The Queue: Glad that you could fake those frames, Uther

If you’re not terminally online like I am — first of all, good for you, because it means you get to miss the latest Nvidia DLSS discourse. The short version is that while DLSS 1 through 4.5 were legitimate ways to improve your framerate in games via some honestly ingenius graphics card shenanigans, DLSS 5 appears to throw all that out the window in favor of taking creative control away from the graphics professionals who designed it and handing it to the same slop factories that are responsible for AI deepfake videos. The internet has reacted accordingly, while Nvidia’s CEO has decided to take the Principal Skinner “no, it’s the children who are wrong” approach to the feedback.

At least we got a bumper crop of memes out of it, right?

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily question and answer column where we have some thoughts about generative AI, but my mom taught me that if you don’t have anything nice to say, you say it quietly with your friends instead of in public. Let’s get to it.

As far as I can tell, yes, the new campaign quest this week is for Voidspire. Dreamrift does have a quest that leads into it, though; you’ll want to start with The Listener in Harandar, which will eventually culminate in The Dreamrift: Malformed Mystery. However, there’s some chatter in Wowhead’s comments that indicates the quest chain may also be contingent on your progress in the Legends of the Haranir weekly event, so if the quest chain abruptly stops before you reach the end, that may be why.

Look, I could be had either way. There’s pros and cons to both.

The upside to the digital version: immediacy. You can get it at the speed you can download it, without ever leaving your house or changing out of your fuzzy slippers. (Do we not all wear fuzzy slippers to game?) The downside to the digital version is that you don’t actually own anything; you just have a license to play it. However, that’s rarely been an argument that sways me: it’s basically the same thing.

The upside to the physical version is that you own a thing. It’s a physical object in your hands, and as long as the hardware that plays it continues to work, you can play it anytime you like and no one can tell you no. The downside to the physical version is that everything is falling apart all the time, and physical media is no exception. Disc rot is real. Also, it’s a physical object you have to store in your living space, and I don’t know about you but I’ve got plenty of that right now.

Do what makes you happy, is what I’m saying.

I’ve used it on a few characters, mostly ones that I played a lot at the end of The War Within, but I made sure I got my money’s worth. It had to be a whole-set transmog, none of this “oh, I’m changing a weapon, I’ll save 120 gold” or whatever. But hey, hypothetically, the longer you hold onto it, the more it’s worth.

Yesterday was the one day a week I had to commute into my job’s office, and they always provide lunch when we do, so I had a burrito bowl from Chipotle. Today? Undecided. Queuevians, what should I have for lunch?

This did get answered (thank you Kraid!) but it’s worth putting the answer out here to make it easier for folks to find. (Plus yesterday Disqus was eating comments, who can say when it will get hungry again?)

The short answer is that key fragments now drop from basically everything: rares, Prey, world events, you name it. You can convert them at Delver’s HQ, or via a toy you can buy with Undercoin… or you can just skip all that rigamarole and walk into a Bountiful Delve, which appears to trigger them to convert into keys automatically.