Matthew Rossi

The way leveling in Shadowlands works, you do 1 to 10 in Exile's Reach or some other starting zone, then from 10 to 50 you either do Battle for Azeroth content or one of the other expansions, from Cataclysm's revamp of Azeroth to Outland, or Northrend, or Pandaria, or even alternate Draenor or the Broken Isles.

One of the things I love about playtest content in Dungeons and Dragons is when it gets weird.

I've recently discovered the Party Sync functionality in World of Warcraft while helping my wife get her legendary cloak (she took off most of Battle for Azeroth due to the burning of Teldrassil, since, as a 16-year Night Elf Hunter, it messed up her character too much) and I have to say, this is a feature I'd have loved for WoW to have years ago.

I'm not entirely convinced that Ten Candles is horror, exactly.

World of Warcraft has weapon restrictions and I don't really get why anymore.

Since the Shadowlands pre-patch I’ve been working on my fist weapon transmogs, farming up The Bladefist from Highmaul, Fist of the Deity from Gundrak, and the Abomination’s Knuckles from ICC. I’m annoyed that I didn’t already have the Abom Knucks, cause I used to tank ICC with them back in the day. But apparently I forgot to keep them, which is irritating because I kept literally everything else. Luckily, they dropped for me.

The new customization options mean that I’m basically spending gold to make my characters match their outfits, so I don’t think I’ll have any money in Shadowlands but regardless I do enjoy fisting. I know the horrible connotations of that, and I don’t care, I enjoy my new fist weapon playstyle just that much.

This is the Queue. I’m filling in for Liz. Let’s do this.

I've been thinking about character customization and why it's important, and why it's of varying importance depending on who you talk to.

I don't know about you but for me, when I'm having a hard time figuring out a proper spooky adventure for an October D&D game, I like to have the entire party kidnapped by the Cleric's undead pirate cousin and, after fighting their way out of the hold of his terrifying demon haunted ship, make a bargain with Orcus, Demon Prince of Undeath, to dispose of two wicked artifacts that the evil doppleganger of their Wizard has been looking for.

I admit, I'm surprised I was surprised by the news that another group of ex-Blizzard employees are banding together to try to make some great games.

It’s been a long time since an Ashkandi screenshot lead the Queue, hasn’t it? Well, here’s my new Dwarf Warrior, with her Wildhammer face tattoos and a great big honking sword, in the classic World of Warcraft idiom.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk WoW and other stuff.