How many times have you seen a player saying in trade chat, "bring back Valor Points," as a solution to help people bridge the gap between RNG and that 158 ilevel ring they're still using?

I lost interest in WoW Classic pretty early on. I’ve been there and I’ve done that and I decided I didn’t feel I needed to put myself through it again. But Burning Crusade Classic? I had so many good times back then. I loved Karazhan. I thoroughly enjoyed the design of Holy Paladins, who weren’t good at a lot of things, but were excellent single-target healers who never ran out of mana and basically could not be killed. (Today healers are very homogenized and it doesn’t feel like anyone is tremendously good at anything.) My main right now is the same main I had in TBC.

A couple of days ago I went into some TBC raids to grab some screenshots for an article, and I wound up getting the last key pieces of what used to be the gear set I wore in TBC. I sold that gear well before transmog came around, so the appearances had been lost to time. I rushed to the transmog vendor and I put on that appearance and the wave of delight that washed over me is hard to explain.

Now I’m thinking that even though I didn’t have time for Classic, I might have time for TBC Classic. Or I might have to find the time.

Wow, that was a long intro. Let’s Queue, people.

This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss how addons may have slowed development of new UI features, the idea of Animamancer class, and if faction-based storylines should be in every expansion.

After years of riding the game's flight paths on majestic Gryphons and lithe Windriders, players would take the reins themselves in Burning Crusade.

This may sound like a weird thing to ask, but I've been thinking about Diablo 4 and how the Action-RPG has evolved over the years, and how the storytelling on games like Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 centers the player and their choices.

I’ve now done all of the Cyberpunk 2077 endings. My canon one for my V is the one with the Aldecaldos, but I like them all, except the really sad one. You’ll know which one if you’ve played it. Anyway, here’s V in space.

So, what’re y’all up to?

I've been thinking about those Blazing Ingots again.

Welcome back friends, to the interplanar circus of horrors and delights that is our current Blizzard Watch D&D campaign!

In case you didn't know -- and I say this because I didn't -- there's been a change to the Blazing Ingot daily quest in the Maw that makes an already tedious experience painful to the point of futility.

I’ve done two of the five (or six? I hear conflicting things) endings so far and I’m working on a third, just to get to see them, before going back to completing the entire world, which is going to take me a very long time. I just found Johnny’s old car, which was fun.

Anyway, it’s the Queue, and I’m wondering if Diablo 2: Resurrected will be out by my birthday. Since that’s in December, I hope so.