the burning crusade

Official Site: The Burning Crusade
Relevance: The first World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date: January 15, 2007

See: World of Warcraft

This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: The mulligan problem in World of Warcraft’s narrative

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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...
Ominous.

WoW Factor: The streak The War Within needs to break for World of Warcraft

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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

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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

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Oh hey, Cataclysm Classic is here. You can absolutely sense the palpable excitement and community buzz over it, much the same way you can...
Chancu

WoW Factor: Guessing at World of Warcraft’s The War Within’s release date using math

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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

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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...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’

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As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever

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As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...

WoW Classic dev explains sharding and layering strategies for Season of Discovery

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As WoW Classic left #NoChanges abandoned on the side of the road hundreds of miles ago, the legacy server trekked on to forge its...

Casually Classic: When will WoW Classic stop adding expansions?

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This spring, the era of Wrath Classic will officially come to an end when the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch hits ahead of the summer launch....

Casually Classic: Which version of WoW Classic is right for you?

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Choice is a double-edged sword: Too little of it is restricting and frustrating, yet too much can lead to decision paralysis and feeling overwhelmed....

Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs

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Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: The dungeon finder really did muck up World of Warcraft’s leveling – but not the way you’re thinking

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So if you missed Justin's recent column, he mentioned how bad leveling feels these days in World of Warcraft and some of the reasons...

Casually Classic: Six reasons hardcore servers make WoW Classic worthwhile

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The first time that I heard about the unofficial "Hardcore Classic" scene for WoW Classic, I didn't get it. The idea of voluntary permadeath...

Tencent’s not-a-WoW-clone Tarisland snagged a former World of Warcraft composer for its score

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It's not every day that a new MMORPG even talks about its composer or score, let alone sends 'round a press release talking up...
The stars are over Dun Morogh.

WoW Factor: What would World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’ even look like?

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So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: Every expansion era of World of Warcraft ranked

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For a long time, I have been considering this particular column just because, well, it's an obvious one. If you have a column whose...
But... but we even got cold again for you.

Blizzard champions Undaunted, a World of Warcraft guild for hearing-impaired players

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Players who have adventured through World of Warcraft: Dragonflight no doubt enjoyed getting to meet a major centaur NPC who communicates via sign language....
Finite.

WoW Factor: Infinite (Dragonflight) frustration and the time-travel problem in World of Warcraft

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Sometimes, you just gotta rant about lore. And that's the case this week because World of Warcraft has finally wrapped up the long-standing plot...
Doom approaches.

Casually Classic: Six problems Blizzard has to solve for WoW Classic’s official hardcore mode

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Hey, look at that: Blizzard's going and making Hardcore Classic an official thing. As well it should, considering how this community-driven ruleset's been the...

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