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Launch Week with Rise
The site and toolbox are live, name reservation closes Nov 3, Forever launches Nov 4, and raids unlock Dec 9. The founding roster forms this week.
Read the launch-week postWorld of Warcraft: Forever · Launch Nov 4, 2026
The Horderises again.
A Horde guild forming now for World of Warcraft: Forever. Leveling, dungeons, battlegrounds — and raids from December 9.
~16 members · 8 online now
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~16 members · 8 online nowName reservation closes Tue Nov 3Launch — Wed Nov 4 · 3:00 p.m. PSTFirst Battlegrounds Night — Sat Nov 7 · 18:00 PST · Voice PvPFirst ranked War Week opens Wed Nov 11Rumor Desk · Partly True: You get a 5-minute warning before a world refresh
Three steps to the warband
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Join the Discord
The guild hall is the Discord — roster, signups, and first-night groups all form there, before the realms open.
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Say who you are
Drop an introduction, pick your class and race, and tell us what you played before. Officers read every one.
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Show up for War Week
War Week is the guild's standing PvP competition. Week 0 is registration — your name goes on the Ledger before launch.
Latest from the hall
War Week · Live state
Week 0 — Season 1 Registration
0 of 15 founding registrations in. Ranked weeks open after launch; the Ledger publishes every number it runs on.
Pre-season — first ranked week opens Nov 11
Open the War Ledger
The guild hall
Rise on Discord
~16 members · 8 online now. Voice lobbies run every night; the Lobby plays music around the clock.
Join the DiscordNext fixtures
Launch Day — World of Warcraft: Forever
OpenDateWed Nov 4, 2026
Assemble14:30 PST · realms 15:00 PST
WhereVoice Lobby · Discord
FormatLeveling groups from 15:00 sharp
The realms open in one global moment. The guild assembles in voice half an hour early — first-night groups form before the timer hits zero.
First Battlegrounds Night
OpenDateSat Nov 7, 2026
Time18:00–21:00 PST
WhereVoice PvP · Discord
FormatDarkspear Islands 15v15
The guild's first battlegrounds night, three days after the realms open. Format per the verified corpus (wf-0153) — provisional until launch-day observation.
Every front. One calendar.
PvP NightsTue / Thu forming
Battleground premades and world PvP on the PvP ruleset — Darkspear Islands first, the classic grounds as they open. One of the guild's standing fronts, twice a week, every week.
See PvP nights in Discord
Forming
Dungeon GroupsNightly at launch
All nine new dungeons plus the returning Classic roster, run in guild groups from launch night. No Dungeon Finder exists in Forever — the guild is the finder.
Find a group in #lfg
Nightly
RaidsUnlock Dec 9
Barrow Deeps for 10, Hyjal Summit for 20, Onyxia's Lair for 40. Three roster sizes in the same week — the roster forms in Discord from day one, not in December.
Professions & GoldAlways on
Crafting orders, gathering routes, and the auction game, coordinated in one channel so the guild's crafters feed the guild's fighters first.
Trade in #professions-and-gold
Always on
The HallAlways on
Introductions, clips, off-topic, and a check-in streak that rewards showing up. Small guilds die in silence; this one is built to be loud.
Say Lok'tar in #welcome
Always on
Tools that earn the bookmark
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Open
Name-Reservation Helper
Generate first-and-last name combinations in Horde flavor and check them against the verified reservation rules. The window closes November 3.
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Race × Class Matrix
All 56 combinations, filterable — including the six new ones. Dwarf Shaman and Undead Paladin finally exist; see who can play what.
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Countdown Stack
Three dates run the season: names close Nov 3, realms open Nov 4, raids unlock Dec 9. Live timers for all three.
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Ask Thrall
Search the guild's 258-fact verified database right here — or ask Thrall himself in Discord, where unanswered questions get researched live.
We have done this before.
Rise is the rebirth of Aggression, a Horde guild from Drak'Tharon that cleared Icecrown Citadel 25-man — 12 of 12 on normal, 12 of 12 on heroic, heroic Lich King included — and ran the 10-man to 12 of 12 heroic as well, the harder clear man-for-man in that era — on a four-night schedule with a loot council and a 90% attendance standard.
The game is new. The standard is not. Forever is a permanent level-60 world, and we intend to be a permanent part of it.
Read the guild's historyThe dates that matter
| Date | Event | What it means for you |
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| Nov 3, 2026 | Name reservation closes | After this, every first-and-last name combination is first come, first served. |
| Nov 4, 2026 · 3:00 p.m. PST | World of Warcraft: Forever launches | One global moment. The guild assembles in Discord before the realms open. |
| Dec 9, 2026 | Raids unlock | Barrow Deeps (10), Hyjal Summit (20), Onyxia's Lair (40) — all at level 60. |
Full timers on the countdown page.
Latest from the Rumor Desk
PARTLY TRUE
“You get a 5-minute warning before a world refresh”
A warning timer exists, but the desk's own sources put it at two different lengths. Until Blizzard publishes the value, treat both numbers as provisional.
UNVERIFIED
“Respecs will cost 100 gold”
No price has been published. Blizzard said live respec pricing climbs quickly and drops only once a week — deliberately not cheap; the beta's 1-silver respec was explicitly temporary. Any exact figure, 100g included, is invented.
UNVERIFIED
“A guild charter costs 10 gold and needs 10 signatures”
Blizzard has published no charter price and no signature count for Forever. Charters exist in beta (Guild Master NPC, capital cities); a beta bug briefly allowed zero-signature hand-ins — a bug, not a launch rule.
Every verdict names its evidence and its tier. All verdicts on the record
Be in the hall when the timer hits zero.
The guild is small today by design — the founding roster is forming in Discord right now, before the realms open. Names, classes, first-night plans: all of it happens there first.
Join the Discord