World Of Warcraft

Despite my earlier flirtations with other classes and my continued love of several others, Shaman is still my preferred class and the one that I tend to think of as mine in World of Warcraft. I've taken breaks from it before, but I've always kept my eye on it just the same. And it took me a startlingly long time to realize that there was a good reason for it: Shaman is the last vestige of a class design that's kind of moved on from the game as a whole, especially when you're playing Enhancement. As specs become more and more rigid and settle characters more firmly into roles, Enhancement winds up still containing some of that flavor of the earliest days. It's a hybrid. It's always been a hybrid. And with a decade of the game gone, I would argue that it's the last true hybrid left in the game.

I still haven't quite figured out what the battle pet Argi is, exactly -- I think, were anyone to use the words "space goat," they would best apply to the little guy.

I really need a plush Pepe in my life, I've decided.

The first, and only time we saw new race and class combinations added to the game was all the way back in Cataclysm, when goblins and worgen were added to the game and bolstered with additional new combinations of familiar races, including tauren paladins and priests.

I'm going to start this new column with a controversial statement: You can roleplay anything you want.

Tonight we have more bug fixes and adjustments for Blackrock Foundry bosses, including a very nice fix for Gruul that small groups will appreciate.

In the midst of the Blackrock Foundry opening excitement last night, Blizzard pushed out build 19579 to the patch 6.1 PTR.

A short set of hotfixes were released yesterday and posted to the official blog -- all of which have to do with newly released content.