Warcraft

Players are reporting extreme motion sickness for the room mechanics involved in the Hans'gar and Franzok fight. Some players have no history of motion sickness in other scenarios, like traveling by boat or car, and yet are reporting headaches, confusion, vertigo, and nausea from the moving conveyor belts that make up the room's floor in the fight.

Another round of hotfixes for patch 6.0.3 have been released, with more raid adjustments for Blackrock Foundry. The Blast Furnace, Kromog, Beastlord Darmac, Operator Thogar, and the Iron Maidens have all had adjustments made. In addition, a couple of minor bug fixes were applied to battlegrounds, battleground achievements, and the tier 17 set bonus for death knights.

Blizzard just posted a preview of some upcoming graphical improvements for patch 6.1. These include new anti-aliasing options, a new SSAO (screen space ambient occlusion) option, and a new point lighting option.For

After writing yesterday's article on tank representation in the level 100 Proving Grounds, I got curious about whether the lopsided statistics there were similar to what you'd find in other roles, and started digging further.

It's official: Twitter is coming to the World of Warcraft in patch 6.1. But will we all be using it? After a decade of using World of Warcraft completely Twitter free... we've got to wonder if we really need social media seeping into our favored form of escapism.

I still haven't quite figured out what the battle pet Argi is, exactly -- I think, were anyone to use the words "space goat," they would best apply to the little guy.

News broke recently of a brewmaster monk player named Big reaching a record 198 waves in the tank version of the Proving Grounds.

Officers' Quarters has returned! Thank you all for your overwhelming support of the new site. It has allowed me to bring this column back. Many of you have been asking about it on Twitter and Patreon, and I'm very happy to debut the new incarnation here on Blizzard Watch.

Today is a rapid fire edition of The Queue.

More World of Warcraft hotfixes have been implemented this evening and released on the official blog.