Last Week on Blizzard Watch: The Grand Tournament and coloring books

Players are starting to eagerly anticipate Gamescom next week — but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. This past week, Blizzard announced a new Hearthstone expansion, The Grand Tournament, and those of us here at Blizzard Watch announced our new Patreon benefits. Join us in recapping the biggest news and best features of the last week!

World of Warcraft features

• Officers’ Quarters: Advice for a new raider
• Defeating the bosses of the Celestial Tournament
• Garrison bodyguards 101
• Know Your Lore: Warcraft and the First War
• Blizzard Watch Podcast: Episode 25
• Lore Watch Podcast: Episode 1 – The Burning Legion and the Twisting Nether
• Climbing the Ranks: Hellfire Assault
• Know Your Lore: What does WoW’s next expansion hold?

World of Warcraft class columns

• Lightsworn: Tanking tips and strategies for the Bastion of Shadows
• Totem Talk: Elemental hotfixes and Hellfire
• Spiritual Guidance: Healing Hellbreach and Halls of Blood
• The Warrior’s Charge: Warrior gear in Hellfire Citadel
• Navigating your Druid through Hellfire Citadel’s Halls of Blood
• Zen Meditation: Demistifying Hellfire Citadel trinkets

World of Warcraft news and miscellany

• Blizzard to hold press conference at Gamescom
• Cat owner’s story brings tears to the eyes of WoW players everywhere
• Warcraft movie cast and director interview from SDCC
• Westfall brought to life in the Unreal Engine
• Blizzard clarifies details on WoW Token purchases

Other Blizzard titles

Heroes of the Storm

• Heroes of the Storm: Leoric trailer shows off The Skeleton King
• ESL leads initiative to ban performance enhancing drugs

Overwatch

• Dave brings Overwatch’s characters to life in sculpture
• Soldier 76 as Captain America and Reaper as the Winter Soldier

Hearthstone

• Blizzard reveals new Hearthstone expansion The Grand Tournament
• Watch this Mage do 80 damage in a single Hearthstone turn
• New cards from Hearthstone’s Grand Tournament
• Coin flips alleged to decide winners in NVIDIA Hearthstone tournament
• Blizzard Watch Brawl: Heart of the Sunwell
• The Grand Tournament card analysis

Diablo

• Introduction to artisans in Diablo 3

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.

• Kevin Sorbo headlines SMITE 10M player Hercules promotion
• Dealing with toxicity in MMO communities
• Guild Wars 2 confirms the Elementalist’s Tempest elite spec

For more MMO and MOBA news, head over to Massively OP!