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A $100,000 dueling tournament, and Blizzard's WoW Forever changes, fill Esfand's shelf

Fifteen uploads in seven days ran from a Blackrock Mountain surprise to a podcast with the developers, ahead of an October 17 event in the beta.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Preparing for my $100k WoW Forever Beta Dueling Tournament! October 17th | Esfand Live 10/05/2026Preparing for my $100k WoW Forever Beta Dueling Tournament! October 17th | Esfand Live 10/05/2026

Esfand is getting ready for a $100,000 dueling tournament in the WoW Forever beta, set for October 17, and nearly everything else he posted in the past seven days points the same way: at Blizzard's new take on classic World of Warcraft.

There were fifteen uploads in all. The most watched was his complaint about dungeon leveling, which we reported on here, and its comment section kept going all week. Tanks and healers say they would happily level slower, just not the run-it-twenty-times kind of slow. Several want a full-clear bonus for repeat runs. One viewer simply wants to stop feeling guilty asking friends for help.

Then came the lighter stuff. An undead paladin went mining in Duskwood and walked into the sort of unplanned Horde-Alliance brawl the title calls the World of Warcraft "we've been missing." In another video, Blackrock Mountain turned out to have hotter lava and a famous jump toward Upper Blackrock Spire that is no longer quite where veterans remember it.

The newest uploads carry the most momentum. A long podcast stream about dungeons, recorded with the developers, is drawing the biggest crowd, and close behind are his reactions to Blizzard's new PvP ranks and to its promise of classic-style models for the Skyborne race in early 2027.

As a whole, the channel ran below its usual daily pace, but about 3,000 new subscribers came along. Among the streamer channels nearest its size, none gathered more views across the week. DougDoug Clips and Scotty both ran ahead of their usual days, while ZerkaaLive was quiet.

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What viewers say

The comments under "Blizzard Has A Problem To Fix BEFORE Launch"

  • Dungeon running is such an important learning experience at low levels. It needs to be encouraged and therefore rewarded
    @ActuallyWoogieSee it on YouTube
  • As a prot warrior who plays classic because he just loves being a tank, dungeon nerfs feel bad 😭
  • There has got to be some middle-ground of xp that makes running a dungeon where you don't get any gear NOT feel like a waste of time while also making it not the most efficient min-max way to level. I don't want to feel guilty asking friends to help me with a dungeon I need when they've already done the quests.
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  • I love questing on my warlock, so that's how I always level him. I love healing on my holy paladin, so that's how I always level her. It's bizarre to me that so many people don't want players who like tanking and healing to level by tanking and healing. I don't mind it being 25% slower than questing, but the current "run the dungeon 20x per level" just makes me want to only quest on my warlock and forget the Sisyphean task of leveling by healing.
  • Totally agree. I think nerfing AoE was enough to nerf dungeon boosting. There’s no reason to nerf XP to the point where it’s a one time dungeon.
  • I like running dungeons more than I like questing, regardless if it was best way to level or slower or whatever. But now I don’t really want to run a dungeon twice even if I want the gear, I get like 25% of a level lol.
  • Add a full clear bonus (xp, mats, currency, items, rep, achieve… something that is desirable and makes sense..) for runs beyond the first.

    Limit the bonus to some number of times for each dungeon that resets on daily reset.
    @stompstevensson1792See it on YouTube
  • Pretty strange how I experience something, than I open the YouTube and you talk exactly about that thing
    @ZansilveiraSee it on YouTube

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The facts
Channel
Esfand
Subscribers
361,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
4,410,189
Videos published this week
15
Video published
October 6, 2026
Video views so far
79,470
Views on its first day
69,388

The numbers

Here is how Esfand's channel moved over the past seven days.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Esfand
4,410,189
Scotty
1,219,486
Buffpup
700,899
Valkyrae2
375,421
subscribers
361,000
▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days
total views
160,904,981
views per day
271,705
typical day: 989,463
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Scotty
404,000
Valkyrae2
398,000
ZerkaaLive
386,000
Buffpup
366,000
Esfand
361,000
BrookeAB
345,000
As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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