The Queue: Hello! I hope no one expects me to have a plan for the rest of this sentence…

I’m still not entirely sure what I’m playing in Midnight, so I hope no one expects me to have a plan for anything else. But a little uncertainty never frightened anyone. We shall march together into the strange future of tomorrow and see where it leads us! Onward! To Midnight!

And if that doesn’t make any sense to you, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions (though sometimes we have questions of our own). Let’s get to it.

For all that I enjoy a certain sense of order and understanding in my life, approaching a game I almost always just see where the wind carries me. As I am not fully fixed on a class, I may swap around and see how it goes… but on the other hand, it makes more sense to get one to max level before moving on to the others, doesn’t it? So maybe I’m more undecided than even I thought.

I will probably start with the Arator questline for a trip down memory lane and a visit to the Arcantina. I haven’t visited it in the beta in quite a while, and interested to see how it’s shaped up, or if there’s new content, or if new content will cycle through. So that’s high on the list, unless or until I get distracted by something else.

For all that we tend to min/max our gameplay, sometimes you just have to log on and see what happens next. We’re here to have fun (theoretically), so dive in and find what fun you can. We’ll all wind up in the same place in the end (sitting in front of raid, dungeon, or delve entrances), and how we get there isn’t the most important part.

This is an easy one: you can start the quest from an apparition of Liadrin in Stormwind (outside the cathedral), in Orgrimmar (outside Grommash Hold), or in Dornogal. Wherever you are, there should be a convenient starting point that will teleport you straight into the opening of the expansion.

I think it’s a good strategy, without a single bottleneck point, and without a boat or the like to bug out and break on us. (Instead we can just have the standard server slow downs and loading screen freezes.)

I think the current system is more practical. The game rolls out at the same time for all of us, and we don’t have to futz with game boxes and waiting in lines: we buy a digital game, we install the game, and we play the game without having to worry about who has it in stock, or shipping delays, or anything else. It takes out some of the fuss in the middle of game launches.

But also… there was a certain feeling sitting up at a midnight launch event. A digital launch doesn’t capture the same energy, though I suppose we could all hop on Discord and chat while we play to bring some of that real-world excitement to things. But still, it’s hard to bring that same excitement to a digital launch.

I suppose I’m a little nostalgic for the midnight launches, but the convenience of a just roll it live and play all afternoon launch can’t be understated.

I’m pretty ritual free, though I’m curious to hear what everyone else is up to in the final days of TWW. I’ll clean out my quest log trash items I’m pretty sure are irrelevant (though you never know), but that’s about it. Then it’s on to whatever seems interesting.

Close: Thursday is early access and Monday is full launch for Midnight. Launch time for both is 3pm pacific (6pm eastern).

And that’s all for now, folks. I’ll see you in the comments.