Matthew Rossi

We talked last week about how Sylvanas dealt with her final attempt at revenge against Arthas, and the failure of that attempt.

One of the things about games like World of Warcraft is that character progression is very much tied to gear, and gear is tied to the use of your time in the game.

It’s Canada Day. I live in Canada, so for me, it’s a holiday. We’re celebrating it by watching old episodes of The Littlest Hobo. It’s like the old Bill Bixby Hulk TV show if you take out Bruce Banner and the giant green rage monster he turns into, it’s an adorable dog. That kind of sums up the difference between the US and Canada pretty well, I think.

The Queue. We answer your Blizzard questions.

So I've been stranded in a hotel waiting to get back into my apartment, and as a result I've been playing a lot more WoW than I was before.

Kind of a rough week for me. Floods, exiles, angry cats, it’s all been pretty horrible. I’m writing this Queue from a hotel room and I don’t know when I’ll get to go home again. But at least we’re all here, right?

Let’s talk Blizzard games. I could use the distraction.

We looked at her life, her death, and her rise to become the Banshee Queen.

What if WoW just stopped having expansions?

On June 24, 2006 I and my then-fiancee Julian were married in a friend’s backyard just outside of Seattle. It was a blazingly sunny day, to the point where there’s a running joke between us that the sun was a guest. In the decade since that day, many things have happened, some good, some bad, but I can honestly say that it was the best decision I ever made. I love her and I have been fortunate to have her in my life and with any luck I’ll get to say that again in 2026.

Blizzard games have been a big part of our lives together — we spent time in Azeroth when we couldn’t be together before we were married, I proposed to her during a Molten Core run, we’ve raided and moved servers and played WoW and Diablo 3 together.

This is the Queue. Not going to try and be funny or clever today. Just going to answer some questions so I can go to bed (It’s 1 am as I write this) and see my wife.

One of the great things about the new Wardrobe system coming in Legion is all the stuff I’m unlocking that I entirely forgot about. For example, since I leveled in Vanilla, I’ve done the old Warrior level 20 to mid 30’s quest chain that ended with the Whirlwind weapons, and as a result, I can transmog to all three. Also, I have the Garrosh heirloom 2h axe, and so, I can transmog to that.

I also have Linken’s Sword of Mastery, and I expect I’ll come up with a tanking transmog set built around it.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games.

People have a lot of feelings about Thrall.