Watching Blizzard: A brand new beautiful week (in news) (Patreon)

You know how we say we’ll post these news roundups every day? And that doesn’t always happen? Well, this week it’s totally going to happen. Yeah! Get hyped for news!

But not too hyped. I don’t want to get your expectations too high. So let’s stick to a thoroughly moderate level of hype, okay? Okay! With that out of the way, let’s check out the news.

Surprise! It’s patch day!

• We hope you like downtime, because WoW patch 7.3.5 is out on Tuesday. It includes…
  • Serious alt leveling improvements, with low-level zones that scale and no more need to buy flying for each expansion.
  • Legendary item tokens that will let you (maybe) finally get the right Legendary for your class and spec. Fingers crossed.
  • New content in Silithus, with faction-specific story quests the Seething Shore battleground.
  • More backpack slots! More backpack slots! More backpack slots!
  • Ulduar Timewalking as well as changes to the raid itself.

If you aren’t sufficiently hyped about WoW, what about Overwatch?

• Overwatch League is in full swing. We have a recap of the first week if you need to catch up.
• And don’t forget to check out the team-themed skins, which you can now buy in-game.

What is Neo-Stormwind?

• We don’t know (okay, they’re probably about upcoming mecha skins), but we’re enjoying these zany Heroes of the Storm teasers all the same.

And this week in lore…

• Anne goes tinfoil hat with speculation about the Naaru. (And this time, Elune is not involved. Well, mostly not involved. At least not as involved as previous tinfoil hat speculation has suggested.)
• Rossi, on a less speculative bent, talks about his 2018 wishlist for WoW, Overwatch, and more. (Spoiler: The more is Blackthorne.)

That wraps up Monday’s news, but I’ll be back with a patch day update tomorrow (or later today, depending on what time zone you’re in). See you then!