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Project Epoch Reborn goes live, with Molten Core and Onyxia due on 4 December
The volunteer-run Classic+ revival opened on 23 October. Its roadmap puts Molten Core and Onyxia's Lair on 4 December and arenas in January 2027.
Sirus opens a public test of Sirus Reborn, a 64-bit client with a Monk class
Every account can try the new DirectX 11 client and the Monk since 23 October. A new PvP season runs from 26 October to 17 January.
Frostmourne adds Paragon, account-wide progression for level 80 characters
Since 21 October every level 80 character on the realm feeds one Paragon level per account. Its 32 perks save time and add no combat power.
GrimfallWoW opens a Conquest of Azeroth realm with 21 custom classes
Phase 1 began on 16 October with a level cap of 20 and scaled Heroic and Mythic dungeons. Later phases raise the cap step by step.
Nozdor's fresh realm DUNE opens with more than 900 players online
Everyone starts again at level 1, on x1 or x5 experience. The first raids, Heroic+ keys and a weekly chest open on 30 October.
Firestorm starts Season 2 on its fresh BfA realm with Battle of Dazar'alor
Patch 8.1 brought Battle of Dazar'alor, Darkshore, Mythic+ Season 2 and the Sinister Gladiator season, with raid gear up to item level 415.
ChromieCraft ran out of item IDs, and the 14 October outage emptied bags
After almost six years the server hit the 4,294,967,295 item limit, and a cleanup wiped item links. Lost items are being mailed back.
Capybara Paradise moves Gehennas to Phase 6, Eversong Wilds gets Phase 5 on 14 November
Gehennas, a restored Turtle WoW Asian realm, moved to Phase 6 on 13 October 2026. Eversong Wilds, the busiest realm, gets Phase 5 on 14 November.
Warmane's Onyxia realm gets Ruby Sanctum on 7 November
The next phase on Warmane's progressive realm, with The Ruby Sanctum, goes live on 7 November at 14:00 server time, two months after Icecrown Citadel.
Firelands and Protocol Inferno arrive on Whitemane's Gilneas
Normal Firelands opened on 10 October and Heroic follows on 17 October. Protocol Inferno makes nine Heroic dungeons harder, for raid gear.
Heroic Naxxramas, Malygos and Sartharion open on Frostmourne
Whitemane's Wrath realm opened Heroic Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity and Obsidian Sanctum on 7 October 2026, with new mechanics on most bosses.
Lightborne, a custom Wrath project, looks for closed alpha testers
The AzerothCore project will be a free download you play offline, with Runebound as its flagship class and a tentative early 2027 release.
Project Astral shuts down on 10 October and plans a Season 1 relaunch
Its players fell from 400-500 to 100-150 after the Forever beta opened. It plans to return straight into Season 1 with a rebuilt Astral Tree, no date yet.
RetroWoW’s PvP Season 13 and first Arena Season end on 28 October
The Vanilla instant 60 server’s countdown ends both seasons on 28 October 2026 at 11:34 UTC. Pueshafa leads the kill ranking and Thegamerx the first arena ladder.
LunaticPTR's September: a Brawler's Guild, ranked PvP gear and cross-faction battlegrounds
The level 1 only server patched every Tuesday in September 2026. It added a Brawler's Guild in Gadgetzan, 96 PvP items for honor ranks 7 to 10 and, on 29 September, cross-faction battlegrounds.
TBC5LEGENDS opens Mount Hyjal on 17 October and Black Temple a week later
Tier 6 comes to the five-player Burning Crusade server on two Saturdays: Mount Hyjal on 17 October and Black Temple on 24 October 2026, both at 18:00 German time.
Transcend-WoW raises Black Temple loot and reworks every world boss
The level 255 server’s changelog of 4 October 2026 raises Soul Cinders drops in Black Temple by 200%, lifts boss token chances to 10% and retunes all world bosses and their zones.
Draevor Project plans Farahlon, a cut Warlords of Draenor zone, as a new endgame island
The WoD server in testing is building Farahlon, the land that would become Netherstorm, as an explorable endgame zone reached from Shattrath. No date yet.
Unlimited-WoW rebuilds its forum and ships a new launcher
The level 255 funserver rebuilt its lost forum from the Web Archive and Discord. A new Windows launcher installs and patches the game for you.
Age of Genesis, Reaper-WoW's new level 60 PvP realm, calls for alpha testers
The instant level 60 realm runs on a plain 3.3.5a client and brings back honor ranks 1 to 14. Alpha testers get a mount, a tabard and a shirt, and their character names reserved.
OutlawCraft: Survive adds warships, an island sea and rival factions ahead of launch
In the last weeks of its beta the zombie survival realm added helicopters and ships, the Great Crossing islands, rain, cold and wounds, and two factions that fight over the roads.
MasterWoW opens accounts on Reborn’s new website and prepares a season realm
The team behind MasterWoW Origin enabled account creation on the new site of its sister realm Reborn on 2 October 2026. A separate season realm is in preparation, and a WotLK project is still in the works.
Onyxia's Lair opens on Maelstrom a week after Molten Core
The progressive 3.3.5a realm opened Molten Core on 25 September and Onyxia's Lair on 2 October 2026, both tuned for groups of 20. The next Classic raids have no dates yet.
Nine months in, Frozen Throne's bots can raid from Molten Core to the Ruby Sanctum
The WotLK server with PlayerBots has run since December 2025. Bots now work in 22 raids, experience defaults to x1, and Recruit a Friend rewards an X-53 Touring Rocket after 14 days of play.
Project Balance opens level 60 on its hardcore realm
The hardcore WotLK realm raised its level cap to 60 on 2 October 2026, ten weeks after its relaunch at level 20. The developers say the WoW: Forever beta has drawn away most of their players, but the server will stay.
ChromieCraft locks the level 60 Onyxia's Lair on 21 October
The level 80 raid follows, date unknown. On 28 October the old achievements are removed and the first daily random heroic pays two Emblems of Conquest.
