Greetings fellow challengers! The website will be in read-only mode from now until after the podcast on Saturday, February 1st for maintenance purposes. During this time you will not be able to add any new characters to the tracking lists or update your current characters. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience....
Back in June Stone announced his departure from WoW Challenges (due to health reasons) and handed control to Ster and myself so we can steer WoW Challenges with the help of the community. As Stone's health condition has plateaued he is back to join us as we guide WoW Challenges into the future. What that means is Ster, Stone and myself will become what is affectionately known as "The Tribal Elders" (yes Stone a Survivor reference just for you) and therefore...
Hello, About five years ago, I discovered a vibrant and wonderful community and posted my first question. The site was up and running, and everything was all good. It was shortly after this the original site disappeared and I stepped up to the plate: WoW Challenges was born. Through a lot of hard work, dedication, and very gracious help from the community, we’ve been able to grow beyond the Ironman Challenge and put out numerous other challenges to help folks enjoy WoW...
With the recent announcement that the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch will drop on Tuesday, July 17th 2018, we need to let you know about some possible / probable downtime for the wowchallenges site and some things you can do to get your challenger ready. Downtime While many people get entry into BFA through Beta or, most recently, the 8.0 PTR, the data that most websites use, including ours, is the API, which does NOT have Beta or PTR access of any kind....
Legion is now live on EU servers, so our code changes have gone online. The new maximum level to be attained is 110. Congratulations to all Warlords Champions and condolences to everyone that lost their challengers...
Legion is now available in both EU and US regions. We knew we were going to be getting quite a few changes: default specs, glyph removal being the larger two right now (artifacts come in August 30). So What Happened? We did get a feature that no one was expecting. It seems some classes were given blue weapons in the mail. That's not really a problem; they're not equipped...
We are currently not accepting new characters or allowing existing characters to be updated due to behind-the-scenes maintenance related to the Legion Pre-Patch being deployed on Tuesday July 19 2016. Once the servers are back up we'll be working hard to get the site up as quickly as possible, however, there is very likely a risk it will not be up for EU challengers until at least July 20 (the date Blizzard is rolling out the Pre-Patch to EU). Thank you for...
This morning we hit 1,000 challengers and the credit goes out to all of you: the veterans, the podcasters, the WoW Community and all of our new challengers! I am just one person among you; I'm a guy that loves this challenge, and while I'm not a veteran, I am absolutely dedicated to the community that was, is and can be. Thank you so much to everyone for the support, it's truly greatly appreciated! We were sitting around 150 or...
It was pointed out to me that there were a few challengers (not many) that had used heirloom gear in a manner that could avoid detection. A somewhat convoluted method was created to detect when heirloom gear is being used and appropriately flag the character. I don't want to go into the details of what or how we're detecting the gear, just that we are...
As you might know the old wowironman.com website also had dedicated forums run by Ironlord. Unfortunately, with the demise of the old site, maintenance of the forums also fell by the wayside. We were lucky enough that the forums didn't get swamped by trolls or spammers, so they've been pretty much left unscathed. As interest in the challenge has seen a resurgence (due mostly to all of you!) it was increasingly a concern of mine that we had zero admins or...
