The Queue: Oblivious

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What’s that? Something behind me, you said? Don’t be silly, everything is perfectly fine — say, do you smell sulfur? I’m just going to ignore that and answer your questions instead.

My Rogue currently has every legendary she can equip. However, I keep thinking about trying to pick up Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings for my Priest. Not for any real reason, just because it’s there and obtainable. …there are days I wish I could still get Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian because I’d love to have that one. I wonder if Khadgar would let me borrow it for a little while. Just for funsies.

You’ll still be able to play them — the expansion itself will be off limits, but Gnome Hunters aren’t tied to that. They’re just new combinations of the usual classes. Feel free to tame all the pets you’d like!

It should be — all of Blizzard’s other titles are, and I don’t think they changed anything with Overwatch. Give it a try, if it works, great! If not, you’ll just have to download per usual. Can’t hurt to try it out either way.

I wouldn’t mind seeing those added — Quel’serrar was pretty amazing and difficult to get back in the day. The dungeon set upgrades were also a serious time sink, and you can’t do them anymore. Both of them seem like the kinds of things that would warrant a legacy achievement, but we don’t know if those are going to be added or not.

I checked with our resident Matticus, who is usually on the up and up about these things, to see what he thought. He said, “Gamescom (betting odds) and/or PAX Prime (Unlikely). And if Matticus was a betting man (which he is), if an Adventure would be announced this year, that would be it. Then you can expect the final expansion announcement of 2016 to take place around BlizzCon.”

Obviously this is all speculation at this point, but I imagine if anything’s coming up at Gamescom, we’ll know soon enough — Gamescom takes place August 17-21.

Oh heck yes they do! Alex says he likes playing Lucio, Mercy, Roadhog, and Reinhardt. Anna says she likes playing Mei, Symmetra, and Junkrat, but she’ll hop on Lucio for support if needed. Matticus enjoys playing Zarya, and insisted I link his player profile, in which you can see that yes, he definitely likes Zarya a lot.

Rades says he likes to play Tracer, Mei, Junkrat, Widow, Zarya, Lucio and Mercy — quite the spread of characters! As for me, I like playing Reinhardt, Winston, Mei, and yes sometimes Bastion — look, he’s fun okay — but I haven’t had a lot of time to play at all since the game came out, unfortunately.

We have other writers who enjoy playing too — they just didn’t happen to be around to chime in.

That’s it for today’s Queue — if you have any questions you’d like to see answered, be sure to leave them in the comments below!