Renown is live: earn points for ratings, votes and comments, and unlock titles
Rating servers, voting and commenting now earn Renown, which unlocks ranks, titles and class-colored names. Anyone who is active by the end of 4 October becomes a Founding Member.
One month in, Conquest Reborn keeps Conquest of Azeroth's custom classes playable
The free 3.3.5a realm went live on 9 September, days after Ascension's WoW realms closed. Its developer has updated it almost every day and made Onyxia and Naxxramas level 60 raids again.
Aether opens a progressive Classic realm with guild sieges and a Battle Royale arena
The Brazilian 3.3.5a realm opened on 1 October 2026 and plans 14 phases from Molten Core to Icecrown Citadel, with 38 systems of its own.
28 new servers in our list, including our first Mists of Pandaria realms and a classless newcomer
On 1 October 2026 we added 28 servers, from long-running names such as Moonwell, Way of Elendil and TrueWoW to 2026 launches like GrimfallWoW, Triumvirate and Emberveil.
Private server calendar for October to December 2026: new realms, raids and launches
From Firestorm's Fated season on 5 October to TheraWoW's Icecrown Citadel on 10 December, these are the announced dates on servers in our list.
WoW: Forever beta raises its level cap to 30; testing ends 21 October before the 4 November launch
Blizzard's official Classic+ launches on 4 November 2026 at 3 p.m. PST. The beta moved to level 30 on 1 October and runs until 21 October, and the Skyborne race is part of a paid upgrade, not the base subscription.
Torment, a Diablo III rebuild of Wrath of the Lich King, opens its alpha to testers
The 3.3.5a server replaces WoW's combat, classes and loot with Diablo III's. Barbarians and Wizards start at level 70 with 200 Paragon, and every character is wiped before release.
Zone WoW opens its Minecraft-style WotLK realm and keeps every beta character
The level 255 sandbox realm, where players gather resources, rent houses and craft gems, left open beta on 1 October 2026 without a wipe. Raids will open step by step.
OutlawCraft: Survive launches on 12 October, with a wipe on the 12th of every month
The full-loot zombie survival realm leaves testing at 22:00 UTC on 12 October. Test characters are wiped, accounts and cosmetics stay, and a [Founder] tag is sold until 11 December.
Athenas WoW closes its Classic and Reforged realms and plans one Cataclysm realm
Athenas Project ended its Athenas Classic and Athenas Reforged realms on 1 October 2026. Their characters are being migrated, all of its Cataclysm realms will be merged into one, and Gadgetzan stays open in the meantime.
Whitemane plans two original raids for Frostmourne: Ruins of Karazhan and Fall of the Sunwell
Frostmourne's roadmap adds a Karazhan raid with a risen Archmage Antonidas in patch 3.1.5 and a Caverns of Time raid on the fall of Quel'Thalas in patch 3.2.5. Two weeks after launch the realm has passed 120,000 characters.
OctoWoW opens Zul'Gurub after a month of DDoS attacks and says Blizzard tried to take its domain
The Turtle WoW successor reached its first raid phase on 1 October, with Blackwing Lair set for 5 November. In September it fought near-constant DDoS attacks and revealed a domain dispute filed by Blizzard.
WoW Circle opens a fresh Legion x5 realm on 17 October, with BfA and Shadowlands to follow
The Russian network is starting a series of fresh x5 realms: Legion 7.3.5 opens on 17 October 2026, Battle for Azeroth is planned for around December and Shadowlands for around February 2027.
Project Epoch Reborn launches on 23 October after its final stress test and wipe
The community-run Classic+ revival goes live on Friday 23 October 2026 at 16:00 GMT. Beta testers can reserve character names from 2 October.
Firestorm starts a custom 'Fated' Season 4 on its War Within realm on 5 October
All three War Within raids, the Mythic+ dungeons, Delves and world bosses are retuned to Season 4 item levels. PvP Season 3 ends on 4 October and the free Boris boost returns from 5 to 11 October.
Hellfire WoW goes live as a Classic server that grows into The Burning Crusade
The new progression server opened its realms on 28 September 2026. It starts in the Classic era with TBC talents and both TBC races from level 1, and keeps the Dark Portal closed for now.
Aethro: Reforged makes Worgen and Goblins playable with every class
Client v3.0 for the WotLK+ realm adds both races, a new login screen and a redesigned character creation screen. Player housing is now in development.
Centurion merges two Classic+ PvP realms and announces it is going open source
Legionnaire+ and Barracks+ became one realm, Centurion, on 18 September 2026. Eight days later its solo developer announced that the whole project is open source and said development would slow, not stop.
LastWoW turns on x8 experience while Black Temple waits for a date
The progressive TBC 2.4.3 server raised experience from x5 to x8 on 26 September 2026 for a limited time. A week earlier it said Black Temple would open soon, without a date.
Draevor Project opens its Warlords of Draenor test realm
The WoD test realm on client 6.2.3 opened for up to 5 Horde testers at level 90. A .ptr helper hands out gold and Garrison Resources.
Everwood releases its graphics module for the Benilla client as open source
Built for the Everwood RP server, the module adds real-time shadows, volumetric fog, better water and rain to Benilla, an open-source 1.12.1 client.
Guild Anxiety wins 100,000 roubles for the first Lich King kill on Sirus's Neverest x3
Icecrown Citadel opened on Sirus's biggest realm on 17 September. Two days later Anxiety defeated the Lich King in 25-player Normal and took the prize, and big raid nerfs followed on 24 September.
Whitemane's launcher stops changing Windows Defender settings
Version 2.1.45 of the launcher used for Gilneas and Whitemane's other realms, out on 23 September 2026, no longer touches Defender, hides game files or runs system tools to read your hardware.
Yggdrasil WoW makes NPCs move in smooth curves instead of sharp corners
A September 2026 core update on Yggdrasil WoW sends NPC paths as Catmull-Rom curves, so creatures arc around corners at their own turn rate instead of snapping between straight lines.
