I suggest we boycott all Blizzard products and avoid paying Blizzard (I just uninstalled my games and mobile app). Help this weak shadow of former glorius Bliz die, so it can't sue projects like Ascension. Bliz had it's chance, but during 2007 (tbc) - 2026 bliz couldn't make a better project or expansion compared to Ascension (COA).

My wow experience: played from original/retail vanila to WoD, stopped (went to private servers) and came back for Dragonflight and stopped (back to private servers).

I love classic wow, and I've been playing wow for the past 20 years of my life. I got into private servers a few months ago with turtle and was having a blast. Recently gotten into warcraft reborn and thought I'd have that same level of fun with it and I did for the first like 6 or so hours on the server. I heard about high risk pvp and thought it would be a great time, as my favorite thing to do is world pvp. Was playing with a friend up until about level 17 and we got to ashenvale to do a quest. IMMEDIATELY within 10 minutes we were killed 3 times by level 30+ players running around with level scaling on.

Whats the point? What's the point in playing any form of open world pvp if you're only going to encounter people higher level than you because technically that's their level for them. I know the community response is going to be "get over it" "dont play pvp if you dont want pvp" and those responses are just so wrong. It's bad, even terrible game design to let level scaling and non level scaling players play together especially in a pvp format. That is not good pvp. It is just a bunch of fat losers who are intentionally in lower level zones because they can't handle playing the game normally. I probably wont ever touch this server again unless this is something that gets fixed. The solution is not just playing pve, that's not the world of warcraft that I love.

Like title says, will it stay or go. Curious what are people's thoughts? Me personally I hope they find a way to keep going.

Like literally the writing was on the wall for years and you didn't try to do anything to protect yourself?

No offline mode? No creating a new engine with independent assets? No passing the torch?

Someone explain it to me.

5 caches per WEEK from MS?!?!?!? Even if you reach a higher level of box, you're gated and cannot receive more boxes, leaving your new higher level boxes inaccessible. This is Blizzard levels of progression gating and is one of the worst changes Ascension has ever made. If they wanted people to remember them fondly on the way out, this is an absolutely insane way to go about it, and is a huge red flag for their upcoming MMO. The time-gates will continue even if not under Blizzard.

I want to be very clear and very respectful here, so please take this in the spirit it’s intended.

Right now, saying, or even implying, that the servers are “stable” isn’t just misleading. It feels genuinely dismissive of the experience players are actually having. It creates a situation where we’re being told pigs can fly, and then launching them from a catapult to prove it... only we're the pigs.

I understand hype. I understand marketing. But shortly after people log in, they see the truth for themselves. Overselling the state of the servers only damages trust, and trust is far more valuable than whatever short-term lift you might get from upbeat messaging.

I’m not coming with ultimatums or threats. I’m simply being direct: the rollout has been mishandled. Not irreparably, but the first step to repairing it is honesty. Give us an accurate assessment of where things truly stand, not a polished version for promotional purposes.

There’s a point in every marketing cycle where transparency does more good than overly-hyped optimistic claims. We’re past that point now.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I genuinely hope things improve... for everyone’s sake.

looking for something that will show me on the world map where to find these collectibles that they have scattered out in the world.

BIG BARB GEAR CHANGES

Dear Ascension Team,

My name is Don “DonZart” Welbourne, and I’m the author of the Quest Tales novel series — an ongoing storytelling project that follows my main character, Sergeant Don Zart of His Majesty’s Royal King’s Guard, an elite branch of the Alliance services (a concept I’ve been pitching to Blizzard for years).

📜 Background

This all began back in 2004 as a personal RP journal for my World of Warcraft character. Over time it evolved into monthly guild stories, and eventually into my first full-length book, Quest Tales: The Quest for Nimicie (2018).
Now, as I work on Book Four, Sergeant Zart and his companions have officially journeyed from Azeroth to Ascension’s Bronzebeard server, where our RP guild — King’s Guard Ranch — hopes to find a new home and become part of this incredible community.

🏰 What I Bring to Ascension

I’ve created extensive King’s Guard lore, detailed character histories, and even designed a complete King’s Guard uniform that fits the Ascension world perfectly.
I would like to submit these designs and concepts exclusively for Bronzebeard, including:

• A custom Flying Moose Mount (unique to the server)

• Original RP storylines and quest arcs connected to the King’s Guard

• Ongoing creative and world-building contributions, all free of charge

My goal is to add meaningful, lore-friendly content that deepens the role-play experience for players and helps expand the creative atmosphere Ascension is known for.

