No matter how many moving parts an encounter has, how it is ultimately tanked can be boiled down to one of a few formulas that Blizzard repeats over and over again when designing fights. As human beings, one of our evolutionary survival skills is recognizing patterns – many times, if you're like me, you'll be tanking a new encounter and think to yourself “hang on, I've seen this before.”

With a single iconic line and a very short, fiery video, the Heroes of the Storm team has announced Kael'thas as the latest Hero to join the fray in the Nexus.

This week begins the Darkmoon Faire, which runs from from May 3 until May 10th.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments and we may choose it for tomorrow’s edition!

For today’s Queue, I am entirely sourcing all of the questions from yesterday’s Queue. No Twitter, no emails, no nothing. Let’s see what happens. Oh, and that header image is from The Death and Return of Superman and it’s totally a Blizzard game. No, really, it is. And it was actually a pretty good game, too.

"Tonight I was extremely lucky in looting the Solar Spirehawk from Rukhmar," writes submitter Marconin of Convert to Raid Galleon on Aerie Peak (US-A).

My relationship with World of Warcraft mirrors that of many others, I'd imagine.

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.

Blizzard reminded everyone this week that their legendary BlizzCon 2015 contests will be open for sign up soon. But, more importantly, that you should start now on your entry.

As Alex mentioned in his post, this week we're going to do a series on what's going on behind the scenes at Blizzard Watch.

Welcome to the 12th episode of Blizzard Watch's podcast! This week it's reader emails and details about patch 6.2.