WoW

It's patch day in WoW! Patch 9.0.2 goes live today, which is the last patch we'll see before Shadowlands launches on Monday.

I ask questions here sometimes because the answers have an illuminating presence on my own life.

In an unannounced hotfix, the rares in Icecrown for the Death's Rising pre-Shadowlands event now spawn every 10 minutes instead of every 20 minutes.

If you're having a tough time keeping every new system coming to the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, it may help to think of Conduits as similar to Relics from Legion -- just as Relics modified the Artifact, Conduits modify your Soulbinds and let you customize them to a degree.

With the Northrend Shadowlands pre-patch event going on, one of the most fun -- the most gear-rewarding -- one of the easiest ways to obtain Pitch Black Scourgestones is to kill the rare spawns every twenty minutes.

If you've been lingering in Icecrown camping rares and grinding scourgestones the last couple days, you may have occasionally noticed a debuff called Chilling Winds and its recommendation to seek comfort at one of the two bonfires back at the Argent Tournament Grounds to counter it.

The current pre-patch brought with it an important lore fight.

When Blizzard first announced a policy update that put limits on multiboxing, even I thought it meant the end.

The Shadowlands pre-expansion event, Death Rising, is now live, complete with a new World Boss: Nathanos Blightcaller.

So, now that we've had a bit of time with the pre-expansion event bridging Battle for Azeroth with Shadowlands, what do we think?