Warcraft

Children's Week has begun in Azeroth, and this year has a few new rewards for players. Sadly, there are no new pets on the table, but there's plenty to be had for your existing pets, and a new toy for your toybox as well.

I'm on record, when we saw the introduction of pet battles, as saying 'Well, this isn't content I care about, but it's good for people who like it' because pet battles are utterly optional. The various rewards you get for pet battles only affect the pet battle minigame itself - stones and other rewards that affect the pets and how they level. There's never a reason to play pet battles if you don't enjoy the gameplay - you're never forced to do it, nor do you even feel forced to. I can say this having utterly ignored pet battles since their introduction.

"After a long day of fishing up lunkers and Lunarfall Carp, you just want to go take a nice long nap back at the garrison," writes submitter Arugadh of Deep Forest Caravan on Wyrmrest Accord (US-A).

Do you have any monuments in your garrison? If so, which one?

Can’t keep up with all of the great WoW-centric (and WoW-adjacent) webcomics out there? We’re rounding up the latest editions of your favorites here so you can catch up on the week all in one place. Do you have a favorite webcomic that focuses on WoW or any other Blizzard games? Tell us about it in the comments!

"Apparently, shaman get hungry and lazy while in Ghost Wolf form," writes submitter Zadji of Pirate Scum on Suramar (US-A). "Instead of burning calories schlepping around Talador himself, Zadji hopped on a talbuk taxi and, at some point during the ride, decided to see if he could snack on a bit of talbuk brain."

Depending on how closely you’ve been following coverage of the patch 6.2 PTR, it may come as a surprise that my column today doesn’t focus on Death Knight changes, tier sets, and other goodies such as trinkets and legendary rings. This isn’t because I’ve been neglecting my own investigations into the patch - far from it!

Hey! Our gnome jokes on this column are sophisticated and refined, not stupid. And if you say otherwise, I will fight you in the pit.

I remember what my Shaman and my Paladin looked like in their first few days of existence after The Burning Crusade, but I have to be content with memories; I can't show anyone.

A new Warlords of Draenor short story was released earlier this evening, and its a good one. Apocrypha was written by Matt Burns, whose other works include Bleeding Sun and The Jade Hunters from the Destination: Pandaria faction series. This tale however, involves the arakkoa, which automatically puts it near the top of the list for favorite short stories as far as I'm concerned.