Official Site: The Burning Crusade
Relevance: The first World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date:Â January 15, 2007
See: World of Warcraft
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End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs going into 2021
It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....
WoW Factor: The five paths forward for WoW Classic
Throughout its lifespan, WoW Classic has had an interesting relationship with the future. Not just because it is and always was an explicitly back-looking piece...
First Impressions of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, part one: Story and leveling
In a lot of ways, the problem with talking about World of Warcraft is the same problem when you try to talk about The...
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The latest addition to the pre-patch notes for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is pretty meaty. Enhancement Shaman gets some buffs across the board, tanking classes...
WoW Factor: Ego, philosophy, and learning the right lessons in MMOs
Picture the scene, if you will. The year is 2006, and I am working in a library with a number of people whom I...
World of Warcraft may be getting ready to test Burning Crusade Classic
While it hasn't been officially announced, The Burning Crusade is all but assumed to be coming to the World of Warcraft Classic scene, presumably...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft leveling experiences ranked, part one
Now that the pre-patch is here, you can level through any World of Warcraft expansion you'd like in the order your heart desires! But that,...
Leaderboard: To which WoW expansion era will you send your Shadowlands alts first?
One of the more intriguing things about World of Warcraft Shadowlands, at least for me, is the game's new leveling system. While brand-new accounts...
WoW Factor: The stuff I’m genuinely excited for in World of Warcraft Shadowlands
For the first time in the past three expansions, I am not in the beta for World of Warcraft's next expansion. This is fine. It's...
Massively Overthinking: Jumping the shark in MMOs
I'm sure those few people out there still bearing a grudge over the Rune-keeper would disagree with me, but one of the things that...
Massively Overthinking: Does playing MMORPGs ever stress you out?
"Anyone ever feel stressed out about playing MMOs?" MOP's Carlo queried our team this week. "This new Black Desert season is stressing me out...
Perfect Ten: The most fun pre-launch MMO runs
You know what's really fun? The build-up to an MMO's release, especially when you're really invested in that particular game. Some of my fondest...
WoW Factor: Behind blue (elf) eyes (in World of Warcraft)
Players were very excited when blue eye options were datamined out for Blood Elves in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, then less happy when it was...
Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon’s cancellation might just be for the best
After a lot of time spent expecting this particular announcement, yesterday it was finally confirmed that there will be no BlizzCon 2020. This is...
The Daily Grind: What elements feel out of place in your MMO?
I'm generally a flexible person when it comes to encountering a variety of fictional worlds, but I do expect the creators to be internally...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour in review
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The Daily Grind: Are you on board for Burning Crusade Classic?
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 265: Delusions of Elyria
Justin, Bree, MJ, and Mia discuss Chronicles of Elyria, Guild Wars 2, PSO2, Ashes of Creation, Saga of Lucimia, WoW Classic and Burning Crusade, with adventures in LOTRO, Revelation Online, Don't Starve Together, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on player housing and optional sub servers.
Blizzard sends out a Burning Crusade Classic survey, says farewell to Diablo III’s community manager
It's time to throw a whole armful of kindling onto the smoldering fire that is rumors of a WoW Classic Burning Crusade server. Wowhead...
WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Wrath of the Lich King
The downside to a project like this one, where I'm going through each of World of Warcraft's expansions one by one, is that it...
