camelot at 69609; tracker at 102 servers; BlizzCon 13 days out Four updates before BlizzCon. Black Temple Phase 3 — live Aug 27 Burning Crusade Anniversary Phase 3 went live on schedule: Black Temple, Hyjal Summit,… WoW
- Three Camelot builds in 25 hours + WoW Armory adds Classic — Aug 28-29 surge Two infrastructure signals in one window. Three encrypted builds in 25 hours Algalon (Ghostopheles' Algalon, Enigmatic Observer tracker) logged: | When… WoW
- Project Ascension to shut down Sep 4 under Blizzard agreement — 10-year classless network ends 8 days before BlizzCon All of Ascension's emulated WoW realms will shut down on September 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM Pacific (10:00 PM Eastern / Sep 5 02:00 UTC) under a mutual… WoW
- BlizzCon 2026 predictions: what to expect from the Classic+ reveal Eighteen months of leaks point to one stage in Anaheim. Our scorecard of what Project Camelot will — and won't — show on September 12. WoW
- Community lists scanned — 8 servers our tracker missed We scanned two community-maintained lists today — a Reddit compilation and Felbite's curated directory — against our 102-server tracker. Missing from our… WoW
- Client tooling update: IchaLaunch launcher for Ravencraft, OpenWoW client milestone Two client-side projects updated today — both relevant to servers we track. IchaLaunch — Ravencraft / Turtle WoW launcher brutaliccus/IchaLaunch is a… WoW
- Project Legacy 1.12.4 live; tracker at 93 servers; BlizzCon 19 days out Three updates. Project Legacy 1.12.4 — live now The independent Vanilla+ project launched patch 1.12.4 Wednesday at 8 PM UK with Guild Banks (low tab… WoW
- Tracker expands to 83 servers: Legion and Cataclysm coverage arrives The tracker grew from 71 to 83 servers this week after a scene-wide gap sweep — and for the first time it covers the Legion and Cataclysm private server… WoW
- Warmane Onyxia: Icecrown Citadel releases September 5 Warmane has confirmed the date: Icecrown Citadel opens on Onyxia realm September 5 at 14:00 UTC . The Frozen Throne awaits — the final raid of Wrath of… WoW
- Patch roundup: Reforged WotLK v1.3.0 hits Faebright compat, Legacy 1.12.4 imminent Two quick tracker-adjacent updates before the weekend. Project Reforged — WotLK v1.3.0 adds Faebright compatibility The HD visual-overhaul mod for the… WoW
- Warlords of Azeroth launches: full-loot Vanilla where Stranglethorn bites A new Vanilla server launched today with a ruleset built on a contrarian bet: while most of the private scene races to add convenience, Warlords of… WoW
- Where Turtle WoW players went: the successor wave of 2026 When Turtle WoW went offline on May 15, 2026, it took one of the largest Vanilla+ communities with it — roughly eight years of custom content, a… WoW
- The Turtle WoW preservation scene, mapped When Turtle WoW shut down in May, most coverage focused on the servers going dark. What happened next is arguably the more interesting story: the 1.18.x… WoW
- Will your private server survive? Reading shutdown risk in 2026 Every WoW private server player knows the feeling: you find a great community, invest six months into a character, and then one morning the launcher won't… WoW
- Patch roundup: Legacy 1.12.4, Astral beta, Triumvirate Phase 2, Maelstrom Phase 5, Warstorm emerges Five tracked servers made news this week — three shipping major content updates, one announcing its beta date, and one solo-focused realm stepping out of… WoW
- Modern QoL is coming to classic cores — the private server trend of 2026 The line between "old WoW" and "modern WoW" is blurring on private servers. The most interesting projects of 2026 are not re-creating 2004 more faithfully… WoW
- Blizzard ports modern UI to Classic Era: Edit Mode and 41-yard nameplates go retro Blizzard quietly shipped one of the more telling updates of the year to its oldest game versions: Edit Mode and 41-yard nameplates are now live on Classic… WoW
- BlizzCon 2026 Preview: Project Camelot, WoW Classic+, and What It Means for Private Servers BlizzCon 2026 is three weeks away — September 12–13 at the Anaheim Convention Center, the first full-format show since 2023. The opening ceremony and main… WoW
