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This article is an information page for the Dragonblight US realm (server) The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The information and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.

Contents 1 Dragonblight 1.1 Server Stats 1.2 Lore 1.3 Progression 1.4 Guilds 1.5 Dramablight 1.6 Cheat

Dragonblight

• Official WoW Dragonblight Forum
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• Dragonblight Server census

Server Stats

- Dragonblight is a PvE Pacific Coast server, which opened on New Year's Eve of 2004, as one of the original servers opened on game release.

- The latency is stable for many, only fluctuating at server hiccups (which are currently uncommon), or if there is a large 40 man raid on a city.

- Overall, it is one of the more stable servers out there. It is only taken down for normal maintenance and hardly seems to need downtime for critical repairs, even as it is an old server.

- There is a medium sized population (more Alliance than Horde), so there is no queue to log into the server.

- The BG queues can be anywhere from instant to about fifteen minutes long (depending on the day and BG). Arena queues are instant to a few minutes wait time.

- Many of the players are either transfers or have been around since the early creation of the server, so the 70 population is very high. Anyone running around as a low level is more than likely an alt.

Lore

The Great Dragonblight is a graveyard of the mighty Dragons, and is located in the southern regions of Northrend, which lies north of Kalimdor and The Eastern Kingdoms in Azeroth. It is a vast wasteland where even the snow and ice seem drained. Most of the Dragonblight is a single enormous valley. And it’s filled with bodies of dragons. Ailing and old dragons, from every dragonflight, from all over the world, come here to die. The ground is littered with dragons of all colors. Black and red and green and blue and bronze, they all lie here together, all their differences set aside in death. The mightiest creatures in the world, laid low by age and illness and attack. The land has never recovered, and never will. It weeps for its lost children, and remains barren in their memory.

It is believed to be the location of the level 80 dungeon Naxxramas, after it is moved from the Eastern Plaguelands in the upcoming expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

Information about the Great Dragonblight can be found here.

Progression

Dragonblight Level 70 Raid Progression can be found at Level 70 Raid Progression.

As of mid 2008, BC progression for both sides seems to be stretched thin. Players of either faction usually find that in order to be part of end game progression, they must join one of the few high end raiding guilds out there. Others that are looking to start raiding will find an influx of Kara only (sometimes Gruul included) guilds.

What happened to SSC, TK, or ZA? Many guilds are currently either not up to those instances or are beyond it and run it on a rare occasion for fun. If you are in mid progression and are looking for a guild, there may be a hard time finding a spot. On top of that, many of the high end progressing guilds are far and few between on both sides. They are quite large in their player base, but that also means that finding an active spot there may be harder than anticipated.

The servers seems to be fluctuated with casual raiding since the release of BC, where many of its Pre-BC hardcore raiders have transfered off, stopped playing, or stuck to their old hardcore guilds (which are mostly now the high end progressive guilds today).

Guilds

Dragonblight Guild information can be found at Guilds.

Dramablight

The server gained it's nickname 'Dramablight' for always encountering and trolling issues that were drama related - be it guild drama, faction, or on a player specific basis. To some, it was seen as an annoyance, whereas to others, it was a viable source of entertainment on the realm forums. Most of the time, the drama trolls were able to band together and get a group of players with them to deal with the bad blood of the server, causing the bad players (elitists, overall jerks, and such) to transfer off. So, in many ways, they are seen as the local "crew" of the server. They have their fun and laugh things off at times, but if you were to really go off on how terrible the server and people are, they go into action.

To many now, the 'drama' has died. Guilds disband for their own normal reasons without any great tales, people come and go with their own reasons, and the server as mellowed out dramatically. Although, there is often drama enthused trolls on the trade channel now, some even making alts for both faction trade channel. Many currently laugh and shrug it off - as is the thick hide that are Dramablight players, but others wish they had a larger ignore list available.

Eventually, most of the older players (those that stay and transfered) who remember most of the tales and stories have created their own area to reflect on and troll about the drama they've seen on the realm. Which can now be found here.

Cheat

Popular video game show Cheat on G4 filmed a show dedicated to the Burning Crusade, shortly after release of the expansion. The episode was filmed on Dragonblight, as names of guilds such as Exigence, Prodigy and U N I T E D (now defunct) among others, appeared above character names in the episode.

Which can be seen here