Last week on Blizzard Watch: WoW Tokens

The WoW Token’s existence is old news by now, but today’s patch will finally bring it to live realms. Well, that’s not quite true — the patch makes it possible, but the WoW Token won’t be enabled until later on. When? We’re not sure, but Blizzard representatives state there will be advance notice before it does. In the meantime, let’s go over other goodies from this past week.

World of Warcraft Features

• Episode 7 of the Blizzard Watch podcast
• Shifting Perspectives: Optimizing your druid for The Slagworks
• Lightsworn: Protection paladin 101
• Totem Talk: The strange relationship between enhancement and totems
• Locked and Loaded: Hunter Weak Auras to improve your gameplay
• Blood Pact: Learn demonology with Weak Auras
• Arcane Sanctum: 4 simple ways to improve your mage DPS
• Encrypted Text: Do secondary stats really matter?
• Plaguebearer: Frost runes and resource conundrums
• Zen Meditation: The art of melee DPS healing
• Role Play: Draenei and age in roleplay
• BlizzCrafts: A cavalcade of Pepes
• Know Your Lore: The Arathorian Empire
• Officers Quarters: Persons of interest

World of Warcraft News and Miscellany

• Decide our fate for our upcoming Twitch show
• WowCraft episode 20 tackles the trouble with summoning
• Give me mecha-worms or give me death
• Blizzard raises Blackrock Foundry item levels
• PVP damage hotfix reverted
• Has RNG outlived its usefulness?
• New Warlords short story: The Code of Rule
• Paypal now accepted for EU WoW subscriptions
• How to get the S.E.L.F.I.E. camera and take great photos
• Nixxiom rounds up the top 10 vanilla WoW zones
• How to get to Draenor and skip Tanaan Jungle entirely

Other Blizzard Titles

Hearthstone

• Blackrock Mountain Adventure available for preorder
• Two new dragon-themed cards from Hearthstone‘s Blackrock Mountain
• Additional mage, hunter, and warlock cards revealed for Blackrock Mountain
• IEM Katowice 2015 Hearthstone winning deck list

Heroes of the Storm

• Heroes Developer Insight: Abathur, Murky, Stitches, and healers
• New Heroes of the Storm skins and mounts

Diablo III

• Diablo 3 season 2 end and season 3 start announced
• Say happy birthday to Reaper of Souls with bonus XP
• Know Your Lore: The history of the nephalem

StarCraft II

• Legacy of the Void beta in two weeks

If you’re looking for MMO news beyond World of Warcraft, look no further than our friends at Massively Overpowered. Here are some OP highlights from the past week.

• Dungeon Fighter Online returns
• Final Fantasy XI halts updates, will enter maintenance mode at the end of 2015
• EverQuest kicks off 16th anniversary with player-designed missions
• H1Z1 backs down on plans to soon charge for Battle Royale

Enjoy today’s maintenance! Do your laundry! Wash your dishes! Paint the garage!