The Queue: BlizzCon 2026 edition

No time to talk. Blizzcon is almost here! Excitement is in the air!

This is The Queue, our daily column where questions get asked about BlizzCon, and answers are given about BlizzCon. At least this time.

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Camelot has apparently already been “solved,” unless we’re all falling victim to an immense hoax. There have been many rumors about it being a project to expand WoW Classic — the fabled Classic+ that people have been speculating about for ages now.

We also do know that several WoW Classic streamers and influencers were invited to Blizzard campus in May 2026, and signed an NDA about what they saw there.

There’s also been a leak, but I’m not gonna discuss that. It’s more fuel to the fire, however.

I don’t know if it’s gonna be called “Camelot” in the end: that’s probably just an internal project name. But what will come out of it will most likely be Classic+, in some form. New content being developed for WoW Classic, possibly with new expansions, perhaps including content that was featured in that world but never explored like Karazhan Crypts, Hyjal, etc. We can only speculate at this point, but I think it’s a pretty safe bet now, and I’d be surprised if it turned out to be something else.

1) Yes, I’m a huge Monk believer. My original predictions also included a Pandaria expansion and Pandaren being added as a new minion type, which would work for both Constructed and Battlegrounds.

However, given the nature of the teasers the Hearthstone team has been releasing, Pandaria and Pandaren seem far more unlikely now. The teasers seem to involve planets, space, and words like “transform, doubt, shape.”

So I’m thinking we get Monks and some sort of cosmos expansion of some sort. Perhaps something where the Titans are building (or rebuilding) planets.

2) As for the hero power, I’m thinking something simple like: 2 mana. Your hero gains 1 attack this turn and restores 2 health when they attack. (The name could be Tiger Palm or Blackout Kick or whatever.)

Not super complex, and fits the fantasy, since Monks in WoW have a lot of those “self-heal when hitting things” effects. And the power level is comparable to the Druid/Warrior hero powers, since gaining armor is better than healing, and with the Priest hero power, since a targeted heal for 2 is better than a self-only heal for 2.

Nope. Blizzard’s official viewership guide mentions nothing about an app, and points users to Twitch or Youtube. They’re even featuring drops as an incentive for viewers to use those platforms.

Not in sleep mode, no. Many of the PC’s basic functions are turned off in sleep mode.

But you can leave a tab opened and earning drops while you AFK, no issue. I’ve done that many times. You might even want to lower the volume and reduce the video quality to something like 360p if you want; it still works.

I’m not at the floor myself, so I can’t answer that. I can, however, steal our own Liz Harper’s answer about the mood:

Blizz workers just got some big union wins that boost wages (a little) and provide some protection against layoffs, so I bet they’re feeling pretty good right now. https://aftermath.site/blizzard-union-contract-warcraft-overwatch-diablo/

Favorite reveal: Overwatch. It was brilliant. It made me extremely excited for a new Blizzard game in a way no other reveal has managed to, to this day. It felt completely different from everything I had come to expect from Blizzard until that point, which was Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft, basically. It felt like a real breath of fresh air, an exciting new direction in a very interesting new world, a world that felt hopeful instead of edgy.

Biggest letdown: the Shadowlands reveal, honestly. To this day, it was the only reveal of a WoW expansion that made me less excited about playing the game than I was feeling before seeing it. Seeing the Lich King, one of the biggest names in Warcraft lore, being reduced to an absolute chump that can just be soloed by Sylvanas, all for a cheap “wow, that’s so badass” moment in a cinematic, during a time when I had already been waiting for years for her to get some comeuppance and pay for her crimes — instead, she gets the exact opposite of that. That was by far the biggest disappointment I’ve ever felt watching a Blizzard reveal.

It felt like if Game of Thrones had just announced a new season and the trailer showed King Joffrey going beyond the Wall and single-handedly killing the Night King, then doing some badass pose while the camera framed how cool he is.

I uh…

Raz, sit down. We need to talk.

Highmountain Bikini Party is not getting revealed on BlizzCon 2026. They’re saving that reveal for BlizzCon 2027.

It will follow The Last Titan, and serve as the first expansion on the next saga, the “I’m Le Tired Saga,” featuring three expansions where our characters are in dire need of a break from constantly saving the world and take a series of relaxing vacations: first, we’ll go to the Highmountain Bikini Party. Then we’ll join our host, the returned guardian Medivh, in Seven Nights in Karazhan (which will feature one less raid tier than normal, but will compensate by introducing the Dance Studio). Finally, we’ll reach the dramatic finale of the trilogy in Kun-Lai Snowboarding Xtreme, where Blizzard will finally give us playable Grummles and the proper snowboarding minigame we deserve.

This has been The Queue. And now our watch begins!

Have a great BlizzCon, everyone.