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Speedrunning Raids in Classic WoW
In World of Warcraft: Classic, many players realized that raids aren't quite as difficult as they might have remembered them from 15 years ago. Thanks to the competitive scene that formed during private servers and paved the way, many Classic players that want to challenge themselves in PvE content have turned to speedrunning raids. Guilds are competing with one another in an attempt to clear raids as quickly as possible, setting insanely fast times, and even finishing raids in just over 20 minutes! Today, we'll take a closer look at the speedrunning scene, some basics to get players started, and what top Guilds are doing!
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Wargames in Classic WoW
In a recent player discovery by Twitch streamer yesmasterx, Classic WoW fully supports wargames in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. The feature even supports Horde versus Horde and Alliance versus Alliance wargames.
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Rokman's Warsong Gulch Advanced Guide - Rules, Timers, Strategies, Jumps, Class Roles, Team Composition
To celebrate the first
Warsong Gulch Battleground Holiday in Classic
, we are happy to announce the Advanced Warsong Gulch Guide, written by Rokman.
Since the launch of Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft: Classic, players have been putting together "premades" of 10 and attempting to win as many Warsong Gulch matches as they can to maximize their honor per hour. Rokman has put together a detailed Advanced Guide, highlighting every aspect of a premade match, covering topics such as timers for each respawn in Warsong Gulch, flag mechanics, map callouts, jump spots, phases of a match, class builds and items, consumables, equipment, where each player should be and should be doing during each phase of the match, and a detailed breakdown of team compositions for both Alliance and Horde.
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Best Tank Tier List / Rankings for WoW Classic - Phase 1 Molten Core and Onyxia
Today we're taking a look at the best tanking classes in Classic WoW, based on Warcraft Logs analytics, and how the community utilizes them. After a few weeks of guilds clearing Molten Core and Onyxia in Classic WoW, there are now several hundred logged kills in both raids with which to compare how the different Tank classes are doing and how they stack up against one another.
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Best Healer Tier List / Rankings for WoW Classic - Phase 1 Molten Core and Onyxia
After a few weeks of guilds clearing Molten Core and Onyxia in Classic WoW, there are now several hundred logged kills in both raids, so we've dived into the parses recorded on Warcraft Logs in order to see how the different Healer classes are doing and how they stack up against one another.
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Best DPS Tier List / Rankings for WoW Classic - Phase 1 Molten Core and Onyxia
After a few weeks of guilds clearing Molten Core and Onyxia in Classic WoW, there are now several hundred logged kills in both raids, so we've dived into the parses recorded on Warcraft Logs in order to see how the different DPS classes are doing and how they stack up against one another.
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Choosing Between Dragonscale, Elemental, and Tribal Leatherworking in Classic WoW
Leatherworking is a vital Profession within a healthy market, as many classes will be seeking out some of the finest armor pieces a Leatherworker can craft. This article compares the benefits of the three Leatherworking specializations: Dragonscale, Tribal, and Elemental.
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Choosing Between Armorsmith and Weaponsmith Blacksmithing in Classic WoW
Blacksmithing is an extremely popular Profession amongst Warrior, and for good reason. Blacksmithing can be quite a lucrative profession, as well as enabling a Warrior to craft some of their very own items. With the right recipe drops, a Warrior can craft some of the best plate armor and weapons available for quite some time.
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Choosing Between Gnomish or Goblin Engineering in Classic WoW
Engineering is one of the most commonly recommended professions in Classic WoW, due to the wide variety of damage dealing and special effects not found in other professions, most of which are only usable by engineers. Those players are soon faced with another choice, upon reaching 200 skill and level 30 they may choose between specializing in Gnomish or Goblin Engineering, a choice which cannot be changed without abandoning and releveling the profession entirely.
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Hotfix Now Live for Layer-hopping
A Hotfix just went live which applies a cooldown to Players after changing a Layer, preventing them from going to a new layer afterward. Many Players have been frustrated about "Layer Abuse", allowing for Players to find new Mining or Herbalism nodes, gathering mass amounts of high level materials. In a Blue Post from 2 days Ago, WoW Developer Pazorax explained that Blizzard is watching the situation closely and that the accusations of abuse were exaggerated. It seems that Blizzard has now implemented a Hotfix solution to the Layer-hopping issue.
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Ten Tips for Dungeon Tanking on a Warrior in Classic WoW
Warrior
s have one of the most difficult times leveling in Classic WoW, so many players will want to try and break up the solo questing experience by hopping into a dungeon group and doing some DPS. But that doesn't always work out and you might be asked to tank. If you find yourself tanking as a Warrior in Classic WoW, without much experience, we have ten quick tips to help you prepare for this role!
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Classic WoW's Success on Twitch and Reddit
One week into Classic WoW's launch, Twitch and Reddit have some notable stats on the game's popularity! A 15 year old game is absolutely dominating Twitch, has its own subreddit that is in the Top 10 for most comments on all of Reddit, and is overloading Blizzard’s servers.
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Hotfix to Classic WoW, Bug Affecting Experience Gains in Parties of 6 or More
In a recent tweet from WarcraftDevs and a Blue Post from Blizzard, Community Manager Kaivax clarified that there has been in a bug in Classic WoW, applying too much experience to parties of 6 or more players. This Bug seems to have only been from Classic WoW, not necessarily something from Vanilla.
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Classic Race to World First, Day 5 Recap
Five days have passed since Classic WoW has launched! There has been a lot of exciting coverage of the Classic Race to World First, presented by Method and WSOE, and the leaderboards have been updated. World first Level 60 was crowned to Jokerd of EU Region, World first Rangaros kill to <APES> of EU, only Onyxia still stands!
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Classic Race to World First, Day 4 Recap
Four entire days have passed since Classic WoW has launched! There has been a lot of exciting coverage of the Classic Race to World First, presented by Method and WSOE, and the leaderboards have been updated. World first Level 60 has been crowned, but who will take down Onyxia and Rangaros first?
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WoW Classic with Creators Episode 3: Jeff Kaplan
Blizzard has released another episode of their WoW Classic with Creator's series. This one features Jeff Kaplan, one of the original Game Designers from vanilla WoW who helped design many dungeons.
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Classic Race to World First, Day 3 Recap
Three entire days have passed since Classic WoW has launched! There has been a lot of exciting coverage of the Classic Race to World First, presented by Method and WSOE, and the leaderboards have been updated. Who is ahead of the pack? What strategies have they implemented? And who will be first to level 60?
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World of Warcraft Classic Sets New Launch-Day Record for Peak Concurrent Viewers on Twitch
Over 1.1 Million viewers watched on Twitch as Classic World of Warcraft launched. Celebrating this milestone, Blizzard sent out the following Press release.
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Xiaomi Plans To Sell World Of Warcraft Branded Phones, Could A WoW Mobile Game Be In The Works?
In a Weibo post for Redmi Phones, Xiaomi revealed that they are going to sell two World of Warcraft branded Mobile Phones. Because of the strange pairing of World of Warcraft and a mobile phone, could this be a mobile phone geared toward a Gaming audience? As reported earlier today, Blizzard is suing Sina Games, who developed Glorious Saga, a mobile game ripoff of World of Warcraft. Could Blizzard be developing a Mobile Game within the WoW universe?
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Classic Race to World First, Day 2 Recap
Exactly 48 hours have passed since Classic WoW has launched! After two days of exciting coverage of the Classic Race to World First, presented by Method and WSOE, the leaderboards have been updated. Who is ahead of the pack? What strategies have they implemented? And who will be first to level 60?
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