Legion Alpha

There is honestly no substitute for actually getting a class in your hands and playing with it.

Look, we may have successfully cleared Neltharion's Lair on last week's Legion alpha livestream, and we might even be feeling just a little accomplished about that.

Sure, the Burning Legion is invading and likely well on its way to wiping us all out. But that doesn't mean that everything in Legion has to be grim stories of our impending demise — as with every Blizzard game, there's more than a little silliness to be found.

Bugs are a fact of life in video games.

One of the most interesting-sounding dungeons revealed back during Gamescom was the Helheim dungeon, Maw of Souls.

There's only one thing in the Legion alpha where, upon discovering it, I felt in my gut it'll be nerfed before it goes live -- and it isn't the Demon Hunter's double jump or their ability to melt an entire pack of mobs in seconds with their eyebeam.

The return of the Legion alpha came with the addition of the Shaman class, which means there's a new class hall to tour.

Welcome to our new monthly Demon Hunter column, Spectral Insight.

While we'd originally planned to hit up the brand new Violet Hold on the Legion alpha this week in lieu of the usual leveling stream, we quickly discovered that it was a little too out of control to handle.

Look, I know I've mentioned this before.