The Fleet
The Academy
Every sailor starts somewhere.
Learn your class. Learn your role. Learn the fight. Then turn around and teach the next hand aboard.
Choose Your Course
Five learning paths charted by the crew. Pick the one that matches where you are — not where anyone thinks you should be.
New to World of Warcraft
From character creation to your first group content — the fundamentals, without assuming you already speak Warcraft.
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Returning to WoW
Been ashore awhile? Get caught up on what changed without rereading years of patch notes.
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Tank
Control the fight, protect the crew, and keep everything pointed away from the people wearing cloth.
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Healer
Keep the crew standing when everything else is trying very hard to make that not happen.
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DPS
More than making the meters glow — uptime, interrupts, defensives, movement, and priority damage.
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Upcoming Academy Sessions
Workshops, guided runs, and orientations on the crew calendar. Learn together, aboard and in-game.
No Academy sessions are on the calendar yet. The crew is plotting the next lesson.
Academy Schools
Focused decks for the parts of the game the crew asks about most.
Mythic+ Academy
Keys, timers, mechanics, and the habits that make a dungeon group feel calm instead of chaotic.
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Raid Academy
Boss mechanics, preparation, and the discipline of learning fights together as a crew.
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Class Academy
A directory for class learning — find your class, find the crew's guides, and know where to look next.
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Addons & UI
Build an interface that helps you play — without burying your screen under other people's addons.
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Professions
Crafting, gathering, orders, and making professions actually useful — for you and for the crew.
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The crew teaches the crew
Ask the Crew
Stuck on something? Ask. Know something? Teach it. The Academy works because the crew teaches the crew.
Fresh From the Academy
Lessons published by the crew from the Command Deck.
Your First Mythic+ Key
What a keystone is, how the timer and deaths work, what happens at the end — and the etiquette that makes first keys go smoothly.
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2 min read · Sep 14, 2026 · Blackwake Armada
Welcome to World of Warcraft
New to Azeroth? The essentials — characters, classes, specializations, questing, dungeons, gear, and the words your group will use.
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2 min read · Sep 12, 2026 · Blackwake Armada
Active Mitigation and Defensives
Tank
The universal tank toolkit — how active mitigation, defensives, and self-healing fit together across every tank class.
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1 min read · Sep 18, 2026 · Blackwake Armada
Trusted Resources
Charts the whole crew trusts. These support your learning aboard — they do not replace it.
Wowhead
Class Guides & DatabaseComprehensive talent builds, gear rankings, database lookups, and spec guides updated every major patch.
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Icy Veins
Class GuidesIn-depth rotation priorities, talent trees, and raid- or M+-specific build notes for every spec.
Visit Icy Veins ↗
Warcraft Logs
Log AnalysisUpload raid and dungeon logs to review your performance, uptime, and casting efficiency against the community.
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Raider.IO
M+ TrackingTrack your Mythic+ score and history. Review routes, compositions, and timer margins from any completed key.
Visit Raider.IO ↗
Wago
WeakAuras & ProfilesCommunity repository for WeakAura packs, Plater nameplate profiles, and Mythic+ dungeon routes.
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Class Discords
TheorycraftingEvery major spec has a dedicated Discord server with gear lists, simulators, and active theorycrafters. Ask the crew for the link.
No One Graduates From Learning
The player learning their first interrupt today may be teaching someone else tomorrow. The veteran raider may still need help learning a new role.
Every sailor is a student of something, and every sailor can teach something.