Breakfast Topic

In Diablo 3, I love Whirlwind on my Barbarian.

Will they announce a new Diablo III expansion at gamescom, at PAX, or even at BlizzCon? Are they working on one? What will it be? Will it have a new class and if so, what should it be? (My argument on this week's podcast was that it should be some variation on the Diablo II druid.) But the more I think about a Diablo III expansion, the more I wonder if what we really, ultimately want, is Diablo IV or perhaps even something else entirely set in the Diablo universe.

Pepe, the little feathered dynamo who perches in your garrison, is getting an assortment of four cute little costumes of his own in patch 6.2. Beyond these 4, which ones are you just dying to have for your own Pepe?

I wrote a post about the WoW Token, and the comments had some interesting ideas. One of them was that we could expand what the token does - you could extend the token or make a new token for things like character transfers, race changes, faction transfers and so on. Allowing people to use their in-game gold more flexibly and allowing people to select the kind of services they spent their real life money to trade in, especially after the initial burst of token activity is over and most people that are going to do it have bought game time.

Azeroth Armory debuted yesterday, featuring Warcraft weapons created in real life by master blacksmith Tony Swatton.

I'm not a huge fan of Harrison Jones. I liked him well enough in Wrath of the Lich King -- he was a funny one-off gag. But then we had Cataclysm, and Uldum happened, and I really cannot forgive Harrison for taking up so much screen time that could have been devoted to the tol'vir, who were far, far more interesting.

Copious amounts of time off? Clearly you will be playing as much as you can. But which games?

I'm not asking if leveling is too easy, I'm asking if it's too divorced from what we're expected to do at max level. One of the things that limits console RPG's from getting too much ability bloat is the limitation of the control interface, but MMO's like WoW pack on the abilities - even after the pretty significant trim that we saw in Warlords of Draenor a max level characters interface can have upwards of twenty regularly used buttons on it.

I didn't really work on pet battles all that much in Mists of Pandaria.

Looking back over the course of Warlords of Draenor, one thing I really expected that didn't happen at all is that I thought Shattrath would be a raid, instead of an outdoor zone for garrison daily quests.