Server:Blackrock US

A high population US server. Upon the release of WoW this server was chosen as the unofficial Australian PVP server by the Australian WoW community (also acknowledged by Blizzard in the Australian trial WoW DVD booklet, along with Spinebreaker and Proudmoore). Since then Oceanic realms have been released and many Australians have rerolled, slightly alleviating the long queues suffered by this realm. However, because of this history, Blackrock is still a harsh and unfriendly server when it comes to transfers or new players.

The unofficial motto of the server is "GTFO BLACKROCK IS FULL"

The default accepted pug loot rules is to roll Need on all BoEs regardless of quality.

This realm is infamous for the Argent Dawn gnome raids. These events would occur when the server has unbearable lag or goes down. Many, sometimes hundreds, of Blackrock players create level 1 gnomes on the Argent Dawn role playing realm and raid Ironforge, spamming text in chat channels and annoying players. The majority of players joined a guild named . This behavior greatly annoyed the Argent Dawn population and was discouraged by Blizzard. Contrary to popular belief this is not a valid roleplaying event. The Blackrock denizens sole purpose is to disrupt Argent Dawn, usually by creating characters with vulgar names and spamming the server's Alliance trade channels with sophomoric humor or atlasloot links of Thunderfury. Despite numerous complaints and petitions from the Argent Dawn community, the guild  continues to exist on the server and Blizzard has taken little (if any) action against the guilty.

Play Times
Blackrock is primarily a Pacific Standard Time server - however, the largest chunk of the population is of an Oceanic player base so Blackrock's peak population times usually run at AEST (NSW/Sydney Time) or UTC/GMT +10 hours.

Server Transfers
There have been 6 free server transfers as initiated by Blizzard from Blackrock to other lower populated servers.
 * 1) Blackrock > Daggerspine - March 2005
 * 2) Blackrock > Bloodscalp - August 2005
 * 3) Blackrock > Frostwolf - October 2005
 * 4) Blackrock > Garithos - January 2006
 * 5) Blackrock > Azshara - Fall 2008
 * 6) Blackrock > Gundrak - Winter 2009

Blackrock's PvP Community
Blackrock has long been home to some of the most elite PvPers in the Warcraft community. Beginning in Vanilla WoW, a couple of Blackrock's guilds competed in the Battlegroup 9 Warsong Gulch League. This league influenced one of the decorated guilds in the US to transfer to Blackrock, a Horde guild named Nurfed. Teams forged by Nurfed and an Alliance guild named Eminence laid a foundation for a strong PvP atmosphere on Blackrock.

At the beginning of TBC and arenas, Blackrock had a strong showing along with Tichondrius in the arena ladders. Practically every top team was either from Tichondrius or Blackrock (with a couple from Kil'jaeden). Due to Bloodlust's infamous PvP scene, at the beginning of Season 2, teams from all over North America have flocked to this Battlegroup and the most competitive arena ladders began.

After WOTLK began, Blackrock was again a hotbed for PvPers during this expansion. The server really became the epicenter of WoW PvP when an epic battle for rank 1 took place. Both teams were the first to reach the 3000 rating in the world and a showdown between Reckful/Euneek/Fuzionn of Blackrock and Yog/Douja/Woundman of Tichondrius. Reckful's team defeated the Tichondrius team, and created a lot of hype that influenced arena enthusiasts from all over the nation to come to Blackrock.

Rank 1 Arena Teams from Blackrock

 * Vengeful Gladiator 3v3 - Loz, Nice, and Medz (Eminence Team)
 * Vengeful Gladiator 5v5 - Nurfed Team led by Glasroy, Dw, and Glorbin
 * Deadly Gladiator 5v5 - Glasroy, Dw, Glorbin, Handiiman, and Igoaff (Nurfed Team)
 * Furious Gladiator 3v3 - Reckful, Euneek, and Fuzionn
 * Relentless Gladiator 3v3 - Jhazy, Alloraan, and Ellihs
 * (2, Tied) Relentless Gladiator 5v5 - Uckington, Rgostic, Zyzski, Jvlol, and Nuvoz
 * Relentless Gladiator 5v5 - Czm, Whiteshadowz, Vidra, Newsh, and Xandra

Opening of Ahn'Qiraj
4 guilds, all of which are Alliance, completed the Scepter of the Shifting Sands. The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj are officially opened by Rezguise of Redefined on 27th February 2006, 2.13 am Blackrock server time. Redefined has disbanded as of late 2006. Rezguise has transferred to Death and Taxes on Korgath in early 2006, and has since retired. Colony Raiders disbanded in mid-June 2006 and Nice joined Eminence. Ex and Nice have both retired from playing World of Warcraft around May 2007.

Blackrock Links

 * irc.enterthegame.com #blackrock
 * Blackrock Forums
 * Blackrock Information & Guild Progression 3.0 (Classic WoW)
 * Blackrock Information & Guild Progression 4.1 (The Burning Crusade)

Alliance

 * Band of the Hawk
 * Beggars (website)
 * Bushido Samurai (website)
 * Convicted (website)
 * Covenant of Steel (website)
 * Decendants (website)
 * Depth (website)
 * Desecrated Souls (website)
 * Do Not Disturb (website)
 * Dominion of Chaos
 * Elementium (website)
 * Eleventh Hour (website)
 * Eminence (website)
 * Eternal Asura (website)
 * Eternal Requiem (website)
 * exXiles (website)
 * Fallen Chapter (website)
 * Fear Us
 * GrindinGamers
 * Hit Squad (website)
 * Infinity
 * Inquisition (website)
 * Insanity's Demize (website)
 * Ministry NZ (website)
 * Nexus
 * No MAAM (website)
 * Redefined (website)
 * Six Pack (website)
 * Southern Cross (website)
 * Stadium Arcadium
 * Tarsis Shriners
 * The Dark Ministry (website)
 * The Mystics Of Stormwind (website)
 * Trollohren Sammler eV (website)
 * The Holy Inquisition (website)
 * We Hate Guilds (website)

Horde

 * AlterElectus (website)
 * Atomic Monsters
 * Blackout (website)
 * Bloodlust
 * Bloodstar (website)
 * Darkblade (website)
 * Dårk Wrath (website)
 * Death Wish (website)
 * Defenestrate (website)
 * Epocalypse
 * FTW
 * Get Juiced (website)
 * Guild of IV
 * Hidden Power
 * Indoor Kids (website)
 * iRaid (website)
 * Keekles
 * Mediocrity (website)
 * Nemesis (website)
 * One (website)
 * Order of Avalon (website)
 * Pandamonium (website)
 * Peons Action Party
 * Phase Three (website)
 * PvP Anonymous (website)
 * QED (website)
 * Raging Primates (website)
 * Servants of KaelThas
 * Scarface (website)
 * Something Novel (website)
 * Sundercats
 * The Blood Talon
 * The Elite (website)
 * The Prophetic Order (website)
 * Tyrannus (website)
 * vF (website)
 * Wardens of Asylum (website)
 * Darkhour Resurrection (website)
 * Undying Rage (website)