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Diablo 3 Season 29 Recommended Builds

Raekor Boulder Toss Rend Wrath of the Wastes Fist of Heaven AoVNEW Akkhan Condemn Natalya Spike Trap Hungering Arrow GoD Wave of Light LoD Mystic Ally Inna Trag'Oul Death Nova Masquerade Bone Spear Angry Chicken ArachyrNEW Mundunugu Spirit Barrage Tal Rasha Meteor Typhon Hydra

Diablo 3 Season 29 Content

Season 29 Compendium Visions of Enmity Season 29 Leveling Solo Push Rankings Solo Speed GR Rankings Solo Speed T16 Rankings Group Meta Group RGK Rankings Group TK Rankings Group XP Meta

Diablo 3 Season 29 Leveling/Fresh 70 Builds

Barbarian Crusader Demon Hunter Monk Necromancer Witch Doctor Wizard

Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7 and Classic Hotfixes, October 2nd

We have a combo of retail, Classic Era and Wrath Classic hotfixes to take a look at today. Today at 00:43 by Starym

Final Fantasy XIV is getting a major update with patch 6.5, which brings new quests, dungeons, trials, raids, and more. Here is everything you need to know! Yesterday at 21:16 by Neviriah

FFXIV - Vote for the Best Game Community at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023

Final Fantasy XIV has been nominated for the Best Game Community award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023. Show your love for the game and cast your vote by October 20, 2023! Yesterday at 19:58 by Neviriah

Awesome Crusader Plate Helm Transmogs in Patch 10.2

Some more goodies arrive for plate wearers in Guardians of the Dream! We're taking a look at Errant Crusader's Helm versions, new cosmetics coming to the Trading Post in the upcoming patch. There's four versions of the impressive head gear, so let's take a look! 2 comments Yesterday at 18:05 by Starym

Very Rare Drops from Amirdrassil Raid in Patch 10.2

We're checking out the Very Rare drops from the Amirdrassil raid coming in the Guardians of the Dream update. 1 comment Yesterday at 17:47 by Stan

Blizzard Suspends 136K WoW Accounts During September 2023

Blizzard has suspended more than 136K accounts that were participating in cheating and exploiting during September 2023. 6 comments Yesterday at 17:06 by Staff

Player Manages to Open Trade Window with a Vendor

Reddit user juckrebel managed to somehow open a trade window with an actual NPC merchant! 2 comments Yesterday at 11:19 by Stan

Watch Elon Musk Clearing a Tier 69 Nightmare Dungeon!

Elon Musk is currently streaming Diablo 4. Here, you can watch him live clearing a Tier 69 Nightmare Dungeon without any Malignant Hearts! Yesterday at 09:22 by Staff

The Most Popular Specializations for Mythic+ in Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7 Week 4

We're looking at the most popular specializations for Mythic+ during the fourth week of Patch 10.1.7. Oct 01, 2023 at 19:33 by Stan

Dragonflight October Trading Post Items In Action (Video)

Here's a closer look at the awesome items in this month's Trading Post. Lord Momentor has showcased (almost) all of them below, including the 2 classes' sets and weapons, pet, toy, and all the other great transmog pieces. Unfortunately we only get to see the Infernal mount, as the bonus reward broom isn't in there. You can check out the official full list here. Oct 01, 2023 at 17:48 by Starym

Initial Patch 10.2 Quest Caters to Players with Accessibility Needs

One of the first quests in the Emerald Dream requires Dragonriding, but if you don't want to/can't complete it, you can simply talk to a NPC to complete the quest for you. 2 comments Oct 01, 2023 at 17:22 by Stan

UKs CMA Gives Preliminary Nod to Microsoft/Activision Blizzard Merger

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has preliminarily approved of the Microsoft / Activision Blizzard merger, but Activision's Cloud gaming rights will be sold to Ubisoft. 2 comments Oct 01, 2023 at 09:21 by Staff

Blizzard has unveiled the BlizzCon 2023 floor map. The event's taking place between November 3-4 in Anaheim, California. Oct 01, 2023 at 08:03 by Staff

HD AhnQiraj Scarab Robes Coming to the Trading Post in Patch 10.2

We're taking a look at high definition Ahn'Qiraj Scarab robes coming to the Trading Post with Patch 10.2! 6 comments Sep 30, 2023 at 14:12 by Stan

Gilnean and Darnassian Refugees Gone from Stormwind

Gilnean and Darnassian refugees are now gone from Stormwind. 4 comments Sep 30, 2023 at 10:50 by Stan

