"Shall we not mention the elekk in the room?" asks submitter Wiccagal of WoW the Musical on Shandris (US-A).

There are a lot of fixes and hero adjustments in today's Heroes of the Storm closed beta patch. The lead story here, as it always is when he's involved, is that Kael'thas Sunstrider will be available to play when the servers come up.

A thread on the World of Warcraft forums was brought to the attention of Lead Game Designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas regarding the legendary ring. Why did the developers go for a raidwide effect instead of providing individual bonuses? Why does someone else get to be in charge of when the ring activates? Why isn't the ring fair or balanced for this spec versus that spec?

I prefer traveling by ground over flying.

Join us as we recap all of last week's news, features, and columns!

A short set of hotfixes for patch 6.1.2 have been released today, including two changes that paladin players may want to make note of.

Join us tonight at 11 p.m. EDT / 8 p.m. PDT for a live recording of the Blizzard Watch podcast! We'll talk about news from around all of Blizzard's games and answer reader questions we curated from the post last week. We'll also be taking questions directly from the chat channel, Twitter, and comments here.

Zen Meditation is your twice-a-month look at the monk. In previous weeks we have looked at Brewmaster and Mistweaver, meaning that this week is Windwalker's turn.

Heroes Nexus has datamined a great deal of information on the Heroes of the Storm open beta and launch patch. This includes both the full ability and talent set for the new unannounced tank from the Diablo franchise -- Johanna, Crusader of Zakarum -- and the next hero to be released, Kael'thas, The Sun King.

It's natural for avid players of one of the most popular existing MOBAs, League of Legends, to be curious about Blizzard's upcoming Heroes of the Storm. This is a brief look at some of the similarities & differences between the games, so League players know what to expect.