Elizabeth Harper

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for weekly WoW maintenance, which are trending on the longer side — though none of the WoW servers are scheduled to be offline for too long.

I can stop staring at the login screen any time I want.

The new login screen is kind of mesmerizing. Maybe I don’t even want to reconnect. Maybe I just want to stare into the swirling darkness, leaning ever closer to my monitor…

No, wait, I need to write the Queue. Let’s do this.

We've had a whole lot of long WoW maintenances lately, but we've finally reached an almost-not-long-maintenance.

There's not much longer to wait for the Midnight beta to launch, but if you're waiting for the latest news about Midnight (and/or player housing), you may as well catch up on last week's news first.

I’m not actually a robot, but sometimes I play one on TV. You know how it goes…. some days you’re lagging and you feel a little more like a robot. (Or sound a little more like a robot, when you’re chatting in Discord.) We just have to roll through those days (not on wheels, but on definitely totally normal human legs) and keep going.

So beep boop everybody. Let’s Queue on this lovely Wednesday afternoon.

We knew BlizzCon 2026 was coming, but now we know when we'll be able to buy tickets: November 18, 2025 at 9am pacific (12pm eastern), for $289.99 each.

Today's World of Warcraft maintenance is an extremely unusual eight-hour downtime for all servers — modern, Classic, and Mists of Pandaria Classic.

Here at Blizzard Watch, the staff has been abuzz about Midnight ever since it was announced, but this week we're a little more abuzz because the beta test was just announced — and that brings us one step closer to launch.

But you can’t nap while waiting in the queue, because you might miss it. So let’s get to the questions… we can take the perfect cat nap later.