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Some of you have probably guessed the image above is Stratholme.

This isn't just a WoW question, but it's a WoW question first.

We talk often about when gameplay trumps lore or when it seems to ignore the story of the game it is set in -- like when you go back to old world Azeroth zones and everyone is still talking about Deathwing like he's still a thing.

World of Warcraft is a vast game, both in terms of the scale of the world and the breadth of content it offers.

Two of my favorite games -- Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft -- both have leveling up and gaining XP as core parts of their gameplay.

Even if you're avoiding spoilers, you still probably know the basic outlines of what's coming in patch 8.2 -- Queen Azshara's Naga are attacking the world and we're going to Nazjatar, there's a new kingdom of steampunk Gnomes called Mechagon and we're going there too, and, oh yeah, all that stuff that happened in 8.1.5 has repercussions in the War Campaign.

When I play Heroes of the Storm, I almost exclusively play healers, because I'm terrible at Heroes of the Storm and I can at least grapple with the basic idea of what healing is supposed to do -- keep people alive.

A good villain can make all the difference.

It's been a defining characteristic of the game since it launched in 2004, and it's the driving conflict that provides the narrative engine for Battle for Azeroth, the game's latest expansion.

Back in classic WoW, there was a bug called "wall-walking" which, well, it was exactly what it sounds like.