Blizzard Watch

All servers are back online, right on time! Good luck with your great vault today, because we all need it.

Have you been following our actualplay of spooky indie game The Seance of Blake Manor? If not, you should be, because Liz and Mitch actually made some progress on the mystery this week, and it was all about performing mysterious rituals we did not understand at all.

We're probably about to activate the Site Curse by saying this, but the weekly maintenance for all eras of WoW is a blessedly short one this week. Just enough time to get your spreadsheet of names sorted before the WoW Forever name claim later today!

A graveyard inside a pirate ship? And spooky crypts? A creepy vampire's lair? Sure, why not. Anything goes in our spooky actual play of Pirate Borg #TTRPG, which you can listen to right now on Tavern Watch Plays!

I tried to make a promo clip for the latest Lore Watch Podcast, but it's just spoilers for #WorldofWarcraft patch 12.1.5 top to bottom. If that sounds interesting to you, tune in. The podcast is live now!

Good morning and happy Monday. This week we're reserving our WoW Forever names and finishing up our Hallow's End decor hoarding.

tfw YOU know something is a bad idea, but your character may not. Tavern Watch Plays has been having a spooky nautical adventure in the Pirate Borg #TTRPG, so join us in this actual play as a pirate, an octopus, and a parrot explore a definitely haunted pirate ship. It's fine. It's probably fine.

From ghost-hunting around our neighborhoods to delving deep into the (buggy) heart of the labyrinth, the latest Blizzard Watch Podcast is now live! Tune in now for the latest Warcraft news and other forms of madness, now live.

Starting soon! Liz and Mitch are playing The Seance of Blake Manor on Twitch... and we'll just have to see how our progress towards this clearly disasterous seance plan goes.

WHO: you 🫵 WHERE: Azeroth starting zones📍 WHEN: now until Beta ends tomorrow ⏱️ WHAT: Pure insanity potential? 👀

If you're short on horror games to play this Halloween Eve, the Epic Games Store is giving away two of them this week. One is creepy and atmospheric, the other is a violent zombie-marauding gorefest.

Anybody else feel like they're pulling a Pepe Silvia trying to decide which class and race to roll for WoW Forever? Just me?

y'all crash em yet?

New Hearthstone expansion, new Recipe Tavern Brawl, this time in Old God flavor (I'm pretty sure it's just grape).

Later today (or tomorrow depending on time zone) the WoW: Forever stress test begins for ALL PLAYERS! 9 pm UTC for people in the Americas and Oceania, Taipei, and Korea, and 5 pm UTC for players in the EU. Have fun, crash the servers, and DON'T STEAL MY NAME.

Reign of the Old Gods is now live in Hearthstone! Warm up your uh, eyestalks and ominous obsidian obelisks and mouths filled with an impossible number of teeth? And also, the Titans are there!

This week Tavern Watch Plays continues its piratical adventures in Pirate Borg, in which being a pirate involves a lot more pineapple juice than anyone expected. You can listen to the episode right now, and subscribe to keep up!

Maintenance has now concluded for all eras of WoW, so... good luck, champion. 🎃

It's a lengthy WoW Maintenance for all eras this week, so you'll have to wait a while to not get your Horseman's mount today.

Prepare yourselves, the bells have tolled! Shelter your weak, your young, and your old! Each of you shall pay the final sum. Cry for mercy, for Hallow's End has come!

We're rounding the corner on Halloween and a whole bunch of upcoming content. What, you thought we had a lot of new content last week? Pfft, this firehose doesn't stop, baybee (at least the firehose is no longer filled with venom?)

It's fine, everything is fine, I am completely calm as we get ready to record Lore Watch for the week. In fact, I am mildly concerned that I will need to be the calm one on the show. (Look for it to go live on Wednesday.)

Sometimes things happen in the #WorldofWarcraft story that you dislike so much that you have to invite yourself on to the podcast to talk about. Not the Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is spoiler free, but next week's Lore Watch Podcast will have some things to say.

This week on the Blizzard Watch Podcast we're talking about all things patch 12.1.5, the good and (no spoilers) the less good. Plus there are already gold sellers in WoW: Forever and I don't even know what to say about that. (But we talk about it anyway.) This and more on Blizzard Watch, now live!

Join Liz and Mitch LIVE as we play The Seance of Blake Manor on Twitch! Starting soon! (This isn't a multiplayer game, but we're making it work anyway.)

I know we just had #WorldofWarcraft patch 12.1.5, but it's already time to think about patch 12.1.7, featuring: more Arator. I'm sure I'm as thrilled about that as you are. (But also there are some other cool things.)

The clock is ticking down and I still don't know what to name my character in #WorldofWarcraft Forever, because the addition of last names has blown up 20 years of character naming conventions. Have you figured it all out yet?

This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is ... drumroll please... BRAWLISEUM! Thanks, we hate it. But we also have some tips on how to beat it and make off with some free packs this week.

This week's Lore Watch Podcast makes the terrible mistake of trying to make sense of Hearthstone lore, but it goes better than I would have expected. This and more listener questions on this week's podcast, which is now live!

Starting soon! The Blizzard Watch Podcast is recording LIVE on Twitch, so join us for #WorldofWarcraft discussion and a whole lot more! Plus: get credit for the new Twitch Drop murloc decor!

Midnight realms are back online with patch 12.1.5, so good luck with your Great Vault this week! (Or, as I prefer to call it, the disappointment box. But at least you can get a bonus roll out of the deal!)

The Midnight servers aren't back from maintenance yet, but you can start earning this WoW Twitch Drop now, and collect this golden murloc to sit on a golden throne in your player housing. (Some assembly required.) Tune into any #WorldofWarcraft stream, including Classic and Forever, to get started!

I will now only reply to the name Lizdormi.

Somehow it's Monday all over again. I'm not sure how, when, or why that happened, but I did write a weekly news roundup so we can get caught up to the present moment. Until the present moment becomes the past moment, at which point you're on your own.

The Great Gnomeregan Run is in-game in WoW this weekend only. Since 2009, this community-driven event has raised money for the cure for breast cancer, where you'll run a little pink-haired gnome from Gnomeregan to Booty Bay.

IT IS THE WEEKEND! Okay, it's basically the weekend. It's Friday. It counts. So what are you going to be playing? Just asking. Not because I am paralyzed by indecision over whether to log on to WoW and do the Darkmoon Faire or contemplate everything I bought in the Steam Autumn Sale.

This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast is all about the end-game, which is to say transmog and holiday home decor. We may not be turning our homes into pumpkins, but we're certainly hoping to surround them with pumpkins for a festive seasonal look. This and more on the latest episode, now live!

I really hope whichever devs are responsible for the lighting effects in WoW: Forever are having an excellent Friday, because, just look at this.

In addition to the racial abilities everyone gets, the Priest class has unique racial abilities in their toolkit. Some were gamebreakingly phenomenal (FEAR WARD) and others are meh at best (I will always have a soft spot for OG Feedback). Here are the updated Priest racial abilities for WoW: Forever

We liked a lot of stuff in the Triple-i Showcase, but rest assured we added Trainwatch to our list ASAP. Trainwatch Watch? Absolutely.