Elizabeth Harper

After a busy few weeks of roadmaps and big reveals, this last week has been a little quieter for news about Blizzard games as we wait for all of those reveals to turn into real, playable games.

It’s been a whole 24 hours, and I’m still in the same boat. What am I going to play in Midnight? Nobody knows, least of all me.

But let’s get to the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions. To the comments!

Midnight is a tough expansion for me. I refuse to play a Monk if I can’t have Xuen (p.s. Xuen is no longer baseline). I don’t love being a Paladin when I can’t live out my battle cleric fantasy by being a healer, which my guild doesn’t need. What am I supposed to do now?

Well, we’re a week from early access and I still haven’t decided. It’s probably fine. I’m sure I still have time. The answer will come to me any minute now. (Help.)

And whether I successfully decide on a class or not, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions (but sometimes we have questions of our own). Let’s get to it.

Wednesday is typically maintenance day for European realms, but this morning NA realms have an extra maintenance for Midnight realms.

All World of Warcraft realms have a longer than usual maintenance today, but hopefully not too long: all servers are scheduled for two hours of maintenance this morning.

The Lunar Festival is back in World of Warcraft!

Roadmap season is officially over for Blizzard games, as this year's 2026 plans for Hearthstone and Diablo both rolled out last week.

The butterfly I’m interested in is unfortunately not in a book. If it were in a book I could just check it out at the local library (btw support your local library). But instead it’s a rare drop World of Warcraft mount, which is in every way worse.

Still, we persevere, holiday after holiday and kill after kill. Eventually this butterfly will be mine. Maybe.

It's 2026, and Diablo 2 is getting a new DLC: Reign of the Warlock.

This week's maintenance is scheduled to last all day for Midnight realms as Blizzard rolls out WoW patch 12.0.1, which includes many class updates and additional UI improvements — primarily things we've already seen testing on the beta, just rolling to live a little before the Midnight launch.