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 Classic

What race should you play in WoW Classic?

by Matthew Rossi on August 9, 2019 at 7:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Back in the day -- "the day" being late 2004 to early 2007, when World of Warcraft didn't have any expansions yet -- the choice of what race to play was a lot simpler and also a ton more complicated.

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The Queue

The Queue: Oh, Rossi’s gonna have a tough time tomorrow.

by Matthew Rossi on August 9, 2019 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Joshistory, I hope you never know how right you were when you left that comment.

Anyway, no amount of synapsid talk is gonna get me out of this one so it’s best I just take a deep breath, embrace the inevitable, and get started on today’s Queue.

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Discussion

What, if anything, do you miss about vanilla WoW?

by Matthew Rossi on August 9, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

I've realized that I filled up on my nostalgia quotient in the WoW Classic beta test, and I'm not exceedingly likely to play the actual game when it goes live this month.

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News

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo will publish loot box drop rates… but what about Blizzard?

by Matthew Rossi on August 8, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Loot boxes.

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Discussion

What do you do when you’re confronted with spoilers for future content?

by Matthew Rossi on August 8, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

There's already quite a few details about patch 8.2.5 that have me excited.

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Diablo

A quick and dirty guide to the lore of the first Diablo game

by Matthew Rossi on August 7, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

In order to understand a game franchise, you have to understand where it started.

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Discussion

What’s your best gaming memory?

by Matthew Rossi on August 7, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

Sure, I've probably told the story of my wife and I deciding to get married during a Molten Core run, but still, it's hard to top.

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WoW

Patch 8.2.5 gives tantalizing hints of Wrathion with new model and questline datamined

by Matthew Rossi on August 6, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Wrathion is a character who was invented in Cataclysm, and as such, is a complex legacy character with a lot of facets to his nature.

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WoW

What would a Durotar Warfront be like?

by Matthew Rossi on August 2, 2019 at 6:00pm @MatthewWRossi

As with all things datamined, here come the disclaimers -- this is datamined content from the patch 8.2.5 PTR (courtesy of the folks at Wowhead), it may not go live, it may not even be intended to go live, the fact that the map is from Siege of Orgrimmar could in fact be a bit of the developers at Blizzard having some fun with the dataminers and those of us who leap on the latest news and breathily tell you all about it, and so on.

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News