World of Warcraft Dragonflight (Officially) Announced

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World of Warcraft Dragonflight (Officially) Announced

As of this morning Activision Blizzard has officially announced the newest World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight. In this new expansion we get to visit the ancestral home of the dragon flights, the Dragon Isles. Not the most inventive name, but lets go with it.

First off, the best thing about this expansion’s announcement is the lack of expansion specific powerset. There are no artifact power, azerite, or covenant equivalents. We are not going to find ourselves getting used to specific powers or rotations that are just going to go away.

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The Professional Gamer - February 21, 2020

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The Professional Gamer - February 21, 2020

Hi folks and welcome back! I managed to spend a bit more of my time this week doing things that I enjoy, rather than chores. On the other hand, I’ve tended to horde new episodes of anime and not watch them. I just want to binge through stuff later, and I can’t do that when there is only one episode coming out each week. It just too hard to wait. But, I have been playing some Warcraft as well, and that lends itself to being talked about . Let’s get started!

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The Professional Gamer - February 14, 2020

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Hi folks! It’s been a fairly busy week this time around. Between running and going to a science lecture, I didn’t have the energy for a lot of other activities. With caucuses coming up, I’ve also been working on getting organized and ready for that. All that I really have to talk about is reading a little more of Quiet and playing a little more World of Warcraft. Neither of these feel like the sort of thing that I need to spend a full blog post on. I’m going to drop things off here, before I get too rambling. I’ll have something more to talk about next weekend. Until then, have a great week and game on!

The Professional Gamer - January 31, 2020

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The Professional Gamer - January 31, 2020

Hi readers! I may have premature on my end of season wrap up for My Here Academia. At this point I’m not sure when one season ends and the next one begins. Anyways, I want to talk about the latest English language episode, “Bright Future”, so spoilers a’hoy. Don’t look at this post if you are worried about spoilers.

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The Professional Gamer - January 24, 2020

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The Professional Gamer - January 24, 2020

Hi folks! Sorry about the lack of posts on my end. I was travelling last week and just felt way to tired to talk about anything. I also felt like I hadn’t done much. I spent a few minutes playing Warcraft in the evening, but didn’t feel like I had much to practically report about it. This week went a little better in terms of recreational activities. I spent a lot of time trying to finish up My Hero Academia before the new season of anime comes on in full force. With that said, let’s talk about the second half of this season of My Hero and then a little bit about what I’ve been doing in Warcraft,

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The Professional Gamer - January 10, 2020

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The Professional Gamer - January 10, 2020

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone else had a good break for the holidays and didn’t have too rough of a time coming back to work full-time again. If, on the other hand, you are somehow still on holidays, just don’t tell me and pretend that things are too rough. I’ve been back at work for a week now and starting to get back into the normal swing of things. I did take most of Monday just to catch up on email and then the rest of the week working on partially completed projects from before my break. But you probably don’t want to hear about that. You’d rather hear about what I did during break, right?

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The Professional Gamer - December 20, 2019

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The Professional Gamer - December 20, 2019

Hi folks! We are rapidly approaching the end of year holidays, and I am on the first day of a two week break from work. I’ll be spending a lot of time with family this coming week, but I’m hoping to find some time to goof of as well. However, this past week was all about the holiday party at work, a quick trip to California to look at a construction site, and then tying up loose ends before being away from the office for two weeks. Which has taken up a lot of my energy, and made it hard to do much aside from holiday prep and Warcraft. I did manage to watch some more seasonal anime, but we’re getting to the end of season now, and I’m afraid of spoiling stuff for everyone. So, I’ll refrain from talking about that in detail anymore and just give a little report on where I am in Warcraft.

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The Professional Gamer - December 13, 2019

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The Professional Gamer - December 13, 2019

Hi readers. I’m happy to be back in the saddle again after a week away. My cold is more under control, requiring only a little bit of sudafed to see me through the day, rather than the curious cocktail of medicines that I was taking last weekend. In any case, let’s talk about some fun things that I’ve done for the past couple of weeks.

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Blizzard Supports "Make a Wish" with a Fel Kitten

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Every so often (probably more than I think), Blizzard comes up with a new pet that they sell in order to benefit charities. And this year they have created a new being of pure evil and chaos to fill your stocking with, Mischief the Fel Kitten. Now normally I would have probably been pretty lazy and just let this pass without writing about it, again. But this year I really like the way they are doing it. First you have the digital version of Mischief, which is pretty normal. But now their is also a plush version. So you can pick one for your character or one for the stocking, or both. Just keep in mind you only have until the end of the year to snag one.

Ah, I also can't forget the wonderful video Blizzard made to push this little cat. It calls back to my child in a way I think many of you will recognize.

10 Years of WoW

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A decade is a long time for anything to last. Most things start to fade at the 4 year mark. While not completely forgetting these things do tend to wane in popularity. Therefore for World of Warcraft to still have 7.4 million subscribers (source) after 10 years is pretty amazing. In order celebrate this a new documentary called "World of Warcraft: Looking for Group Documentary" was recently released. Here they talk about the inception of MMO's that spawned the idea of WoW, the pitfalls they ran into, and what they do to try and please the players. It is just over an hour, but is pretty entertaining.