The Queue: Let us Queue once more (once more)

It feels like we were just here, doesn’t it? In the Queue.

Well, here we are again (or here we are still), so I suppose it’s time to get to some questions.

We are at the halfway mark through the week. Escape is in sight!!

Blizzard has said they want Timewalking to be a more authentic experience and a challenge. I think there’s some truth to that: sometimes having to put in a little work to get through something can make it more fun. But it can also be really fun to just smash your way through a dungeon and not have to think too much about it. The joy of hulksmashing everything in your vicinity and collecting the loot as it falls. Some players may prefer one, some players may prefer the other, and I suspect a lot of us will go back and forth depending on how we feel when we log on.

There isn’t a right or wrong level of difficulty, but there may be a happy medium where it’s not too much of a steamroll but not too much of a challenge. The question will be whether Blizzard can find that balance that makes players on both sides happy.

You probably don’t want to know, because if you don’t have Dole Whip it’s better not to know that you’re missing out on delicious pineapple soft serve (sometimes served as a float, with ice cream in pineapple juice, but always delicious). I know it from its omnipresence at Disney parks, but the Georgia Renaissance Festival is closer than the nearest park so maybe I should check it out, too. For the ice cream, of course.

I just assume that everyone is getting vaults full of lousy trinkets each week — sure, it’s possible that I’m just unlucky, but also TWW Season 2 is overflowing with mediocre trinkets looking for players to equip them. Meanwhile, House of Cards remains in One-Armed Bandit’s (metaphorical) back pocket…

It’s a weird, trinket filled tier, and I am sorry for the lot of us. (I myself have contented myself with equipping an alchemy stone and a Lock-n-Stalk trinket, which guides rate as C-tier for my spec, but nothing better has yet appeared.)

I want to go all out into an Among Us mode, hunting for werewolves or undead who might hide in town. I’m not going to put any money on it actually happening, though… I suspect the game mode will lead more actiony: the smart money is on a Vampire Survivors type mode.

I think every game needs its own bubblehearth.

But what that bubblehearth is may vary. Bubblehearth itself is a profoundly ridiculous combination of abilities that doesn’t help you win battles or win friends (though it may make your friends laugh, which can help with making friends, but don’t count on that). Every game needs something like this, an ability or combination of abilities that is just dumb… but fun to press. Not a bubblehearth, but something that possesses the energy of a bubblehearth. That’s the winner.