Matthew Rossi

We've seen the Overwatch team working on various ways to deal with player toxicity and bad behavior recently, but it's not a new problem nor is it confined to that game. Hearthstone doesn't even let you talk to other players and you can still have some bad experiences with emote spamming and the like (like that one player who starts using up every last second on their turn just to annoy you) and if you've played Heroes of the Storm or World of Warcraft you've likely run into your fair share of disagreeable behavior.

We're less than a month away from BlizzCon now, and there are several more videos to get hyped up watching.

The evolution of a person over a lifetime is, of course, a continuous work in progress.

There were once seven nations of Humankind in the Eastern Kingdoms.

It’s 12:35 AM as I type this and yesterday I finally, after eleven years, became a permanent resident of Canada. This is a really big step for me for a lot of reasons — it’s one big hurdle on the path to becoming a Canadian citizen out of the way, for example — but mostly it’s a huge relief and a weight off of my back.

This has nothing to do with the site, except it kind of does — I started working at the predecessor to this place back in 2007. It’s been a decade and whatever little corner of the internet I can call mine has been greatly expanded by y’all and the games we all talk about here. I’d probably not be here without you. And I don’t know if I’d have been able to get this done and finally be where I wanted to be. So thank you.

Let’s talk about stuff.

If you're planning on leveling an alt, it's worth hitting up Brewfest and then heading over to the Darkmoon Faire -- or using your Top Hat if you have one. If you're leveling through Invasions already, a solid 20% XP buff will make it go even faster

This Thursday it's time for another Live Developer Q&A. At 11 AM Pacific, head to the Warcraft Twitch channel and join World of Warcraft's Game Director Ion Hazzikostas as he answers questions about patch 7.3.

Several players feel like the recent nerf to classes like Barbarians and Witch Doctors is aimed at keeping Necromancers ahead of the pack on Greater Rift clears. Now Blizzard has addressed the reasoning behind these changes and what they actually add up to.

Last week Blizzard released the three part Alleria and Turalyon audio drama, A Thousand Years of War.

I got chills when Velen finally got a measure of justice on Talgath, the Eredar who betrayed him and his family into Kil’jaeden’s hands and led Kil’jaeden’s forces up the mountain to capture Velen and the Draenei seeking to escape. Powerful moment.

This is the Queue. Let’s look at some questions.