Matthew Rossi

Blizzard has started putting patch 7.2 on the PTR, testing out various features of the new patch like the Demon Assaults, the Pet Battle Dungeon, and best of all an update to tab targeting that will hopefully make it so when I hit tab I don't target something that's thirty yards away from me while six things are punching me in the face.

Were you there?

The folks at Wowhead have been datamining into the night and they've come out of said mines with a plethora of new models for mounts, including the BlizzCon 2016 surprise class mounts.

So yeah, Nighthold’s pretty fun and pretty weird. The Chronomantic Anomaly is a strange fight that kind of reminds me of the room in Dire Maul just off the library with Immol’thar in it. The pylons with all the arcane elemental type mobs? Yeah, it definitely felt similar. And I guess that makes sense, since DM was built by and for the Highborne in much the same way Suramar was.

This is the Queue. I admit I may actually run Nighthold LFR on my DK when it comes out, I actually like the raid. Emerald Nightmare never really did it for me and Trial of Valor is a resounding meh, I just don’t really want to kill Helya all that much. Gul’dan, though, I very much would like to kill. Although with my luck he’ll come back as a demon thing.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk Blizzard games.

With her introduction in Heroes of the Storm, Valeera Sanguinar has now appeared in three Blizzard games: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and now Heroes.

For whatever reason, whenever I read the words ‘Krasus’ Landing’ my brain immediately conjures up a ‘Dawson’s Creek’ style show set in Dalaran. I guess Season One would have been set in Wrath and been a very sturm und drang story about the forbidden love between Alliance and Horde mages, which of course only got harder when Cataclysm came out and the two factions got really hostile, and they finally broke up for good in Mists. A lot of people thought the show had jumped the shark in Warlords because it was suddenly all about these Orcs and Draenei, but Legion brought a lot of viewers back when the original characters returned, now bitter enemies but still there’s sort of a simmering attraction between them.

What?

Oh, right, the Queue. Fine, we can talk about other stuff.

StarCraft 2 didn't take over the pro gaming sphere, it's fair to say.

Every game as big as World of Warcraft is going to leave things unfinished or truncated from time to time.

Right now I have a lot of alts, but I don't play most of them.

It's been a few days since patch 7.1.5 went live.