The Queue: Why am I always tired?
Somehow every time the Queue comes around, I am exhausted and need at least ten naps. Today is no different, so let’s get this show on the road so I can get to work on nap #1.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: New Dragonflight talents, the Wrath Classic launch, and D&D in outer space
This week we discuss the new talent trees that just dropped in the Dragonflight alpha for Holy Paladins and Warlocks, the changes to WoW Classic with Wrath Classic launching next month, and the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition update to the futuristic Spelljammer campaign.
The history of Death Knights leading into Wrath of the Lich King
Before the Frozen Throne crashed into Icecrown, before the lords of the Burning Legion first conceived of a weapon that would scour life from Azeroth, there was only means, motive and opportunity... and a self-serving power hungry Warlock grasping for a tool.
You have a time machine — what would you change about World of Warcraft before it was released?
Yes, I know you'd probably do other stuff with a time machine, but just assume this particular time machine will only allow you to go back and change things about an MMO because its creators were extremely monofocused, okay?
The Queue: Slicing with my Splatana
Well, I had a nice intro written all about Splatoon 3, but then the website logged me out and I lost it. So now, you get this pale imitation of an intro.
…Okay, the original wasn’t all that special anyhow. But it did include a nice tie-in to our first question which I’m just gonna dive righ
As Grease Bot is removed from Hearthstone Battlegrounds, Chromawing and Ysera carry Dragons to the top of the meta
Hearthstone Battlegrounds has an ever-shifting meta, and sometimes the unlikeliest strategies emerge as soon as a previous menace is taken down -- and that's exactly what's going on right now.
What changes would you make to class and race restrictions in World of Warcraft?
I think I've been pretty up-front in saying I don't like class restrictions. Dungeons and Dragons gave them up a long time ago now, and I frankly think it was the right call.
Race and faction changes are coming to Wrath Classic
There's a popular meme with a person seated at a table with the sign "change my mind," and the Wrath of the Lich King Classic developers seem to have taken this idea to heart when listening to feedback about faction changes.
We sat down with professional streamer TouchpadWarrior to talk World of Warcraft, Twitch, and community
Streaming World of Warcraft is something that has become a big business.
The Queue: Jurassic World must be stopped
Not for what they do in the modern world with their resurrected ‘dinosaurs’ that are decades out of date by this point. Featherless Dromaeosaurids? Whatever, it’s dumb, but I can ignore it.



