Maldraxxus

Look, we're all feeling it when we're desperately trying to claw up enough Anima to hit the 1000 Anima a week for our Covenant, and frankly, it gets kind of tedious after a while.

Now that I have two characters at 60 and have started catching up on Renown -- level 6 today yay -- I'm really coming to realize I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when it came to getting my Covenant systems in place.

In Shadowlands, there were aspects I was looking forward to, and aspects I was not.

Ah, the first week after an expansion has released.

I admit it: Despite Jellycat existing, I hated Maldraxxus for months.

So yeah, my wife and I finally got to run around in Bastion and even got some Maldraxxus in last night, and we’re both level 55 heading towards the final stretch. Leveling definitely feels less painful this time around, which I think is an excellent thing — I expect when I get to my alts, I might just level them through the questing again, it’s been fun.

Some actual lines from our time playing together include “She’s awfully proud of her job as Death’s mall cop” and “Who would ever want to come here? No one. No one wants to come here, but we’re stuck here so we might as well make the best of the blasted, undead choked hellscape.”

It's been a while since we had a linear leveling experience in World of Warcraft, where the game's story took you from Zone A to Zone B with no decision on your part. Warlords of Draenor had a single starting zone for each faction, but you could more or less decide which zone to go to next after that, while Legion and Battle for Azeroth both allowed you to pick and choose which zone you wanted to run.

It's not every day you see Warcraft show up on Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-want-for-books-and-or-games site that lets you choose how to distribute your payment, with part of the proceeds benefitting a wide variety of charities.

Kael'thas Sunstrider is famous for being a boss in The Burning Crusade — twice.

Unlike Uther, Draka's presence in Maldraxxus is no secret.