If you've been playing WoW for long, you know downtime is a fact of life.

Another day, another major DDoS attack against Blizzard and the network providers that handle traffic to their games.

Welcome to episode 31 of Lore Watch!

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If you haven’t already been gawping at the sheer gorgeousness of the scenery on the Broken Isles, maybe you should. It’s got an astounding amount of detail, like the delicately painted rocks in Eye of Azshara shown above. I keep running into all these delicate little touches here and there, and it’s just making the entire expansion a visual treat along with being, you know, incredibly fun to play.

"My main, a Blood Elf Priest, happened to levitate off a large building in a Vyrkul settlement in Stormheim and landed on a lamp post," writes submitter Enoreth of Maximum Pwnage on Earthen Ring (US-H).

Towards the end of Warlords, I wasn't playing very much WoW — and I suspect many of you were in the same boat.

On this week's leveling stream, one member of the team was out on vacation, but a quick trip to the group finder for a healer was enough to get us into the Eye of Azshara to successfully chase down the first Pillar of Creation.

The Alliance may have a lot to think about plot-wise this expansion, but the Horde has just as much going on – and none of it is particularly happy.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

The good news: Hattie the Hunter finally tracked down Titanstrike and has her second Artifact weapon. The not-so-good news: It’s probably a good thing that she has a second spec, because trying to add any points to her bow results in…nothing. I click on it, it phases me out. Relogging doesn’t fix it. Turning off addons doesn’t fix it. Uh…I guess this means no more bow for Miss Hattie? At least she’s got a lightning wolf I guess.