Matthew Rossi
Diablo 4’s vicious Cannibal monster family takes the stage in the game’s latest dev update
One of the moments I most remember from BlizzCon 2019, besides the time I met an escaped mental patient and fell down and hurt myself in front of a wandering cat, was watching the Diablo 4 panels and hearing Candace Thomas talk about her work on the game.
The Queue: Verisimilitude
So my guild killed Heroic Wrathion and Prophet last night, which many of you won’t care about at all. But for me, the blind dude who has a hard time not dying on most fights it was a pretty big deal.
And no, I don’t wear a shirt on this transmog. I’m going for a particular look similar to the original Night Elf in the original WoW cinematic. It is extremely had to pull off in plate.
New D&D Unearthed Arcana lets you live out your tabletop dreams to play as Iron Man
One of the fun things about Dungeons and Dragons is looking at all the cool options that you'll probably never actually get to play, because there's just not enough time to play sixteen D&D games in a week.
What reputation grinds have you struggled with the most?
For me, the Rustspark Resistance has been the absolutely hardest rep grind, because it combines being in an out-of-the-way place with being completely and totally uninteresting to me in one package.
It’s about to get a lot easier to grind Horrific Visions and upgrade your Legendary Cloak
If you've felt frustrated at the pace of your Horrific Vision progress and want to be able to gather more Vessels and get your cloak upgraded faster, you'll probably like the hotfixes Blizzard has in store for you.
Patch 8.3 and how we gave N’Zoth everything he ever wanted
I've been thinking a lot about what N'Zoth fate in patch 8.3 means for World of Warcraft going forward.
Complexity-Limit spent 257 million gold on their push to N’Zoth World First
When you think gold in World of Warcraft, maybe you think in terms of tokens, or in terms of game time, or even in terms of the most expensive current mount in the game, the five-million-gold Brutosaur.
What race/class combinations does WoW still not have that you want?
For me there are quite a few race/class combos that World of Warcraft has never embraced that I've always wanted.
How much should player feedback impact the design of World of Warcraft?
One of the critiques I've seen of Battle for Azeroth's gameplay and systems is that the criticism offered of the Legendary items and Artifacts from Legion was overly influential, while there was little time for player feedback on systems like Azerite Armor or, more recently, Corruption and Corrupted gear.
What would you change about your favorite class or spec?
I've wanted Titan's Grip tanking for World of Warcraft since the talent was introduced (back when it was a talent) during Wrath of the Lich King, to the point where I actually did tank with it, back when you could viably tank as a Arms or Fury Warrior as long as you dipped 10 to 20 points in Protection.
