Matthew Rossi
Breakfast Topic: How fast will you level?
The Queue: 40 levels in a day
So, I knew the whole Invasions as leveling tool experience had been radically improved by a recent hotfix — I’d leveled two characters in their 90’s with it, including my long abandoned Paladin. But upon getting him to 100 I decided to see how useful it was for a low level toon, my level 23 Warrior. So, this Monday, I took her to the Westfall one since she could get to it pretty easily.
Long story short, she’s now level 64. And I didn’t log on every two hours to hit all the Invasions, nor did I log out at an inn to reset a zone to stage 1 (although I was advised to do so on Twitter and I find that fascinating). This is just from hitting as many invasions as I could reasonably reach, with a last minute assist from my wife on her Sandstone Drake to get to some of the elites in Azshara. That one popped me up six levels by itself.
This is the Queue. Let’s chat about stuff.
Know Your Lore: The value of defeat
Breakfast Topic: Thank you, invasions
Breakfast Topic: Is new always better?
The Queue: I refuse to answer questions that are about Karazhan
You want a Queue that’s excited about Karazhan? Yesterday’s Queue is for you. But I’m afraid I’m just not all that excited about it.
Look, I ran that raid over and over and over again for the entirety of TBC. I ran it when it was the guild-killer. I ran it when they introduced Badges to raids and it was the most efficient way to gear up your newest raid members. I ran it when people wanted the mount. I ran it and I ran it and now? Now I just don’t care.
Sorry. I know y’all love Karazhan. I don’t want to take that away from you. It’s a very pretty raid from an art and music perspective.
Breakfast Topic: Please let me buy more gear with Nethershards
Dave Kosak: “Artifacts will be a Legion-specific thing”
StarCraft 2 co-op commander Alarak and multiplayer changes
The Queue: My best Kermit flail
So, uh, yeah, I may have totally forgotten I had to write the Queue today. It’s been a week, let’s just leave it at that, okay?
This is that Queue I just remembered I’m supposed to write. Let’s talk about Blizzard games.



