Welcome, shapeshifting friends! It’s great to be back. Once again, I am amazed at the community that this site shares, and am immensely grateful to be able to contribute to it. I’m going to steal the Queue’s format for this week and devote this column solely to your questions; going forward, let me know what you want to see! Q&A? Guides? Detailed analysis? Diatribes against the gear-stealing, death-feigning, class-who-will-not-be-named? Leave a comment, let me know!

Blackrock Foundry normal and heroic modes have been live since early this month, and mythic opened just this week — so now that many players have had a chance to jump in, let's talk about our raiding success (or lack thereof).

Hello! Today on Blizzard Watch, we’re going to take a look at how to build decks in Hearthstone. Deckbuilding is one of the core skills needed in order to progress up the ranks to Legend, and unfortunately, it’s not covered in the in-game tutorial. In this guide, I’ll show you how you can create your own effective Hearthstone deck, and explain some common Hearthstone terminology in the process. Ready? Let’s begin. The very first step you’ll want to take is to pick what theme your deck will have. Essentially, what strategy is your deck going to use to win the game? There are five basic themes (often called types or win conditions) that your deck can choose from.

Warlords of Draenor brought to the table a lot of new story that all roleplayers can use and play with, but it also brought a pretty unique opportunity for both draenei and orc roleplayers. Because this expansion is taking place in an alternate universe version of Draenor, orc and draenei roleplayers now have the chance to play in a world of "what-if." What if your character is not from Azeroth, but in fact originated on this version of Draenor? What if you have two versions of the character you've been playing all along -- the Azeroth version, and the Draenor version? What if the two of them meet?

Welcome to Blood Pact, Blizzard Watch's regular column for affliction, demonology, and destruction warlocks. This week, your hostess Megan O'Neill (@_poneria) accepts her soulstone resurrection and rejoins the class column raid...with a loot list.

Heroes of the Storm's previously announced Love is in the Air-themed Love Bug Anub'arak skin is now available for purchase.

I said hey -- what's going on?

Whether you love or hate PvP, Carbot understands your woes, and the latest episode of WowCraft shows us how to cope — or maybe how not to cope — with corpse campers when you're just trying to mine an ore node.

Season 2 has arrived in Diablo 3, which means it's time to roll a brand-new character and get to leveling so you can climb the seasonal leaderboards. If you've been away from the game for a while, seasons are designed to lure you back in, offering a fresh start and a chance to earn for season-specific loot and achievements. Are the new toys of season 2 enough to get you back into the game?

Another day, another set of updates to the patch notes for the patch 6.1 PTR. Tonight's patch notes, which are likely closing in on their final iteration ,include a number of class balance tweaks, so you'll want to read carefully to see just what's in store for your character come 6.1.