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Well I don’t know about the rest of you, but the weather here decided to give us a white Christmas and dump a truckload of snow over the course of the day. On the one hand it’s very pretty, on the other I have places to be this weekend that are kind of contingent upon my getting the car out of the driveway, so I’m hoping it disappears in the next 24 hours or so. But hey! Another day, another Queue, and more questions to answer, right? Let’s get to those.

Christmas makes me feel kind of melancholy because of the memories of people who are gone, that I’ll never see again, that I find myself remembering. It’s not bad to miss absent friends and loved ones, but it is a certain kind of sadness. It’s one I feel every December 25th. And it’s one I’m feeling today.

I’m listening to Big Empty by Stone Temple Pilots. You can probably figure out why.

There may be spoilers for Legion, depends on what questions y’all asked. If you didn’t ask any WoW or Blizzard questions at all, I may just ramble. Who knows? Not me. I’m winging this one.

The holiday season can get quiet in the gaming world as we’re all pulled into real-world commitments and away from our favorite games. And that’s not to even mention that Blizzard’s already gone quiet for the holidays, with little in the way of updates and both the Overwatch and Legion betas closed.

Plus you lot spent most of yesterday’s Queue talking about Christmas movies.

What I’m saying is that doesn’t give us a lot of ground to cover, so today Mitch and I are answering your questions Cho’gall style (only I think we agree a little more often than Cho and Gall). So, enjoy today’s silliness — and please leave questions for tomorrow’s Queue, because we’re sure to need them to help fill out the holiday weekend.

Cheers!

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!

While we’re here, I want to let all of you know we’re going to be on holiday scheduling for the next two days. In other words, you’ll see content from us roughly every third hour, with The Queue showing up a bit later than it typically would. In addition, our leveling team livestream will happen tomorrow, but it will be at 12 p.m. Central rather than 2 p.m. Central. Cool? Cool!

Hi, and welcome to The Queue. We’re talking about Blizzard games and usually there’s some other stuff. Just be cool.

I’m listening to Anthrax’s State of Euphoria album.

There may be Legion spoilers. Honestly, as I write this paragraph, I really have no idea.

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!

I haven’t actually gotten a chance to do any quests in Stormheim yet on the Legion alpha, but the scenery is beautiful. Giant statues, overcast skies and random lightning? I like all of these things, yes please. Let’s answer some of 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 finally got around to hitting level 100 with my Shaman alt. This time around, I did things a little differently. I finished every quest, found every treasure and did every extra mission in Shadowmoon Valley, and when I was done with that, I started flying around and finding treasures everywhere else. Between the treasure-finding XP (with rested bonus), XP missions from my garrison mission table, and collecting both herbs and ore from my mine and herb garden, it was a relatively painless process, and I have…every other zone on Draenor to complete for extra gold at my leisure. I can’t say it was easier, but the process definitely lent itself far more to watching Netflix on the second monitor while flying around.

I’m starting to think that Warlords of Draenor scratched my Draenei itch so completely that I may need to play Tauren as my main in Warlords. I tanked on a Prot Warrior for our Alpha stream this week and I had a good time with it, even if it feels like Prot desperately needs an on-demand self heal (at present it lacks one) and a bit more bite in terms of offense. The Artifact quest for Prot got a little harder with the most recent set of changes — I basically had to spec Second Wind and spend a lot of time stunning everything with Shockwave and running away until Second Wind healed me up.

But this isn’t a Warrior post, so let’s talk about your questions. Spoiler warning is in full effect. Also, please don’t talk about the new Star Wars movie. Some folks are really excited to see it, let’s not wreck that for them.

Tauren are awesome.

Another bright and beautiful day has dawned over the Queue, which means that, yes, it is time for a new round of Q&A. (And also for some slight, very slight obsessing over the new Sugar Plum Sylvanas skin.)

So let’s dive right in, shall we?