Greetings.
Seems like Blizzard really kicked the hornet’s nest this week. But let’s be honest we shouldn’t be surprised based on their track record, they love gaslighting us.
Anyways, let’s get down to the brass tacks.
“Who is Darkore dude?”
I’m the raid leader of the 25m team in Big Hearts on Grobbulus. As of 9/17/2025, we are the only 25m guild to have cleared 16/16H on the server (Not Ideal). The team within Big Hearts has existed since the migration from Fairbanks (Point being we’ve been here a while).
We’ve slowly watched the unraveling of what the PvE scene on Grobbulus has become and we want to be fully transparent about what has happened and what players should expect if they are considering moving here.
Grobbulus PvE Recent History, What Happened?
The early days of Cataclysm Classic is when the server started to take it’s downturn. Aside from Cata not being well liked universally (played a small factor), one of the biggest issues Grobbulus faced was during the midst of T11, a handful of 25m guilds couldn’t get past 5/13H-9/13H and inevitably collapsed. We are talking guilds that fully cleared all raids on Heroic in Wrath and got hard stuck at walls in T11.
Yes, I know that was a long time ago, but if you look at each raid tier after T11 on Grobb, you will see the drop off in total guilds in Firelands & Dragon Soul for 25m was significant. Every server is bound to experience this, but the one server that needed to avoid this arguably the most was ours as this was when the 25m raiding scene started to shrink.
After Firelands, the 25m guild Nevermind left for Pagle, SWEAT also called it as well.
At the end of Dragon Soul, the 25m guild Kintsugi left for Faerlina. (They are still raiding to this day)
When MoP launched, the guild Freak left for Faerlina, as well as Non-Verbal Raiding to Faerlina (Top 10 World 10m Team), and Extra Ordinary to Pagle. (This was 100% necessary for these guilds to do based on what was left of Grobbulus at the end of Cataclysm)
Freak’s GDKPs runs on Grobbulus for all of Cataclysm was the last central hub where raiders would be able to find the heavy schedule of GDKPs throughout the week. Their absence on Grobbulus has without question been the most impactful loss (horde wise) in the past year. As of today, there are only two 25m GDKP raids that exist here (Horde Wise). They are run by the guilds On Second Thought & A Proper GDKP.
2 weeks ago, the 25m guild New Management left. (They are now called unmedicated on Faerlina). They were one of the last remaining competitive guilds on Grobbulus and had no choice but to pull the plug for recruitment purposes.
I know, everything stated above is not good, and unfortunately for the last of us remaining it doesn’t seem like Blizzard is letting us leave the server for free like everyone else aside from Pagle.
World PvP:
It is very much a thing here, don’t let others tell you it’s not real. We’ve been informed from the GMs of the PvP guilds that they’re expecting a nice surplus of players transferring to Grobb.
Target Audience For Grobb (PvE Wise):
If you are someone who wants to do World PvP but are unsure if you can find a heroic raiding guild, there are 17 25m guilds left on Grobbulus at least attempting heroic (Check Grobbulus on Classic WarcraftLogs, this is excluding New Management & 100p GDKP btw).
Big Hearts Is Staying:
Big Hearts isn’t going anywhere, our leadership and depth charts are built to sustain for the long run.
Side Notes About Grobbulus:
Other things like Auction House prices are slightly scuffed from time to time.
Best days to find World Bosses groups are on Tuesdays & Wednesdays. (This fluctuates, it’s not always so bad other days but it depends)
You will not find very many random PUG raids. (This is something Grobbulus could desperately use more of is people that put groups together. The players are there to do the pug/alt raids, but the people to lead them are what we need.)
There are a lot of stupid but funny moments you’ll see including some…interesting players that roam around. (You kinda have to see it for yourself lol)
The pvp drama is endless and entertaining as hell, never a dull moment in that department.
LFG chat is not always super active but it does have its community moments day to day. (Well at least until it becomes a warzone between the pvp spies going at each other)
I should mention that if you are a 10m guild, there’s a pretty solid chance you and your group can last here in the long run, just my opinion obv.
Recap:
I will repeat what I stated at the beginning, we just want to provide full transparency of what the scene is like on Grobbulus now if it is something you are considering. If you decide to come to Grobbulus by all means that’s awesome and we think you’ll have a blast, but we’re not gonna throw a fit if/probably when see everyone look the other way and go to Pagle because it’s most sound option.
Thank you for reading and good luck to everyone out there on their migrations.