Lighthaven keeps dungeons and raids at their original levels for new characters
New characters meet creatures at the level each instance was built for. Group-size scaling stays, so bots still get you into 25-player raids.
Jankcraft plans an October release for its WotLK server that runs in the browser
Jankcraft is a Wrath of the Lich King server you play in a web page, on desktop or phone. Its developer wants to open it to the public in October 2026.
Frostmourne 'WotLK: Rebuffed' launches on Whitemane with 8,500 players online
Whitemane's rebuilt Wrath+ realm opened on 19 September 2026 despite a DDoS attack in its first half hour; Tier 7 raids follow on 30 September.
Project Legacy patch 1.12.5 brings cross-faction battlegrounds and an Affliction Warlock rework
The Vanilla+ server's 18 September patch lets Alliance and Horde queue together, adds battleground experience and a queue button that works anywhere, and reworks Affliction Warlocks.
Incursion starts a semi-classless glyph rework as Blackwing Lair nears
The instant level 60 realm, live since 12 June 2026, is turning glyphs into a way to borrow talents and spells from other classes, in three stages. A rebuilt Blackwing Lair with new tier sets is next.
TBC5LEGENDS opens Tier 5 for groups of five and adds a harder Legends mode
Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep opened on 5 September 2026, and Lady Vashj and Kael'thas fell that weekend. By 18 September both raids also had a Legends mode with two exclusive tabards.
Season of the Crusade adds Dwarf Shamans and Undead Paladins, then rebuilds four zones
On 1 September 2026 the server added new race and class pairs and two Burning Crusade dungeons at levels 40 and 50. On 15 September new hubs went live in Swamp of Sorrows, Blasted Lands, Badlands and Azshara.
Project Alterac shuts down two months after launch
The phased WotLK+ server closed in mid-September 2026; its owner cited hosting costs paid out of pocket, recurring technical problems and less free time.
Everwood announces a hard RP Classic server with turn-based combat and permanent death
No leveling, quests, raids or dungeons: on the Classic RP server, GMs decide how strong your character gets, combat is turn-based and death is final.
Lighthaven opens a forum instead of a Discord
The one-person WotLK realm still has no Discord. On its new forum you post as one of your characters, and it stays readable during maintenance.
WoW Eras opens a WotLK realm where dungeons, not raids, unlock each expansion
The Chilean 3.3.5a server starts every character in a patch 1.12 world. Clearing every dungeon of an era opens the next one, and raids never move you forward.
Blizzard announces World of Warcraft: Forever, an official Classic+
Revealed at BlizzCon on 12 September 2026, the level 60 game adds new zones, dungeons and raids and launches on 4 November with access included in a WoW subscription; the new Skyborne race comes with a paid upgrade.
WarCrown moves its Crystalsong realm to the Wrath Classic 3.4.5 client
The WotLK server switched to the modern client on 12 September 2026 without a character wipe, then added cross-faction premade groups and Recruit-A-Friend.
Hellgarve brings back Marc's level 100 boost for a week
The NPC who boosts characters straight to level 100 returned to the Stormrage Legion realm in September 2026, after a first one-week visit in June.
Project Reforged, a Classic+ server with 16 playable races, looks for closed beta testers
The 3.3.5a Classic+ project adds Tuskarr, High Elves, Naga, Ogres, Worgen and Goblins, plus zones adapted from Ascension and Turtle WoW.
FirstLight launches on 11 September with level caps rising from 20 to 60
The 3.3.5a realm starts everyone at level 1 with a cap of 20, which then rises to 30, 40, 50 and 59 before level 60 and the raids. The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King are planned for later.
ChromieCraft releases Ulduar and starts Arena Season 6
ChromieCraft opened Ulduar and started Arena Season 6 on 9 September 2026. The Joyous Journeys experience buff stays active until 21 September.
uWoW announces a Mists of Pandaria x10 realm for 16 October
The Russian project opens a fresh 5.4.8 realm with x10 experience on 16 October 2026, with Mogu'shan Vaults following five days later.
Sanctuary opens a roleplay realm built around proximity voice chat
The 3.3.5a realm opened on 8 September 2026. You hear only the players standing near you, names stay hidden until someone introduces themselves, and violence needs consent.
PsychoFun adds Sentinel, an automated guard against PvP cheating, and rebuilds its core
On 6 September 2026 PsychoFun introduced Sentinel, an automated guard for its battlegrounds and arenas, along with a modernised core and a reworked tutorial. Registration stays locked while the realm is in maintenance.
Icecrown Citadel opens on Warmane's Onyxia realm
Warmane opened Icecrown Citadel on its progressive Onyxia realm on 6 September 2026, finishing a Wrath progression that began with the December 2025 pre-patch.
Faebright adds five leveling challenges and a Pretend mode for old dungeons
The RP-PvE Burning Crusade server on the 3.3.5a client added optional challenges such as Hardcore and the Slow Path, dungeon downscaling for playing with low-level friends, and Wrath glyphs.
WoW Sulvus opens on 15 October with a WotLK PvP realm built around Solo Shuffle
The 3.3.5a realm opens at 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC) on 15 October 2026 with Solo Queue Shuffle, a rated 1v1 bracket, battlegrounds from later expansions and playable Demon Hunters and Monks.
Keldurn opens a free Vanilla realm you can play in a browser or on a phone
The 1.12 realm went live in early September 2026. It runs in WebGPU browsers on desktop, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android, with an optional Windows client and an Android app, all on one x1 PvP realm.
Eternal Gaming's fresh WotLK realm Velaris gets its first level 80 in a week
Velaris opened on 29 August 2026 as a fresh 3.3.5a realm with x1 rates by default. A week later, on 5 September, a Human Paladin named Nixif became its first level 80 without raising the rate.
