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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: The race to World First with the new Aberrus raid

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Join us as we discuss all the new features arriving with Dragonflight Season 2 including the race to World First, the big change to Battlegrounds in Season 4 of Hearthstone, and our hopes and fears for the future of Diablo 4 development.

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Tavern Watch Plays Weirs 12: Wrapping it all up with a dragon-shaped bow

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In the final episode of Into The Weirs: mysteries are revealed, dragons are fought, pirates are recruited, and lava is hot. Who lived? Who died? Who cried a little inside? The story may be ending, but the friendships are unbending. Hey, this rhyming ain’t hard. Can I play a bard?

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Lore Watch Podcast: Where should a new world tree be planted in Azeroth?

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Join us this week as we explore possible locations for a new world tree to house the Night Elves, who is the skinned wolf that aids us in Diablo 4, and how Ebyssian avoided the corruption that infected the Black Dragonflight.

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Dragonflight Season 2, Hearthstone Season 4, and a whole lot more happening in Blizzard games this week

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Dragonflight Season 2, Hearthstone Season 4, and a whole lot more happening in Blizzard games this week

It’s another busy week for Blizzard games as the company continues a hectic pace of content roll-outs. Between last week and this week, we have new content for almost all Blizzard games. Here’s a rundown of what happened last week as well as a look at what’s coming in the week ahead.

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Are you ready for 150+ hours of Diablo 4?

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Join us as we discuss the long leveling process to expect in Diablo 4, all the features in WoW Patch 10.1, and if there will be a WoW patch 10.3. All that plus plus changes to Mythic +, the upcoming Aberrus raid, and the burning question on all our m...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Why is Neltharion obsessed with Azshara?

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Join us this week as we explore the connection between Neltharion and Azshara, if there are more old gods yet to be discovered, and how Azeroth got her name.

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Interview with former WoW Lead Software Engineer Kurtis McCathern

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Special guest Kurtis McCathern joins us this week to discuss breaking servers, elusive bugs, the pros and cons of the game’s stock UI, emergent gameplay, and what he’s playing these days.

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Our hopes and dreams for cross-faction guild features in WoW

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Join us as we discuss our concern about the lack of features in the upcoming cross-faction guild functionality coming to WoW, what feedback we hope the Diablo 4 developers will address from the open beta, and if we will ever see normal flying in the ...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Should WoW try another alternate timeline expansion?

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Join us this week as we explore what another Warlords of Draenor-style expansion from WoW could look like, the black dragonflight lore tidbits dropped by Voraxian and Veritistrasz at the Ruby Life Pools, and how exactly does Azeroth’s postal system know where to find you no matter what?

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Blizzard Watch weekly wrap-up: Another busy week in Blizzard games

Blizzard Watch weekly wrap-up: Another busy week in Blizzard games

Blizzard doesn't do anything by halves: last week we had big releases for three games. Even I have trouble keeping up! So let's take a minute to look back on what happened last week, and what's coming next week.

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Rock on with Hearthstone’s Festival of Legends

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Join us as we discuss the new music-themed Hearthstone Festival of Legends expansion, the new space-opera-themed Overwatch reward track that arrives with the new hero, Lifeweaver, and hunting eggs during Noblegarden for a new toy for our dragonriding...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: WoW patch 10.1 and the secret lab of Neltharion

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Join us as we talk about WoW's shiny new April Trading Post rewards, the Hearthstone Festival of Legends and Season of the Wolf, and Overwatch 2 Season 4’s new support hero, Lifeweaver. We also discuss the upcoming WoW patch 10.1, featuring the Abe...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Tinfoil hatting the secrets of the Infinite Dragonflight

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Join us this week as we wildly speculate about the Infinite Dragonflight including what created them, if they are even real, and how Chromie may fit into all of this. And yes, we just made “tinfoil hat” into a verb. You’re welcome.

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Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: April’s Trading Post rewards arrive, and a new Hearthstone expansion is coming

Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: April’s Trading Post rewards arrive, and a new Hearthstone expansion is coming

eady or not, the week is over and Monday is fast approaching. Here’s everything you need to know from the Blizzard universe in the past week.

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: How the Zskera Vaults zone is breathing new life into WoW

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Join us as we discuss our experiences playing through the delightful new Zskera Vaults zone in WoW’s patch 10.0.7, our thoughts on the new Turbulent Timeways event which offers six weeks of Timewalking challenges with Heroic level rewards, and our ...

