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World of Warcraft: Midnight class tuning lands with the 27 Oct maintenance
Blizzard says Feral Druid and Fire Mage get 5% more PvE damage, while Subtlety Rogue loses 8% of its ability damage.
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Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 keynote streams on 30 Oct PT
The keynote streams on 30 Oct, 7pm PT (31 Oct, 12pm AEST). Square Enix calls it the last Fan Festival before Evercold.
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Zul'Aman is open in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary
The 10-player troll raid needs no attunement, and rescuing every hostage in time earns the Amani War Bear mount.
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Final Fantasy XIV subscribers get a free day for the login pause
Square Enix will add one day of game time from 28 October. Save data backups are running again.
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Final Fantasy XIV logins are back after a day-long PHP security pause
Square Enix took its patch servers offline over a critical PHP flaw. Logins resumed at 10:16pm AEST on Thursday, but save data backups are still off.
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Elder Scrolls Online makes Greymoor free in its Echoes of Skyrim season
Season Two runs until 27 January and adds solo versions of two dungeons. Markarth joins the base game on 9 November.
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MapleStory Classic World launches worldwide
Nexon's free-to-play throwback version is out on the Nexon Launcher and Steam after two weeks of founder's access.
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FFXIV's Keybound Brawler typing event starts 28 Oct
Square Enix's new Gold Saucer event tests how fast you type, and opens with a Final Fantasy VII Remake collaboration.
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WoW Forever name reservations open 27 Oct, 1pm PT (28 Oct, 6am AEST)
Blizzard's start times don't list Oceania, but it grouped Oceanic players with the Americas for this week's stress test.
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WoW Forever's three raids open on 9 December
The Barrow Deeps for 10, Hyjal Summit for 20 and Onyxia’s Lair for 40, with a Drakefire Amulet attunement.
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Old School RuneScape's fourth raid, the Fractured Archive, is open
Guthix's archive went live on 20 Oct, 4am PT (20 Oct, 9pm AEST), for teams of two to eight.
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Lost Ark's Arbiter of Death raid arrives in the West
Belgardin is the second Shadow Raid, and clearing it unlocks the new Vambrace gear slot.
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WoW Forever launches 4 Nov, 3pm PT (5 Nov, 9am AEST)
Blizzard's new take on original Azeroth goes live Wed 4 Nov, 3pm PT (Thu 5 Nov, 9am AEST). Here's what that means on this side of the water.
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RuneScape sets the date: Jagex Accounts become required on 17 November
Legacy logins stop working on that date for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. Here's what to do now.
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ESO's Season Two makes Skyrim free and adds solo dungeons
Greymoor is already in the base game, solo dungeons arrive on 21 October, and Markarth follows in November.
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Materia notes: FFXIV's Oceanian data centre this month
A rough evening on the network, an Oceania leaderboard on the way and a matching change still to come.
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