Microbot WoW adds tank assignments, paid raid resets and a flight path contract
Between 4 August and 5 September 2026 the Vanilla AI-companion server added more raid loot, gold costs for raid resets, a tank order for companions and a contract that teaches every flight path.
Ascension's WoW realms go offline as the team turns to an original MMO
Ascension shut down its classless WoW realms on 4 September 2026 as agreed with Blizzard. Accounts and the launcher will carry over to a new standalone game, also called Ascension.
Felborne becomes Starfall and adds an account-wide wardrobe
The progressive Cataclysm server renamed itself from Felborne to Starfall, and its realm from Emberstorm to Dusk, in its 5 September 2026 changelog. Characters and progress stayed as they were.
Whitemane sets Frostmourne 'WotLK: Rebuffed' launch for 19 September
Whitemane's rebuilt Frostmourne realm, branded WotLK: Rebuffed, launches on 19 September 2026 with Heroic Naxxramas, personal loot, a Vulkan client and HD models.
Kerrtarna WoW opens a WotLK realm built for solo players and small groups
The 3.3.5a realm went live in the first week of September 2026 with dungeons and raids that scale to your group, full cross-faction play and guild houses. Mythic+ and level 80 versions of the old raids are still being built.
Corvus Nordica opens its invite-only Vanilla+ realm to everyone, for now
The non-profit 3.3.5a realm, hosted in Scandinavia and running since April 2026, has suspended its invite codes so anyone can register. It is aimed at casual players and fills groups with level 55 bots.
Tanados WoW roadmap puts Vanilla+ at 43% with TBC and Wrath not started
The alpha server’s roadmap update of 3 September 2026 puts Gilneas, the Emerald Dream, legendary and stat reroller controls and a PvP pass first, and gives no launch date.
Shadowburn counts down to 15 December 2027 for a Wrath realm with every raid at level 80
Shadowburn's new landing page counts down to 15 December 2027. The 3.3.5a realm plans to rescale every raid from Molten Core to Icecrown Citadel to level 80, with a cosmetics-only shop.
WoW Hardcore Vanilla moves to a launcher for the 1.14.2 client
The Spanish hardcore server now offers a launcher that downloads and sets up the modern 1.14.2 client, and the realmlist changed on 11 September.
Fólkvangr updates to CMaNGOS 0.18 without wiping characters
The Vanilla realm caught up on almost two years of CMaNGOS Classic fixes in August 2026. The team migrated the existing world step by step, so characters and accounts stayed.
Gadgetzan opens Firelands with pre-nerf boss health
Phase 3 of the Cataclysm realm, Rage of the Firelands, opened on 29 August 2026 with the Molten Front, PvP Season 10 and the raid in its pre-nerf version.
Maelstrom unlocks level 60 and sets Molten Core for 25 September
Eighty-one days after it opened with a level cap of 19, the progressive 3.3.5a realm reached level 60 on 29 August 2026. Molten Core and Onyxia got dates, and new players get an x5 catch-up.
Firestorm opens Battle for Azeroth: Reforged, a fresh BfA realm without Titanforging
Firestorm's fresh BfA realm launched at the end of August 2026 with no Titanforging, an account-wide Heart of Azeroth and x2 XP.
Project Ascension will close for good on 4-5 September after agreement with Blizzard
Project Ascension will close all of its WoW realms on 4-5 September under a mutual agreement with Blizzard, ending the classless server's run that began in 2016.
Level 1 characters clear 40-player Gnomeregan on LunaticPTR
Players on the level 1 only server announced a full clear of 40-player Gnomeregan on 27 August 2026, a month after launch. In the first two weeks, a group had already brought down Anachronos.
Microbot WoW lets players shape the personality of their AI companions
In August 2026 the Vanilla server’s control panel gained personality settings: companions can talk as advisors or storytellers, in a style from cheerful to deadpan, or with a persona you write.
WoW Hardcore Vanilla makes duels deadly, blocks battlegrounds and raises XP to x3
Duels now end in death and can't be called off, battlegrounds are closed to protect characters, and XP from kills and quests went up to x3 on 24 August.
Warlords of Azeroth opens a level 60 realm with no factions and full-loot zones
The AzerothCore realm went live on 21 August 2026. It is capped at 60, Horde and Alliance play together, and in its 11 deadliest zones a death drops your gold and gear into a chest that others can loot.
Gemstone WoW removes crafting cooldowns in a 150-change patch led by Ulduar
The free WotLK server’s 17 August 2026 maintenance reworked five Ulduar bosses, dropped the daily cooldowns on transmutes and cloth, and fixed several crashes.
Greyhaven opens a fresh progressive Vanilla realm with a level 20 cap
Greyhaven's fresh progressive Vanilla realm opened on 14 August 2026 with a level 20 cap, x1 rates on a PvP ruleset and no pay-to-win.
WoW Hardcore Vanilla opens a Spanish hardcore realm
The Spanish-speaking Vanilla 1.12.1 server launched on 13 August 2026. Every character has one life, and the goal was to see who reaches level 60 first.
Lighthaven adds free class changes and crafting artisans
A free class change, ten artisans who craft from your materials, and a Yogg-Saron that bot raids can clear came to the bot-filled WotLK realm in July.
Project Eclipse starts a two-week open beta of its roguelite WotLK server
Testers got two weeks with the 3.3.5a roguelite: augments as you level, an account-wide Ether Tree and four ranks of Insanity. It was not a launch.
19PvP opens a level 19 twink server with only Warsong Gulch and arena
The open-source 3.3.5a server announced its opening on 7 August 2026. Characters start at level 19, the gear grind is short, and bots fill games when few players are online.
Gilneas adds solo queue for rated battlegrounds, with Conquest for a loss
Whitemane's Cataclysm realm let players queue alone for rated battlegrounds from 6 August 2026. Matchmaking builds teams of ten with three healers each, and a loss now pays 100 Conquest instead of nothing.
