Warcraft
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What accessibility improvements would you make to your favorite video games?
World of Warcraft has added quite a few accessibility options over the years, from improved color blind modes to click and mouseover casting — but that doesn’t mean I can’t think of a few…
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The patch 9.2.5 Mythic affix is Shrouded, hiding duplicitous Dreadlords in dungeons you thought you already knew
In the new Season 4 of Mythic+ Dungeons coming in Patch 9.2.5 of Shadowlands, players will no longer run the same set of dungeons they have been all expansion long, but the new list of…
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What strange lore mysteries are you hoping will pop up again in Dragonflight?
There are several things I want to see covered in the upcoming World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion, and not all of them involve dragons. Some of them absolutely do — like, for example, I want…
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What World of Warcraft villain had the best overall arc?
Yesterday, I asked about WoW Villains who didn’t get as much development as we might have wanted. So now I’m back asking about the villains who did — whether it be a expansion-wide big bad, a…
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Which World of Warcraft villain had the most unrealized potential?
The more I think about the Jailer, the main antagonist in Shadowlands, the more I feel like he didn’t end up working out as I’d hoped. I mean, sure, he served his purpose — primary…
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A new social contract is coming to WoW in patch 9.2.5 — but will it stop toxic behavior?
Is the solution to toxic behavior in World of Warcraft as simple as asking politely for people to not be toxic? Speaking as a resident of the Great White Hat to the north (Ed’s note:…
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How does music affect a game for you?
To this day, when I hear the original theme that plays behind the World of Warcraft login screen — you know the one — I am immediately drawn back to December of 2004, when I…
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What game tropes do you really respond to?
Fiction has tropes, and a lot of games are an avenue of storytelling — World of Warcraft has told a lot of stories over the years. One thing I’ve noticed over those same years is…
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What role does the Dracthyr Evoker fill?
After three expansions, World of Warcraft is finally getting a new class again, the Dracthyr Evoker — but what niche does that class fill, if any, that wasn’t already covered by the existing 12…
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Mission Tables aren’t returning in Dragonflight. Here’s a brief history of the feature
In recent interviews regarding the next expansion to World of Warcraft, Dragonflight, Ion Hazzikostas confirmed that there would be no new version of the Mission Table. Through several expansions, this feature has served as…
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