Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi @MatthewWRossi — Matthew Rossi is a synapsid, perhaps descended from Cynognathus. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up there before leaving to see the world and be mistaken for a sasquatch and/or minor singing celebrity in various locales. He currently lives and writes in Edmonton alongside his amazing and beautiful wife and their cats. He’s written three collections of speculative fiction, Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon and At Last, Atlantis. He loves playing warriors in World of Warcraft, barbarians in Diablo III, and he’s beginning to notice a pattern here.

Discussion

How often do you PVP?

by Matthew Rossi on May 27, 2021 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

There was a time when I PVP’d almost constantly — at the end of Vanilla World of Warcraft, when I was trying to get High Warlord on my Tauren.

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BlizzCon

BlizzCon 2021 is officially canceled, but there will be another version of BlizzConline in 2022

by Matthew Rossi on May 26, 2021 at 1:00pm @MatthewWRossi

There was no BlizzCon in 2020 due to the pandemic, but BlizzConline earlier this year was a sort of replacement for it.

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The Queue

The Queue: Queue’s out forever

by Matthew Rossi on May 26, 2021 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Come on, I had to. I mean, I had to.

I am seriously starting to worry that I will be playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of my life. It’s getting to AC Odyssey levels of investment, and that game nearly destroyed me. I need help. There isn’t even any DLC out for this thing yet! The sheer amount of side quests in this puts Fallout New Vegas to shame. Heck, it probably has more side quests than FNV, Fallout 3, and maybe even Fallout 4 combined.

It’s a lot.

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Discussion

What does the faction conflict story mean to you as a player?

by Matthew Rossi on May 26, 2021 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

I wonder about this one fairly constantly, because I used to play both factions a lot more than I do now.

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Discussion

Would you rather fight 100 Garrosh-sized Deathwings, or one Deathwing-sized Garrosh?

by Matthew Rossi on May 25, 2021 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Hear me out.

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Discussion

Which WoW expansion do you prefer to level in?

by Matthew Rossi on May 24, 2021 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Now that World of Warcraft lets you choose between all of its previous expansions up to Battle for Azeroth to level from 10 to 50 in, I'm curious about which one you folks are choosing the most often.

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WoW Classic

How to level your new Blood Elf or Draenei in Burning Crusade Classic

by Matthew Rossi on May 21, 2021 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi

So you're interested in playing Burning Crusade Classic, but you're a rebel, an iconoclast.

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WoW

How to get and upgrade gear from Korthia daily quests

by Matthew Rossi on May 21, 2021 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

I'll say this up front -- I hope you end up liking the Archivist's Codex and their new resource, Catalogued Research, because you're going to be spending a lot of it in patch 9.1, thanks to the incoming catch up gear mechanics that will be coming from Korthia in the upcoming patch.

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