Here's a preview of all maps from the new Amirdrassil raid coming in the Guardians of the Dream update. Sep 30, 2023 at 09:21 by Stan

Mythic+ Tier List for Patch 10.1.7 Week 4

We're looking at the Mythic+ Tier List for the fourth week of Patch 10.1.7. Check out how your spec's doing! Sep 30, 2023 at 08:46 by Stan

Encrypted Mount Achievement May Be Pointing to 11.0 Expansion

We may have gotten a big hint at what the next WoW expansion could be. Redditor Wiraneusz came across some achievements that include cross-promotion items for Warcraft Rumble, but also possibly the next expansion's Heroic edition mount! 5 comments Sep 29, 2023 at 22:13 by Starym

Naga Terrarium Animated Back Item in Patch 10.2 and 11.0 Expansion Hints?

There's a very interesting item datamined on the patch 10.2 PTR and, combined with one other hint, might be pointing to 11.0. 1 comment Sep 29, 2023 at 17:17 by Starym

BlizzCon will see some of the top guilds going at it in three different competitions! We'll be seeing Arena, Mythic+ and a mysterious third event (which seems very likely to be an Amirdrassil race or similar). Competing will be Echo, Golden Guardians, Liquid and Method. 1 comment Sep 29, 2023 at 17:07 by Staff

Rare Cataclysm Mounts Have a Chance to Drop from This Weeks Timewalking Cache

Blazing Drake, Experiment 12-B, Lifebinder's Handmaiden, Flametalon of Alysrazor, Smoldering Egg of Millagazor, and Infinite Timereaver all have a chance to drop from this week's Cataclysm Timewalking Cache! 4 comments Sep 29, 2023 at 16:18 by Stan

FFXIV - Naoki Yoshida at Brazil Games Show 2023

Yoshi-P will be one of the international guests at the Brazil Game Show 2023, along with Localization Supervisor Michael-Christopher Koji Fox. The duo will participate in: the opening ceremony, meet and greet sessions, and much more. Sep 29, 2023 at 12:57 by Neviriah

Royal Witch Doctors Cosmetics Coming to the Trading Post in Patch 10.2

We're taking a closer look at a new Witch Doctor cosmetics coming in Patch 10.2. Sep 29, 2023 at 12:06 by Stan

Wrath Classic PTR Changes: September 28th

We have two changes arriving to the Wrath Classic PTR today. First off there's the Omen of Clarity glyph nerf from earlier this week being reverted. Secondly, the Lich King Heroic encounter in Icecrown Citadel has been modified in both 10 and 25 man modes to address a common tactic and make the fight more difficult. Sep 29, 2023 at 01:03 by Staff

Classic Hardcore Official First Month Death Stats by Class

The official Warcraft twitter shared some stats for Classic Hardcore, showing us just how many characters of each class have died since launch! The below stats are probably more about how popular each class is than how good they are at surviving, but it's a fun stats block nonetheless!

Shamans win the survival stat - or lose the popularity stat, depending on how you look at it! 3 comments Sep 28, 2023 at 22:36 by Staff

Full October Trading Post Rewards and Activities (Official)

We've seen the preview, now let's see the rest! Here comes the full October Trading Post roster, including all the Tander-giving activities. We have the new class set rotation which includes DKs, DHs and Druids, in addition to 2 mounts, 1 pet and toy, a whole lot of weapon transmogs and more! 5 comments Sep 28, 2023 at 22:03 by Staff

Diablo 2: Resurrected Ladder Season 5 Is Live Now!

A new season of D2:R has started! You can see the official post below and you can also check out all our guides for it here or head to one of the guides below. Sep 28, 2023 at 21:41 by Staff

Update: the full Trading Post roster for October has been posted and you can check it out here!

We have a preview of everything coming to the Trading Post in October, with the full article coming a little later today! Sep 28, 2023 at 20:08 by Staff

Are We Getting Classic+? The Awakening Leak

A direct continuation of Classic/Vanilla WoW has been talked about pretty much since Classic launched back in 2019. There's two general directions that this could take: the smaller one where there's just mechanical additions, class tuning and maybe some new items and the like, and the bigger one where we actually get a new expansion specifically for Classic. 28 comments Sep 28, 2023 at 18:05 by Starym

New WoW Mount Revealed in BlizzCon 2023 Sneak Peek

Blizzard today showed us the BlizzCon 2023 program which contains a brand new World of Warcraft mount! 2 comments Sep 28, 2023 at 17:28 by Staff

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