There's just no good reason why WoW's story mode raids aren't available right away—and I'm saying that as someone who cleared normal just fine last month

A raid boss in World of Warcraft: Midnight - an imposing void creature decked in armour, surrounded by a fleet of voidwalkers in front of a yawning dark portal.

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer

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This week I've been: Learning about Crimson Desert's hidden food mechanics.

Last week I was: Reviewing World of Warcraft: Midnight!

World of Warcraft's generally made a few great choices when it comes to its raid and rewards structure in the past few years—one of these solid ideas has been the inclusion of story mode, a soloable version of its endgame raids that lets casual players bop their big bads on the head so they can see the cutscenes everyone at Blizzard worked very hard on.