Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: World of Warcraft: Legion is officially in alpha testing stage.

I read Sam Sykes’ latest novel, The City Stained Red, in part because his earnest writing advice involved eating a raccoon, and that was just too sensible to pass up.

The datamining teams have already started digging into spell changes for the upcoming beta for Legion, including a look at what's in store for Monks. Moving forward with this post keep at the front of your mind that this is an extremely early view.

It’s Monday again, which means today’s Queue might be a short’un.

For anyone still on the edge of their seats about the fate of Pirate Pepe, submitter Fraddian of The Scryers (EU-A) is happy to report that Pepe and his night elf host have conquered the underworld of Booty Bay and are now enjoying a relaxing retirement.

Wowhead just datamined more Legion Legendaries than you can shake a stick at.

Welcome to week two of the League of Explorers! Reno and company need your help in their quest to assemble the Staff of Origination.

Welcome to the 9th episode of Lore Watch!

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I miss the Crowleys. When last we saw either of them, Darius had just agreed to surrender Gilneas City in exchange for his daughter Lorna’s safety, and got the heck out of there before waiting to see what Sylvanas would do next. Since then, we haven’t heard a peep from either one of them. Given that Genn is listed on the Legion cast page, I’m kind of hoping we’ll see both Darius and Lorna make a reappearance — I think Lorna would make an excellent Outlaw. I mean come on, she’s the daughter of a rebel leader and we already know she’s handy with a shotgun, I bet she’s a crack shot with a pistol. And I’m interested in whether or not she demanded she be affected with the Worgen curse just to avoid that whole being risen as Forsaken thing, whether her father continued to try and keep her out of harm’s way, or what exactly happened to them both.