What’s the strangest wish you have for a Blizzard game?
Every time I play Heroes of the Storm, I immediately regret how terrible I am at it.
Speed up your mount with Carrot on a Stick, get rid of bleeds with a Luffa, and other great trinkets in WoW Classic
As we dive into WoW Classic, we're discovering a lot of things we'd long forgotten.
The Queue: If we could go back in time, we’d be able to right this wrong
This month’s Splatfest was Teleportation vs. Time Travel. I was far too busy on Saturday to participate, sadly… which may explain why the wrong side won. That said, this one was tougher than I initially expected.
Why? The fact that time travel is up against teleportation inherently implies that you can ONLY time travel from your current location. Most versions of time travel I’ve seen in sci-fi have allowed people to teleport as they time travel. If you can’t do that, it’s a little less exciting — but it’s still better.
Oh well. Let’s Queue.
WoW Classic has its first stress test Wednesday, May 22
If you've been paying attention, the road to WoW Classic has been moving pretty fast -- it's been roughly a week since the August 26/27 release date was announced and the beta test started in earnest a day later.
What would a different World of Warcraft progression look like?
One of the speculative posts I saw online in the wake of last week's tease by J.
Off Topic: Movies with Mikey has changed the way I look at movies like John Wick
I love movies.
The Queue: A haunting reminder
Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!
A stroll around Boralus had me stumbling upon an auction that brought back a flood of memories. Who here remembers the original Haunted Memento? Originally introduced during the Scourge Invasion event that heralded the arrival of Naxxramas in patch 1.11, it gave players the Haunted buff, which would cause a Scourge Haunt to follow you around. You could also throw it to other players, which would immediately trigger the /cower animation on them. In patch 6.0, it was nerfed to trigger a random 15 second haunting instead of a constant ghostly companion. Why? Weirdly enough, because the ghost was the number one source of creature spawns in the game, and it was causing server performance degradation.
That’s a powerful ghost. Let’s get to your questions!
What do you think of Diablo’s Seasonal play?
I personally love when Diablo 3 does a new Season -- it gives me an excuse to create a new alt and/or rebirth one of my current Barbarians.
Off Topic: On the Game of Thrones series finale, we find out if the game can ever truly have a winner
Do not read this post or its comments if you don't want spoilers for the Game of Thrones series finale. It was never going to be easy to end Game of Thrones.
Off Topic: What is a stem mammal?
Amazingly, my inner paleontology nerd gets excited about things that aren't dinosaurs.
