Did you know that you can see Cho’gall before the first fight in Highmaul even begins? He’s in the cells behind the elevator — apparently when he traveled to Highmaul after Nagrand, he was thrown in prison. As the elevator lifts you into the arena, Cho’gall starts to laugh. Either he’s gleeful because he knows that stuff is about to go down that will allow him to start his hostile takeover, or he thinks your transmog looks really, really funny. Probably the latter, because Cho’gall has absolutely no manners at all. Or, you know, sanity for that matter.

If you've been wanting to pick up some cool stuff from the Blizzard Gear Store, now is an excellent time to do so.

Yesterday's PAX East panels gave us a peek in to Blizzard's future with new characters for Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm and a brand new adventure mode for Hearthstone.

A small set of hotfixes for patch 6.1 have been released just in time for the weekend. The short list includes a couple of fixes for hunters and shaman and an adjustment to a legacy scenario, as well as a change to cosmetic priority for demonology warlock Metamorphosis.

Looking for something to... Watch tonight? Maybe a Blizzard game of sorts? Come on down to the Blizzard Watch channel! You can watch ol' Matticus here play some Hearthstone. We'll chat a bit about the new Blackrock Mountain adventure mode that was revealed earlier this morning from PAX East!

The latest Hearthside Chat is a pretty cool one, particularly for those interested in the art side of the game. Jon Briggs steps in to discuss the creation and development of golden cards -- the shiny, animated versions of regular cards.

Today we’re going to talk a little bit about the best hunter loot from Blackrock Foundry, touch on stat priorities, and finish things off with a few more questions and answers.

One of the major players in Warlords has been a source of suspicious contention in my mind ever since we got a look at his new model. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the last major player to give us a legendary quest chain was suspicious and shady.

Hi. Welcome to The Queue, where Blizzard Watch answers your questions. Today The Queue is under the control of Matthew Rossi (@matthewwrossi) and here we go.

So last night was my first Blackrock Foundry run, assuming you don’t count LFR (which I’m not) and it was interesting. My DPS went from really bad to sorta okay once I got two Taner’s Terrible Spine‘s off of Gruul. Expect a warrior column about raiding as Single-Minded Fury soon. It’s definitely interesting to gear switch from the days of 25 man heroic raiding to the new normal/heroic flex system – I doubt I’ll even look at mythic this expansion, and I’m fine with that. Getting my alt (who I guess is now my main?) geared up for raiding and getting him into BRF was interesting, it feels a lot like I just started playing WoW after a long break, although I didn’t actually take much of a break.

Anyway, on to your questions.

 

Today's PAX East panel came packed with Heroes of the Storm news, including a new hero, game improvements, and eSports announcements.