Elizabeth Harper

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 launches this week, and I'm looking forward to checking out the first Labyrinth, the Troll tomb Kindo'jan, when it goes live on Tuesday.

Yesterday was Wednesday, and to be honest I wasn’t sure how we managed to get halfway through the week without me noticing. But now it’s Thursday and we’ve gotten more than halfway through the week without me noticing.

Time is tough, man. Who can keep track of this stuff? I’m not a clock.

But I do know it’s Thursday, which means it’s time for me to write the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my best to answer your (mostly) gaming (mostly) questions. Let’s get started.

Good news everyone!

It was another quiet week as we continue to binge on the WoW: Forever beta, but big things are on the horizon!

It’s October: the trees are changing colors, the ghosts are coming out to play. Time to sit under the stars as the nights get cold and see who comes out to play. (Probably a bear.)

But let’s not dwell too much while we wait. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I will do my best to answer your questions and then we’ll all hang out in the comments section.

It's another short and sweet maintenance day for World of Warcraft, with just one hour of downtime scheduled for all realms.

Last week was a relatively quiet week, as we continue to shake off the excitement of BlizzCon, and this week may be a quiet one too — though we're certain to hear about the October WoW Trading Post and perhaps a get a confirmed release date for WoW patch 12.1.5.

Do you remember your first trip to Ironforge? If you were a Gnome or a Dwarf, you were probably sent there around level 5 on one errand quest or another, your whole game life to date spent trekking through the snow of Dun Morogh. You can’t even see Ironforge from down there; the city is nestled in the mountains, up a steep hill, and you trek up, through the snow on foot, and the entrance slowly comes into view. And there it is, massive, so much bigger than you.

There’s a sense of grand scale that, somehow doesn’t come across in the modern game, where we would take a flight path or ride a mount or use a hearthstone to get to Ironforge without much thought. We wouldn’t trudge up to it on foot; how tedious! But there’s something to be said for the sense of scale and wonder as you walk up for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, and think about how small you are, and how large this Dwarven city is.

But I digress. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions and I do my best to answer them. Here we go.

It's been a while since we've had such a short WoW maintenance, but today's World of Warcraft downtime is as quick as it gets with just an hour of maintenance scheduled for all realms.

We may have finally recovered from BlizzCon.