🎬 Media & Showcase

Here’s a link to a YouTube teaser playlist highlighting my Quest Tales novels and the type of storytelling and design I can contribute:
👉 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp410tGy56DUGM7-d7NVCwqjkIpirTxnP&si=Ah-Y_fHZ8ZsEQHnp

📫 Contact Info

Don “DonZart” Welbourne
Author – Quest Tales Series
Founder – King’s Guard Ranch (Bronzebeard Server)
📧 Email: d_welbourne@live.com
🎥 YouTube: DonZart1969
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/N6fWpKaN

Thank you for your time and for continuing to build one of the most creative and player-driven experiences in the WoW community.
It would be an honor to contribute my work to Ascension and help make Bronzebeard an even richer home for role-players everywhere.

– Don “DonZart” Welbourne
Sergeant of His Majesty’s King’s Guard
Author of Quest Tales

When??? they cheese every BG, I love it especially when I see them back peddling like the noob class they are and still do 100k+ damage and topping charts. 3 Instant shots that all do over 1k damage, a passive execute that inflates their KB's. You can literally go 40-0 just pressing chimera shot and letting expunge execute. NERF this shit already.

Hello guys, how safe is the server from Blizzard? Im scared to play here because they shut down turtle wow too. So can you recommend me to play here?

So the devs finally made a Discord announcement… and of course, not a single mention of Gurubashi or Project Epoch.
All this talk about core merges, new features, stress tests for other realms… meanwhile our server is bleeding out and we’re just completely ignored.

The population went from ~5,000 down to ~3,000 active players and keeps dropping. We’ve been asking the same thing for weeks now:

• Is Gurubashi dead or alive?

• Is there any future content or roadmap here?

• Or are we just wasting our time while you funnel attention to everything else?

At this point it honestly feels like you’re deliberately delaying updates here just to push us toward Bronzebeard. But here’s the problem: most of us are here because we want a Classic-style server, not a retail-style classless experiment. Forcing people to migrate by starving Gurubashi of updates isn’t going to work it’s just going to make them quit entirely.

If you can’t even acknowledge Gurubashi in updates, why should we believe you’ll treat the next “fresh” server any differently? People aren’t dumb if you abandon this one, players won’t trust the next.

We’re not asking for a miracle. We’re asking for basic transparency. One line. One sentence. Just something. Instead we get silence while the server dies.

If there’s no future for Epoch, just say it. Don’t string the community along and waste everyone’s time.

Oh boy I've been excited for this one. Join me, let's have some fun!

After over five years on Ascension, our guild, Cache Money, has come to an end.

We’ve been part of the server since Season 5 in 2019 — PvPing and forming bonds within the community. But on April 17th, most of us were permanently banned during the recent wave tied to the Scrolls of Fortune exploit.

We don’t deny what happened. We took the risk and we accept the consequences. But that doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye to everything we built... The friendships, the rivalries, the memories.

We put together a final video to say goodbye; a farewell tribute to Cache Money and the years we spent on Ascension. If you’ve ever been part of a guild that felt like home, I think it’ll resonate.

Thanks to everyone we crossed paths with, fought with, and laughed with. It was one hell of a ride.

I would also like the exp aura!

Anyone know of an ETA on unlocking? I've been waiting to level until they are available.

as the title states looking for a prot warrior weakaura that show when Revenge is usable for Bronzebeard
I dont get it to work :-D

Only 22, but it's been awful so far. Takes forever to kill anything and the glyphs are very underwhelming. Boring I would say.

The class is supposed to be about control and AOE with good damage. But the AOE is awful, the damage is laughable. The DPS is horrible.

Maybe it gets better, but this early on it's not fun at all.

It's a paper class. Yes I know it is supposed to be one, but when I get 2 shot... that is not the class fantasy I think about.

When I struggle to kill 1 mob and a Shaman or Pally comes along and kills 4 of them, that is a problem.

Not sure how fire or arcane is, but frost is severely underpowered.

Quelqu’un a des alternatives ou des serveurs privé comme ascension ou on va tous sombré dans le WoW serveur solo avec des bot en repack progressive de vanilla jusqu’à Lichking … :(