Charity Auction — Buy a Server Blade from Your Realm: Last Chance!
If you thought you had missed your chance to own a piece of Blizzard Entertainment history, we have good news for you: it’s not too late! Starting on January 23, we'll be releasing the last batch of retired EU server blades, which will be available for bidding on eBay. Don’t miss your final opportunity to take part in this charity auction — net proceeds will be donated to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
St. Jude is a pediatric hospital and research facility, where patients from Europe and around the world are cared for. European medical professionals benefit from the discoveries made at St. Jude in their treatment of children with cancer and other serious illnesses. Partner clinics across the globe are aided by the hospital's valuable research.
For more details, and to view the auction schedule for this final batch of server blades, please visit our information page.
To see exactly how much it would cost to have one of these servers blades delivered to you, see our reduced shipping costs.
| English Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Al'Akir | Argent Dawn | Auchindoun | Azjol-Nerub |
| Azuremyst | Bloodscalp | Boulderfist | Burning Legion |
| Burning Steppes | Chamber of Aspects | Chromaggus | Dentarg |
| Drak'thul | Dunemaul | Earthen Ring | Emeriss |
| Executus | Frostwhisper | Genjuros | Ghostlands |
| Grim Batol | Haomarush | Jaedenar | Karazhan |
| Kor'gall | Lightning's Blade | Mazrigos | Nagrand |
| Outland | Saurfang | Scarshield Legion | Shattered Halls |
| Spinebreaker | Sporeggar | Stormreaver | Sunstrider |
| Talnivarr | Terenas | Terokkar | The Sha'tar |
| The Venture Co | Trollbane | Vashj | Vek'nilash |
| Wildhammer | Xavius | ||
| German Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aman'Thul | Ambossar | Antonidas | Arygos |
| Blackhand | Blackmoore | Blackrock | Blutkessel |
| Dalvengyr | Das Konsortium | Das Syndikat | Der abyssische Rat |
| Der Mithrilorden | Der Rat von Dalaran | Destromath | Die Arguswacht |
| Die ewige Wacht | Die Nachtwache | Die Silberne Hand | Die Todeskrallen |
| Dun Morogh | Durotan | Echsenkessel | Festung der Stürme |
| Garrosh | Gorgonnash | Gul'dan | Kil'Jaeden |
| Lordaeron | Malorne | Mannoroth | Mug'thol |
| Nathrezim | Nazjatar | Nefarian | Nera'thor |
| Nethersturm | Norgannon | Nozdormu | Rajaxx |
| Shattrath | Taerar | Teldrassil | Terrordar |
| Tichondrius | Tirion | Todeswache | Vek'lor |
| Wrathbringer | Ysera | Zuluhed | |
| French Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Arak-arahm | Archimonde | Chants éternels | Confrérie du Thorium |
| Culte de la Rive noire | Eitrigg | Eldre'Thalas | Garona |
| Hyjal | Krasus | La Croisade écarlate | Les Clairvoyants |
| Marécage de Zangar | Medivh | Ner'zhul | Sinstralis |
| Suramar | Temple noir | Throk'Feroth | Uldaman |
| Varimathras | Vol'jin | ||
| Spanish Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Colinas Pardas | C'Thun | Dun Modr | Exodar |
| Los Errantes | Minahonda | Sanguino | Shen'dralar |
| Tyrande | Uldum | Zul'jin | |
| Russian Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Boreyskaya Tundra | Cherniy Shram | Drakonomor | Galakrond |
| Goldrinn | Gordunni | Grom | Korol Lich |
| Piratskaya Bukhta | Podzemie | Razuviy | Sedogriv |
| Strazh Smerti | Svezhevatel Dush | Termoshtepsel | Tkach Smerti |
| Vechnaya Pesnya | Yaseneviy Les | Revuschiy Fjord | |
Comments (104)
Outland
Sylvanas
Karazhan
Nagrand
Argent Dawn
Sunstrider
Al'Akir
"hey dudes we gonna put some stuff that we dont need anymore on ebay and you are going to donate money to charity by buying it. And by the way our corporation is worth like 5 billion $ and we can pretty much secure any hospital for a 100 years, but the shareholders dont like to make sick children happy so its up to you"
Word.
Al'Akir
Shattered Hand
Al'Akir
Vek'nilash
Darksorrow
Chamber of Aspects
Eonar
Wildhammer
The Sha'tar
Sunstrider
Copy-paste from one of the auctions shipping details:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AlAkir-Realm-Europe-retired-server-blade-Warcraft-/190624635312
Item number: 190624635312
Item location: Paris, France
Ships to: United States
Excellent ... just Excellent ... European blades only shippable to US.
Surely an oversight, but a big one at that ... please fix this asap, for the posted ones, and those coming up later.
Wildhammer
Frostmane
Ravencrest
Defias Brotherhood
Boulderfist
Kul Tiras
Twilight's Hammer
Draenor
Emeriss
Aszune
Dragonblight
Hellfire
Looks like they have the postage sorted :)
Neptulon
Chamber of Aspects
Simply put, each server blade is just a PC in a special case. They're designed so you can fit lots of them together in cage. In this case, WoW runs each realm (the server side program that your game connects to) on a dedicated blade and these ones they're auctioning off are the old ones that are no longer used - as the game has grown (expansion packs etc) they've upgraded the hardware (faster/more processors, RAM) to match.
TL;DR version: each blade is the old PC used to run a specific WoW realm before they upgraded. As close to what WoW is in the real world as you can get, I guess :)
Saurfang
Laughing Skull
Saurfang
Runetotem
Alonsus
So up yours!
Spinebreaker
"A blade is literally a self-contained server, which collectively fits into an enclosure with other blades. The enclosure provides the power, cooling, connectivity, and management to each blade. The blade servers themselves contain only the core processing elements, making them hot-swappable. HP refers to the entire package as a BladeSystem. By consolidating and housing multiple servers in a single enclosure, energy costs are significantly reduced, cabling is drastically reduced and managing servers is simplified."