Azeroth

If you're not familiar with a Tinfoil Hat edition of Know Your Lore, here's the deal.

In patch 7.3.5, Broken Shore-style level scaling will be implemented for all previous content, with the old-world Azeroth all scaling to a max of level 60, Outland and Northrend scaling to a max of 80, and Cataclysm content scaling with Pandaria up to level 90.

Click onward for post-Antorus spoilers.

Spoiler Warning: This post is about the ending cinematic for Antorus, the Burning Throne.

One of the big new systems coming in with Battle for Azeroth is the Heart of Azeroth.

Last week Blizzard released the three part Alleria and Turalyon audio drama, A Thousand Years of War.

Wowhead has pulled some new voice files out of the recent patch 7.3.2 PTR and ... Guys, if we go any further into this I gotta get this spoiler warning out of the way. Because it's big. Spoilers. Teasing the next expansion. You shouldn't read any further unless you want that.

Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong.

The pre-patch 7.3 festivities have started, leading us into the events that will take us to Argus when the patch goes live.

I’m still having a lot of fun on my WoW vacation playing Diablo 3. I know as soon as 7.3 drops I’m back to Azeroth, if only to immediately go to Argus, but until them I’m excitedly killing stuff with a big honking weapon and a lot of twirling.

A lot of people tell me that Barb is the weakest class in Diablo 3, and for all I know it may be true. It’s certainly disheartening to see so much talk about it. But with the complete Wrath of the Wastes set, my WW hits for 800% damage and I have enough Life on Hit and Life per Fury Spent to basically twirl my way through just about anything. I don’t have either the Istvan or Bul-Kathos swords yet, but in the meantime my Ancient Legendary is doing pretty solid damage and when I need to generate Fury (which isn’t often because my WW generates Fury for every target it hits) I have Frenzy with the legendary power of activating every single Frenzy rune at once, so yeah, I’m having a ball.

Frankly, I feel like I’m going to be sad when I have to go back to my Warrior after playing this ballerina of death.

Anyway, it’s the Queue. Let’s talk Blizzard.