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.

WoW

Shadowlands will have a more linear story than Battle for Azeroth according to Steve Danuser

by Matthew Rossi on April 13, 2020 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi

In case you missed it, World of Warcraft's Lead Narrative Designer Steve Danuser did an interview with Taliesin and Evitel, which the folks at Wowhead liveblogged.

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D&D

If you like free stuff and not getting COVID-19, Wizards of the Coast has free D&D content every day

by Matthew Rossi on April 10, 2020 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi

We're all handling this global pandemic as best we can.

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WoW

We’re all out of control with AOE damage, and Shadowlands is going to rein us in

by Matthew Rossi on April 10, 2020 at 3:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Let's just admit it.

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WoW

There won’t be any Warforged, Titanforged, or Corrupted gear in Shadowlands

by Matthew Rossi on April 10, 2020 at 1:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas did an interview with Sloot wherein he talked a lot about Shadowlands (check out the liveblog from Wowhead if you'd rather read than watch), including the intricacies of loot drops.

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WoW

Death Knight class changes in WoW Shadowlands

by Matthew Rossi on April 9, 2020 at 5:15pm @MatthewWRossi

So I've been looking over these changes to Death Knights that are coming in Shadowlands, and I have a few things to say about them.

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Discussion

What do you think about the first day of Shadowlands datamining?

by Matthew Rossi on April 9, 2020 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

So, what do y'all think of the first day of datamining with the public Shadowlands alpha for World of Warcraft?

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WoW

Exile’s Reach will help new players from level 1-10 in WoW Shadowlands

by Matthew Rossi on April 8, 2020 at 4:47pm @MatthewWRossi

At BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard announced that a brand new approach to leveling was coming in Shadowlands. Instead of leveling — and outleveling — our way through a sliver of every expansion's story, we would level through a single expansion for a more coherent experience.

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WoW

Warrior class changes in WoW Shadowlands

by Matthew Rossi on April 8, 2020 at 3:33pm @MatthewWRossi

With every new expansion to World of Warcraft we've seen changes to the Warrior class, and Shadowlands is no exception.

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The Queue

The Queue: Tyranny, sung to the tune of Tragedy by the Bee-Gees

by Matthew Rossi on April 8, 2020 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Tyranny,
when the feeling’s strong and your actions wrong,
it’s Tyranny,
when you killed those guys and you don’t know why
it’s sad to say,
conquest and mayhem in Kyros’ name,
I am to blame

Tyranny by the folks at Obsidian is rapidly becoming one of my favorite old school RPG’s. It uses the same engine as Pillars of Eternity, but the story is one you rarely see in a CRPG, and it’s got me thinking a lot about how to frame a narrative in a game.

And also, I’m completely serious when I say I can’t stop making up versions of Tragedy by the Bee-Gees based around it.

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Discussion