Blizzard published the regional unlock times for World of Warcraft: Forever on October 30, and a starter guide two days earlier that spells out what happens on your very first login. Here is the full time zone table, what the one-time Experience Preset screen actually changes, how the ruleset and faction lock works, and what you can still undo afterwards.

The Russian network behind the Legion x100 realm opens a fresh 5.4.8 Pandaria realm with x10 experience tonight: level cap 90, content unlocking in stages, Mogu'shan Vaults five days after launch, and a starter competitive season running until December 2.

Whitemane's Cataclysm realm opened Firelands Normal on October 10 with Heroic following on October 17, a free level 85 boost for returning players, and a new Elemental Rune difficulty that turns nine heroics into a raid-gear farm.

The team behind Lordaeron.eu launches a second Wrath realm on Friday at 17:00 UTC, with five three-month phases, a heroic-mode switch inside four early raids, a new Artifact quality above epic, and Burning Crusade raids returning at level 80.

Blizzard has now described how the no-server design behaves in practice: you are grouped by the language you pick, crowded zones tell you when they will refresh, and cross-region play is off the table at launch. Here is what that means for planning a launch character.

Mount Hyjal lands on October 17 and Black Temple on October 24 on a Burning Crusade realm where every raid from Karazhan to Sunwell is re-scripted for five players. Here is how the model works, what it changes for a group, and where the realm's own numbers leave questions.

A 3.3.5a Wrath PvP realm on a newly written core opens October 15 at 16:00 UTC, with rated Solo Shuffle, a working 1v1 bracket, Demon Hunter and Monk ported back to Wrath, and battlegrounds imported from Mists of Pandaria and Legion.

Beta players have found a Season of Discovery class quest line ported into WoW Forever. It runs from the Tower of Althalaxx to the Spear of Mannoroth and pays a spell-power cloak — Alliance paladins only, for now.

A new Legion 7.3.5 x5 realm opens Saturday at 16:00 GMT with self-set rates, an almost-empty shop and transfers instead of merges — the first of three fresh realms planned through February 2027.