Congratulations to both Eight and Bazta for becoming our 17th and 18th Iron Champions for Legion, respectively. Eight-Terokkar-US earned their first Iron Champion title on this character and we believe their first Iron Championship. We're not 100% sure who the owner of this character is...
We have our crowned our very first Tin Champion with ZERO deaths: Tricksster! Tricksster was originally listed as a Tin (between Level 10-30 with no deaths) and leveled using the Iron rules...
The Midsummer Fire Festival is back...
On Thursday we crowned another Iron Champion, the 15th in Legion and the FIFTH for Iron veteran Neverdied (he also has the world first -and only- Blood Thirsty Champion). If that wasn't good enough, the character's class he leveled on this time has never, EVER been done for the Iron Challenge. On June 15 2017, Neverdiedsha became the first ever Iron Shaman. Over the course of 167 days, Neverdied leveled from 1 to 110 with a total /played of 6 days, 5...
With patch 7.2.5 a nice undocumented change that came in resulted in many holiday items that were previously Common (white) are now Uncommon (green). This has resulted in many challengers being red-flagged. It is important that you remove the items from your character ASAP. I've gone through to reset most flags, however, I don't believe all characters will be updated to reflect the new uncommons that were equipped. I'll be doing another pass tomorrow after our big nightly job is done and...
Lyssan's latest character, Exploithon, a Goblin Hunter, is the first Horde Iron Challenger to go from 1 to 110. The character joins a long list of "firsts" for Lyssan, including the first to reach 110 in Legion, Warlords of Draenor and Mists of Pandaria. He's also the first character to successfully level a petless hunter in Warlords of Draenor on Boneless and was also the first to ever level up a Warrior as an Iron Champion, also in Warlords. This newest challenger was...
It seems a toxic plague is being spread around Azeroth and beyond, typically at hearth zone-in locations, however, it's also been found in inns and flight-path start/end points. For a normal high-level character, it will tick off, however, for low level (and thus most Challengers due to our low health) it's pretty much insta-death. The spell in question is Toxin. From digging around the in the comments it seems this is a debuff from an AQ40 boss: Viscidus. Blizzard is aware of...
For Challengers that are leveling through Thousand Needles, please be aware that you are granted a "Boat Day" buff. This buff allows you to "walk" on the water briefly until a boat is generated for you to ride around in. The buff in of itself is completely fine as you can't click it off. It will be gone in a few days. What is NOT okay is if you happen to be flying through / over the zone. If you are...
Children's Week runs from May 1st to May 8th this year. The WoWhead.com guide has been updated but we are not seeing anything new for this year. You are allowed to do quests or achievements for the event unless they break the rules of whichever challenge you are doing (for instance questing will count for quests for Blood Thirsty challengers). Since someone will ask it, I'll say it: Doing the quests or achievements that require you to bring the orphan into a...
Congratulations to Asylunn for reaching 110 today, his first Iron Champion in Legion. This is the first Iron Champion title for the character, however, Asy has completed the challenge twice before: Asyluun at 100, a Night Elf Hunter in Warlords, and Asyiiron at 90, a Pandaren Hunter in Mists. Asy went from 1 to 110 in a total /played of 7 days, 11 hours. In real time the Level 10-110 time was 51 days, 13 hours, 17 minutes, 34 seconds. Asylunn is...
