Official Site: The Burning Crusade
Relevance: The first World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date: January 15, 2007
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Casually Classic: Are the new WoW Classic servers actually a Burning Crusade ‘waiting room?’
When Blizzard abruptly announced last November that it was launching the 20th anniversary servers -- WoW Classic Classic -- the studio gave many assurances...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers should’ve started at Burning Crusade
Two months. It's now been two months since WoW Classic did a huge re-launch of its progression servers under the widely mocked "Classic Classic"...
WoW Factor: Ranking all 10 of World of Warcraft’s expansions from worst to best
Now that I've played through the entirety of The War Within, I have some strong opinions where this expansion lies in the grander tapestry...
WoW Factor: The ‘tactical era’ of World of Warcraft dungeons kind of wasn’t
One of the things that I like to do, in both this column and elsewhere, is push back against myths that have grown up...
Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?
Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
WoW Classic Classic launches tonight with fresh progression servers and some changes
It's (re)launch day for WoW Classic, as Blizzard opens the doors this evening to a batch of fresh start megaservers around the globe starting...
The Daily Grind: Are you on board with another ‘fresh’ tour of WoW Classic?
Well it's that time again, as Blizzard activates another round of fresh WoW Classic servers and puts out the call for new and veteran...
Here’s everything you need to know about next week’s WoW Classic Classic launch
With yesterday's surprise announcement that WoW Classic is launching "Classic Classic" fresh start realms next week on November 21st, plenty of questions were raised...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers
With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...
Casually Classic: Looking back at my 20+ year journey in World of Warcraft
When was the first time you ever heard of World of Warcraft? As a fan of the three Warcraft RTS titles, I became aware of...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Editor's note: This column was originally published in August 2024, a full three months before we knew WoW is actually getting housing with the...
WoW Factor: The mulligan problem in World of Warcraft’s narrative
In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Illidan Stormrage gets killed. This isn't actually a surprising end for the character. Illidan as a person...
WoW Factor: The streak The War Within needs to break for World of Warcraft
On November 13th, 2008, World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was released to an eager population. The prior expansion, The...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight story dragonflies right off a cliff
We come now to the third part of our four-part Second Wind series on revisiting World of Warcraft after quitting at the end of...
Casually Classic: Three questions I have for WoW Classic’s probable Pandaria
Oh hey, Cataclysm Classic is here. You can absolutely sense the palpable excitement and community buzz over it, much the same way you can...
WoW Factor: Guessing at World of Warcraft’s The War Within’s release date using math
Oh yeah. It's time. I actually have some thoughts to share about World of Warcraft's current Remix leveling event, which are complicated and multilayered...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame
Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’
As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...
Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever
As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...
