Hellfire Citadel

With the launch of patch 6.2 imminent, it’s time to take a look at what Blizzard has in store for the three hunter specs in Hellfire Citadel. What spec will come out on top?

Hello and welcome to Shadow Word! If you’re reading this, it means that you've either been patiently awaiting the Shadow column or you’re a newcomer and about to switch to the best class in the game. Either one makes me happy, so let’s not waste any time getting to what really makes World of Warcraft worth logging into: Shadow!

There are a lot of new battle pets headed our way for patch 6.2. We've covered them in shorter posts as they were discovered, but now that 6.2 is imminent, here's a full list of all the new pets coming your way and how you can get your own.

Blizzard has revealed the release schedule for the upcoming Hellfire Citadel raid!

In patch 6.2, Retribution has some minor changes, awesome tier bonuses, and a handful of fun encounters in Hellfire Citadel to look forward to.

This week will see some targeted testing in store for the Hellfire Citadel raid on the patch 6.2 PTR. A new build is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and as a result there should be some raid testing on Wednesday, June 10.

One of the things I've loved this expansion is playing a draenei in it. Getting to see what Draenor looked like before the orcs committed genocide on the draenei has been awesome, and the draenei story in Shadowmoon Valley and Talador (including Auchindoun) was one of my favorite parts of any expansion. In fact, some of my disappointment with the game's max level content has been a lack of continuation of that very story. We got to see Yrel become an Exarch, and that I was happy about, but aside from that I've really felt like we've missed out. I wanted a raid where I helped the Sha'tar retake Shattrath, for example. I wanted to get to see what's going on up at Farahlon. I'm hopeful we'll still get to see this stuff, because for me all the quality story beats in Warlords of Draenor have been the draenei

Now that the Public Test Realms (PTR) have the Hellfire Citadel trinkets available for testing, let's take a look! There's a pretty good mix this tier -- some straightforward stat pieces, some funky proc/on-use ones, and a few really creative ones that should be a lot of fun to play with.

We take a close look at the Warlock trinkets coming to World of Warcraft in patch 6.2.

The hunter trinkets in Warlords so far have been your standard fare -- passive stats with a proc of some kind. They’re nice DPS boosts but there’s not much fun to be had. Thankfully, things are looking a little more interesting in patch 6.2. Hellfire Citadel has 4 trinkets for hunters, and I was recently able to test them out on the PTR.