Hey everyone! How y’all doin’? Thought I’d dust off this blog since, well, Twitter is near imminent implosion, but more importantly, there’s LOTS of cool stuff happening in World of Warcraft coming up Very Soon™.

As Shadowlands nears its end, my guild is only raiding one night a week, and that’s to blow through 10 or so mythic bosses from the various Fated raids in order to collect some mythic upgrade tokens. This weird intermediate time where we have new talents and yet legendaries and covenant powers are still around has yielded some fun results for my particular spec, Arms Warrior. We’re in that bizarre position where – combined with our available talents – our Venthyr covenant ability Condemn has achieved HUGE VALUE in basically all content. But it’s going away once Dragonflight launches, so there’s no need for Blizz to try to balance it. We’re not as ridiculous as, say, warlocks were in Season 4, but we’re sort of a meme-worthy Condemn-spam class, and I’m seeing some funny big numbers. Not usual for little old me!

With the launch of this 2nd and final phase of the Dragonflight pre-patch, WoW is having a special Twitch Drops promotion where interested players can watch some hours of their favorite WoW streamers (provided they have Twitch Drops enabled!) to unlock some seriously cool in-game rewards.

First up, starting next week you’ll be able to unlock the Dragon Kite battle pet (originally from the TCG) by watching 4 hours of your favorite WoW streamer between Tuesday November 15th at 3:00pm PST through Friday November 18th at 11:59pm PST.

And then once the Dragonflight expansion officially launches on Monday, November 28th, you’ll be able to unlock the AMAZING Feldrake mount (also a rare TCG prize) for watching an eligible streamer between Monday November 28th at 3:00pm PST through Thursday December 1st at 11:59pm PST.

November 28th also launches the beginning of their “Support a Streamer” promotion on Twitch where, if you gift 2 subscriptions to an eligible WoW streamer during the time between Monday November 28th at 3:00pm PST and Monday December 12th by 11:59pm PST, you’ll unlock access to the brand new Ichabod battle pet shown below! For this promotion, “eligible streamer” means someone who’s either an Affiliate or Partner on Twitch (meaning they can accept subscriptions), and that they’re also streaming World of Warcraft while the Twitch Drops period is in effect.

The final Twitch Drop is a toy called the Perpetual Purple Firework – which was also a TCG item, I guess? This toy shoots a firework into the air that purportedly bursts into a thousand purple stars. I’m definitely going to be counting them! This reward is unlocked by watching at least two hours of an eligible WoW stream between Tuesday, December 13th at 3:00pm PST (also the beginning of Season 1 of Dragonflight!!) and Wednesday, December 28th by 11:59pm PST.

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that I have stepped my toes back into streaming on Twitch, and I will definitely be taking part in the Twitch Drops promotion (they kept my Affiliate status active even after nearly 3 years of crickets HAHAHAHA)! For next week’s festivities, here’s my schedule:

Be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/wonderwez and turn on notifications to be reminded when I’m live those dates! Times for the Feldrake should be similar (starting around 3:00pm PST on launch day, with 8:00am PST starts the following days), and I’ll be sure to post those final schedules on my Discord and Twitter!

IMPORTANT: To receive these in-game goodies, you must have your Battle.net linked with your Twitch account. You can do that by starting at https://account.battle.net/connections, and then following the instructions to sign-in and link your Twitch account to Battle.net.

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Outside of all that excitement, I’ve been working on putting together a YouTube video previewing all the new (known) battle pets coming to Dragonflight. It’s been quite an endeavor, and I’ve already probably put in A LOT of hours researching online and in the Beta, going through WoW.tools build details, running collection theories by other pet enthusiasts, and gathering footage. I’m finalizing my script by the end of this week (hopefully) and hope to record the voiceover and assemble the video for upload just before Dragonflight launches.

For those of you who took the time to come to my blog and read all this, here’s a special preview of the script, so far!

Thanks so much for reading – what are YOU excited about right now? If you’re into WoW, what class are you going to be maining in Dragonflight, and what are some of your early-expansion goals? If you’re not into WoW, what games have you been playing? Take care, y’all!