Community Manager Lore has provided a brief update on changes made using tech added in 6.1 that solidify the crowd control diminishing return window.

With the format clarified and the competition in full effect, Blizzard has provided an official leaderboard for point standings in the quest to reach the year-end Hearthstone World Championship.

After years of issues with gold selling in WoW and an emerging market for in-game resale of game time subscription cards, Blizzard is firing back with an official item - purchasable through the in-game Shop - that can be bought and sold for WoW gold on the Auction House.

Blizzard has added a ninth reward option to the Recruit-A-Friend program, this time in the form of a new mount.

Blizzard released a series of hotfixes yesterday to various errors that cropped up after Patch 6.1 was released on Tuesday, as well as some minor tweaks to a handful of Blackrock Foundry encounters.

A small Hearthstone patch was deployed today, including the February card back graphic, minor bug fixes, and the much-anticipated improvements to Spectator Mode.

Over in our Hearthstone section, you will find a specific guide for each class on card crafting - which options you should prioritize as you build out your collection to ensure you can take advantage of the strongest and most versatile deck archetypes from that class. All nine have been recently updated!

With Patch 6.1 going live on servers today come a variety of class-specific changes and a number of Garrison improvements and upgrades. All of our class guides and Garrison guides are being brought up-to-date for all of the 6.1 changes.

Hello again friends! Welcome back to a weekly article where I discuss what's hot, what's not and how you should be building decks to fight back against the meta.