Characters
Character restoration is back in World of Warcraft
The ability to recover a deleted World of Warcraft character was disabled when The War Within pre-patch went live on July 23.
How do you feel about characters being removed from the story?
The current pre-patch brought with it an important lore fight.
The many styles of roleplaying in tabletop RPGs
I run games a lot more than I get to play them, so when I do get to play, I tend to RP as hard as I can.
How much attention do you pay to your characters?
This isn't just a WoW question, but it's a WoW question first.
Tank or healer, ranged or melee — what kind of gameplay do you keep trying to master?
Every so often I try and play a ranged class in Diablo 3 and/or World of Warcraft.
It’s the 11th anniversary of Burning Crusade and “you are not prepared” jokes
Call me old fashioned -- or even Ishmael if you want -- but I miss the style of cinematic The Burning Crusade featured.
Who’s your Blizzard crush?
We get some interesting questions on the podcast-- the email address is [email protected] if you'd like to send us one.
Breakfast Topic: What Overwatch character do you want to play?
We're starting to get a picture of how the various characters in Overwatch will play in combat. Sure, we knew the character abilities before, but each of the gameplay previews shows those abilities in action rather than just in the abstract. It's one thing to be told how McCree or Mercy will act in a match and what their weapons can do, but it's quite another to see them actually taking sides in battle and working with and against the other characters.
Breakfast Topic: Your first character
Blizzard games have been in circulation for a long time, and that can mean it's been while between the time you created your first character and today. Over the years, games change, with classes and balance being endlessly tweaked, and what you once played may not seem like fun in its new incarnation.