Watching Blizzard: The healing anxiety game

It’s the day before the weekly reset in WoW (or at least when I started writing this), which means I’ve been running some Mythic+. And I have to say, Grievous is the worst affix and I’m going to spend the next month getting fidgety whenever I see someone drop below 90% health. And as soon as I’m over it, Grievous will come up again and I’ll be right back in this same ol’ anxiety boat. Whee! At least next week’s affixes have nothing at all to do with healing. Other than the fact that I’ll have to heal people. Which is pretty normal.

Addendum: The image above doesn’t technically have anything to do with my recent dungeon runs. I took and annotated that screenshot while doing the Holy Paladin Artifact quest, and like to trot it out after difficult group experiences. It reminds me that even Blizzard thinks healing is a terrible, stressful thing, so at least I know where I stand.

Other than that… well, it was just another Monday. Overwatch League has wrapped up for another stage, Children’s Week has ended, and Blizzard is usually as sluggish on Mondays as the rest of us. Which is a roundabout way to say there’s not a lot of news. But let’s check out what news there is.

The Lich King is dead… or is he?

• We, the heroes, know that Arthas may be dead, but there must always be a Lich King. And in Bolvar, the Lich King and his machinations live on.

Weapons that talk are the best

• Totally the best. My weapon absolutely did not tell me to say that. Not at all. And I’m sure my weapon will keep not telling me to do things in Battle for Azeroth, because we’re friends and neither of us orders the other around. It’s a completely cooperative and not at all creepy relationship. And, oh, right now on the beta if you transmog your weapon back to your old Artifact form it still talks to you. If you’re into that kind of thing.

NYXL dominates Overwatch League Stage 3 finals

• The team didn’t drop a single match in this weekend’s stage finals. The next stage kicks off next week, and we’ll see if NYXL can keep up this winning streak.

Heroes of the Storm is teasing something… but what?

• Whatever’s happening, we are sure that is a good doggo right there.

Ana’s been buffed in Overwatch… and may get the same buff in Heroes soon

• Should heroes in the Nexus mirror their alter egos? In Ana’s case… apparently yes.

And that’s all for now, my fellow Blizzard watchers. I’ll be back with more news when the next day is done, but until then, this is Liz signing off.