Archaeology

Midnight is officially live, but that doesn't mean that the previous 21 years of World of Warcraft content has gone anywhere -- and if you're anything like me, you have been striking a balance between defending the Sunwell from Xal'atath's invading forces and running decade-old dungeons and quests to farm mounts, achievement, and transmog.

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.

Calm down, this does not mean Blizzard is removing Archaeology from the game the way they removed First Aid.

If you played during the pre-Cataclysm events and in Cataclysm up to the downing of Deathwing on your server, the above photo probably brings back memories -- perhaps not entirely good ones.

World of Warcraft caters to many kinds of playstyles, but not everyone wants to do it all.

In a previous post we talked about the story in Battle for Azeroth and datamined spoilers found by the folks at Wowhead.

Black Morass is quickly becoming my favorite dungeon for the Burning Crusade Timewalking week.

At today's WoW systems panel, developers unleashed a hailstorm of big reveals.

Andrew Reinhard is an experienced archaeologist and an avid gamer.