Blizzard Watch Podcast

This week our hosts mostly focused on everything that's coming soon in  WoW  and a few other games. Patch 12.0.5 got a release date --  April 21  -- so our cohosts discussed all the stuff coming up in that patch, from Decor Duel to fishing to transmog. All the endgame activities. But  WoW  isn't the only game with endgame -- there was a new (expensive!) cosmetic gatch...

We're all about Easter, with both the Noblegarden festival and the Race to World First this week. Liz starts off recounting the epic Race to World First, which started off a little ho hum with a split tier, but took a few wild turns toward the end. Then, we talk Noblegarden, and Joe and Matt wondered whether Liz needed an intervention because she isn't excited about this year's transmog offerings....

As we begin the March of Quel'Danas this week, we also noted that there seems to be a whole lot of side quests to set the stage for the new raid and its counterpart in Harandar, The Dreamrift. There are also a slew of campaign quests paced in time with the raids, so we discuss how that pacing has felt. But it's not all lore around here -- there's also a new set of transmog and mounts for the April...

This was the first week of  Midnight  Season 1, so we started off talking about the new dungeons and raids -- and what we got in our first Great Vault of  Midnight . Our hosts that raid also did a bit of a post-mortem on how the addon apocalypse is shaking out in practice. And speaking of the revamps for  Midnight , our first Trial of Style since the transmog revamp is now live...

Liz Patt took a spin in the hosting chair for the first time this week, with Joe and Liz and Cory on board to keep her on her toes. The raid schedule for  Midnight  is enough to keep anyone on their toes, not to mention Mythic dungeons, Delves, and  ABUNDANCE . Not everyone is a fan of  ABUNDANCE , for technical reasons, though it's been adjusted a bit to try to cut down on the...

Midnight  released last week, so this week our podcast crew shared their first impressions of the expansion. While most of their experiences have been positive, there were a few small points where things didn't quite gel the way they wish they would. Of course, nearly everyone's highlight of the expansion thus far is how almost every NPC tells Turalyon to shut his cake hole, but the storytell...

Midnight , the latest expansion for  World of Warcraft , released this week, so that's most of our discussion. We tried to keep it spoiler free, but it's kind of hard when you just hate a particular character so [spoiler] much. We talk zones, transmog, decor, and how revisiting these places is hitting all the right nostalgia buttons. But of course, there's always more to come, from the weird...

Midnight  releases into early access later this week, and then full release next week, so for now the crew is pretty much just in waiting mode. Even if you didn't get early access, you can still get into the action because the pre-patch event will go on until the very last minute. In the meantime, there's also the Outland Cup, and the new Trading Post (which, as always, our cohosts have a ton...

There's always a lot of news to discuss, but this week there was specifically a lot of news to discuss for all the very best  Diablo  games:  Diablo 2 ,  Diablo 4 ,  Diablo Immortal , end of list, apparently. All three of those games are going to have a new Warlock class, with  Diablo 2  getting it immediately, the others slightly later. This is the first new cla...

This week we have a lot to say about the  Overwatch  (not two!) yearly overview. Much of it is negative, and a lot of it is tinged with incredulity, like the moment Liz found out there are actually two different billionaire nepo babies among the heroes. Some is positive, but most of the crew is not all that optimistic. The  Hearthstone  announcements last week were also new and...

This week we're all about the  WoW  roadmap which came out last week, for both Retail and  Classic  eras. We'll discuss the newly announced game features Labyrinth and Prop Hunt, and speculate on the hinted at game mode appearing later in the year. There are patches to come, what might we see at BlizzCon in September, and even more small minutiae that was shared, like codes to...

This week we started off discussing the announcement of an announcement which has now been actually announced by the time the podcast was produced and published, as a part of Blizzard's 35th anniversary. We still have some announcements coming up for  Overwatch ,  Diablo , and  Hearthstone , which we speculated on a bit. But, in terms of the stuff we know is happening in  WoW,...

