WoW Archivist
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WoW Archivist: Fury over Thori’dal
In the summer of 2008, the legendary bow Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury, dropped for a guild called Vicarious on Area 52-US. There were two Hunters in the raid. Vicarious Master Looted the bow to a…
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WoW Archivist: Four classic ideas Battle for Azeroth should bring back
To me, Legion was far more nostalgic than the transparently nostalgia-driven Warlords of Draenor. The story in Legion evoked many of Burning Crusade’s themes and indeed built directly on that story. Blizzard did more interesting things…
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WoW Archivist: Classic hassles
Executive Producer J. Allen Brack caught a lot of heat when he suggested four years ago that players didn't really want Classic realms. "You think you do," he said infamously, "but you don't."
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WoW Archivist: Playable races
With BlizzCon 2017 rapidly approaching, much of the buzz about this one is what the next WoW expansion will offer. As with every expansion, many leaks have sprung up on forums and social media.…
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WoW Archivist: In defense of Cataclysm
Seven years ago this fall Cataclysm struck WoW. With a patch called simply “The Shattering,” the Azeroth that we had leveled and reveled in since 2004 disappeared forever. WoW will soon be 13 years…
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WoW Archivist: Icecrown Citadel
Was any raid in WoW ever anticipated as voraciously as Icecrown Citadel? Players had been eager to face the Lich King in person since the game was announced. The hype only intensified after the…
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WoW Archivist: Classic’s Paladin mount quests
Legion has brought back many of the class-specific content ideas that Blizzard implemented into classic WoW. Back then, these ideas were never fully fleshed out — they were given to some classes and not…
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WoW Archivist: Patch dungeons
In many ways, Legion has been Blizzard’s most innovative expansion. World Quests and Artifacts have completely changed how we play WoW. Crafting and gathering professions have received a massive overhaul. Classes and specs have…
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WoW Archivist: The Black Temple
Ten years ago this month, Blizzard added one of its largest and most memorable patches. Patch 2.1 gave us so much that only a massive amount of bullet points can do it justice.
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WoW Archivist: Ten years of flight
Just over ten years ago, Burning Crusade ushered in a brand new way to experience World of Warcraft that for better or worse would change the game irrevocably: flying. Flight paths had been all the…
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