Battle For Azeroth

If you're a transmog fiend, it's okay, you're among friends here -- there's no shame in wanting pretty outfits.

The Collector's Bounty buff is currently active in World of Warcraft until July 29 at 8AM pacific time that boosts the drop rates of rare mounts and transmogs from all raids and dungeons in legacy WoW content, aka, everything before Dragonflight. Mount drop rates have been increased by up to 10 times, and in one specific (yet unknown) case, 25 times, and the transmog drop rates have been doubled.

With the release of patch 11.0.7, in addition to heading to the Siren Isle to advance the main story of The War Within, those of us who are completionists and achievement hunters will hopping into portals that take us back to Zandalar and Kul Tiras to do a new Battle for Azeroth achievement.

Now that early access for The War Within has launched, you doubtless want to get to Khaz Algar as quickly as you can.

Hidden in the recent World of Warcraft Dragonflight 10.2.7 patch were long-awaited changes to many Battle for Azeroth raids to make them easier for solo raiders to finish achievements and farm transmog.

World of Warcraft has been out since 2004.

I'll be up front -- I thought the Mission Table was the best innovation in Warlords of Draenor. Now, many years later, the news that it won't be in Dragonflight fills me with a kind of joy I wasn't aware I was capable of feeling -- a boisterous, almost terrifyingly primal exultation, like unto that you would expect to feel just before you started singing and a musical number just sort of happens.

The first Allied Races we got were unlockable by doing Legion content, and the others all required Battle for Azeroth unlocks, which means as of Dragonflight we're talking two or three expansions ago. World of Warcraft certainly seems to be trying to make leveling easier and more streamlined, but that also makes those older expansion unlocks for Allied Races more and more extraneous, in my opinion.

With the arrival of the final Shadowlands patch, World of Warcraft has officially entered its pre-expansion lull, and while the Dragonflight alpha is chugging along, many players tend to farm old expansions during the downtime, looking to pick up collectibles and transmogs they may have missed the first time around.

I'm generally pretty down for storylines in my games that swing the focus as wide and cinematic as it can get. Legion, for example, was a story I really enjoyed -- the invasion of Azeroth by a vast, world-spanning host of demons which led to a showdown on a planet seething with fel corruption between a Pantheon of beings on the scale of gods and their fallen former champion, who sought to potentially destroy our whole world.