The Queue: Welcome to 2026 (almost)

It’s nearly the new year, which means it’s packed with all of the stress of family events, “new year, new you” expectations, and all of those pesky chores with end of year deadlines that have all crash-landed on the last day of the year. Happy December 31, here’s your end of year anxiety, checking in!

But persevering through another year is still something to celebrate, so let’s get started with some questions, some sort-of-resolutions, and maybe wrap it all up by going to play some video games. I’ve put on my most festive hat to celebrate, and I think you should too.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column (or an excuse to hang out and chat). Let’s get to some questions.

I don’t really like to make resolutions of any kind. The new year is a good time to refresh yourself and commit to goals, but it’s also a great way to overcommit and wind up disappointed when you can’t reach potentially lofty goals… and finishing a game a month does feel a little lofty to me, but maybe that’s because I tend to dive into big RPGs and spend forever in them.

Or maybe it seems  lofty because I don’t finish a lot of games. I still haven’t gotten through Cyberpunk 2077 or Baldur’s Gate 3 even though they’re two games that are very Liz-coded, or Outer Worlds 2 even though I was really looking forward to it.

It’s not that they’re bad games or that I don’t like them — well, I don’t enjoy combat in BG3  (but I can set it to easy and, I don’t know, listen to a podcast while waiting for everyone to take their turn in combat) and I’m very bad at driving in Cyberpunk (but I can walk, usually, and motorcycles aren’t so bad) — it’s that there are so many games and still only 24 hours in every day. And when I get distracted by something else, like having to finish a million goals in Legion Remix, I’m not spending a lot of time playing other games. And in an expansive story-based RPG, that means I forget where I was or what I was doing. Should I start over? I’m in the middle of this quest but I’ve forgotten the story behind it. I don’t remember how to use this weapon or skill. What is even happening with this talent build? Sometimes after a while away it’s challenging to just come back and pick the game up again.

I suppose I do have an intention for 2026, even though I don’t want to set myself a goal that will just be a disappointment. And that’s just to finish more games this year.

I don’t know that that will go better than setting a hard goal or number of games, but we’ll see how the year progresses.

Well, I have good news: you can’t do it wrong.

Whatever your goals, you still have some time to work on them (Legion Remix ends on January 19), or you can just jump in and play for fun (a revolutionary concept).

A lot of systems from the original Legion don’t exist here, but the core of the expansion (then and now) are Artifact weapons, which you will find and use to fight the Burning Legion (again). There’s one for each spec, and each has a unique questline collect it, and Remix will direct you to those quests automatically, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.

In Remix, there’s one set of abilities for each weapon — originally each had unique talents and abilities to unlock — and you’ll collect the infinite power you need to level it by doing just about anything. If you, like me, are confused where this information is, open your character screen and shift-right click to view your artifact info. I wouldn’t get too far in the weeds here: you can get everything on the first few tiers, and then pick one active ability (the horizontal rows) to progress from there. You can change your points at any time but you will eventually get everything. Play what you want, though I feel like the demon summon Twisted Crusade is the most powerful.

There are two important things to do during Legion Remix: play Legion’s story (it’s a good one) and complete quests for Eternus. Raiding is also a great way to earn rewards, but you don’t have to do it if it’s not fun for you.

Doing quests for Eternus in the Infinite Bazaar will get you all sorts of rewards and also an experience boost to help you progress faster (that’s the Timerunner’s Mahem buff, which stacks up to +30% XP gain). The Bazaar is the island off Dalaran with all the Infinite Dragonflight on it. You’ll be sent there pretty soon after making a new character, or you can get there by clicking the  swirling bronze portal on Krasus’ Landing (across from the flight master), or use the Timerunner’s Hearthstone in your inventory to go there directly.

The second most important thing to do is play through your class hall quest and the main zone quests and just progress through the stories. Things are a little out of order from how they originally launched because all phases of content are currently unlocked in Legion, but if you want to just experience the expansion and level alts, pick a zone and work through it. The quests marked with a little shield icon in your quest log (rather than a circle) are your main story quests that need to be done to finish zone achievements and get through story. If you don’t care about the story, I’d still play through these quests because they’ll unlock rewards as you complete them — just skip the quest text and keep going until you run out of quests. Run dungeons as they’re required for quests with the dungeon finder to jump in quickly… though at some point you may find you can just solo run a normal-difficulty dungeon.

Every class has a class hall in Legion, which has its own campaign about how your class comes together to defeat the Burning Legion. You also want to do this quest, which is listed in your quest log under “<class> Order Hall.” These are both some of the best stories in Legion (I think Death Knights are a particular standout) and they unlock decor rewards and class-specific mounts. If you want to do multiple class hall campaigns, you’ll need to roll multiple characters, but it’s a good way to earn bronze and rewards so it’s a decent way to spend your time.

Raids are a way to earn a lot of bronze and infinite power. You can quickly queue for LFR (Looking For Raid) difficulty raids in the group finder (default hotkey G). Open it up, go to the Raid Finder, and pick what you want to run. You’ll wait a while for the group to be formed, and then it will teleport you directly there. If you want to try higher difficulty raids — which have more rewards — open the group finder and then go to Premade Groups > Raids > Find a Group. Browse for anything you’d like to do, then click Sign Up. If you’re accepted by the group’s leader, you’ll need to make your way to the raid or get summoned to it — ask if a summon is available, because that makes it easy to get there.

The most important thing to remember in a raid is keep up with the group. Raids move fast and some of the Legion raids are real mazes. While you will get any boss loot in the mail later even if you didn’t return to the boss, you’ll want to stay close enough to the group to get kill credit.

But, again, there’s no way to do it wrong. You don’t need to do everything or get every reward. Go in, do what you want, have fun, and don’t stress out over it.

Blue Prince.

And rolling credits was far from the end of the game. (I didn’t actually get to the “real” end of the game, even after all this time.)

That’s all for today. Thanks for being here this year everybody; I am glad you have stuck out 2025 with us.

Take care of yourself, have a happy (and safe) NYE, and I’ll see you in the comments section.