Warcraft
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Are the WoW servers up? Yes!
It’s patch day in WoW! Patch 9.0.2 goes live today, which is the last patch we’ll see before Shadowlands launches on Monday. But unfortunately, patch day means downtime, and the servers are scheduled to be…
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What impact have Blizzard games had on your life?
I ask questions here sometimes because the answers have an illuminating presence on my own life. For example, World of Warcraft has has a deep impact on me. I would not have been working in…
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Icecrown rares in the Shadowlands pre-expansion event now spawn every 10 minutes
In an unannounced hotfix, the rares in Icecrown for the Death’s Rising pre-Shadowlands event now spawn every 10 minutes instead of every 20 minutes. There was a brief disruption in expected spawn times as…
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How to upgrade Conduits in Shadowlands
If you’re having a tough time keeping every new system coming to the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, it may help to think of Conduits as similar to Relics from Legion — just as Relics modified the Artifact,…
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What are your favorite naming conventions for player characters?
With the Northrend Shadowlands pre-patch event going on, one of the most fun — the most gear-rewarding — one of the easiest ways to obtain Pitch Black Scourgestones is to kill the rare spawns…
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Environmental effects in World of Warcraft need to be more interesting
If you’ve been lingering in Icecrown camping rares and grinding scourgestones the last couple days, you may have occasionally noticed a debuff called Chilling Winds and its recommendation to seek comfort at one of…
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How do you feel about characters being removed from the story?
The current pre-patch brought with it an important lore fight. The question that remains in its aftermath is: Did Nathanos meet his end, or will we see him again in the Shadowlands? And even…
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No, Blizzard hasn’t banned multiboxing in WoW
When Blizzard first announced a policy update that put limits on multiboxing, even I thought it meant the end. For those who play regularly, the sight of a gang of Druids Starfalling or gathering had…
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How to get to the Eastern Plaguelands to kill Nathanos for the Shadowlands pre-expansion event
The Shadowlands pre-expansion event, Death Rising, is now live, complete with a new World Boss: Nathanos Blightcaller. Killing Nathanos nets some nice rewards, with an ilevel 115 weapon (equivalent to Heroic Ny’alotha loot) for…
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What do you think of the pre-Shadowlands event so far?
So, now that we’ve had a bit of time with the pre-expansion event bridging Battle for Azeroth with Shadowlands, what do we think? Did you enjoy it? Did you go kill Nathanos for a shiny…
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