[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":302},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-settings":3,"article:\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Ffrostmourne-launch-weekend-known-issues":16},{"id":4,"description":5,"email":6,"extension":7,"footerNote":8,"legalNotice":9,"locale":10,"meta":11,"name":12,"stem":13,"url":14,"__hash__":15},"settings\u002Fsettings.yml","Compare World of Warcraft realms by expansion, region, population and play style.","listings@realmlist.org","yml","An independent realm directory.","Not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.","en",{},"RealmList","settings","https:\u002F\u002Frealmlist.org","QXaYspLUSxnrVumL6oFir6PInhNsRw-yJchxEYSe1AU",{"id":17,"title":18,"author":19,"body":20,"category":266,"description":267,"draft":268,"extension":269,"featured":268,"meta":270,"navigation":271,"path":272,"publishedAt":273,"seo":274,"sitemap":275,"sources":280,"stem":293,"tags":294,"updatedAt":300,"__hash__":301},"articles\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Ffrostmourne-launch-weekend-known-issues.md","Frostmourne Survives Its First Weekend: Whitemane Posts an Official Known-Issues List and a Silent Raid Pipeline","RealmList Editorial",{"type":21,"value":22,"toc":258},"minimark",[23,34,40,52,59,64,78,88,98,116,120,123,157,161,168,230,237,241,252],[24,25,26],"p",{},[27,28],"img",{"alt":29,"height":30,"loading":31,"src":32,"width":33},"Editorial illustration: a crowd of cloaked adventurers gathered before the snow-covered gates of a gothic fortress at dawn",1024,"lazy","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.nanosnail.com\u002Frealmlist\u002Farticles\u002Fbriefings\u002Ffrostmourne-launch-weekend-known-issues.png",1536,[24,35,36],{},[37,38,39],"em",{},"Original editorial illustration by RealmList, generated for this article. This is artwork, not game footage or official promotional material.",[24,41,42,43,47,48,51],{},"The day after Frostmourne's record-setting launch, Whitemane did something smaller but arguably more informative: it published a ",[44,45,46],"strong",{},"formal known-issues list"," — the first for the rebuilt ",[37,49,50],{},"Wrath of the Lich King: Rebuffed"," realm. Nine items open, five already fixed, no server-crash class problems, and one dungeon-blocking bug. For a project that took a 30-minute DDoS blackout on day one, the list reads like a team that has moved past infrastructure triage and into content polish.",[24,53,54,55,58],{},"The realm itself has settled into a normal post-launch pattern: from the 8,500+ launch-day peak, the network's own status board showed roughly ",[44,56,57],{},"5,150 players online on Frostmourne"," at the time of writing, with Cataclysm Classic's Gilneas around 1,480 — a typical first-Monday decay for a fresh realm rather than a warning sign.",[60,61,63],"h2",{"id":62},"the-open-list-by-category","The open list, by category",[24,65,66,69,70,73,74,77],{},[44,67,68],{},"Addon compatibility"," is the item with the widest blast radius. Five established 3.3.5a addons — ",[44,71,72],{},"Bartender4, ElvUI, ClassicAPI, CompactRaidFrame and Talented"," — may misbehave on Rebuffed's modified interfaces. Whitemane's answer is distribution, not diagnosis: corrected versions will ship ",[44,75,76],{},"through the launcher alongside the full Rebuffed addon collection",", which means players who install addons manually from old links are the ones who will hit the problems.",[24,79,80,83,84,87],{},[44,81,82],{},"Client\u002Frendering"," items: ground textures can look blurry even at maximum Texture Filtering, because the client's ",[44,85,86],{},"DXVK anisotropic filtering does not follow the in-game option"," — a Vulkan-stack detail that the 12 GB client's rewrite makes plausible, and which no settings change will fix until patched. Some world maps also originate from a different WoW version and visibly differ from the default Wrath maps.",[24,89,90,93,94,97],{},[44,91,92],{},"Gameplay blockers:"," in ",[44,95,96],{},"Zul'Farrak",", after accepting Weegli Blastfuse's \"Will you blow up that door now?