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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 Vault of the Wardens has a lot of owls in it. So many. This is the 50th Superb Owl I found, and is thus far more superb than any previous owl. I totally counted, I swear. …let’s just get to your questions, shall we?

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 pretty much love the new dragon models introduced in Legion and I want every color variation that exists. I don’t know how you get them, since we can’t even get to max level at this point in alpha testing, but I want them anyway. Look at those wings. Look at that tail. Look at that chin — I feel like Deathwing maybe wasn’t just about reinforcing his lower jaw when he had that giant metal monstrosity crafted, he was just trying to channel his inner storm drake.

Hiraeth is a hard word to define, and I’m not a native Welsh speaker by any stretch, so it’s just a thing I feel from time to time. It’s similar to saudade, the Portuguese word — both are often described as a kind of melancholic longing for something one loves that is in some way gone or unattainable, be it through death, having lost contact with it, or perhaps through realizing that it never was in the first place.

It’s February and March is fast approaching, and I’m reminded of Thomas Wolfe. “O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” But of course it can’t, and so it won’t — the past is the only place it exists. All we can do is remember.

Yeah, I’m feeling cheerful tonight. This is the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games.

“You’re perfect yes, it’s true/ But without me, you’re only you.”

Oh, and there may be spoilers for Legion in this Queue. Fair warning.

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.

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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.