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Choose Your Banner: Faction Allegiance Comes to Aethro: Reforged

The old rules are changing. Your race no longer decides your loyalty. A major faction update is coming to Aethro: Reforged, giving players more control over where their character stands in the Alliance–Horde conflict while making that choice matter throughout Azeroth. For the first time, your race a...

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Server Update Sept 22nd 2026

Aethro: Reforged — Playerbots Update We’ve refreshed Playerbots with a large round of combat, travel, dungeon, raid, and stability improvements. What’s improved Smarter dungeon and raid behavior across Karazhan, Naxxramas, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Zul’Aman, Gruul’s Lair, Magtheridon’s Lair, Hyja...

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Server update Sept 20th 2026

Today we have done a few updates to the server some for fun, others for random crazyness that is Play Aethro.   Aethro Events system arrives in Azeroth! Brought over from our system designs in Shadows of Aethro, the custom Aethro Events system will have random events happen (or when our GM team gets...

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Play Aethro Launcher

Play Aethro Launcher update to v2.0

Today marks our version 2.x branch of our Play Aethro Launcher! This has a complete redesign of the launcher window, and a lot of behind the scenes changes to make things easier for everyone. The update should be pushed when you next launch it.   Cheers and thank you for playing with us! :) 

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Sept 11th 2026 Update

This mornings quick restart was to remove a bug that was preventing players from completing the Death Knight starter quests.   So yes, you can now make DK's and get them somewhere without needing a GM to override the state :)

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Website

A few new Play Aethro website updates landed today!

First up: the account menu in the top-right corner actually behaves like a proper menu now. You know, that thing with your name on it. 😅 Clicking it now gives you quick access to: • Account Overview • Community Details • Store Purchases • The Premium page, if you’re a Premium Supporter I’ve also cl...

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Play Aethro Launcher · Reforged

Aethro: Reforged updated, along with Play Aethro Launcher!

⚔️ Aethro: Reforged Launcher Update 1.2.12 A new launcher update is now available! Please make sure you run the launcher and allow it to update your client to version 1.2.12. This update includes new files required for the latest Reforged changes. 🏆 Aethro Titles are now live! We now have a growing...

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Play Aethro Launcher

Play Aethro Launcher updated to 1.2.10

This was a small update for Aethro: Reforged specifically. It removes AethroGlobal addon from the Interface system as it conflicts with some other commands. It is also not necessary anymore since you can do /1 to talk globally.

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Shadows Of Aethro

Shadows of Aethro offline - How much longer!?

Shadows of Aethro has been offline due to a behind the scenes issue. I won't go into it much, however I am working on bringing it back up before the end of this week.  I apologize for the downtime as it was not something I was expecting to happen so soon.

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Edict of Old World Flight added to the Vote Store and Sanctuary!

Added to the Vote Shop yesterday the Edict of Old World Flying will allow you to use your flying mounts around Azeroth! Do note that there are glitches when doing so and we are not responsible for accidental deaths for not actually flying in proper flight paths. As a premium member, inside the sanct...

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Aethro Reforged Update Aug 23rd 2026

Small update that didn't expect to do but did anyways lol -  Outlands etc should have their fly abilities fixed.  Bots should respond to players again.  Fixed a database issue for it not liking how the new database is operating. There was no client update for this.

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