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By Stan
A new mount briefly appeared on the Wrath Classic 3.4.3 PTR called Nightmarish Emerald Drake. It was only visible for a short time and was removed from the collection soon after.
It's possible the mount will be available as a subscription reward. Content creator MrGM caught a glimpse of the mount and shared in on Twitter for everyone to see.
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By Starym
So we've seen quite a few deaths in Classic Hardcore so far, but this particular wipe may just beat them all. This Korean group had a really bad time in Zul'Gurub, and managed to execute the perfect formation... for death.
Venoxis really only has one deadly mechanic to him in phase 1, but before getting into what exactly happened, let's just take a look at this pretty shocking pull, first spotted by esuvii.
8 players down, a Holy Wrath indeed. If you're wondering why the tank is just sitting there with Flask of Petrification on, it's because the boss can be reset when he exits his room, so he's actually safe. Unlike the rest.
There's a whole lot of chaos there, with the Hunter pet moving in right before the lightning, the Rogue starting to move in too quickly, the Warrior coming in from ranged as well and more. It really was very much a big mess, as you can see from this actually quite pretty screenshot (shared by Namseyn?
A perfect chain. Of death.
And here's a look from one of the Mages' perspectives (as shared by Striking-Bison-8933?
That's probably the most dramatic group death I've seen so far in Classic Hardcore. Hopefully other players will learn from this and not be quite so eager to hug their tanks/the boss.
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By Starym
It's been a month since the launch of Classic Hardcore and players have been flocking to the new experience. While we know what makes it all interesting for those playing, we also know what we as an audience are really here for. A whole lot of deaths!
Luckily the aptly named WoW Hardcore Clips Youtube channel has covered the first four weeks of deaths in the new mode/servers. While overpulling is definitely the No.1 cause of death in the clips below, there's more than that in there, with various different frustrated language death reactions, and more than just deaths as well.
What's your favorite?
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By Starym
There really is no safe place in Classic Hardcore. We've seen bank alts get killed by griefers spawning mobs in capital cities, many players recently lost their characters to server instability, even Ouro decided to clone himself to take players out! Then there's the usual DC/afk deaths, Mak'gora's and, of course, the ever-present drownings. And now we have to add mobs 44 levels lower than you to the list!
Bozzy253 had a busy day working from home, and so decided to do something very passive and safe. Training the Mage's defense skill in Tirisfal Glades on their level 50 seemed like a good half-AFK thing to do. That is, until some technical issues turned the whole plan into a catastrophe.
While level 6 mobs don't do much to a level 50 (even if they're a clothie), they still do some damage. After getting down to 50% HP against the 4 mobs while monitoring their character, just as they were about to kill them and eat back to full, bozzy's graphics card died. Only a black screen remained and panic set in, with the usual bashing of all possible damage skills in the hope something would register. After a restart the PC barely even worked, with 1 FPS everywhere, the card was well and truly fried. And after a quick trip to the wife's computer the worst was confirmed: the Mage had died to 4 level 6 mobs.
And the worst part? Bozzy Mage had only 2 defense points left to go...
So let that be a lesson to you: nothing is safe in Classic Hardcore. NOTHING.
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By Starym
Things are getting even more dangerous in Classic Hardcore, as even bank alts sitting in capital cities are not safe anymore!
Creating bank alts is a very common way of helping yourself out in Hardcore. If/when your main character dies you can soften the blow if you offload some gold and other useful mats to a bank alt. This is increasingly useful the higher level your main gets, as you get more and more gear and gold to set up for your next character.
Well, even that safety net is being attacked! Recently players have been losing their bank alts to some very sneaky griefers. There are several ways of starting an alt massacre in the capital cities, with very specific effects and some items in the game being able to spawn enemies. I'm not going to go into how it's done since it's a pretty terrible thing to do.
Here's one such massacre, as spotted by Ethereal_Bulwark:
That particular mob was only level 22, but that's still a pretty big threat to low level bank alts. This griefing practice has been spreading, as some players even suggest fleeing to other cities!
So make sure to either only very quickly log your bank alts, get them to a "safe" city or, you know, level them to 20+!
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