\" dialogue, the final door can remain closed and trap the group's progress — the only listed bug that can hard-stop a dungeon run.",[24,99,100,103,104,107,108,111,112,115],{},[44,101,102],{},"Interface and social:"," non-English clients can hit an \"Incorrect channel name\" error in chat; the DBC-backed ",[44,105,106],{},"WorldChat"," channel and per-locale language channels are being integrated, with all players to be moved from World into WorldChat plus their locale channel; NPC-only appearance items can leak into player-facing ",[44,109,110],{},"Collections","; and ",[44,113,114],{},"Shift+P"," can still open the legacy Pet Book instead of Collections. The Bug Reporter UI is explicitly temporary and will be removed in the next client update.",[60,117,119],{"id":118},"what-is-already-fixed","What is already fixed",[24,121,122],{},"The fixed list is a good proxy for how the team is working — five items resolved between launch day and the post:",[124,125,126,133,139,145,151],"ul",{},[127,128,129,132],"li",{},[44,130,131],{},"Hardcore combat",": normal characters no longer lose access to a creature after a Hardcore character joins its combat — the kind of cross-ruleset interaction only a server running Hardcore alongside normal realms produces.",[127,134,135,138],{},[44,136,137],{},"Wailing Caverns",": the Naralex event and Disciple now reset correctly after a wipe.",[127,140,141,144],{},[44,142,143],{},"Character creation",": choosing a starting location now also sets the Hearthstone home location.",[127,146,147,150],{},[44,148,149],{},"Shadowfang Keep",": the courtyard door stays open once opened for cross-faction groups.",[127,152,153,156],{},[44,154,155],{},"Hardcore announcements",": Polish Hardcore global announcement text restored.",[60,158,160],{"id":159},"the-quiet-bombshell-an-original-raid-pipeline","The quiet bombshell: an original raid pipeline",[24,162,163,164,167],{},"Buried in the launch-eve \"Very Short Guide\" — and easy to miss under the launch-day noise — was Whitemane's roadmap of ",[44,165,166],{},"three original raid chapters"," for the Rebuffed progression, all roadmap statements rather than shipped content:",[169,170,171,187],"table",{},[172,173,174],"thead",{},[175,176,177,181,184],"tr",{},[178,179,180],"th",{},"Phase",[178,182,183],{},"Raid",[178,185,186],{},"Premise",[188,189,190,204,217],"tbody",{},[175,191,192,196,201],{},[193,194,195],"td",{},"Patch 3.1.5",[193,197,198],{},[44,199,200],{},"Scourging of Karazhan",[193,202,203],{},"A darker tower with an Antonidas encounter, Scourge influence reaching into Kirin Tor history",[175,205,206,209,214],{},[193,207,208],{},"Patch 3.2.5",[193,210,211],{},[44,212,213],{},"Echoes of the Sunwell",[193,215,216],{},"A Caverns of Time raid centered on Kel'Thuzad's resurrection, tied to the Culling of Stratholme timeline",[175,218,219,222,227],{},[193,220,221],{},"Later",[193,223,224],{},[44,225,226],{},"Fall of the Sunwell",[193,228,229],{},"Players follow Arthas as undead while the Infinity Dragonflight meddles in the Lich King's creation; final boss Anasterian",[24,231,232,233,236],{},"Combined with the previously documented systems — Heroic Naxxramas with 80+ documented changes, Domination solo legacy raids, loot assigned by difficulty rather than raid size so 10-player Heroic guilds chase the 25-player table — the roadmap puts Frostmourne in the small category of 3.3.5a projects shipping ",[37,234,235],{},"new raid encounters"," rather than repackaged ones. Whether the phases arrive on schedule is the real test of the \"Rebuffed\" label.",[60,238,240],{"id":239},"the-near-term-calendar","The near-term calendar",[24,242,243,244,247,248,251],{},"Tier 7 opens ",[44,245,246],{},"September 30 (Normal)"," — possibly earlier if community feedback pushes for it — with ",[44,249,250],{},"Heroic on October 7"," requiring Normal progression. Every weekend after launch weekend is a free Bonus Weekend. The teased \"major new system\" from launch day remains unnamed.",[253,254,255],"note",{},[24,256,257],{},"Accurate as of September 21, 2026. The known-issues and fixed-items lists are Whitemane's own September 20 post and will change with the next client update; the ~5,150 concurrent figure is a snapshot from the network's public status board at time of writing, not a peak statistic. The three original raids are roadmap announcements, not scheduled releases — no dates exist for any of them. Tier 7's Normal opening \"may move earlier on community feedback\" per the project, so the September 30 date is provisional.",{"title":259,"searchDepth":260,"depth":260,"links":261},"",2,[262,263,264,265],{"id":62,"depth":260,"text":63},{"id":118,"depth":260,"text":119},{"id":159,"depth":260,"text":160},{"id":239,"depth":260,"text":240},"briefings","Two days after launch, Whitemane published its first formal known-issues list for WotLK: Rebuffed — five things already fixed, nine still open, a Zul'Farrak progress blocker, and an addon compatibility warning. 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