Warcraft

Whether you’ve been playing a mage for a week or for years, there are usually things we can all do more efficiently to maximize our damage. There’s a big difference between theorycraft and practical damage. Many factors affect damage dealing execution: lag, reaction time, environmental hazards, RNG, and of course player error. Your damage is also dependent on your gear, spec and talent choice, but that’s not what we’re looking at this week. Instead, we’re considering ways that will allow any spec of mage to see an improvement in their damage immediately.

Even if you've left World of Warcraft behind, you can't have missed the selfie craze that's been sweeping through Azeroth.

Welcome to Blood Pact, Blizzard Watch’s regular column for Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction Warlocks. This week, your hostess Megan O’Neill (@_poneria) attempts to teach Demonology. We won't be Illi-done with the fel arts today, but we'll bring more Fizzlebang for our buck.

European players, rejoice! You can now pay for your World of Warcraft subscription via Paypal. Players who would like to begin doing so will need to update their automatic payment method via the Account Management page on Battle.net.

Arathi was essentially the cornerstone for human history on Azeroth as we know it today. It was responsible for one of Azeroth's most well-known, beloved heroes, and for some, it remains a haunting reminder of an empire lost to time.

Today I’m going to share a bunch of hunter-specific weakauras with you that will improve your gameplay and increase awareness. If you aren’t currently using the addon, hopefully I will convince you to give it a shot. If you are using it, maybe you’ll find some helpful new weakauras in this post.

"A few months back, I was deep in a heated mount-collecting race with a fellow raider when the Flametalon of Alysrazor dropped during a transmog my significant other and I were on," writes submitter Fizzl of Convert to Raid Sha on Aerie Peak (US-A).

Today's list of hotfixes is pretty short, but there are a few major issues that have been addressed. The Iron Maiden's health has been reduced by 25% on Raid Finder difficulty, which should reduce the length of the encounter. In addition, events in Ashran are no longer on individual timers -- events are now randomly selected at regular intervals.

If you were so inclined, you could argue that totems were counting down the hours until they got removed from the game as soon as Enhancement was made a viable spec in The Burning Crusade. I wouldn't make that argument myself, but it sure does sound convincing when you look at it the right way. Sort of sideways, maybe squint a little.

A new short story has been released on the official website. The Code of Rule, by Ryan Quinn, gives us one of those chunks of lore we were missing from the development of Warlords of Draenor's story -- how exactly the ogres of Highmaul allied with the Iron Horde in the first place.