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Lore Watch Podcast: An overview of the Diablo story thus far

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This week we delve into the significant events that shape the lore of the Diablo universe leading up to the stories featured in the recent Diablo 4 open beta weekend.

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Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: With the Diablo 4 beta and a new WoW patch, it's been a wild week of Blizzard news

Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: With the Diablo 4 beta and a new WoW patch, it's been a wild week of Blizzard news

World of Warcraft patch 10.0.7 and the continuing Diablo 4 beta have been vying for our attention this week… so of course View Post

Our impressions of Diablo 4’s Early Access Weekend

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This week we discuss Diablo 4 after having played through the Early Access Weekend, the big Paladin rework coming in WoW patch 10.0.7., and going back to the Forbidden Reach.

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Lore Watch Podcast: World of Warcraft Orcs vs Warhammer 40k Orks

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This week, we go waaaay down the rabbit hole on the similarities and differences of orcs in World of Warcraft and orks in Warhammer 40k. Join us. We have cookies.

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Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: The wonderful world of Diablo 4

Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: The wonderful world of Diablo 4

We’ve made it through another week, which means we have another week’s news backlog to get through. This week all of us at team Blizzard Watch are super hyped about the Diablo 4beta, but if you aren’t interested in 2023-03-18 01:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Will Dracthyr get a new support spec or a new class?

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This week we discuss the news that Dracthyr may get a support spec as well as new class choices in the future, our excitement for the Diablo 4 early access beta weekend, and the music-themed Festival of Legends Hearthstone expansion announcement that...

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Lore Watch Podcast: What may be next for the dragonflights and all of Azeroth

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This week, we start the discussion about the rogue dracthyr group the Sundered Flame, careen into the topic of Infinite dragonflight, and then get derailed wildly speculating about what’s coming next based on the upcoming raid tier information. You know, the usual way these episodes go. Spoiler warni...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: A big week for Dragonflight news

Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: A big week for Dragonflight news

It’s been a big week World of Warcraft news, including a patch 10.0.7 release date, a preview of patch 10.1, and patch 10.1 going live on the PTR. That’s a speedy turnaround for WoW patches, but it’s the pace Blizzard will have to keep if it wants to meet its own <...

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The avalanche of patch 10.1 news

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Early access to the latest Blizzard Watch podcast is now available. No pre-show this time as there was just too much to talk about!

This week we discuss the many, many new features coming to Dragonflight with the just announced 10.1 feature set, the 10.0.7 patch coming March 21 with its own new content, and let’s not forget the upcoming the Diablo 4 beta weekend...

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Tavern Watch Plays Weirs 11: And one magical orb to rule them all

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In the penultimate episode of Into The Weirs, the party does the body swapping dance courtesy of a magical orb. Is there a better way to get through a combat encounter with a red dragon? We think not.

Miss our earlier podcast kicking off the campaign? You can find it on our playlist.

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Lore Watch Podcast: The Old Gods, Obsidian Brood, and Elemental Lords

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This week, we discuss the Obsidian Brood, the relationship between the primalists and Elemental Lords, and more conspiracy shenanigans from the Old Gods.

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Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: The latest about Diablo 4 and the WoW Trading Post

Blizzard Watch Weekly Wrap-up: The latest about Diablo 4 and the WoW Trading Post

We've had a bunch of busy weeks lately, but this week was actually pretty quiet. Suspiciously quiet. But even so we have a small batch of Diablo 4 updates as well as details on the March Trading Post in WoW — both of which have some spicy new rewards for you.

So let's check out what's happened in the last week, and what we can expect to start soon.

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Tavern Watch Plays Weirs 10: The undead baby dragon amalgamation of your nightmares

UPDATE: The correct podcast is now embedded into the post.

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As we begin to wrap up our homebrew D&D campaign, Into The Weirs, the party faces down a monstrosity composed of undead dragon babies, enters the dragon citadel that may hold the answers to all their questions, and faces a foe whose slogan is “we bring death.”

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: What new specs should Blizzard add to WoW classes?

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This week we discuss what rewards we’re looking forward to from this month’s Trading Post, the Diablo 4 beta announcement (plus the fact that you can pet the dogs), and different specs we would like to see in WoW. Seriously, how much fun would a ...

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Lore Watch Podcast: What the datamined [spoiler] about [spoiler] could mean for [spoiler]

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This week, we speculate wildly about a datamined lore book entry for patch 10.0.7 that could tie together story threads going back many, many expansions. (Yes, we’re being vague for the sake of, you guessed it, spoilers.)

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