Warcraft
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What gets you so invested in video games?
I say this as someone who has been playing World of Warcraft since release, who has played every single Diablo game the moment they came out, and who basically has found himself turned into a meme based…
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Soon you’ll only be able to buy World of Warcraft game time in 60 day increments — but no change for subs or tokens
Blizzard will be reducing World of Warcraft’s purchasable game time options from either 30, 90, or 180 days of game time to a single 60 days option. This consolidation of the options should make it…
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How many expansions do you think WoW Classic should cover?
For me, the natural demarcation line for the WoW Classic concept was, well, level 60. Everything past that is still in the game, after all — if you want to see Outland, the Dark Portal…
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What would you most like to add to your favorite Blizzard game?
I have wanted Barbarians in World of Warcraft forever. Not Fury Warriors, mind you — I get that’s the aesthetic they’re kind of going for, but Fury Warriors feel less like a classic Barbarian with all…
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I miss when World of Warcraft’s story had a smaller scope
As I was reading the card reveals for the upcoming Hearthstone expansion, Forged in the Barrens, I stumbled across this super intriguing background for a new Draenei Priestess called Xyrella: On the Night of…
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What are you most excited to learn (or test) in the Burning Crusade Classic beta?
There’s a solid chance we’ll see the first build of Burning Crusade Classic’s beta test go live this week, and that’s gotten me thinking about what exactly people are going to want to test…
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Korthia will be a new Daily Quest hub to the Maw, but are Daily Quests actually good content?
The Maw zone Korthia will be added in patch 9.1, and I for one am utterly ambivalent about it. Just to be up front, I didn’t like Mechagon. I’m not a huge fan of Daily…
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A brief history of Valor Points in WoW
How many times have you seen a player saying in trade chat, “bring back Valor Points,” as a solution to help people bridge the gap between RNG and that 158 ilevel ring they’re still…
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How to get flying in Burning Crusade Classic
After years of riding the game’s flight paths on majestic Gryphons and lithe Windriders, players would take the reins themselves in Burning Crusade. Flying mounts let us explore the world in ways never before possible…
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How should open-world questing deal with lots of players?
I’ve been thinking about those Blazing Ingots again. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how they are findable and clickable, and what that means for players trying to complete the quest when there are other…
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