A World of Warcraft Classic fan game · 1 to 5 players
Gather at Sentinel Hill, take your keystone to the Meeting Stone and fight your way down into Azeroth's dungeons: the Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep and Zul'Farrak, with more to follow. Every run deals you new boons, every death costs the whole group, and every clear raises the key.
What's new
How to play
I
On the menu, Create Character: any of eight races for any class, with the client's own faces, hair and markings, or Randomize. A player keeps up to ten characters, and each sets out in a set of Westfall greens.
There's no levelling to grind. Everyone fights at level 60; what grows is your gear, your keystone and, inside a run, your boons.
II
Enter Player Hub and you stand inside the palisade on Sentinel Hill. Other players are there too: whisper, invite, trade stories. The quartermaster, the blacksmith, the enchanter and the boon trainer wait for you, all with a right-click or a tap.
A new hero is offered a narrated tour of the hill first. The rail on the right edge holds your bag, your shards, your keystone and your score.
III
The stone lists every dungeon open to you, with your best key in each. Alone, press Enter. Leading a party, start a Ready check: once everyone is ready, all of you go in at the leader's keystone.
Three dungeons are on its list, the Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep and Zul'Farrak, and more are on the way.
IV
At the entrance the leader is dealt three of fourteen pacts. Each gives you a kiss and the run a curse, and adds 15 to 25% to the shards everyone brings home. Take any of them, or none, and press Begin.
The offer closes on its own when the first fight starts.
V
Packs stand and patrol, call for help and run at low health, and here they don't give up the chase. Each dungeon keeps its own events: the Defias Cannon blows the Deadmines' Iron Clad Door, Shadowfang Keep's levers open its cells, and in Zul'Farrak you free Sergeant Bly's crew and hold the pyramid's stairs against three waves of trolls.
A red ring on the ground is an enemy's area spell: step out of it.
VI
Every level-up, every boss and the odd elite's drop offers three boons. Pick one: it lasts the rest of the run, through deaths too. Now and then a card glows: an Echo of the Future, a spell from today's World of Warcraft, yours for the run.
The fight goes on while you choose, so choose quickly.
VII
Edwin VanCleef on his ship in the Deadmines, Archmage Arugal in his lair in Shadowfang Keep, Chief Ukorz Sandscalp in Zul'Farrak. The last boss's death clears the dungeon; you don't have to kill every pack on the way.
Dead heroes stay down until someone resurrects them or they Release Spirit back to the entrance.
VIII
The chest holds five items and a piece of jewellery for each of you, uncommon or rare and now and then epic, sometimes an enchanting formula and reagents too, and you can give yours to anyone who was there. Clear with deaths to spare and the leader's keystone climbs by up to three.
Then Return to Sentinel Hill, spend your shards and go again, deeper.
On the Meeting Stone's list
Each dungeon brings its own bosses, events and loot, and your key score counts your best clear in every one of them. Three are open now. More of Azeroth's dungeons are on the way.
The Defias Brotherhood's hideout under Moonbrook, and Edwin VanCleef's ship. Nine bosses, from Rhahk'Zor to VanCleef.
Archmage Arugal's castle in Silverpine Forest, overrun by his worgen. Eight bosses, from Rethilgore to Arugal himself.
The Sandfury trolls' city in Tanaris. Ten bosses, Gahz'rilla in her pool among them, and Chief Ukorz Sandscalp last.
Azeroth has many depths left to open.
Power that lasts one run
Boons are how a hero grows during a run. They come three at a time and you take one. Try it: these are the game's own boons, rolled with its own odds. Pick a class and where the offer came from.
It lasts the rest of the run. The fight goes on while you choose.
Every boon rolls a quality, the colours of the client's items. A better quality multiplies everything the boon does, at every rank. A boon keeps the best quality it was ever taken at.
Bosses never give Poor, level-ups never Legendary, and each keystone level makes Rare and better five percent more likely.
A boon you hold comes back only at its quality or better. Once the rest run short, Endless boons (a little more of your main stat, mana or speed, as often as you like) and Empower cards (a quality up for a boon you hold) fill the offer.
Most boons go to six ranks, class boons and augments to three. The gems under the icon count them: gold for ranks you have, a pulsing green one for the rank this pick gives.
You start each run with one and get another for every boss. A reroll swaps one card for another of its kind and rolls its quality again.
Your first, fourth and eighth offers are talents from your class's three trees, three a run at most. Each talent then opens two augments that build on it.
Spells from today's World of Warcraft, six for each class: Meteor, Bladestorm, Penance, Starfall and more. Any card may be one, two a run at most, each with two augments of its own.
Boons end with the run, but the ones you took can be imbued into gear by Alden Wyke at the hill. Your action bars remember where each talent went last time.
Raise the stakes
Before the first pull the leader is dealt three pacts. Each is a kiss and a curse in one: your heroes get the kiss, the run gets the curse, and everyone brings home more shards.
Playing alone, you also get Lone Wolf: 15% of the damage you deal heals you.
Take any of these for the run, or none:
They last the whole run. The offer closes when the first fight begins.
How deep will you go?
