Legion

I was pretty excited when Legion was announced at Gamescom 2015.

Today starting at 1PM CDT there's a scheduled World of Warcraft: Legion Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, and we're here to liveblog it.

In between all fighting all the demonic forces the Legion has to offer, there are hints to be found at what might be coming next. The most logical of these? A new player race we’re now intimately familiar with – the Shal’dorei.

Deciding which healing trinkets to use is always an interesting minigame.

The concept of destiny is a powerful thing in World of Warcraft.

Both Patagotitan and Argentinosaurus are contenders for ‘biggest thing ever to walk on land’ with Patagotitan estimated at 40 meters long vs. Argentinosaurus’ 35 meter estimate, but Patagotitan is estimated at around 85 tons vs. Argentinosaurus’ 98 tons. Patagotitan is known from fairly complete remains (roughly 150 bones all told) while Argentinosaurus is more fragmentary. Based on the completeness of the skeleton and the estimated length, I’d say for right now Patagotitan is the reigning champion of big dinosaurs, but they’re close relatives and both were massive animals, members of the South American Titanosaurs.

Speaking of Titanosaurs, say hello to Shingopana. A recently discovered African Titanosaur and a relative of the South American branch of the family. Shingopana’s existence is a testimonial to the plate tectonics that tore Africa and South America apart around 96 million years ago.

Anyway, this is the Queue. I haven’t talked about dinosaurs in a while, so I wanted to.

Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong.

I am probably pretty unusual in this because I really don't want anything like a new expansion announced at Gamescom.

We're in that part of Legion's life cycle when we begin speculating on what's next, and more importantly, when we'll find out.

Without going into spoilers, it looks to me like patch 7.3 is going to have some fairly robust systems that will take a while to exhaust, such as the Netherlight Crucible and Relic Customization.