Midnight 's prepatch kicked off this week, and we're talking Player Housing Neighborhood Endeavors -- in part because we hadn't seen much of them until now. We'll give you the rundown, and then we'll follow it up with our opinions on how the class revamps and addon revamps are going. Plus, we have some thoughts as to what we'd like to see Remixed next. And when I say "we" I mean the podcasters. Pl...

We're waiting on a whole lot this week -- servers to come up for the  Burning Crusade Classic  Anniversary realms pre-patch, and for the  Midnight  pre-patch next week, and all the sweeping changes that brings. The team discusses the addons they'll miss and why, which also serves as a bit of a reminder to you to make sure yours are all updated, or they won't work at all come pa...

It's 2026, and the more things change, the more they stay the same. We start off with a new  Hearthstone  gatcha promotion, and follow it up with yet another splinter version of  WoW Classic  -- this time,  WoW Classic Anniversary  is splitting into  WoW Classic Burning Crusade Anniversary  and  WoW Classic Classic Era Anniversary .  Legion Remix &...

This week we're looking back at the events of 2025, with our special guest Phil Ulrich. Rather than going at it chronologically, Matt consults a D8, which means we discuss one of our favorite things from the year which actually happened last: player housing! But there were a ton of things that happened in all of Blizzard's games this year, from Plunderstorm's return to  Legion Remix , three&n...

Santa Rossi is visiting us this week with player housing-related delights, like the upcoming Night Elf and Blood Elf house exteriors! But beware, if you're naughty, Joe will tell you the tale of how healing, and especially resto shaman are shaping up on the  Midnight  beta -- and that's a ghost story that would kill a Victorian child. Liz also has a few dire predictions for transmog futu...

This week our usual hosts were joined by our  Diablo  Maven Liz Patt to talk about the announcement of  Lord of Hatred , the next  Diablo 4  expansion.  Lord of Hatred  was announced at The Game Awards -- though it was not related to The Statue -- and we have a ton to say about the details we have so far. Liz Patt preordered the expansion, and so therefore got to...

This week we're still immersed in Player Housing, but just a little bit of the shine has worn off, mostly as we've tried to chop down enough trees to decorate the houses of our dreams. Maybe our power level is so high we're just out here decimating every tree we encounter into matchsticks. But not everything is Player Housing. Some versions of  WoW  are also  Classic , and  MoP...

We very wisely started off the podcast this week with all the  other  news. There's a new  Hearthstone  Battlegrounds season that just started, with a fun new mechanic which is actually pretty similar to Trinkets, if we think about it, but we can play as Chromie so everything else is irrelevant. Plus, there's an upcoming  Diablo 4  season, and a potential announcement...

Our intrepid hosts dragged writer Phil Ulrich along as we spent another show discussing transmog changes. As it turns out, making transmog very much more expensive last week, and then retuning it this week so that it's merely much more expensive like it's a gift hasn't really made our hosts happy. Purchased slots are warband wide now, at least, so that's better, but everything else remains awful (...

We start off the show this week talking about  WoW Classic , namely that  Burning Crusade  Anniversary realms were announced and are coming in January, perhaps concurrentish with the release of  Midnight . It's fine, it's not like we have lives outside of this one video game or anything. Then, we pivot to the changes to transmog coming in  Midnight , and it seems like ever...

This week our hosts Liz and Joe were joined by Cory as the  Midnight  beta officially launched, with access for people who have preordered the Midnight epic edition. It was a little bumpy, per usual, but we made it. We would be testing, but transmog is unavailable until next week, so it's literally unplayable. BlizzCon was announced and early bird tickets were already sold out, but...

Cory is our guest host for the Blizzard Watch Podcast this week and, spoilers, that means there's  Heroes of the Storm  news again. The PTR opened up for people to test Player Housing again this week, but it was already down again by the time they recorded the podcast. Liz was thrilled with this chance to collect more data though, because her house in the alpha is currently haunted. In o...

If you thought we were going to talk about something other than changes coming to  WoW  in  Midnight  this week, you must be new, so hi, welcome to the podcast. The UI changes, specifically the changes that make it harder for us to change our own UI, was front and center. The hosts talked about the accessibility issues this could present, but personally I just think Friz Quadra...