No clock can fail you: a run allows the group two deaths per player, plus two: four alone, twelve for five. A wipe sends everyone back to the entrance; once the deaths are spent, Release Spirit goes away and the next wipe ends the run.
Each dungeon has a par time, though. Clear it faster and the run pays more: up to ×1.5 Keystone Shards and +25 key score, all of it by seven tenths of par. A slower clear pays the usual.
Clearing raises the leader's keystone by how many deaths you had left. A failed or abandoned run leaves it where it was. It stops at +30.
The leaderboard Who has gone deepest in each dungeon, and the highest key scores.
Six callings
Any of the eight races can be any class, and race is your look alone for now. The spells, ranks and costs are read from the client's own spell tables, and every class has its Echoes of the Future.
Loot from all of Azeroth
The chest at the end of a run draws from all of Classic: every uncommon, rare and epic item a class here can wear, thousands of them, each with its own name, look and effects. Every one is remade for level 60, so a blue from Westfall is worth as much as one from Scholomance.
Each of you gets five items, the first one for your class, and a piece of jewellery: mostly uncommon, now and then rare, seldom epic. Until it closes, you can hand yours to anyone who was there.
An item's power is the keystone it dropped at, plus up to six upgrades from Garrick Stonefield. Each level of it multiplies the item's own numbers by another 4%: its attributes, armour, weapon damage and the amounts of its effects; for spellcasters it also adds spell damage and healing that grows with it. Gear power is the average over your eleven armour and weapon slots.
Two sets for each class, eight pieces each. Two, four and all eight pieces change how your class's spells work. Now and then the chest's first item for you is a piece of one.
"Equip:" effects work while you wear the item, and a weapon's "Chance on hit:" goes off as your blows land. Their amounts grow with the item, like its stats.
A neck, two rings and two trinkets, real Classic pieces with bonuses rolled for your class and an effect of their own: a totem at your feet, a phoenix's rebirth, luckier boon offers, an extra reroll, more shards.
A ranged slot: mages and priests Shoot a wand as their auto-attack, each with its own bolt, and warriors and rogues Throw knives and stars.
Formulas for Classic's finest, Crusader and Fiery Weapon among them, turn up in the chest with Illusion Dust, Eternal Essence and Brilliant Shards. Alden Wyke puts them on, and the weapon glows as in the client.
Instant, Deadly, Crippling, Mind-numbing and Wound Poison coat a rogue's blades for the whole run, dripping green, with boons that make them stronger.
Between runs
Shards from your runs pay for everything here: three plus the keystone level for each boss you see fall, twice that for a clear, and more still for beating par and for the kisses and curses you took.
Gryphons stir on the roost, and the hill's people greet you, see you off and grumble if you keep clicking them.
Sells any rare your class can wear for 250 shards once your key score reaches 175, epics for 1,000 at 1,000, and the dungeon sets. Gear comes at the power of your best key; jewellery only the chest gives.
Upgrades an item up to six times, or salvages it for shards. Each upgrade costs 20 shards plus 5 for every point of the item's power.
For 60 shards, imbues an item with a boon you've taken in a run. Learn a formula from a chest and he enchants your weapon with it too, for its reagents and 60 shards.
Lets you try any boon or talent of your class, at any quality, on the training yard's dummies. Nothing learned there is kept.
A Combat Dummy, an Elite and a Boss one, a Sparring Dummy that hits back, and Wounded Militia for healers to practise on.
At your fingertips
It plays like the client. Every binding can be changed under Esc → Key Bindings.
The enemy nearest the middle of your view is your soft target. Attack it, click it or Tab to it and you lock on. Hover a party or unit frame and your spell goes to that one.
Attack and Recuperate are spells on your bar too. A ground spell shows a reticle: click to cast it there, right-click to put it away.
Options include UI Scale, Battery saver, Cooldown Count and Always Show Mana.
On a phone or tablet, turn it sideways.
Up to five
Invite from the chat or from anyone's right-click menu. The party goes in together at the leader's keystone, with the creatures tuned to its size, and only the leader's key moves.
Type /help for every command.
/invite Name invites them to your party
/p [Party] [Bulwark]: Pull after the patrol passes.
/w Name To [Mercy]: ready when you are
/promote Name makes them leader
/vote when someone's away in a run: Continue, Abandon or Wait
/who who's on the hill
Bulwark has started a ready check for The Deadmines. Are you ready?
Azeroth Depths is a non-commercial fan prototype, made out of love for World of Warcraft Classic. The world, the heroes, the creatures, the spell effects, the icons, the fonts and the sounds are all the client's own, converted from a locally installed copy; the Echoes of the Future come from today's client the same way. The Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep and Zul'Farrak are open, and more will follow. The creatures' places, patrols and scripts come from the open-source VMaNGOS server's database. Only the interface's frames and buttons, like the ones on this page, are drawn for the game.
Azeroth Depths is free to play. If you enjoy it and would like to help it grow, more dungeons included, you can buy me a coffee.
Buy me a coffeeWorld of Warcraft and its art belong to Blizzard Entertainment. This project isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard.