World of Warcraft News

The second phase of the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch is now live, giving players access to the Drachtyr Evoker, a new race/class combination that ties in with the expansion’s narrative. Phase 2 of the pre-patch also opens up the Forbidden Reach zone in the Dragon Isles where players can begin leveling up their Drachtyr Evokers in preparation for the [...]

World of Warcraft shines the spotlight of the dragon-like race of Dracthyrs and the new Evoker hero-class, both of which will be making their way to the long-running MMORPG when Phase 2 of the Dragonflight pre-patch arrives next week. “Created by Neltharion the Earth-Warder, the essence of dragons was combined with the adaptability of the mortal races to create an [...]

Blizzard continues to shed light on the history and lore surrounding its upcoming World of Warcraft: Dragonflight with a brand new Dragonflight Legacies episode. The latest chapter in the animated short series recounts the story of how the other Dragon Aspects were betrayed by Neltharion, the Dragon Aspect of the Earth, a.k.a. Deathwing, and how they banded together to defeat [...]

The next saga in the World of Warcraft narrative got off to a rocky start the other night after roughly 12 hours of maintenance downtime. Nearly half a day of rolling out the Dragonflight pre-patch and months of testing, however, apparently weren’t enough to ensure that all of the new features would work on launch day. Players report a game [...]

Phase 1 of the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch is now live after being offline for nearly half a day. The downtime to deploy the patch was initially expected to run for around 8 hours but was later extended by another 3 hours, with the servers finally coming back online at around 7 p.m. PDT. With the pre-patch now live, [...]

Blizzard will be rolling out the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch in just a few hours and will be taking the servers offline for 8 hours to do so. The extended downtime will begin tomorrow, October 25th at 7 a.m. PDT. If everything goes smoothly, the servers are expected to come back online at 3 p.m. later in the day. [...]

Since World of Warcraft: Legion, Blizzard has released animated shorts for each of the long-running MMORPG’s expansions prior to their release. That tradition continues with the new Dragonflight Legacies animated series which will be premiering alongside the first Dragonflight pre-patch. Dragonflight Legacies will offer players and fans more insight into the history of dragons in Azeroth courtesy of the Nozdormu [...]

The rumors about the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight pre-patch release date have turned out to be true as Blizzard confirms its release for October 25th, at least for the first half of it anyway. The pre-patch will be rolled out in two phases, with the first phase coming out on the said date with the new talent trees in tow, [...]

Blizzard plans to blur the once-impregnable dividing line between factions in World of Warcraft even further when Dragonflight officially arrives. With cross-faction grouping now a thing and cross-faction guilds in the works, the studio is now looking to encourage even more cooperation between Horde and Alliance players with the addition of shared mob tagging. Mob tagging happens when one player [...]

With a more comprehensive Renown system coming to World of Warcraft when Dragonflight launches this fall, Blizzard is making sure that its rewards will be well worth the grind. The studio recently tweaked the Renown system in the ongoing beta to make it more favorable for players overall and to make it easier to farm reputation points, in spite of [...]