World of Warcraft Timeline

A unified World of Warcraft timeline combining game news, official updates, patch intelligence, events and permission-aware community activity.
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World of Warcraft activity timeline

A unified World of Warcraft timeline combining game news, official updates, patch intelligence, events and permission-aware community activity.

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Game news

How to win the Black Empire Recipe Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

The Reign of the Black Empire expansion has just been released for Hearthstone, and as is tradition, the Recipe Tavern Brawl is here on the first week, to let players get a taste of the new cards and mechanics for each class. This brawl pits deck recipe against deck recipe, so j…

ExpansionBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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The Queue: The Black Empire

The Black Empire is coming. Again. There’s an enormous multi-tentacled creature blotting out the sun, and he comes to bring you love. Or death, I dunno. This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the only question that truly matters is: who is the best Old God?

General NewsBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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Patch intelligence

The Queue: Lizdormi checking in

Version 12.1.7 has a low impact rating (20/100), led by general. It spans 1 content area(s), 4 affected entity/subject record(s) and 0 detected platform(s).

12.1.7Low impact · 20/100Score 51/100
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How to win the Black Empire Brawliseum Pre-Release Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

Hearthstone is getting its next expansion, Reign of the Black Empire, next week, on October 20, and as usual the pre-release Hearthstone Tavern Brawl arrives just before launch day. If you already have any Reign of the Black Empire packs — whether you got them for free, from dro…

ExpansionBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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Lore Watch Podcast: Just another Shadowsong, and more stories from the Void

One of the most interesting things about World of Warcraft: Forever is the possibility for new story development, and that’s how we got tangled up in the question of an NPC named Shadowsong in the beta. Is it one of those Shadowsongs? Probably not. (It’s a common name.) But coul…

General NewsBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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The Queue: Here be dragons

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and sometimes we have some answers but sometimes the questions are just out there, man.

General NewsBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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World of Warcraft: Midnight patch 12.1.5 will release on October 13, 2026!

Like a snake, or maybe like a raid full of snakes, time slithers ever-forward — and with the march of time, comes a new patch for World of Warcraft. No sooner had Midnight patch 12.1 and its treasure trove of scaly goodies dropped into our lap like a bundle of joy horror than it…

Store PromotionBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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The Queue: Stuffed

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for the amount of turkey and gravy I was able to eat. I’m also thankful for all of you here reading this right now! You all rock. While I go take a post-turkey nap, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column — The Queue!

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Looking forward to Labyrinths

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 launches this week, and I’m looking forward to checking out the first Labyrinth, the Troll tomb Kindo’jan, when it goes live on Tuesday. Even though this is a “minor” patch, it’s pretty packed with new features, including a new one-boss raid (inter…

General NewsBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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The Burning Crusade Classic anniversary realms launch Phase 3.5 on October 22

The Burning Crusade Classic anniversary realms are finally getting the next phase of content on October 22, 2026 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern). Phase 3.5 is more of a mini-phase but it still features a new raid, Zul’Aman, and updates to previously released raids and dungeons as w…

General NewsBlizzard WatchScore 100/100
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The Queue: Modern Forever

With WoW Forever entering the discussion, people have started calling Retail WoW “Modern WoW” now. The questions, then, become: will you play Modern WoW forever? Is WoW Forever modern enough for you? This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ponder our orbs and try to cre…

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Every unique and updated Priest racial ability in WoW: Forever

One of the most distinguishing features of the Priest class in vanilla (and Classic) WoW has been its race-specific abilities. Unlike almost all the other classes in the game, Priests originally received one ability at level 10 and another at level 20 that were, by and large, co…

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