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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.

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The Whole-Body Shrinka’ is probably one of my favorite toys in the game, mostly because it forces you to look at the world from an entirely different perspective. Shrinking yourself in tall grass is the best…but staring up at the boots of your comrades and hoping they don’t step on you comes a close second.

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I’m pretty sure seeing this little sequence, pulled straight out of The Last Guardian, was my favorite part of the latest chain of pre-Legion quests. …although it was a little odd that past-ghost-Khadgar was just as old as current day Khadgar, instead of the 14 year old apprentice he actually was.

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.

In today’s Queue, we are at hype level: Karazhan. But, unfortunately, it seems that I cannot answer questions that are only about Karazhan, possibly because hype level: Karazhan is not a universal feeling. Alas.

Even without (much) Karazhan, let’s dive into today’s questions.

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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.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

What’d I tell you yesterday? Floating magical cities. Dangerous.

And once again, today’s Queue is dangerously full of some spoilers for Broken Shore content. I’d suggest finishing that event before wandering in here.