The Mage Tower was one of the more popular features from the Legion expansion, but it was still a surprise when the World of Warcraft development team announced its return to coincide with Legion Timewalking.

With the new novel Sylvanas coming out on March 29 -- that's today as I'm writing this -- Blizzard Watch managed to talk to its author, Christie Golden, a name that looms large in not just Warcraft novel tie ins, but through a career spanning 60 novels for multiple franchises.

Raiding in World of Warcraft has seen a lot of ups and downs over the years, starting off as a massive undertaking that required up to 40 people and evolving through the 10 and 25 man raid sizes of The Burning Crusade up into the current flexible/ 20 player Mythic sizes we have today.

A game's launch -- the period of time in which it first becomes available for widespread play -- is one of the most important for that game's overall reputation, and many factors can impact whether or not that crucial event goes smoothly.

We may not be World First raiders but my guild has been doing pretty well in Sepulcher. We took a bit of a slower start to the tier than usual, spending a little more time in Normal than we normally do to get a few extra tier pieces for people and last night we finally saw some good progress into Heroic. We cleared all the way up through to Halondrus in just three hours, getting first kills on the Prototype Pantheon, Lihuvim, and Xy’mox 2: Portal Boogaloo. We even managed to knock a bunch of time off of our best Dausegne kill. It turns out that getting powerful upgrades like second legendary items and tier set bonuses really helps… go figure!

Then came Halondrus.

While he may not be as tough on Heroic as he is on Mythic, it’s possible that he may take us a few more attempts than the last few bosses…

While I look up some good recipes for crab cakes, it’s time for — The Queue.

The Race to World First for Sepulcher of the First Ones is now all but complete after over two weeks of sprinting to the finish.

World of Warcraft has embraced Borrowed Power systems repeatedly since 2016's Legion expansion, to the point where both Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have had multiple such systems within them.

Echo has once again finished first in the Race to World First by killing the Mythic Jailer after 277 pulls!

Unlike most weeks, this week actually went by fairly quickly!

There are so many threats lurking in our homes, and only our brave puppers can keep us safe from the danger.