I’m not sure what exactly the map on the Horde war table is tracking exactly, but the little x’s and arrows and illegible writing is kind of fascinating to me. I wonder if the Alliance side has different areas marked out? I think I should pay a visit to my Alliance alt again and do some leveling, maybe.

When the latest Recruit-a-Friend mount in WoW was announced this week we had to wonder how many people are out there who are interested in WoW but have never played or even tried it. Really, just who's left to recruit?

The perfect transmog is hard to come by, a labor of love created by sifting through World of Warcraft's countless armor sets and color schemes to land on the one true transmog that suits your character (and hopefully doesn't require mythic raiding).

Welcome to Blood Pact, Blizzard Watch’s regular column for affliction, demonology, and destruction warlocks.

One of the tricky parts about creating a character in Warcraft is the subject of age -- just how old should your character feasibly be?

I was really upset to hear about Leonard Nimoy’s passing yesterday — I grew up watching Star Trek. A lot of you asked in the comments from yesterday if we thought he’d get an in game tribute. Well, technically he already has one, and it’s been there since vanilla, down in Gnomeregan. Of course, he should be wearing a blue shirt and not a red one — I mean come on, everyone knows Spock’s always been a science officer and blue has been for science and medical since the beginning and yes I am a gigantic nerd thank you.

Let’s get to some Warcraft questions.

The first annual Raid Against Rare Diseases will feature a live raid with WoW-playing celebs including Swifty, Michele Morrow, Kristian Nairn, Jesse Cox, Crendor, and Bobak Ferdowsi (whom you may be familiar with as "the NASA guy with awesome hair"). Tune in at 10AM Pacific!

Sure, the challenge of heroics can be fun — and challenge modes, in particular, are a great way to push your abilities. But running heroic dungeons for gear? It's very hard to recommend.

A new set of hotfixes have gone out this evening, and a new set of notes have been released. These hotfixes are in addition to the new patch build that was released earlier today, and include several bug fixes and garrison adjustments as well as a few tweaks to old dungeons and a few items.

The Hearthstone ESL Legendary Series season 1 was held last month and culminated into an exciting finals finish last weekend. The stakes? It starts with a $20000 prize pool.