8.2 – Kaylriene

Ephemeral Grinds and The Current Nature of World of Warcraft

Something clicked for me fairly recently when considering the concept of grinding in MMOs. Tale as old as time – there are fiercely entrenched camps of opinion… Read more “Ephemeral Grinds and The Current Nature of World of Warcraft”

This week, I finally did the thing. I completed a Heroic Warfront! Oh, and we also did Ahead of the Curve for Azshara, then killed her again… Read more “Ahead of the Curve Azshara Complete!”

Something that occurred to me the other day is that I cannot evaluate Battle for Azeroth solely as BfA, the product – yet. Because I realized that… Read more “Evaluating Battle for Azeroth – Could It End Life as a Good Expansion?”

Ever since Warlords of Draenor, a weird side effect of the Pathfinder acheivement is that the following expansion’s .2 patch, regardless of any good content in them,… Read more “Pathfinder and the Curse of the x.2 Patch”

I spent most of my night last night playing the new content on offer with patch 8.2, and it was a pretty good time, all told. There… Read more “Day 1 Impressions: Rise of Azshara”

With the 8.2 PTR in full swing and Nazjatar now up and running, the gear catch-up mechanism for the patch is in full view. Benthic gear shares… Read more “Targeting Goals – Why Benthic Armor is a Positive Development for WoW”

Something I guess I didn’t expect has happened a lot since the announcement of the 8.2 content and the particular inclusion of mount equipment. I guess some… Read more “When A Good Design Reads of Bad Intentions”

Super spoilers abound in this early peek at patch content, so be warned! Not kidding, lots of spoilers! I think we’ve cleared the early text… Read more “The Early Datamining Peek at Rise of Azshara”

Well, the patch 8.2 livestream has ended, and with it, an avalanche of press coverage from influencers – Sloot talking about the Heart of Azeroth, Taliesin and… Read more “Patch 8.2 Livestream Recap – Essence-tial Information”

This week’s hype train is largely going to focus on a WoW event. Shocking! – but yet, here we are. Yesterday, Blizzard announced that they would be… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 4/9/2019 – Patch 8.2 Livestream!”