Matthew Rossi

Hi. It’s the Queue. I’m Matt. When I am extremely tense or scared I resort to hyperrationality as a defense. I apologize for how this may affect today’s Queue.

World of Warcraft is bringing the first of two Dragonflight pre-patches this week, and today we get the expansion's various mechanical changes like the new talent system and the loss of the Shadowlands tier set bonuses.

While we don't have confirmation that there will be a Cataclysm Classic after Wrath Classic, I believe it's inevitable, simply because WoW Classic is tremendously popular.

World of Warcraft has a sort of punctuated equilibrium when it comes to content releases -- sometimes more punctuated than equilibrium, if you ask me.

It's not a secret that I felt pretty disconnected from my main in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. Playing a Night Elf felt pretty crummy, at least to me, with the whole storyline hinging around the deaths of thousands of my character's people — including all the vendors and innkeepers and auctioneers and bankers and other NPCs I saw on a fairly frequent basis.

With the Dragonflight pre-patch launching on October 25, you may be wondering what will happening to your carefully collected gear, particularly the tier set bonuses and Shadowlands Legendaries that are currently providing a lot of your power.

The WoW Classic team announced that players of Season of Mastery characters now have the choice to transfer to Wrath Classic or Classic Era servers -- because Season of Mastery servers are going to be closed, and the characters remaining there straight up deleted, at a later date yet to be announced.

Recently, Diablo 2: Resurrected added Terror Zones, a means by which the jaded D2R player can level to 99 without the usual farm end zone bosses strategies of the past, adding a fresh new twist to the revived title.

One of the things about playing video games is, they often have soundtracks. Sometimes, I really wish I had something like a soundtrack in my day to day life. just so I’d know when I was about to enter a boss encounter or what have you. Like, I’d be pushing along a cart at the local Superstore and then suddenly a bunch of singers started doing that faux-Latin and the drums pick up so yeah, I’d be ready for werewolves.

Not that I’ve seen werewolves at the Superstore yet. But I’d like to be warned if it ever happens.

Yes, once again Matt attempts to convince people that World of Warcraft needs more strange prehistoric animals to populate Azeroth.