This week, we'll be storming the gates of Blackwing Lair! I managed to do that already during classic and then followed up on that during Cataclysm. I did take the liberty of unlocking the normal wing and getting through the class challenges early since I have a feeling I'm going to need more time (along with your help) to solve heroics.

Now, this is still fairly early in the patch cycle, so it's hard to make assumptions based on these notes. Big changes could pop up at any time. But as things stand right now, apparently Blizzard thinks warriors are pretty well off going into patch 6.2. And the thing is, I'd probably have to agree with them. Warriors work, for the most part.

One could argue that by the end of the events that play out in 6.0 and 6.1, the Iron Horde has been effectively shut down, backs against the wall, leaving them with no other apparent alternative than to turn to tactics they weren't originally going to use. But the one thing we haven't done is really look at the situation and ask ourselves -- why the Iron Horde to begin with?

Blizzard's first Heroes of the Storm collegiate tournament, Heroes of the Dorm, is heading into the finals this weekend with top four teams and a lot of fanfare and some controversy.

Plate armor as we think of it really only existed for 300 or so years, from the early 1400’s to the end of the 1600’s. There were earlier experiments in armor like the lorica segmentata and some ancient Greek cuirass that were sculpted to look like idealized male chests, but for the most part the idea of head to toe metal armor was too impractical, too hot in many places (the fertile crescent area where Sumeria and Assyria lay, for example, or ancient Egypt) or too metal scarce (a full set of bronze armor like that would have been fairly expensive) to really produce. It wasn’t until very late in the Medieval period that suits of chain mail began to be superseded by suits where mail backing was worn with some plate over it, and just the cost of that was fairly onerous – you only see full plate armor rising when the medieval system of feudalism had produced rich enough landowners to bear the cost of so extravagant a set of armor. This is why some of the best preserved examples of plate armor we have today were the suits worn by kings and emperors, such as the header image, which was a suit belonging to King Henry VIII of England.

I realize that WoW is a fantasy game, and not a ‘real historically accurate simulation’ game, but I still find it interesting to compare the real thing to our fantasy version of it.

Anyway, questions and answers.

Submitter Mortanix of Mature Content on Whisperwind (US-A) writes, "After watching the newest trailer for Jurassic World and seeing Chris Pratt's character riding with raptors at his side, I was so impressed with how cool the idea of hunting with a pack of raptors would be that I went to Gorgrond, tamed a beautiful emerald raptor, and got myself a pack of raptors ready to take on the jungles of Tanaan! Look out Iron Horde! I'm bringing the heat: Jurassic style!"

So how is your Season 3 going? Are you chasing leaderboards and Conquest achievements or are you just gunning for a level 70 to complete the seasonal transmogrification set?

The release date for the Warcraft movie has been rescheduled, according to a tweet from Legendary Pictures.

How much time do you actually spend thinking about inns? I mean, they're just there.

In World of Warcraft, "hardcore" is a term often found opposite "casual" in those heated debates about whether time spent should be equal to rewards received. But in Diablo 3, "hardcore" isn't a player-generated term to describe other players -- Hardcore is a specific game mode.