the burning crusade

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

See: World of Warcraft

First impressions: WoW Classic is fun but anachronistic

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I'm not really one to follow trends or scamper along the zergeist (a combination of zerg and zeitgiest that I've decided perfectly encapsulates the...
Paladinhood.

Massively Overthinking: The future of WoW and WoW Classic

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With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...
AHHHH

WoW Factor: Forecasting the future of WoW Classic

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It's probably chiefly due to my professional life that I find myself kind of looking forward to the launch of World of Warcraft: Classic...

Last night’s WoW Classic AMA touched on moving into Burning Crusade and Wrath

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One of the, ahem, burning questions regarding World of Warcraft Classic is what Blizzard plans to do with and for those players past the...
Looking closer.

WoW Factor: WoW’s anniversary editions and event speculation

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Blizzard has really been pushing the whole anniversary thing for World of Warcraft hard and early this year. On the one hand, I get...

LOTRO Legendarium: The first year of LOTRO’s operation

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It was April 24th, 2007. World of Warcraft players were deep into The Burning Crusade, SOE had just launched Vanguard, and the indie MMO...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG zones of all time

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I once heard it said that a popular studio - I think it was Blizzard - made it a point of asking prospective developers...
Take a walk on the already-done-this side.

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a potential WoW sequel?

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It's a rare MMO player who's never played World of Warcraft, which makes this particular summer an interesting one for the whole genre. Even...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: How WoW Classic could advance beyond its phased content rollout

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It's far too early to say that World of Warcraft: Classic will get more updates beyond the planned phases of vanilla content. It could be...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 has my favorite flying mounts

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When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: Crazy speculation on turning back the clock for World of Warcraft

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There's a game I like to play - wait, no, that's a lie. There's a game I do play called "Oh, I Made Myself Sad."...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: Thoughts on the impending arrival of WoW Classic

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So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...
You really shouldn't have.

Blizzard releases Safe Haven cinematic, addresses World of Warcraft’s potential beyond WoW Classic

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Blizzard's keeping the pressure up this week with another new World of Warcraft release, though this one's about the live game, not WoW Classic:...
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: Guessing at the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement using math

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Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for a World...

LOTRO Legendarium: Five lessons I’ve learned from replaying Shadows of Angmar

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Over the past three months, I've been exclusively playing on the Anor progression server in Lord of the Rings Online. During that time, I've...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Kalimdor edition

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Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft. I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very much...
Fences!

Vague Patch Notes: Understanding systems before you talk about them

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Here's a fun question to consider. What were Emblems of Valor and Emblems of Heroism designed to do in World of Warcraft? Yes, they were...
Dead in the water.

Vague Patch Notes: When World of Warcraft breaks off your friendship

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I spent a bunch of time post-BlizzCon thinking about why World of Warcraft personally bothered me. Not why its design pitfalls bothered me; that's...
And here, we see yet another thing thrown away for no damn reason.

WoW Factor: We’re all farming Nature Resistance gear now

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First and foremost, I'd like to note that I am writing these columns consecutively and immediately, so all I can do is hope that...

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