WOTLK5 Season 2 realm goes live
WOTLK5's Season 2 realm went live on 5 August 2026, three days after the project's second anniversary. Raids open a week later, on 12 August at 19:00.
Eternal Gaming adds Hardcore Mode to Valyndor: one life, no second chances
Since 4 August 2026, players on the blizzlike WotLK realm can make a level 1 character that dies for good. Every death is announced to the server, and until level 80 it gets no mail or trades from normal characters.
Season of the Crusade opens AQ20 for ten players and Caverns of Time dungeons at level 60
A large update due on 4 August 2026 brings the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, the Emerald Dragons, Heroic-scaled Caverns of Time dungeons and Dungeon 2 sets, plus a +500% experience buff to help players catch up.
OnlyFunsWoW adds city invasions where the capitals can fall
Invaders besiege a random capital, and players save it by filling a server-wide kill counter. If the siege fails, the city stays fallen until retaken.
Uncapped opens an open beta for a WotLK server without stat caps
The heavily modified 3.3.5a realm went into open beta on 31 July 2026. Every kill adds permanent stats, every dungeon and raid can be run as Mythic+, and all characters will be wiped at full launch.
LunaticPTR launches a server where every character stays at level 1
The server opened on 27 July 2026 to restore the Level One Lunatic content from Turtle WoW, which went offline in May. 4,681 quests are set to level 1, and Gnomeregan now holds 40 players.
Peloria launches with Mythic+ up to 100,000 after a three-day open beta
The infinite-progression WotLK server had its full release on Friday 24 July 2026, on a custom 64-bit core with about 90 million soulbindable items.
Project Balance returns as a hardcore-only realm with a level 20 cap
The small WotLK project, which first opened in February as Project (Un)Balance, announced on 24 July 2026 that it was back as a hardcore-only realm. Level 20 was live, with caps of 30, 40 and 50 to follow.
Frostbound's July update sends its bots into Ruby Sanctum
The Spanish WotLK realm's July 2026 update teaches its bots Ruby Sanctum and three rewritten older raids, puts 750 bots in the world and pays arena points after every rated match instead of once a week.
TBC5LEGENDS launches with every Burning Crusade raid rebuilt for five players
The 2.4.3 server went live on 18 July 2026 with instant level 70, Mythic+ dungeons, 794 runes and the Tier 4 raids retuned for a group of five.
Project Legacy opens its Vanilla+ open beta
The independent VMaNGOS-based Vanilla+ server opened on 17 July 2026 with 150+ new quests, cross-faction play, dual spec and Prestige Mode.
Gadgetzan adds Timewalking, its own raid finder and a Diablo-style treasure goblin
The Gadgetzan changelog for 13 to 15 July 2026 brought Timewalking for 49 old dungeons and 21 raids, a raid finder for all current raids, a casino in Gallywix's palace and easier Tier 11 raids.
Tanados WoW starts a monthly treasure hunt, and Zeizar wins the first season
The Treasure Hunter League rewards players for finding hidden chests across Azeroth. In the first season, from 15 July to 1 August 2026, Zeizar won with 405 points and 37 chests.
OnlyFunsWoW opens a custom WotLK server for Oceania players
Its owner was sick of 300 ms ping on European and US servers. You pick an XP rate from x5 to x25, and your alts can join you as a party.
LeviatanWoW opens a Spanish-language Wrath realm for Latin America
The WotLK 3.3.5a server opened on Friday 10 July 2026 at 21:00 Chile time after an open beta. The team announced founder mounts and titles for players who logged in at launch.
WOTLK5 announces a fresh Season 2 realm for 5 August
WOTLK5's fresh Season 2 realm opens on 5 August 2026, bringing a Great Vault and reworked five-player Mythic dungeons. The 5-man Wrath project has passed 4,500 accounts.
Crusader-Storm opens Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep as Phase 2 begins
The 4 July 2026 patch started Arena Season 2 and enabled Phase 2 items and quests. The team also added battleground and arena queue announcements and a patch notes page.
Project Alterac launches Phase 1 with a cross-platform launcher
The phased WotLK+ realm went live on 5 July 2026 with a level 20 cap, custom bracket raids and a launcher for Windows, Linux and macOS.
EverFresh adds battleground bots as it goes fresh on 4 July
Bots now fill Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Alterac Valley and Eye of the Storm so the queue pops straight away. Raids open a day after the fresh start, as they have since January 2026.
Peloria reveals a WotLK server where Mythic+ goes to level 10,000
The first look at the custom AzerothCore project showed soulbinding for permanent power, monsters with 50 billion HP and a cosmetic-only shop. The team aims to launch about a month later.
World of the Gods adds guild levels, shrine battles and a Fair 1v1 mode
The level 255 fun server is adding custom systems almost every week: guild leveling, rotating guild shrines, solo trials, weekly player points and three new PvP modes.
OctoWoW emerges as a community-run successor to Turtle WoW
OctoWoW, a Vanilla+ project built on Turtle WoW's leaked core, continues the Mysteries of Azeroth storyline on PvE, hardcore and PvP realms.
Crusader-Storm puts mounts in the spellbook and adds an achievements addon
A June patch for the TBC server also lets players mount in Booty Bay, gives instance loot a 10-minute trade window and pays out auction sales after one minute. Phase 2 is set for 4 July.
Blizzard files lawsuit against Project Ascension
Blizzard has sued Project Ascension, the classless WoW server, over copyright infringement and donation-based monetisation, weeks after Turtle WoW and Stormforge closed.
BartCraft opens The Barting Crusade, a fresh TBC realm with Molten Core retuned
The TBC 2.4.3 server announced itself on 13 June 2026 with x2 experience and a first phase that brings Molten Core and Onyxia’s Lair back as legacy raids with weekly quests.
Maelstrom opens on Millenium Servers as a progressive WotLK realm starting at level 19
The 3.3.5a realm went live on 9 June 2026 with a level cap of 19. It plans to raise the cap one bracket at a time, open the Classic raids at 60 and then move on to The Burning Crusade.
