Breakfast Topic: Do you like alts?
I've lost my taste for alts this expansion. With the Garrison being so important it feels like I'd be wasting effort to level another character, even though I could theoretically end up with a lot...
View ArticleThe Queue: Emergency Rossi Edition
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. There's been a slight...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: All Hail Maraad
If I had to list the one character in Warlords of Draenor who already existed, but who improved the most in this expansion, my choice would absolutely be Vindicator Maraad. Before this expansion, all...
View ArticleThe Queue: Dancing gifs, dinosaurs, bulky plate armor
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. Let's talk about the...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: Your Dream Legendary
Once upon a time, the only legendary items were weapons, or means to create weapons. (I'm ignoring the Talisman of Binding Shard, okay?) But with the introduction of the Legendary Cloak in Mists of...
View ArticlePatch 6.1 PTR: A Legendary follower for your garrison
The 6.1 PTR isn't even live yet, but datamining continues apace, and the folks at Wowhead have certainly dug up a doozy for us. Apparently as part of the legendary questline, we'll be getting the...
View ArticlePatch 6.0.3 Hotfixes for January 12
Yes, more hotfixes. What do they entail, you ask? Well, I'm glad you did. Here's just a few highlights from this latest round of hotfixes. There are quite a few class changes, some of which I highly...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: Looking for...
When I first started playing World of Warcraft some ten years ago, if you'd told me one day I could simply queue for dungeons, raids, even open world content, I'd have looked confused because I barely...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore: Breakout Characters of 2014, Part Two
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: The Fate of Inventory
We've seen a lot of improvements to the inventory system over the years. We've seen bags get bigger, sorting and searching included, items like mounts, pets, toys and soon heirloom items all removed...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: 6.1 and content
There's a lot of stuff coming in patch 6.1 - like, for example, the continuation of the Legendary Quest Chain, complete with legendary follower. But so far, one of the things I'm not seeing is...
View ArticleThe Queue: Excellent, excellent, excellent, FIGHT
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. That's right. Ten hours of...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: What will Patch 6.2 be?
We're talking a lot about Patch 6.1, of course, because it's the new hotness on the horizon. But because we assume there'll be at least two more patches after it (and who knows, maybe that's a false...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: I want to unleash my followers upon my enemies
Seriously, I have like twenty of these people, why can't I loose them as an unstoppable force of destruction? I know we have raid missions, but I'd love to be able to go to, say, Ashran and do a 20 vs...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: What to do at 3 a.m.
I tend to like to do stuff at night, when there's practically no one else on. Partially this is because of my rather aggressive insomnia, a problem I've had for years now. But there's also something...
View ArticlePatch 6.1 PTR - New Blood Elf Models Incoming
We've been waiting for new blood elf models since Warlords of Draenor was announced, and now we finally know when we're getting them. Patch 6.1's PTR will have the first look at the blood elf of the...
View ArticlePatch 6.1 PTR: Heirloom necklaces datamined
So once again the folks at Wowhead are hard at work datamining away at Patch 6.1 on the PTR, and they've found something very interesting - new heirlooms. Specifically, neckpieces. A whole host of...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: Why not heirloom followers?
We have epic followers, we have a legendary follower, so why not heirloom followers? Well, as is often the case when I have one of these ideas at three am, there are potentially a lot of reasons why...
View ArticleThe Queue: Awesome Werewolf Superpowers
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. Guys, I love you all as if...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: My first character
That's my first character ever, Marketh the warrior from Azjol-Nerub. That's him in his hideous mismatched DPS gear (I was tanking back then, in the Naxx 10/25 days) He's been through several race...
View ArticleThe Queue: Dinosaurs, Twitter Questions, and a hug
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. I don't really have a...
View ArticleThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: Hail and Farewell
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore TFH: First the ripples, then the stone
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: The Tomb of Sargeras
I want the Tomb of Sargeras as a raid. I really, really want the Tomb of Sargeras as a raid. With demons everywhere and Gul'dan's half-eaten headless corpse and a bunch of undead night elf sentinels...
View ArticleSeven years, seven months, seventeen days
This isn't about World of Warcraft directly. This is about a time when I found myself looking for a job, and found something better. This is about how I ended up at WoW Insider.
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