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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]

Unseen.

WoW Factor: Assessing the zones of WoW Legion’s Broken Isles

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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...
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: Assessing WoW after two weeks of Legion

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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...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Sticking the landing of the Legion expansion

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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...
Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

WoW Factor: Fighting against the Legion and the end of the world

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I honestly don't know what the Burning Legion's strategy is in World of Warcraft right now when it comes to picking places to invade....
No, you don't get it, she has no eyes.

WoW Factor: The storm upon the Broken Shore

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I sometimes get asked why I don't do more stuff within betas when I have access to them. To answer that, all I can...
Herp to the derp.

WoW Factor: The Legion prepatch brings the storm front

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On some level, it honestly feels weird to be excited by this patch in World of Warcraft. There's no new stuff to actually do,...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Titanforged items and content relevance

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If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item...
Opposition.

WoW Factor: The hope I have for Legion

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Every week, in Final Fantasy XI, the three main player nations are competing in a form of passive PvP known as conquest. The nation...
Oh boy, not ready.

WoW Factor: How to get ready for the Legion pre-patch

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As of the time that I'm writing this, we don't know when the Legion pre-patch will hit World of Warcraft. I had to double-check...
Do this differently.

WoW Factor: Alternative content release models for WoW and beyond

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It has been noted in the past that I am a big fan of having big, show-stopping expansions released for games. I will not...
Whoops.

WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date

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The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
I don't miss the days without blood elves, not at all.

WoW Factor: Nostalrius, copyright, and player demand

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If you haven't been following the latest Legion testing - which, at the end of the day, is just a series of iterative updates...
AHHHH

WoW Factor: A totally legitimate history of World of Warcraft

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Editor's note: We're sorry to report that Eliot appears to have fallen through some sort of wormhole when this column was due. Maybe a...
Bet on it.

WoW Factor: The problem with Garrisons isn’t Garrisons

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When World of Warcraft rolls away from the inexplicable inclusion of alternate Draenor for good, it will also mean bidding farewell to the elements...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: Is this the time Blizzard’s changes stick?

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Well, folks, I promised you that this week I would talk about my further impressions playing through the Legion alpha. But then I spied...
You may be my old favorite, but you don't get a free pass.

WoW Factor: Being positive vs. being honest in games criticism

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Today's column is about the time I tackled my father and stormed out of the house. It is also about World of Warcraft. It...
Do this differently.

WoW Factor: Thoughts from inside the Legion alpha

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Tuesday brought along a big surprise for me in the form of access to the Legion alpha test. I had pretty much resigned myself...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: Why Legion’s alpha/beta label is a hair worth splitting

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The Legion alpha is back, and it is still an alpha. And I want to to stress, not for the first time, that I...
Local Panda Recalls When She Was Special.

WoW Factor: The importance of class fantasies

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Here's a fun thought exercise for you all: explain the differences between Fire Mages and Destruction Warlocks in World of Warcraft. But before you...

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