Matthew Rossi

It’s not a secret that I was both very happy with and very disappointed with Warlords of Draenor. I felt, and I still feel, that the 90 to 100 game was nearly perfect — the premise was executed well, it was easy to follow considering it was an alternate timeline we were visiting, the voice acting was superb. The cracks only started to show once I hit level 100 and it felt like there wasn’t anything else to do once I got there. We never got to see the zone I was the most excited about, for example. Farahlon never made it to the live game, and we never even tried to explore the southern continent on the original Draenor maps Blizzard produced for Warlords.

Time has, to a degree, vindicated Warlords — without it, we wouldn’t have had Legion, and this has been exactly what we needed from an expansion. I’m a bit leery that Battle for Azeroth has some huge shoes to fill in that regard. But as of right now, I’m sitting here remembering Warlords of Draenor and how that expansive, broad, astonishing world ended up not quite measuring up. Maybe it couldn’t. Maybe my expectations were too high.

Let’s talk about stuff.

I really do love the details on the Allied Race Heritage Armor.

The Battle for Azeroth alpha is now rolling along with even more changes to the global cooldown, changes that will affect every class in the game in some way.

One of the things that happens between expansions is that the game really changes.

If the magical Blizzard fairies came to your house and said "Okay, you can have player housing but we must sacrifice some current feature for it" what would you be willing to give up?

We've seen the Kul Tiran Guardian form, now we're getting a look at the Feral form, thanks to the folks at Wowhead.

We do something called Tinfoil Hat KYL's here, where we speculate on what might be happening behind the scenes.

Look, I don’t really have an intro. Here’s Illidan. Let’s talk about Blizzard.

Look, maybe I'm wrong and you don't particularly care for any classes in World of Warcraft.

Why?