News · October 30, 2026
Launch week with Rise.
The site is live, the name window closes Tuesday, and the realms open Wednesday. This is the week the guild stops being a plan.
The week's key moments
| Moment | Pacific | Eastern | UTC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name reservation closes | Tue Nov 3 · close of day | Wed Nov 4 · 03:00 | Wed Nov 4 · 08:00 |
| Guild assembles in voice | Wed Nov 4 · 14:30 | 17:30 | 22:30 |
| Realms open | Wed Nov 4 · 15:00 | 18:00 | 23:00 |
| First Battlegrounds Night | Sat Nov 7 · 18:00–21:00 | 21:00–00:00 | Sun Nov 8 · 02:00–05:00 |
| Raids unlock | Wed Dec 9 · hour not published | — | — |
Every time above converts from the Pacific anchor Blizzard published; the raid unlock hour has not been published, so this table does not invent one.
What shipped today. This website, and the toolbox on it: a name-reservation helper for the window that closes November 3, the full 56-combination race/class matrix, a countdown stack for the three dates that run the season, a launch-readiness checklist, and a searchable copy of the same 258-fact database our Discord bot answers from. Everything publishes only what that database can back. The talent calculator does not exist, on purpose — the only data for one is an unverified beta graph, and this guild does not print numbers it cannot defend.
Tuesday, November 3. Name reservation closes. If you own a pack and have not reserved, the helper will build your shortlist in five minutes — first and last name, combination unique per region, three characters maximum. The guild is helping members choose in Discord through the deadline.
Wednesday, November 4, 3:00 p.m. PST. The realms open in one global moment. We assemble in Discord voice at 2:30. Leveling groups form at 3:00 sharp, dungeon groups run nightly all week, and the road to 30 — where Darkspear Islands opens — is the guild's first shared project. Nobody levels alone unless they want to.
December 9, in the distance. Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia's Lair unlock together, in three different sizes. Raid signups open the week before the unlock, and the Onyxia attunement chain starts earlier than feels necessary — it always does, and it is always right.
The roster. As this post publishes, the guild is three people and a very organized bot. That is the honest number, and it is the point of the week: the founding roster is the group that was here before the realms opened. There is room in it.
Where to join
Everything in this post happens in one place: the Discord. Launch assembly is in Voice Lobby from 14:30 PST on November 4; battlegrounds gather in Voice PvP. Signups, reminders and the launch-week plan all live there.
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