Legion

There has been a lot of talk since the first announcement of Legion about preserving or re-defining the fantasy of the classes and specs.

There are a lot of things in World of Warcraft that exist solely for game mechanic reasons: portals that traverse alternate universes, hearthstones, raid and dungeon finders, death knights.

Last month, I talked about the history of Shadow Priest gameplay and how it’s evolved over the course of World of Warcraft’s lifespan.

At this point, we know virtually nothing concrete about the future of pet battling when the next World of Warcraft expansion, Legion, goes live.

Blizzard makes it sound like Legion is going to feature a real push at redesigning the specs to make them more fun and to better capture the class fantasy of each. This is a very excellent thing, and very long overdue. While Protection Paladins are in an ok place, they could be so much better. Our spell effects could be better looking and more impactful, our abilities could have more of a “pow” to them, and our rotation could be tweaked to make it more fun to execute. It’s time for the traditional pre-expansion wishlist – let’s plunk ourselves down on Great-father Winter’s lap and see what we can dream up.

I've recently begun running a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and one of my players is playing a cleric.

Gul'dan has a long and storied history in World of Warcraft -- after all, his betrayal of Ner'zhul and subsequent takeover of the original Horde is what brought the Orcs to Azeroth in the first place.

Sitting in the audience of the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2011, I found myself absolutely mesmerized by the idea of the Monk class to be introduced in Mists of Pandaria.

I'll never forget a Hunter that I quested with in Stonetalon Mountains one evening in December 2004.

I can't be the only one looking at the events of Legion and thinking 'okay, then what?' Because really, what happens after the biggest demonic invasion in Azeroth's history?