WoW

It's been several weeks, and we've all had time to settle into the Midnight addon environment -- have you been handling the transition with grace, or are you mashing your keyboard randomly and being repeatedly eaten by lynxes just outside of the Silvermoon gates without your meticulously crafted addon-heavy UI?

Warlocks, are you tired of your demons looking a little...

I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I am a little surprised at this week's one hour scheduled server maintenance.

Children's Week is upon us, when the mighty heroes of Azeroth take a break from saving the universe in order to fly kites with orphans.

The latest World of Warcraft Twitch Drop is a new color variant of the murloc plushie decor that we've seen a few times before: the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle, a light gray and pinkish option on this cute Player Housing Decor item. The Cuddly Pearl Grrgle decor item is available from April 23 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern) through May 21 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern).

The recently-released patch 12.0.5 for World of Warcraft added a nice new feature for Dracthyr Evokers: Battle Visage lets them remain in Visage form during combat, only briefly shifting to their Dracthyr forms during certain specific abilities, and then immediately shifting back.

Patch 12.0.5 launched Tuesday in World of Warcraft, and while there were a lot of features players were excitedly looking forward to -- Decor Duels, Abyss Anglers, or even helping Decimus help us by finishing the Voidforge -- the patch also launched with one major thing players were not expecting or looking forward to: critical bugs that caused the Player Housing system to be disabled, at least in the US and Oceania.

Though WoW patch 12.0.5 is just a minor patch, it's having a big impact on this week's maintenance schedule: modern WoW servers are scheduled to be offline all day, though WoW Classic just has an hour of downtime.

Abyss Anglers is a new fishing activity coming to World of Warcraft in patch 12.0.5 that some have been comparing to indie game Dave the Diver (it was us; the whole thing seems suspiciously legally distinct).

With the opening chapter of Midnight concluded, we are left still pondering some of the most intriguing mysteries in the Worldsoul Saga.