WoW Hardcore Vanilla makes duels deadly, blocks battlegrounds and raises XP to x3

WoW Hardcore Vanilla, the Spanish-speaking hardcore server on Vanilla 1.12.1, spent its first two weeks after launch tightening its rules and changing its pace:

• 16 August: duels are fought to the death. You no longer stop at 1 health
• 17 August: a test server opened, so changes and hotfixes are checked before they reach the main realm. A character that dies on the main realm because of a confirmed server bug will be revived
• 23 August: battlegrounds were blocked, because a death inside one would cost the character for good. The /forfeit command was removed too, so a duel can't be called off once it starts
• 24 August: XP from enemies and from quests went up to x3. "The intention is not to make this a fast-leveling server, but to reduce leveling time," the team wrote

Between 18 and 23 August the team also went through every class and all 12 professions and marked each one as tested and working. The fixes covered Stealth, Sap and Vanish, Ice Block, Barkskin, Shaman totems and more.

Source: WoW Hardcore Vanilla news (16 to 24 August 2026). Quotes translated from Spanish.