On July 21, three Classic Hardcore realms in North America were impacted by a malicious DDoS attack, resulting in the deaths of some player-characters. Today, we’ve restored the dead player-character...

Update July 17 With hotfixes that are now live, the following have been added to Burning Crusade Classic: User Interface Raid Frames Added interface options for Raid Frames to select health bar col...

Hotfixes June 3, 2026 Mists of Pandaria Classic Reduced the gold costs of Transmog outfit and slots by 90%. Developers’ notes: Patch 5.5.4 was released with these gold costs unintentionally set t...

Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Playtest 3 This playtest will start at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, May 22. It will be available through 8:00 a.m. PDT on Monday, May 25. PTR vendors have been added and now offe...

Azeroth's heroes have stood against the Thunder King, yet a darker storm now gathers in Garrosh Hellscream. With the Vale of Eternal Blossoms corrupted and Orgrimmar in chaos, the Warchief must be sto...

Now Available For Testing Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Test 10:00 a.m. PST on Friday, May 8 through 8:00 a.m. PST on Monday, May 11. PTR vendors have been added and now offer Legendary cloaks and Timeles...

Now Available For Testing Celestial Dungeons The new Season 3 Celestial Dungeons are now available. In this patch, players will finally confront Garrosh Hellscream for his crimes against the Horde, ...

Lady Vashj and Kael'thas Sunstrider, the cunning overlords of Outland, have long served Illidan Stormrage, the Betrayer. Retake Outland on May 14, when Overlords of Outland launches globally on all re...

Later this week, the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Public Test Realm (PTR) will open for testing the Overlords of Outland update. This update will include all of the content and features player...

We have updated the PTR ahead of raid testing, which is now underway. Now Available For Testing Raid: Siege of Orgrimmar The tensions stoked by Garrosh Hellscream’s arrogance have reached a boiling...

Welcome to the Public Test Realm (PTR) for Mists of Pandaria Classic: Siege of Orgrimmar, patch 5.5.4. Patch 5.5.4 will introduce several updates including the Timeless Isle zone, the Proving Grounds...

We’ve observed a significant number of Burning Crusade players entering dungeons and then participating in no meaningful gameplay, often while only one party member plays through the instance. When th...

Fight back against the aggressive reign of Garrosh Hellscream, once proud Warchief of the Horde. As tensions rise and the fate of Azeroth hangs in the balance, the latest content update—Escalation—unl...

We’ve been steadily working to fix some issues with PvP flagging in Burning Crusade Classic. Our goals are: Players in PvE instances (dungeons, raids, and scenarios) should be able to cast helpful A...

Over the last couple of days, we’ve seen a lot of feedback from players that in many cases, there are too many others nearby when you’re questing or doing gathering professions in the open world. Tod...

For the last 24 hours, we’ve been aware of and working to solve multiple issues affecting players who form parties intending to play on the same layer together. Today, we deployed some changes that we...

Earlier this week, we identified a bug in the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary pre-patch which incorrectly granted the 150 Epic riding skill to some player-characters. Purchasing Journeyman Riding...

In-Game Advertising Greetings! We just updated our Support article regarding in-game advertising, in part to bring our policies regarding non-traditional services (including “boosting”) in Anniversar...

Afternoon all, Reviewing recent data, it has become sadly and unfortunately clear that Grobbulus population has fallen critically low and its time has come. Players have overwhelmingly embraced the m...

Thank you for all the reports about the low framerate issue related to pet auto-cast abilities in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary. We’ve identified the issue and we’re preparing a fix for it, whic...

January 16, 2026 The Burning Crusade Classic Fixed an issue where Blackrock Spire only allowed 5 players to enter. Fixed a bug preventing the quest “The First and Last” from starting for eligible p...

As we previously indicated, soon after launching the Burning Crusade pre-expansion patch, we could see that PvP needed an additional increase in rate of gearing. Since some players have already purcha...

Here you will find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, Burning Crusade Classic, WoW Classic Era...

The Burning Crusade Classic is coming to Anniversary realms, with the Burning Crusade pre-patch arriving next week. Please take note of the following schedule of events. 24-Hour Maintenance for Anniv...

Prepare to tread once again through the Dark Portal and into the fel-scarred realm of Outland with the WoW®: Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition on February 5 at 3:00 pm PST globally, and incl...

We’ll open the initial Burning Crusade Classic raids for PTR testing on Friday, December 19 at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) PST. Please join us in checking out Karazhan , Gruul , and Magtheridon, and thereafter...

Thank you for the feedback and discussions around raid difficulty on the upcoming Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary realms. Dungeons and Raids Although we still plan to release Tier 4 content (Kara...

New Zone: Isle of Thunder Join the assault to conquer Emperor Lei Shen’s island stronghold, unlock new questlines and daily quest hubs, and participate in special events. Earn the right to visit the f...

Welcome to the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary public test realm (PTR). The PTR will open soon this week. This first 2.5.5 patch unlocks Outland and allows testers to reach level 70. For this PT...

Gather heroes, sound the drums, the Thunder King comes! The time is nigh to spearhead an assault on the Thunder King’s stronghold. Arriving December 9 at 3:00 pm PST, this update delivers two new zone...