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Today, the long-awaited World of Warcraft Classic finally launches.

It's easy to forget that there's a cost for exploring Azeroth along with your friends, guild mates, and enemies.

I was at the Thandol Span.

Update: This was originally published just for our supporters on Patreon, but now it's available for everyone.

It's okay if it's the bee.

Because giant lizard-cats four meters long with saber teeth are awesome, that's why. Inostrancevia was the largest of the gorgonopsids, a suborder of the theriodonts -- the order that included our own direct ancestors and thus, ultimately, us, and one that really deserves a lot more attention in video games.

One of the oldest and most preserved paradigms in World of Warcraft is one it inherited from its predecessors like Ultima Online or EverQuest -- the idea of certain classes being good at one of three primary roles. Tanking, or the art of getting the ire of the various monsters in dungeons focused on you instead of the tasty healer in cloth booties; Healing, the aforementioned person in cloth booties who can channel some form of magic to heal the wounds of their fellow adventurers; and DPS, short for damage per second, a metric that tells you how much damage these players are capable of dealing in a second while fighting said monsters.

When we think of World of Warcraft, one of the main elements of the game that has helped to definite it is that it is, in great part, the story of two factions.

Sometimes it just feels like it needs to be said.

Lately, World of Warcraft patches alternate between x.x and x.x.5, such as the current patch 8.2 and the upcoming patch 8.2.5.