Whitemane launches Gilneas, a fresh Cataclysm realm
Whitemane opened its Cataclysm realm Gilneas on 6 June 2026 after a community vote. It has a dynamic XP rate and a new launcher, and the first raids open on 20 June.
WowAddicts offers level migration for players from other servers
Players with a max-level character elsewhere can get a character of the same class, faction and level on the Legion server. Gear, gold and other progress stay behind, and each player gets one migration.
StormGarde’s Patch 2 reworks its playerbots and creature scaling
Patch 2 for the Mists of Pandaria server rebuilt how playerbots handle battleground objectives and arenas, rebalanced creatures in most older zones, dungeons and raids, and gave weapons to over 500 NPCs.
Incursion moves its launch forward to 12 June and lays out its raids to 2027
The instant level 60 WotLK+ realm now opens a week earlier, on 12 June 2026, with rebuilt Molten Core and Onyxia on 24 June and the rest of the Vanilla raids planned through October 2027.
Former Turtle WoW team forms Moonwhisper Games to build an original MMO
The Turtle WoW developers have formed Moonwhisper Games to build an original MMORPG with its own world and IP, two weeks after their server shut down.
Valkyria WoW links a new LATAM realm with its European realm
Since 31 May 2026 players on Valkyria’s LATAM and EU realms can chat, group, use the dungeon finder and run dungeons together. The LATAM realm is meant to cut latency without splitting the community.
Gemstone WoW fixes a crash caused by its own bots and overhauls Wintergrasp
Two late-May updates on the free WotLK server fixed a shutdown that thousands of bots could trigger, reworked how bots move and brought a full Wintergrasp overhaul.
Hellgarve's core update fixes Illidan's loot, Mythic Argus and the solo queue
The Legion solocraft server put a major core update live on 15 May 2026 and followed it with two weeks of fixes. Solocraft scaling no longer applies in battlegrounds and arenas.
Eden Heroes reaches version 1.0 after two and a half years of solo development
The one-developer WotLK server now has three game modes, an XP rate you pick between 1x and 13x, and bots for battlegrounds, dungeons, raids and the auction house.
Lighthaven opens a WotLK realm with 2,000 PlayerBots
The WotLK realm went public on 28 May 2026, fully progressed from day one. Every character sets its own XP, loot and money rates with one command.
Athenas WoW opens Gadgetzan, a progressive Cataclysm realm with x3 rates
The Spanish-speaking network opened its new Cataclysm 4.3.4 realm on 23 May 2026 at 8 pm Colombia time. It started at patch 4.0.6, with an opening event in which Deathwing roamed Azeroth.
Valkyria WoW launches its progressive Cataclysm realm on patch 4.0.6
Valkyria WoW opened on 22 May 2026 at 22:00 CEST after an open beta and a full reset. The realm starts on patch 4.0.6 with hardcore mode, Mythic+ and cross-faction play.
Frostbound's May patch teaches its bots to pull and doubles profession gains
The May 2026 update for the Spanish WotLK realm doubles profession skill gains, gives warband bots class-based pulling and focus healing, fixes two raid encounters and adds a dungeon teleporter to guild houses.
Wallcraft mercenaries can now loot, trade and use the mail
Short videos from March and May 2026 show Wallcraft's mercenaries looting corpses on their own and handling trades and mail. The client patch was updated on 15 May.
Turtle WoW servers go dark after more than eight years
Turtle WoW, the largest Classic+ private server, switched off its realms for good on 15 May 2026 to comply with the permanent injunction won by Blizzard.
Stormforge realms go offline
Netherwing, Frostmourne, Sheilun and the rest of the Stormforge network shut down on 14 May 2026 as agreed with Blizzard.
InfernoWoW adds a Priest smite spec, a Shaman tank spec and a Black Market
This spring InfernoWoW gave Priests and Shamans a fourth spec, opened a Black Market Auction House and let crafters use their bank in capital cities. The server is still in development.
Tanados WoW adds player-owned AltBots, bot arena teams and Mythic+
Version 18 of the alpha WotLK server, posted on 10 May 2026, lets players own persistent AltBots and bring them to dungeons, raids, battlegrounds and arenas, and adds a Mythic+ system.
MasterWoW Origin revives a Czech TBC fun server with its database from 2011
The level 200 TBC 2.4.3 realm introduced itself in May 2026 with rare item variants, a mentor system for Black Temple key holders and rotating battlegrounds.
Kronos V launches as a fresh x1 Vanilla PvP realm
Kronos V, TwinStar's fifth Kronos realm, opened on 9 May 2026 as an x1 PvP server with no custom content and a phased content plan running to 2028.
Felborne, now Starfall, announces a custom Mythic+ system with keys up to +15
The Cataclysm server, then still called Felborne, said on 5 May 2026 that its own Mythic+ system would go live on 9 May, with keys from +2 to +15 in eight dungeons, weekly affixes and a companion addon.
Old Man Warcraft adds 25 guild levels, territory wars and adjustable XP rates
Guilds on the WotLK server now level up from their members’ normal play and can fight over the zones they hold. Later in May the server swapped its fixed 1.5x rate for a choice between 1x and 3x.
AmdWoW adds the Leveling Road, a 16-wave path from level 1 to 80
The instant 80 server opened a custom zone in April 2026 where you level from 1 to 80 through 16 waves of enemies, with class trainers between waves and Upgrade Tokens at levels 20, 40, 60 and 80.
Stormforge to close on 14 May 2026 after Blizzard cease-and-desist
Stormforge will end all World of Warcraft operations on 14 May 2026 after a cease-and-desist from Blizzard. Registration is closed and content updates have stopped.
Turtle WoW announces sunset: realms close on 15 May 2026 after nearly eight years
Turtle WoW will shut down all realms on 15 May 2026 under its settlement with Blizzard. Every realm has moved to its final progression phase first.
