Blizzard Watch

The new Zul'jan quest line just went live, so we're looking forward to  World of Warcraft  patch 12.1, which includes a new Player Housing exterior. Maybe. We hope. And we're not Monkey's Paw-ing this thing either, so don't act like we said it and that's why it's on the store. We already firmly rejected that possibility, so it is not on us if it goes down like that. Speaking of Monkey's...

We are jumping right in to Turbulent Timeways this week, which have returned until August. It's a great time to level an alt, before we roll into patch 12.1 and all its trolly goodness, though that's on the PTR now. There's a new Trading Post, which means lots of talk about transmog and its many endgame metas. The Darkspear Dash was the highlight of our week, but we wish there were more opportunit...

Do you remember how last week we were talking about how voidy and purple the  Midnight  expansion has been? Well, hold on to your shorts, because patch 12.1 has been announced and it's acid green and snaky. We're shook, but especially Liz, who doesn't particularly enjoy snakes, and wishes there was a filter like arachnophobia mode, where all the snakes turned into crabs. There are so man...

If you thought the purplest expansion couldn't get purpler, patch 12.0.7 of  World of Warcraft  proves us all wrong with yet another Void-themed event. When do all these void shenanigans end? Well, we'll keep doing them, as long as transmog is on the line -- and it is! I hope you like yours purple, and I hope you didn't blow all your Marl on the previous sets of purple Void transmog. You...

We start off this week's podcast talking about a few upcoming things we've already sort of discussed --  WoW  patch 12.0.7 is coming next week, as is the next season of  Overwatch . We have a few gripes on how the  Overwatch  story is being delivered, but next season looks okay. We're much more enthusiastic about the stuff coming for  Diablo . And then things get wild...

Because of the Blizzard Watch Site Curse, the day after we recorded the podcast, the release date for patch 12.0.7 was announced, because that's just how that works. It's June 16, and you're welcome. That also comes with changes to gear repair costs, which we talked about a bit last week, but Joe has a hot take that goes a step further. It's a new month, so that means a new round of FOMO transmog....

We start off this week's show with a shoutout to much of the Wowhead content team, who were laid off from ZAM. We have a lot of fond memories with them, not to mention their indispensable coverage over the years, and our hosts expressed a bit of consternation at what this move means in a meta sense. But, the show must go on, and time marches on, including the new Sporefall raid we'll be seeing in&...

This week we tell Crest Caps to rest in pieces as Blizzard lifts them a bit early in this opening section of  Midnight . Joe gets salacious about addons and new functionality on the PTR. We all hope the Siege of Orgrimmar doesn't last as long as it originally did on any iteration of  Classic . Matt throws a bit of a statistical wrench in the works, saying several other raid tiers were ac...

Because Cory has the courage to say that, quote, "bugs are bad. I'm glad they got fixed," that is the theme of this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast. Well, not all of them are really bugs -- is it a bug that five Guardian Druids did an M +20? Well, that bug was fixed. And the bug with Ascendant Voidcores was fixed, and players can use them to upgrade their gear. We had a lengthy discussion on the fut...

We're speculating on  WoW  patch 12.0.7  and beyond, now that the preview for said patch has been released. That leads us to a certain ominous island off the coast of Zul'Aman that we're not allowed to touch yet, plus all the other little details that lead us to guest host Phil Ulrich's favorite thing ever: Troll Raid. But other than that, it's all cosmetics and microtransactions. T...

This week, Matt, Joe, Liz, and our special guest host Six, are all waiting patiently to talk about  Lord of Hatred , the new expansion for  Diablo 4  which came out earlier this week. So they'll talk a little bit about  World of Warcraft  patch 12.0.5 first, kind of like the concept of "eating the frog," where you do the gross thing first to get it out of the way as fast a...

Liz Patt joins Liz Harper in lifting the embargo on the upcoming  Diablo 4  expansion  Lord of Hatred . From discussions on balance and the weirdly enchanting land of Skovos to an extended discussion on how fishing (yes, fishing) works, Liz and Liz give us a rundown from their hands-on view of the upcoming expansion. Spoiler: They both quite enjoyed their time there, even if they're...

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...