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The day after a birthday is the worst. The presents have been opened and no new surprises await you. You feel awful because you ate way too much cake and ice cream — and worse, today will be a boring cake-free day. Ugh!

Well, we’ll have to persevere anyway. Today I am answering questions with my co-conspirator Mitch, who is definitely not quietly planning a major regime change.

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!

Hey, remember Monday’s Queue? See, the thing was, there was supposed to be a joke, right? Because I wrote the first half, but then Rossi would dramatically sweep in and steal it away from me. Whoa, Rossi from out of nowhere! But the byline changed before it was published, so then everything appeared to be written by him, so it ended up being Rossi interrupting Rossi, and … you know what, forget the whole thing. Let’s answer some questions on this day, the day of our birth.

Actually, as I write this, it’s quarter past four in Edmonton.

This is the Queue. I’m Matthew Rossi, your host. I’m listening to How Will I Laugh Tomorrow by Suicidal Tendencies. Basically my anthem for a solid ten years there. Let’s get some questions answered and some answers questioned.

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!

The new harpy models in Legion are absolutely gorgeous, but what’s really striking is their facial animation. It’s not just the expression, it’s the birdlike way they dart their head this way and that while they’re looking around. I don’t know if the model revamps in Warlords were a test run or what, but they’ve really just amped up the quality with every creature out there since.

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!

I’m pretty sure the last thing I ever expected to see in Legion was an underground snail-racing ring. But hey, I guess everyone needs something to amuse themselves with, right? Right.

As I write this it’s been well above freezing for days, and nearly all the snow has melted. I’m not fooled — it’s winter in Canada, it’s going to come roaring back and dump frozen water all over us, that’s what it does. But it’s still bizarre to be in shirtsleeves weather in January. (Yes, slightly above freezing is shirtsleeves weather in Alberta.)

Time, my friends.

Here’s the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games. There may be spoilers for Legion in this one. If there are, I’ll make sure to mention them in the question/answer part so you can skip them.

I had a funny intro all written up in my head and ready to go. All I needed was a solid Wrath of the Lich King screenshot and it would have been perfect. But instead you get this, because Mitch derailed my line of thinking by sending in this screenshot. Which we of course had to have an argument about, because this is clearly a gross invasion of that seal’s privacy.

I mean, really, that kind of behavior is just not cool. Leave the guy to enjoy a nice bubble bath in peace, wouldn’t you?

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That’s right, everything you see on the Night Elf above (minus the swords) will be plate armor in Legion. And man, I feel like that’s silly, because if any armor has ever not been plate, it is that collection of a scale corset and thigh high boots joined to hot pants that is the Glimmering Mail set.

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