WoW Factor is Eliot Lefebvre’s column on an MMO you’ve probably never heard of: World of Warcraft. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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WoW Factor: Understanding World of Warcraft’s upcoming Heart of Azeroth system
The release of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is going to bring with it a lot of core system changes. This is neither...
WoW Factor: Speculating about World of Warcraft’s next expansion
It's really, really weird to me to think that we're getting an announcement about a new World of Warcraft expansion next week. Admittedly, we...
How I got married through World of Warcraft
I've mentioned a lot of times, in passing, how my wife and I connected in part through World of Warcraft. But I've never actually...
WoW Factor: Breaking up is surprisingly easy to do
The classic break-up line is "it's not you, it's me." It is, of course, usually a lie, and it often gets followed up shortly...
Why World of Warcraft’s item level scaling is really, really, dumb
This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...
WoW Factor: The good and the bad of World of Warcraft’s patch 7.2 date
Boy, this is a time I am glad to be wrong. I was outright worried that Blizzard was going to hold patch 7.2 for...
WoW Factor: Where do we go after WoW Legion?
So at the risk of being dinged for spoiling the current World of Warcraft expansion, let me say this: Azeroth is not going to...
WoW Factor: Examining World of Warcraft’s 7.2 update
Patch 7.2 is the first real content patch that we've gotten for World of Warcraft post-Legion. Obviously, 7.1 wasn't devoid of content, but it...
WoW Factor: The state of professions in Legion
The state of World of Warcraft's professions in Legion is a weird one because it's obvious how much work has gone into crafting for...
WoW Factor: New classes in a post-Legion world
So World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 is out now... but I'm going to be honest, that doesn't feel like much of anything. It's there,...
WoW Factor: A wishlist for 2017 in World of Warcraft
This year has been a pile of garbage and I'll be glad it's over. It's not that I'm convinced 2017 will be any better...
WoW Factor: 2016 in review for World of Warcraft
Talking about World of Warcraft in 2016 is really different because the game had two different years this year. And unfortunately for anyone trying...
WoW Factor: Looking forward to World of Warcraft 7.2
It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...
WoW Factor: BlizzCon betting odds
My original plan this week was to talk a little bit about patch 7.1, but two things have made that less than possible. The...
WoW Factor: Sargeras, the Legion, and World of Warcraft lore on the cosmic scale
Patch 7.1 is just around the corner for World of Warcraft, and it makes me just a little bit anxious. Why? Because the expansion...
WoW Factor: A WoW Legion wishlist
Legion is humming along nicely as we near the two-month mark. It's still got that decent balance of having enough to do that you're...
WoW Factor: The state of WoW’s dungeons and how we got here
I've still been having a blast in Legion over the past few weeks. Nithogg might have been unkind to me by offering me no...
WoW Factor: Assessing the zones of WoW Legion’s Broken Isles
I've now made my way through all of the zones in World of Warcraft: Legion twice. There's something to be written about that, which...
WoW Factor: Assessing WoW after two weeks of Legion
All right, so it's actually closer to a week and a half. I'm torn between an eye-rolling "it's only been a week and a...
WoW Factor: Sticking the landing of the Legion expansion
Next week, folks, it's go time. The expansion arrives, and so forth. My impressions of the expansion will start going out on Monday, but...
