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.

Lore

Know Your Lore: Why N’Zoth didn’t start the Fourth War

by Matthew Rossi on February 17, 2020 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Battle for Azeroth has certainly not been all things to all people.

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WoW Classic

Blackwing Lair cleared in WoW Classic within just 40 minutes

by Matthew Rossi on February 17, 2020 at 10:00am @MatthewWRossi

Blackwing Lair being fully cleared within 40 minutes of it going live in WoW Classic was inevitable.

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Discussion

What class feature do you envy the most on your characters?

by Matthew Rossi on February 17, 2020 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

For me, no class in World of Warcraft has a cooler class feature than Hunters.

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WoW

How to manage your Corruption in patch 8.3 and hug your inner tentacle beast before it hugs you

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

It's easy to fall into the mindset that all Corrupted gear is a detriment to you by default, and you should therefore be avoiding it like the plague -- but that's not the best way to approach the system.

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Discussion

What should gearing an alt in World of Warcraft feel like?

by Matthew Rossi on February 13, 2020 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

I'm asking this because I just dusted off my level-120 Death Knight -- the first character I leveled to 120 and promptly abandoned for my Warrior because I'm me -- and, wow, was that painful.

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The Queue

The Queue: Take these broken wings and learn to fly

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

Well, they’re pretty, at least. And they put me in mind of a song.

This is the Queue. I’m not sure what a ‘Love Rocket’ is, but you guys REALLY want one.

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WoW

World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth: The Eastern Kingdoms will be the art book that launches a thousand ships

by Matthew Rossi on February 11, 2020 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi

When even I know about a couple of characters being a popular fanfic pairing, I'm pretty sure everyone knows, and Flynn Fairwind and Matthias Shaw have been near the top of the OTP pile since Fairwind debuted.

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Discussion

What new Horrific Visions would you add?

by Matthew Rossi on February 11, 2020 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

If you were on the World of Warcraft dev team and you were tasked with creating more Horrific Visions so that players weren't limited to Stormwind and Orgrimmar, where would you set them?

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Blizzard Watch