Guides, mechanics, comparisons and stories about life on the server.
Twenty to twelve, twenty-four people in the voice channel, and almost nobody is talking. You can hear other people’s apartments: somebody’s washing machine on its spin cycle, somebody’s kettle coming to the boil for the…
Read moreLegion on Valor already exists. Not as a promise in a roadmap, but as a running server: it is up, people walk around in it, quests get tested on it. It is just that nobody can get in yet except the developers. Below is…
Read moreNobody asks this one straight out. They post “recommend me a server,” but what they actually mean is something else: “I log in at nine in the evening, I have an hour and a half, and there is nobody to run a dungeon with…
Read moreThe most common reason a newcomer quits PvP on 3.3.5a sounds like this: "I get killed in three seconds, it is impossible to play". Almost always it has nothing to do with the class or with your hands. It has to do with…
Read moreTwo servers, both on 3.3.5a, both with a sensible description and a live website. One is six months old, the other is in its fifth year. Where do you go? The question sounds like "which one is better", but the choice is…
Read moreWe get asked about the solo server almost every week: when it opens, what will be in it and whether you really will be able to clear a raid on your own. Here is the answer without any fog: the mode opens in September. W…
Read moreMy disagreement with the server is arithmetical in nature. Prime time on Valor is the evening, Moscow time. Moscow evening is already deep night for me, and once you add a warehouse shift that ends at two, what is left…
Read moreOn 24 June 2026 season 3.2 opened on Valor - with Trial of the Champion and Trial of the Crusader. If your Northrend consisted of Naxxramas and Ulduar, both names sound equally cryptic. In fact these are two very differ…
Read moreOn x3 rates level eighty arrives before you have read half the quest text in Northrend. The side effect is predictable: your character is standing in Dalaran in a jumble of greens and blues, with an honest "Friendly" on…
Read moreValor spent February 2026 in transit: the project moved to a new core. From the player's side an event like that looks dull - a maintenance window, followed by a stretch during which something is being fixed here and th…
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