Elizabeth Harper

Blizzard's 2026 roadmap for World of Warcraft didn't include anything about our new favorite feature, Player Housing (aka house transmog), but Blizzard still has lots of plans for in-game housing.

It’s a beautiful day in Silvermoon City… as long as you don’t turn around and look up at the sky, anyway. But there’s no time to sit around enjoying the scenery, because we have quests to finish, reputation to grind, prey to track, and delves to clear.

And we can’t forget the Queue, of course. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions and we all get to have a good time in the comments section because of it. Let’s get to it.

This week's WoW server maintenance is a big one, at least for some servers: Midnight realms are scheduled to be offline for four hours, while all versions of WoW Classic are scheduled to be back online within the hour.

From a surprise patch 12.0.5 reveal to a low-key new Diablo 4 season, there's a lot to catch up on from the last week, and a lot more on the docket this week.

It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new leveling grind in World of Warcraft, and I’m sure I’ll wrap this up eventually, probably, it’s fine. But while I struggle to keep up with my friends in leveling and gearing for another WoW expansion, let’s get to another Queue.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A article in which I try to answer your questions and we all get to hang out in the comments section.

Diablo 4 patch 2.6 is now live, kicking off Season 12: Season of Slaughter — though technical problems meant that players may have trouble connecting to the game or staying connected to the game for the first few hours.

This week all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled for two hours of downtime this morning, and it seems like a more reasonable time period than last week's optimistic one-hour maintenance, which wound up running for two hours anyway.

Last week, World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion officially launched worldwide, and between playing the game and writing about the game, we've been pretty busy.

I labeled this Queue carefully so I would not forget about it. But I may have created a problem, because Queues like having unique names, and I’m going to run out of headline variations at some point.

Fortunately that’s a problem for future Liz, and present Liz is doing just fine.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions, I try to answer them, and we all get to hang out in the comments section.

We’re adding a few new writers to the Blizzard Watch team, as well as an artist to help us with new designs for merch.