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The Burning Crusade Is Now 14 Years Old

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14 years ago, on January 16th 2007, the very first expansion to World of Warcraft arrived. It was a monumental day in the life of the MMO, and one which can never be repeated. The expansion itself was among WoW's best and brought a huge amount of new features, including flying mounts, the Dranei and Blood Elves, stat ratings (instead of fixed percentages), jewelcrafting and a lot more!

The expansion was the fastest selling PC game of all time when it released, having moved 2.4 million copies in its first day. We're also most likely be seeing more of it very soon, as Burning Crusade Classic is a foregone conclusion at this point, and will almost certainly be announced at BlizzConline in February (and we already have rumors about the beta release date as well).

On a personal note, the Burning Crusade is very special for me, as it was the height of my involvement in WoW, playing in Nihilum and racing for World Firsts. I will very much never forget all of its raids, Black Temple especially, where we managed to defeat Illidan before anyone else, and even my Flames of Azzinoth off-tanking couldn't stop us from defeating him. I also stopped hardcore raiding at the end of BC, so it will truly forever be a high-point of WoW for me, and I'm sure for many out there as well.

And while the following trailer isn't the original and it's actually from last year, it still encapsulates the awesomeness of one of WoW's most famous raids very well (and my personal favorite, obviously):

And here are the rest of the expansion's original cinematics:

You can also head on over here to check out some more of the incredible concept art for the expansion, like the following few pieces:

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What were some of your experiences with the Burning Crusade and/or are you looking forward to it coming to Classic?

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BC and WotLK, these two addons have been my highlights in whole WoW. BC was awesome, first expension and brought many new things. Finally tuning some classes (feral, balance, retri,...). Bossfights were very good with a nice difficulty. For healers, it was between pushing heals and mana-management (so many discussions between addheal and mp5 - while i was on mp5 side). We had very very cool looking sets. 

BC will always stay in my mind. 

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A lot of "good old days" feeling here, but BC was, is and will be my favorite addon until the end of WoW. Its a matter of personal taste, but for me the story, the zones, the overall atmosphere, the raids were just very, very good. 

WotLK is a close second, the eeire atmosphere of Arthas lurking in your mind everywhere you go is also unmatched till today. Sadly, WotLK also introduced some of the most damaging features, which WoW still suffers till this day.

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