Dungeons

It's finally here!

In the WoW Archivist column, we take you back in time to another era of the game. In patch 6.2, Blizzard is offering a way to do that literally.

Let's just get one thing very honest and straight here: vote kicks have not helped fix the community or group content.

If every patch had to include one specific addition to the game, what would that one thing be?

There is in fact a reasonable amount of stuff to do at max level. So how come it doesn't feel like there is? Why do I, and so many other players, feel disconnected from the world that I just demonstrated is available to us? I think there are two basic problems at max level right now.

One of the constant discussions I've seen in my time covering World of Warcraft is that the game has a host of older content that is still fun and interesting and visually well designed, and all of that legacy content is sadly irrelevant as soon as the next expansion comes along. Well, one of the features of patch 6.2 that aims to change that is Timewalking. And Timewalking seems set to make us actually want to run older content again.

I've been running a lot of retro raids for pets lately, and it's got me feeling nostalgic for the raids of old.

I run one or two dungeons a day. I used to run more, but once my gear got better than anything in them, it wasn't really worth the effort beyond the dose of garrison resources, and now I'm mostly running that second one out of pure stubbornness.

Sure, the challenge of heroics can be fun — and challenge modes, in particular, are a great way to push your abilities. But running heroic dungeons for gear? It's very hard to recommend.