Official Site:Â Warlords of Draenor
Relevance: The fifth World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date:Â November 13, 2014
See: World of Warcraft
warlords of draenor
WoW Factor: What could win back the crowd for the next World of Warcraft expansion?
So the conclusion to the Azshara raid has been mined out, and I'm just going to link it to you here. I don't want...
WoW Factor: The level squish isn’t the whole solution for World of Warcraft
To be entirely honest, you might have expected this column a little bit earlier because it's been a hot minute since Ion Hazzikostas once...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part 5: Conclusions and peeling the mask
This week, after some 7000 words on this particular topic, I'm starting off by acknowledging what should be a rather obvious fact: My series...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ideas like the cottage rule and class fantasy in MMO design?
Who among our readers played City of Heroes and remembers the cottage rule? The idea was that developers were reluctant to change the fundamentals...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part four: Story
The fun thing about bringing up the story of World of Warcraft is that you inevitably have some folks who will immediately crop up and claim...
WoW Factor: The good and (very minor) bad of World of Warcraft patch 8.1.5
We've spent three weeks explaining, in no small amount of detail, why people are unhappy with the current state of World of Warcraft. We're going...
World of Warcraft lets slip the Tides of Vengeance today
Druids, pirates, and trolls, oh my! It's patch day over at World of Warcraft, and even if this isn't one of the major ones,...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part three: Leveling and scaling
Remember earlier this week when I was talking about the difference between leveling as a part of the game vs. leveling as a chore?...
World of Warcraft sets a date for new allied race unlocks: March 12
It's only been a half of a year since World of Warcraft:Â Battle for Azeroth launched, and Blizzard has yet to make good on all...
Jukebox Heroes: The 10 greatest MMO soundtracks of all time (as voted by you)
A few weeks ago we witnessed the showdown of the ages (or at least the epoch known as "late January 2019"), as Massively OP...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part one: Combat
One of the complicated challenges of writing about World of Warcraft is sorting out the stuff that's happening now from the stuff that's been happening...
World of Warcraft: Europe’s anniversary, Patch 8.1.5 details, and Arena championships
While World of Warcraft officially turned 14 years old last November, astute historians might remember that it wasn't for several months after that until...
Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time
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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s most underused zones in Classic
No, I'm still not done with thinking about the game's zones and how they relate to Classic. Because while I've already covered the zones...
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Kalimdor edition
Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft.
I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very much...
WoW Factor: The great Superdata fall-off
The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Eastern Kingdoms edition
We've got a little while until World of Warcraft actually drops its Classic server, but the nice thing is that those of us who have...
WoW Factor: The smart World of Warcraft stuff from BlizzCon
Let's get something out of the way first and foremost. I am not going to count Warcraft III: Reforged as a smart thing for...
WoW Factor: The dumb World of Warcraft stuff from BlizzCon
It's easy to just think of this year's BlizzCon as having dumb stuff on display for Diablo, but let's be real here - there were...
WoW Factor: When long-term progress in World of Warcraft isn’t
"When even the vanishingly tiny playerbase of your game that you've been catering to for years is getting tired... what's going to happen to your game?"
