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Blue Microphones, long synonymous with consumer-friendly microphones, has powered with World of Warcraft to create a special edition microphone with a stylish look and premium features. The tried-and-true design of Yeti’s flagship microphones paired with the cultural heft of World of Warcraft, together powered by the Logitech G Hub software creates a package that will be hard for Warcraft fans to resist! The Yeti X itself is somewhat new, offering an upgrade over the original Yeti with some very nice quality of life improvements. The original Yeti is still available from Blue Microphones, along with a host of other options to suit your needs, but it seems like the Yeti X should be the de facto microphone for most. You will pay a slight premium for the Yeti X World of Warcraft Edition, but if you have any interest in the lore of Azeroth and its inhabitants, I think you’ll find it worth your investment. As with its predecessors, the Yeti X World of Warcraft Edition is a hefty microphone. It feels well-constructed and certainly won’t tip over on your desk, but be prepared to find some room to call its home or a boom arm to keep it clear of your workspace. This special edition comes in a flecked dark charcoal finish that has a premium look and feel to it, wrapped with gold bands around the base and just below the mesh of the microphone. The golden base also features subtle ruins from World of Warcraft, and the game’s logo adorns the back of the mic in that same gold finish. All-in-all, it is a very good-looking mic regardless of your feelings for World of Warcraft, and it thankfully steers well clear of that cheesy territory that is all too common for video game-branded items. Setup and operation of the Yeti X is painfully simple. A micro-USB connection acts as both a power cord and data transfer, while an auxiliary jack on the bottom of the microphone lets you monitor your voice input with whatever pair of headphones you’d like to use. Around the back of the mic is a large button to cycle through the four pickup patterns—cardioid, stereo, omnidirectional, and bidirectional. And on the front of the mic, facing you, is the control knob. The single knob lets you control multiple aspects of the microphone, and features fancy and effective