Hijos del Tiempo opens Iceplains, a hardcore WotLK realm where death is permanent
The Spanish community’s Wrath of the Lich King 3.3.5a realm opened to everyone on 18 April 2026 after a test version in January. A dead character stays a ghost for good.
Project Rx ports the GOMove building addon to AzerothCore and publishes the code
The all-GM roleplay server built a browser that finds any game object, shows a 3D preview and spawns it. The code is open source under GPL v2.
Crusader-Storm enters Phase 1 with Karazhan, Gruul and Magtheridon
The TBC server's first raid phase also started Arena Season 1. A Double Reputation event and a limited Swift Zhevra drop were running, and Phase 2 was set for 4 July.
Evolutionz-WoW’s new trailer shows six dungeon tiers, Mythic+ and an 85,000 stat cap
The level 255 fun server released a new trailer in April 2026. Its endgame now runs on six custom dungeon tiers and a Mythic+ ladder with ratings up to 5000, with a stat cap to keep PvP in check.
Blizzard and Turtle WoW settle: permanent injunction ends the Classic+ project
Blizzard and Turtle WoW settled in mid-April 2026, and a permanent injunction bars AFKCraft and its affiliates from operating or recreating Turtle WoW.
Smolderforge brings back 1v1 solo queue
On 12 April 2026 Smolderforge, an instant level 70 Burning Crusade PvP server running since 2008, switched 1v1 solo queue back on. It had been swapped for 2v2 solo queue in June 2024.
Frostbound, a Spanish WotLK realm, lets your own alts fill the group as bots
The 3.3.5a realm went public in early April 2026. Its Warband system turns the other characters on your account into AI-controlled party members, so dungeons and raids can be run solo or with a friend.
StormGarde opens a new website with a level 90 offer for new players
The Mists of Pandaria server launched a redesigned website on 5 April 2026, with a level 90 boost and starter gear for new players. Two-factor login came a day later and a Battle Pet overhaul that month.
Project Rx opens an all-GM roleplay server for WotLK 3.3.5a
Every player gets full GM commands from the start. The one-person 3.3.5a server is about building and roleplay in phases you control.
TwinStar announces Kronos V, a fresh x1 Vanilla realm opening 9 May 2026
TwinStar will open Kronos V, a fresh x1 Vanilla PvP realm, on 9 May 2026, with a patch-by-patch roadmap that runs to Naxxramas in March 2028.
WoW MasterWork raises Ulduar item levels and takes character transfers
Ulduar on the WotLK x7 server now drops item level 239 to 259 gear, and Val’anyr goes to 284. Since 11 March players can bring a main character from another x1 to x7 server.
Unlimited-WoW releases Tier 16, a Secrets of Ulduar solo raid with four new world bosses
Tier 16 is a five-boss solo raid in a scaled-down Ulduar. Ignis, Auriaya, Vezax and Algalon became world bosses, and the Ruins of Alterac opened for PvP.
AmdWoW opens Durnhold Keep, the Well of the Forgotten and a custom Arathi Basin
By late March 2026 the instant 80 server had finished four roadmap phases: an open PvP and PvE area at Durnhold Keep, a crypt behind Karazhan, a custom Arathi Basin and a flag battle in Mirage Raceway.
Old Man Warcraft switches to progression per character and adds a Nemesis System
The WotLK server for adult players dropped its server-wide level brackets for a Vanilla, TBC and Wrath path each character takes alone, and added Nemesis enemies that grow out of the creatures that kill you.
Splashgame opens Einherjers, a fresh TBC realm next to Fólkvangr
The community behind the Vanilla realm Fólkvangr added a Burning Crusade 2.4.3 realm in March 2026, with x1 rates, a few AI bots and its own web portal.
WoW Circle launches a Dragonflight 10.2.7 x2 realm
WoW Circle opened a Dragonflight 10.2.7 realm with x2 experience on 21 March 2026, one of the only public Dragonflight servers in the scene.
Fólkvangr’s portal adds offline tasks, rankings and a Discord bot
In March 2026 the Vanilla realm’s web portal gained tasks for offline characters, a mail reward every 10 levels, new rankings and statistics that count players and bots separately.
InfernoWoW opens the Ring of Law, a wave-based PvE arena with leaderboards
The Ring of Law at Thorium Point is a repeatable group challenge on InfernoWoW: survive waves of enemies with affixes that change every wave, in four modes with their own leaderboards.
World of the Gods opens Sunwell Plateau as its next raid tier
The Gods 255 realm released Sunwell Plateau on 13 March 2026 as the tier that follows Molten Core. Its key drops from Ragnaros with a 75% chance.
Gemstone WoW moves from Blizzlike to 2x experience
On 12 March 2026 the free WotLK server raised kill and quest XP to 2x and several other rates to 1.5x. Drops, honor and arena points stayed Blizzlike, and the Hearthstone cooldown fell to 30 minutes two weeks later.
Legion Plus starts a new Mythic+ season with Freehold and The Underrot
The Legion x7 realm closed its Mythic+ season on 11 March 2026, sent the rewards and added two Battle for Azeroth dungeons to a new pool of ten, along with a harder boss affix.
Valkyria WoW returns with a new website, its own launcher and Mythic+ for Cataclysm
The Spanish-run progressive Cataclysm project came back in February 2026. By 10 March it had a launcher and a Mythic+ system that adds dungeons as the server moves from patch 4.0.6 to 4.3.4.
Alterworld opens the public test of Ashbound, a Cataclysm realm that starts in Vanilla
The Hungarian team opened the Ashbound test realm on 6 March 2026 with Vanilla content on the 4.3.4 client. The plan is to move through each expansion to Cataclysm. The Q2 2026 launch target has passed.
AmdWoW returns as an instant 80 WotLK fun server
The fun server that says it first opened in 2006 relaunched on 23 February 2026 with a fresh start for everyone, instant level 80, items with doubled base stats and six VIP levels.
