Shadowlands

Shadowlands is bringing back the class fantasy feeling of Legion, so much that they cheekily called it "The Unpruning" — undoing the "surgical pruning" that had been happening since Warlords of Draenor.

This week, we found out that Void and Blood Elves were getting a series of customization options that would include skin tones and glowing blue eyes that would allow either to look like a Warcraft II-era High Elf.

In a surprise news post, Blizzard has shared some very exciting new customization options for the Elves of Azeroth -- whether they serve the Alliance or the Horde.

For me, it's Artifacts and all the gameplay that we had around them that stand out as the best expansion-defining feature World of Warcraft has had in quite some time.

One thing that's going to happen in Shadowlands is, we'll eventually shelve our Hearts of Azeroth and no longer have access to them or to the Azerite Traits that depends on them to work.

I've played World of Warcraft for a really long time, and yet I still get excited when patch notes come out, or when there's some datamining that highlights a change I like.

I made an incoherent Murloc noise when I read the folks at Wowhead had found a global string that would mean we could choose a separate transmog option for each shoulder when Shadowlands goes live.

Oribos, the Shadowlands capital city, has come to the alpha.

When Shadowlands launches, we'll be spending a lot of time in Oribos, the hub city of the expansion.

Sometimes I am convinced that Ion Hazzikostas, World of Warcraft's Game Director, says things just to see our heads explode.