Elizabeth Harper

As I finish writing this at around eight in the morning, I find myself utterly unable to come up with a unique or clever way to introduce the day’s column. Today, cleverness is DIY.

It's all been leading up to this.

Sure, sure, patch 8.2 has two massive new zones, two megadungeons, more of the war campaign (what's going to happen to my buddy Baine?!), and a raid where we finally get to confront Azshara.

I am really not feeling welcome here, you guys.

This is Liz, reporting in. Yes, of course it’s Liz. No one here but us Lizes. Absolutely, 100%, definitively Liz. Why would you even ask that?

Why does everyone keep telling me to smile? I am smiling! This is my smile!

And if you don’t like it, well, these teeth are pretty sharp.

Save the day, wreck someone’s day… they’re almost the same thing, right? Right.

The previews for the next Hearthstone expansion have been all over the map.

Rjagoda asked whether Liz was writing the Queue today, and I hate to break it to you, but she is not. Where is she? Let’s just say she’s indisposed at the moment.

And now that you have your answer, now let’s move on to the Queue.

Update: The servers are back up early, so you can jump in and get playing right now if that's your thing.