WoW

Mages have many options only available to us when it comes to plodding along on the ground. We’ll start off with transportation aids that aren’t class specific and then move on to the good, Mage only stuff.

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!

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.

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.'