Island Expeditions

With the arrival of the final Shadowlands patch, World of Warcraft has officially entered its pre-expansion lull, and while the Dragonflight alpha is chugging along, many players tend to farm old expansions during the downtime, looking to pick up collectibles and transmogs they may have missed the first time around.

I'm a transmog junkie, and I love farming for older looks I missed for various reasons from I didn't run that content when it was current to the blasted thing just refuses to drop and so, World of Warcraft patch 9.1.5 is a bit of a delight for me, with several nerfs to Legion raids and the debut of solo queues for Island Expeditions.

Yes, that's right -- in patch 9.1.5 you'll be able to solo queue for Island Expeditions, so you'll be able to run Expeditions by yourself or with up to two friends rather than having to wait for others to queue up.

With patch 8.3 arriving tomorrow, there are several things you can do now to get a running start with respect to loot, your Heart of Azeroth, and grinding your Auction House rivals into a fine paste.

Island Expeditions have gone through a few changes over the course of Battle for Azeroth. Blizzard has had a hard time figuring out the best way for us to get our shiny rewards from Islands.

Over the course of 15 years of World of Warcraft, we've fought a lot of things -- big things, little things, some things as big as your head.

Did you ever wait for something for so long, the waiting made it so whatever you were waiting for couldn’t possibly measure up? The anticipation was almost better, almost more fun, than the thing you ultimately ended up with? Where — even if you weren’t excited to begin with — the period you spent waiting meant you just built up the experience in your head so that the reality ended up falling flat?

Just asking for a friend.

As a raider, I've always felt the pressure to do certain things in WoW.

Recently, I spent some time Tweet-musing over what a Creative Mode in World of Warcraft could look like, and how it could be tied to the game itself.

At the beginning of December, Blizzard announced changes coming to Island Expeditions with the release of Patch 8.1.