Matthew Rossi
What expansion-defining feature do you remember the most fondly?
For me, it's Artifacts and all the gameplay that we had around them that stand out as the best expansion-defining feature World of Warcraft has had in quite some time.
We’ve been wondering when we’d find out about the fate of BlizzCon 2020: Now Blizzard has announced the con is canceled
Update: Blizzard has officially announced that BlizzCon 2020 is canceled, though we may see a virtual event of some kind early next year.
A farewell to Azerite, Corrupted Gear, and the Heart of Azeroth once we’re in Shadowlands
One thing that's going to happen in Shadowlands is, we'll eventually shelve our Hearts of Azeroth and no longer have access to them or to the Azerite Traits that depends on them to work.
What Shadowlands changes have made you sit up and take notice?
I've played World of Warcraft for a really long time, and yet I still get excited when patch notes come out, or when there's some datamining that highlights a change I like.
We may get to transmog each shoulder piece separately in Shadowlands
I made an incoherent Murloc noise when I read the folks at Wowhead had found a global string that would mean we could choose a separate transmog option for each shoulder when Shadowlands goes live.
The mysterious Oribos is the capital of the Shadowlands, but Blizzard’s preview shows a city facing desperate times
When Shadowlands launches, we'll be spending a lot of time in Oribos, the hub city of the expansion.
The Blizzard Watch D&D group returns to a creepy volcano lair with fresh characters in our latest one-shot adventure
That's right, the Blizzard Watch team once again we braved the virtual tabletop — complete with a 20 minute delay as the DM tried to figure out Roll20 — to play D&D and explore an ancient volcano lair.
Why would you ever reroll you World of Warcraft main?
I've done it a few times, switching my main in World of Warcraft.
How to manage Corrupted gear for your undergeared alts
Whether you're just coming back to World of Warcraft for patch 8.3, or you've been playing for a while and you just decided to get your alts up to speed with the gear options like Old God Assaults, one thing you may not really be prepared for is just how quickly Corruption can get out of hand.
Blizzard updates targeted Corruption to work for previously cleansed items, and now, not just new ones
It can be a little hard to keep up with changes to the targeted Corruption system Blizzard added this week, but this particular change is definitely worth being aware of -- previously, it was impossible for the system to allow you to cleanse a previously Corrupted item and then add the Preserved Contaminant of your choice back to that item.
