Affixes

World of Warcraft: The War Within gets the typical batch of new dungeons, but not too much will be changing in dungeons themselves — we're doing the same old thing, just in new places.

With Diablo 4 patch 1.4.0's intense itemization changes, your Eternal characters have stash tabs chock full of the newly-tagged Legacy gear you can no longer upgrade.

Diablo 4 is about to upend itemization with a new philosophy that stresses quality over quantity.

Ever since Blizzard replaced Challenge Modes with Mythic+ dungeons in Legion, there have been pools of affixes -- additional effects like Grievous or Storming that each add additional difficulty to the dungeon beyond just the baseline Mythic+ expectation of "everything has more hit points and hits harder." These affixes rotate on a weekly basis, and to keep it from getting stale, Blizzard changes things from season to season, rotating the available dungeon pool, tweaking existing affixes, and adding a seasonal affix which always appear at keystone level 10 and above.

One of the most persistent complaints among people running Mythic+ dungeons in World of Warcraft is how hard it is to find a tank.

The Diablo development team has been holding to their commitment to communication following the Diablo 4 announcement at BlizzCon.

Lead Systems Designer David Kim came back with the promised post on Diablo 4's itemization, and it does not disappoint.

World of Warcraft has certainly taken its fair share of ideas from the Diablo franchise: random legendary drops, the whole idea of socketing gems into loot -- even the original Classic WoW talent trees were inspired by the skill trees of Diablo 2 but today the tables have turned.

Mythic+ dungeons in World of Warcraft are a great way to challenge your group or get some of the best gear available.

Back at BlizzCon, the World of Warcraft developers teased Keystones as a new approach to Challenge Mode dungeons.