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Legion Mage Tower challenges are coming back in patch 9.1.5 with unique new rewards

by Matthew Rossi on September 15, 2021 at 2:20pm @MatthewWRossi

Players have wanted the Mage Tower from Legion back ever since it went away at the end of that selfsame expansion, and now Blizzard has confirmed that Mage Tower challenges are returning patch 9.1.5.

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Diablo

How to gear up in Diablo 2: Resurrected

by Matthew Rossi on September 15, 2021 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Gearing up in Diablo 2: Resurrected is at once much easier in concept than in more modern ARPGs, while also being somewhat complicated in terms of discussing the finer points.

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The Queue

The Q: John de Lancie

by Matthew Rossi on September 15, 2021 at 11:59am @MatthewWRossi

Not to be mistaken for a ridiculous conspiracy theory promoting lunatic fringe movement.

This is the Q. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.

Let’s look at some questions.

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Podcast

Lore Watch Podcast 206: Should a Dark Ranger class be introduced to WoW?

by Dan O'Halloran on September 15, 2021 at 11:30am @danoh

This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss their idea of a vacation expansion, the possible link between The Jailer and Argus, and whether Blizzard should consider a Dark Ranger class and its Alliance counterpart.

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Hearthstone

How to get Hearthstone’s secret Gift of Elune card back in just 237 easy steps

by Andrew Powers on September 15, 2021 at 10:00am

With the new card back, Gift of Elune, it seems the Hearthstone dev team thought World of Warcraft wasn't keeping the Secrets Finding Discord community busy enough.

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Diablo

What do you most want to see in Diablo 4?

by Matthew Rossi on September 15, 2021 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

One thing the Diablo series has always been hit or miss on is story -- there are some amazing moments in all three of the current games, but some real clunkers too, and I'm still mad that Leah just gets her body stolen and presumably her soul sent to the Burning Hells and we never do anything to help her or even find out for sure if there's anything left of her.

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WoW

Everything we know about WoW patch 9.1.5 (so far)

by Andrew Powers on September 14, 2021 at 4:00pm

Shadowlands patch 9.1.5 has been on the PTR for a while, and with it comes a lot of quality of life improvements.

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D&D

How DMs can handle unpredictable players and unexpected events in their D&D game

by Matthew Rossi on September 14, 2021 at 3:00pm @MatthewWRossi

I haven't been running as many TTRPG games lately as I'm used to, so when I got to run our latest D&D Spectacular, I very deliberately went into it throwing everything I possibly could at the players.

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The Queue