Lordaeron.eu launches with raid progression for each character, from Molten Core to Ruby Sanctum
The x5 cross-faction 3.3.5a realm opened on 23 February 2026. Each character unlocks The Burning Crusade and Wrath by killing the last boss of every raid tier before them.
Proudmoore ends Mythic+ and PvP Season 1, schedules Patch 4.2 Firelands for 28 February
The custom Cataclysm server closes its first seasons on 19 February and has set Firelands for the end of the month, alongside a PvP character initiative.
Yggdrasil WoW teaches its Shadows the Ruby Sanctum fights
After weeks of research, the party bots on Yggdrasil WoW can now handle Ruby Sanctum, including Halion's twilight phase. The same update fixed Shadows tactics in Icecrown Citadel.
Transcend-WoW makes Mark of Transcend its main currency after moving to a new core
Three months after switching to a new core, the level 255 fun server said most of its currencies would become Mark of Transcend and set Tier 16 for 5 March 2026.
Warmane completes inactivity cleanup and gold squish across all realms
Warmane took all its realms offline on 16 February 2026 for an inactivity cleanup and gold squish, and had everything back online the same day.
WoW MasterWork rebuilds Karazhan, Gruul, Magtheridon and Zul’Aman for level 80
Between 31 December 2025 and 16 February 2026 the WotLK x7 server rescaled four Burning Crusade raids to level 80 and put item level 232 to 251 gear on the Badge of Justice vendor.
Crusader-Storm opens Outland and lets players choose x1 to x3 XP up to level 58
Phase 0 started on 7 February 2026 with a level cap of 70, Outland and Jewelcrafting. A week later the x2 XP event gave way to a rate players set themselves.
Gemstone WoW gives its bots AI chat and their own backstories
The free WotLK server’s February patch lets bots answer in /say, whispers and party chat. Each bot has a backstory, a home and a join date, and later patches made their chat sound more natural.
Mythic Munchers starts Season 2 in Zereth Mortis
Season 2 on Mythic Munchers arrived on 29 January 2026 with Zereth Mortis, Unstable Rifts and a necklace that holds up to six legendary powers. Mythic gear now upgrades to level 25.
Warmane's Onyxia opens Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity and Obsidian Sanctum
Warmane opened Wrath Phase 1 raids and Arena Season 5 on its progressive Onyxia realm on 17 January 2026, a week after the level cap rose to 80.
Crusader-Storm opens its TBC server with a level 60 pre-patch
The Burning Crusade server went live on 3 January 2026 at 17:00 GMT. Outland and Jewelcrafting stay locked until Phase 0, and a Mini Diablo pet can drop for the first two weeks.
Legion Plus x100 seasonal realm launches on uWoW
uWoW opened Legion Plus x100 on 3 January 2026. The seasonal Legion 7.3.5 PvP realm runs at x100 rates with a reworked gearing system.
Eternal Gaming opens Valyndor, a blizzlike WotLK realm that starts at Ulduar
The 3.3.5a realm launched on 28 December 2025 with x1 rates, Ulduar and Arena Season 5. Its developer promises optional quality-of-life features, no donations and no shop.
WotLK pre-patch goes live on Warmane's Onyxia realm
Warmane released the Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch on its progressive Onyxia realm on 22 December 2025, adding Death Knights and Wrath-era talent trees.
Season of the Crusade opens a Vanilla server with Burning Crusade class balance
The server opened on 19 December 2025 with 2.4.3 talents, Blood Elves and Draenei, arenas instead of PvP ranks and raids cut to 25 and 10 players. Its owner says there will never be a store.
Crusader-Storm sets 3 January for the fresh launch of its TBC server
The Burning Crusade server opens on Saturday 3 January 2026 at 17:00 UK time. Open beta characters will be wiped first, and a Mini Diablo pet can drop during the first week.
WowAddicts adds two new one-life modes: Dungeon Nightmare and Nightmare Mode 110
In early December 2025 the Legion server added two hardcore modes next to Survival Mode. In Dungeon Nightmare you level only by clearing dungeons, and Nightmare Mode 110 starts at max level with PvP on.
WoW Circle opens a 3.3.5 x4 realm with an optional single-life hardcore mode on 6 December
WoW Circle's new WotLK x4 realm launches with a 'No right to fail' mode that locks hardcore players to one life and x1 rates.
uWoW announces Legion Plus x100, a seasonal Legion realm launching 3 January 2026
The Russian uWoW project revealed a seasonal 7.3.5 PvP realm with x100 XP, reworked legendaries, fated raids and a PvP overhaul.
WoW MasterWork opens a WotLK x7 realm with AI players and a legendary for every class
The 3.3.5a server launched on 21 November 2025 with AI playerbots that group, trade and chat, custom legendary weapons for all classes and a 1v1 arena.
Unlimited-WoW adds 10v10 Team Deathmatch in Dire Maul North
You respawn at once with full health, and the first team to 75 kills wins. Earlier in 2025 the funserver also opened its own version of Alterac Valley.
InfernoWoW adds 3v3 solo queue and optional cross-faction battlegrounds
InfernoWoW's November 2025 update added 3v3 solo queue arenas, an opt-in mercenary mode for cross-faction battlegrounds and reworked tier 0 sets. Release was still far off.
Warmane lays out Onyxia's road to Wrath: pre-patch on 22 December, level 80 on 10 January
Warmane published the transition timeline for its progressive Onyxia realm, moving from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King over the winter.
Serpentshrine Cavern opens on Warborn TBC
Warborn WoW has opened Serpentshrine Cavern, the first Tier 5 raid on its progressive Burning Crusade realm, and guilds must complete the attunement to enter.
Turtle WoW publishes open letter asking Blizzard for a fan-server licensing framework
With Blizzard's August 2025 lawsuit still pending, the Turtle WoW team released a public proposal for an official licensing model for fan-run WoW servers.