Fiction
34
5 min
Forty Minutes to the Weekly Reset
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 ma...
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Stories
46
5 min
Legion on Valor: the server already runs, but it is closed — here is why
Legion 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. I...
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Comparisons
46
5 min
Bots or a Live Population: What to Choose When There Is Nobody to Play With in the Evenings
Nobody 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,...
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Guides
67
4 min
PvP at 80 from scratch: resilience, your first set and the mistakes that cost you rating
The 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 ha...
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Comparisons
51
4 min
Young project or long-running server: what you get when you join at different stages
Two 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...
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Mechanics
77
5 min
Valor Solo Server: Opening in September, Bots Instead of Groupmates, and Why Not Sooner
We 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 ow...
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Fiction
33
4 min
The Night Shift
My disagreement with the server is arithmetical in nature. Prime time on Valor is the evening, Moscow time. Moscow evening is already deep night for m...
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Stories
26
5 min
Season 3.2 on Valor: What Trial of the Champion and Trial of the Crusader Are
On 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...
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Guides
34
4 min
Northrend Reputations: Which Factions to Grind at 80 and What They Give
On 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...
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Mechanics
26
5 min
Moving to a New Core: What It Means for the Player
Valor 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, fo...
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Mechanics
31
5 min
Mount Crafting: A Mechanic the Original WotLK Never Had
In Wrath of the Lich King a mount was almost never the result of work. It was the result of an event: you saved up gold and walked to a vendor, you go...
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Mechanics
26
4 min
Your Own Launcher: What Happens While You Wait for the Play Button
Clicking "Play" looks like the simplest action in the whole project. In practice, between that click and the login screen the program manages to do se...
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