Warcraft

Damn warriors and their penchant for dismembering anything in sight. But who can resist ridding the world of one more pigtailed gnome? And before you accuse me of being ... faction-ist, I guess, please note that I have similar feelings about blood elves with that ridiculous Peg Bundy hairdo.

Sometimes, you've just got to take a break.

I love the leveling experience and getting to figure out what buttons to press to defeat semi-challenging content. But I know that when it's your seventy-bazillionth alt, or perhaps even your seventy-bazillionth Warlock alt, it's not about the journey anymore. Let's just fast forward to the end already.

Tanking in a massively multiplayer game like World of Warcraft is when certain classes (Monks, Death Knights, Warriors, Paladins and Druids, in the case of WoW) choose a specialization and perform a role that is intended to keep the monsters in a dungeon or raid focused on said tank, and not instead on the healers or damage dealers in the group. You may already have known that, but it can be useful to establish basics right up front.

"During our most recent raid, we decided to attack the Iron Maidens with the power of the night elf dance," writes submitter Shikí of Sojourner on Kargath (US-A).

This week, the Strong Museum announced the first class of inductees to their newly established World Video Game Hall of Fame. Among them was a game we all know well, World of Warcraft.

What does Wrathion want with Draenor, why is he there to begin with, and why did he ally with Kairoz and help Garrosh Hellscream escape? I think the answer to that question may very well have been staring us in the face all along, and it's been staring us in the face since the end of Mists of Pandaria.

With the Warcraft movie just a year away now, the hype has become ever more realistic in this fan-made poster shared recently on Twitter.

I don't think you get to call it 'forced servitude' when the 'pet' can eat you alive in five seconds. It's more like 'grudging tolerance of the pink flesh-dwarf.'

The only real update we're getting to our glyph layout is a new minor glyph, and while I really like Glyph of Ascendance it doesn't dramatically alter our major layout. So assuming you have Glyph of Totemic Encirclement, which is absolutely vital, let's take a look at the major Enhancement glyphs you can slot in while you're hacking away.