Server:Dragonblight US

=Dragonblight=


 * Official WoW Dragonblight Forum
 * [~ttp://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/dragonblight Dragonblight WowProgess Link]
 * Dragonblight WoWJutsu Link
 * Dragonblight Server census

Server Stats

 * Dragonblight is a PvE Pacific Coast server, which opened on a few weeks before 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 though it is an old server.
 * There is a large sized population (more Alliance than Horde), however there is rarely a queue to log into the server since the free transfers were offered recently.
 * The BG queues are almost always instant to about five 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 level 80 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 the location of the level 80 dungeon Naxxramas, after it was moved from the Eastern Plaguelands in WoTLK.

Information about the Great Dragonblight can be found here.

Guilds
Up-to-date guild information and recruitment threads for Dragonblight can be found in the realm forums.

Progression
Current guild ranking information can be viewed here.

Great Dragonblight Events

 * Dragonblight PVP Tournament: A video of this event, courtesy of IronLionZion, can be seen here.


 * 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 UNITED among others, appeared above character names in the episode.  This video can be seen here.

Miscellaneous Antics

 * The denizens of Dragonblight have been known to occasionally copy and paste a block of text known simply as "The Rev Quote." This usually happens while attempting to explain something to another player whom they feel is beneath them somehow, or perhaps is acting out of line. The original use of this block of text dates back to the Pre-BC days of Dragonblight's WoW Forums. The infamous block of text is as follows:


 * "You see, Rev was at a level where ZG/AQ20 or MC experienced players would have had alot of trouble keeping up with them. Gear is a factor, but so is skill, raid experience, etc. There are not that many people who can readily jump into a AQ40 or Naxx guild and take care of business. Finding a guild is more than just about raiding, it's also a kind of family, group of friends, and people you enjoy the game with. Any good guild, casual or raiding, are careful about who they take and any GL will tell you that attitude is the most important. You might wanna check yours before you continue apping elsewhere."


 * "/pembar" is a phrase known by most players on. Dragonblight. The term is named after a Horde player Pembar, a member of The OCK, and means something close to the phrase: "Post a screenshot, or it isn't true."  It. is used quite frequently on the Dragonblight forums when one player, for example, accuses another of being a loot ninja but forgets to post a screen capture as proof. Other players will take offense to such an evidence-less post and write the word "/pembar".


 * The Trade channel has been known to overflow with chains of posts using the word "Murloc" as substitution for nouns within pop culture references, most notably movie. titles. Chuck Norris Facts are abundant, as well as a recent influx of typing the word "Anal" followed by a linked spell or character ability, ie Anal [Fireball].   Performing any of these memes usually initiates a domino effect followed by minutes, if not hours of this behavior, enough to where Blizzard has reached a point of repremanding random players for participating in such actions.


 * Back in the early days of the game, an infamous Alliance Paladin named Mauriac was known for creating cliques within whichever guild he currently inhabited, and getting uncomfortably close to any and all females within the guild for nefarious purposes. He went so far as to post pictures far too inappropriate for any forum on a guild website, which migrated to the realm forums, much to the delight of Dragonblight's troll population. He would steal from guild banks and disappear without a trace, but eventually fell off the radar when a guild he was in fell apart and reformed without him during an AQ40 raid.


 * Fast forward a year or so, and a Horde Paladin named Alleyra appears, generally being competent but rude, which were characteristics of Mauriac (See Above). It is later found to be the one and only Mauriac himself, after several investigations of actual repute were done. In fact, they revealed through corresponding with a journalist in Alleyra's part of the world that he was supposed to fund prizes for a breast cancer charity in real life, but instead took the money he was paid for the charity and ran without delivering on his end of the bargain, letting his partner take the fall. Any and all posts on the realm forums regarding the matter were deleted within minutes, but the unofficial realm forums at www.dramablight.com were alight with glee at this new development. The top Horde guild on the server, The OCK, who currently harboured Alleyra, stayed mum on the subject for some time, until they finally showed their true colours in this thread: http://dramablight.com/showthread.php?8013-PUBLIC-ALLEYRA-THREAD . Needless to say, about a month after the thread stopped receiving reply after reply, several OCK members faction transferred and joined top end Alliance guilds. Though nothing is certain since they've been more quiet than the post Holocaust Gestapo, it is rumoured that these players left because Alleyra used what clout he had to weasel his way into getting the guild Shadowmourne. Hooray for class acts.

Player Memorials
Dragonblight is no stranger to having lost players through the years. Memorial services have happened on server as a way to send off friends and guild mates from Azeroth one last time.


 * Malevolent: Undead warlock, member of Last Hope pre-BC (R.I.P. 2005)
 * A long time fan, and avid participant in the old world PvP pushes between Tarren Mill and Southshore in the Hillsbrad Foothills region, his memorial service was attended by a large amount of the server by both Horde and Alliance. His toon was brought by his fiance to the broken watchtower alongside the road between the two towns, and logged out there. To this day, many old timers still refer to this location as "Mal's Tower" due to this.


 * Machello: Undead priest, member of Anarchy pre-BC (R.I.P. 2006)


 * Hampurse: Undead priest, member of Unified pre-BC (R.I.P. 2006)
 * A memorial was held outside the Zeppelin towers in front of the Undercity. His guild-mates, and many other members of the horde all showed up wearing Tuxedos to send him off with style.


 * Endall: Undead rogue, member of Visions of Anarchy / | Game Over |, Vanilla and BC (R.I.P. 2008)
 * A long time Dragonblight resident, and avid PvP fan, a memorial service was planned to honor his status as a "PvP God". Simultaneous raids were formed, and Ventrilo servers were overloaded, filling almost eight 40-man teams that split off and went into Ironforge, Darnassus and Stormwind to send Endall off in massive World PvP.