WoW

Fans of character customization, rejoice!

Is the fact that we still don't have player housing a case of something the World of Warcraft team just doesn't want to do?

Look, I'm very excited about the new Mage Tower and I think it's great that we're getting new cosmetic rewards for doing it again in Legion Timewalking.

Players have wanted the Mage Tower from Legion back ever since it went away at the end of that selfsame expansion, and now Blizzard has confirmed that Mage Tower challenges are returning patch 9.1.5.

Shadowlands introduced a wide variety of new characters.

I keep thinking about how, from the end of Legion and into Battle for Azeroth we added ten playable races to World of Warcraft and nobody batted an eye.

Unlocking Allied Races can be a lot of effort — particularly if you didn't actively play during the expansion in which they were released.

The PTR for Shadowlands patch 9.1.5 is in full swing now!

I've been thinking about this one for a while -- with timewalking basically extending the life of various dungeons in World of Warcraft almost indefinitely, there's a lot of cool stuff in there, and it scales up to level -- what if we could run old raids with a group of five players and get loot scaled for the current expansion, perhaps even run those raids as Mythic+ dungeons?

With the tantalizing possibility of the Mage Tower returning during Legion Timewalking, I immediately started thinkng about other gameplay elements that were once big and which fell out of favor in later World of Warcraft expansions.