- Black Temple opens on TBC Anniversary August 27 Blizzard has confirmed the date: Black Temple arrives on Burning Crusade Anniversary realms August 27 . Illidan Stormrage's fortress — the most iconic… WoW
- Blizzard v. Ascension lawsuit: September 8 answer deadline set The federal lawsuit against Project Ascension (Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. v. Derek S. Powell, No. 8:26-cv-01506, C.D. Cal.) has advanced to a concrete… WoW
- RavenCraft confirms Aug 22 launch on original Turtle 1.18.1 core RavenCraft, built on the original 1.18.1 Turtle WoW core by former project contributors, confirmed its August 22, 6:00 PM GMT+2 launch with a phased… WoW
- AI NPC assistants arrive on WotLK private servers — ThunderWoW's Oráculo goes live ThunderWoW, a Spanish/LATAM WotLK 3.3.5a PvP realm in beta since June 23, is experimenting with an in-game AI NPC. Its "Oráculo" assistant runs inside the… WoW
- Project Camelot hits Patch 1.60.1 — Dwarf Shaman and Shen'dorei clues surface Project Camelot's encrypted branches advanced to Patch 1.60.1 this week, with both test environments updating in parallel — WoW Dev Two reached… WoW
- Unreal Azeroth official release Unreal Azeroth, a from-scratch UE5 World of Warcraft client that still speaks to 20-year-old vanilla-era servers, launched in Legacy Mode on August 15,… WoW
- OpenWoW: from-scratch WotLK client reimplementation OpenWoW is a from-scratch reimplementation of the World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (WotLK) game client in modern C++20, built as a drop-in replacement binary: it… WoW
- Emberveil — Vanilla WoW in Unreal Engine 5 Emberveil, a Vanilla WoW 1.12.1 client rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5, opened its realm on August 15, 2026, alongside the related Caverns of Time server. WoW
- OctoWoW modern client setup guide OctoWoW is a modern 1.12 World of Warcraft client built for Turtle WoW and Vanilla+ servers. We now host a setup guide covering the essential tools… WoW
- WoW Classic+ datamine fuels BlizzCon 2026 anticipation A WoW Classic+ datamine reignited anticipation for BlizzCon 2026 (September 12-13), with the community speculating on official Classic+ announcements.… WoW
July 2026
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- WarcraftXL — modular modding framework for the 3.3.5a client IThorgrim and his team announced WarcraftXL, a modular client patcher letting the WotLK 3.3.5a client natively run assets and technologies from modern WoW… WoW
- Ascension accelerated content timeline for CoA and S10 Ascension published an accelerated content timeline for Conquest of Azeroth and Season 10, outlining upcoming classless seasons and content releases. WoW
June 2026
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- Turtle WoW team forms Moonwhisper Games for an original MMO Two weeks after Turtle WoW shut down, the dev team announced Moonwhisper Games — a new studio building an original MMORPG with its own IP, world and… WoW
May 2026
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- Turtle WoW 1.17.1/1.17.2 source leak A full source repack and client build of Turtle WoW 1.17.1/1.17.2 was released publicly, following the earlier 2024 core and git repository leak. WoW
- Everlook Radio lives on as Out of Bounds Entertainment — the station that outlived its server Turtle WoW's in-game radio outlived the server that carried it. Everlook Broadcasting Co. — tuned via a button on Turtle WoW's minimap — ran full… WoW
- Turtle WoW permanently shut down after Blizzard C&D The long-running Classic+ private server Turtle WoW shut down permanently on May 15, 2026, after Blizzard's legal action and a binding injunction ended… WoW
- Stormforge shut down after Blizzard C&D Stormforge, formed from the merger of the Tauri and Atlantiss teams, shut down on May 14, 2026 following direct legal intervention from Blizzard, closing… WoW
April 2026
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- Blizzard v. Turtle WoW: consent judgment and permanent injunction The court ruled in Blizzard's favor on April 13, 2026, issuing a consent judgment and permanent injunction against Turtle WoW, which had been sued under… WoW