The Queue

Sorry, kids. Looks like time broke in 2020. We’re stuck in Groundhog Day: The Groundhog Year, forever repeating the same pandemic, the same chaos, the same crisis after crisis after crisis. The events change, but the song remains the same as we repeat 2020 forever. Heck, they’re even calling it 2022, as in 2020 2 — it’s a sequel no one asked for.

It’s the Queue. It’s 2020 2: Less Than Electric Boogaloo. Let’s do.

I feel like this is a very common theme for me lately.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll answer while we online shop because apparently there’s another holiday coming up?

We did it! We saved Anduin!

It felt really nice to finally get that fight, he’s definitely the fight in Sepulcher that has caused my guild the most issues on Heroic so far. Although I’m not looking forward to figuring out what new twist the Lords of Dread have for us.

Tonight was a rough raid night though, we had not one, but two(!) sub 1% wipes on Anduin. We got so close and then spent another hour and a half getting back to close and getting the kill. It was almost a super clean kill too, he was at 5% health left, and the first wave of the debuffs was wearing off when someone walked their exploding debuff right over top of the tanks and melee…

If we didn’t have two battle rezzes available I would’ve been writing a much different post right now.

While I try and figure out who blew me up, it’s time for — The Queue.

Me, late? Never.

Intro! I promise I’ll do this.

I suppose there’s a kind of irony in an insomniac oversleeping the day he has to write the Queue.

Anyway, I did that, and now here I am trying to get this done super fast.

I’ve been making a concerted effort to pare down a lot of things in my life lately, especially stuff like baby toys and that ugly tote bag somebody gave me as a gift but is just a little bit too big to be functional. It’s really motivated me to start paring down the amount of crap I’ve hoarded in games over the years, too.

Either fortunately or unfortunately, there’s no way to remove a particularly annoying mount in a fit of pique.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll answer (assuming it sparks joy).

Turns out that the crab didn’t give my guild as much trouble as I thought it would…

Anduin on the other hand. We’ve had a doozy of a pickle of a time managing to not blow ourselves up with the Blasphemy colors. It turns out that it’s really easy to accidentally have one of those go off on the tanks and then it’s time to wipe.

At least it’s really easy to reset the fight by sending everyone into Kingsmourne, so it has kept the repair bill low.

While I try and teach my raiders the difference between light and dark, it’s time for — The Queue.

Surprise! After a small discussion in the comments about who was or was not writing today, I decided to throw everything for a loop and take over today’s Queue! Also Liz needed someone’s help and I couldn’t sleep.

So yes, I’m writing The Queue on April 1. Don’t worry, though, I’ve saved my April Fool’s joke for another article.

Until then, we Queue.

Yeah, tomorrow is that day.

Today, however, we’re still operating under normal internet rules… so really, nothing much changes? Sorry, don’t mean to be cynical, just very aware that the internet is often a scary place.

It’s the Queue. I’m listening to Celldweller’s End of an Empire and thinking about the next session of the D&D game I’m co-running for the Tavern Watch crew.