Elizabeth Harper

We're gearing up for some big news days, I just know it.

I do have a Mage alt, but I don’t play it enough to keep up with how to play it, which means I usually don’t play it. I just want to go around spamming Arcane Explosion non-stop and be a ball of violent purple destruction, but apparently that’s inefficient and also it tends to result in my death. I’m that player in pugs when I’m on a Mage.

And I’ve been maining a Death Knight lately, so weirdly I’m not actually used to dying a lot anymore. Every other class I play feels squishy, but Mages more than most. So playing a Mage is a hard ask, but maybe I should anyway.

Existential class questions aside, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we attempt to answer your gaming (maybe) questions (maybe) and sometimes succeed (maybe). Let’s get to it.

We have an unusually long WoW maintenance day, with four hours of downtime scheduled for Midnight realms and a full eight hours of downtime scheduled for core Classic realms.

I've got to admit, I'm a little more excited for this week's Bethesda news than anything in Blizzard games...

We exist on the very cusp of Friday, which itself is on the very cusp of the weekend. Myself and many others in the northern side of the country are currently attempting to make through a haze of wildfire smoke coming down from Canada, but… well, after looking out the window at the yellow-gray haze of the sky, I’ll just say it’ll be fine. We can do this. Nothing to worry about. Let’s play video games instead.

And now, this is our daily Q&A column in which we answer your questions about video games (and just about anything else). Let’s get to it.

It's a quick Tuesday maintenance for all World of Warcraft realms, with just an hour of maintenance scheduled for modern and classic realms.

Last week was a quiet one in Blizzard games, save for the disheartening news of layoffs on the Xbox team, even though they're said not to be hitting Blizzard (so far).

What’s going on with all the raccoon talk in the last Queue? I asked Cory, and he told me “It’s a total mystery and nothing I did for sure.” So I have to take him at his word for it and assume it’s everyone else who is being weird. Why would a raccoon wear an eye patch, anyway? So I’m watching all of you is what I’m saying.

This the Queue, our daily Q&A column which I am currently using as an excuse to post this picture of Moo Deng, which is going to make all of our days better. Let’s get to it.

Leveling professions in Midnight can be an expensive, tedious process, so we're happy to report that the Darkmoon Faire is in town to award you with easy profession points right as the expansion launches.

I'm having a tough time working up the enthusiasm to tackle a new Diablo 4 season when I was just getting my character where I wanted it in the last Diablo 4 season.