As you certainly know by now, being the well-informed reader that you are, Shadowlands, the next World of Warcraft expansion, is in alpha.

Players tend to invest a lot of time and in some cases money into their Blizzard Battle.net accounts.

During an interview on Zoltan's Twitch stream (you can see a text liveblog on Wowhead), World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas said there are no plans to delay Shadowlands due to COVID-19.

You ever have a friend you haven’t seen in a while, but you’re curious (and a little afraid) where they may have gone? You’ve lost touch a bit so you can’t really contact them, and the radio silence is making you really, really nervous? Picture unrelated.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and then we answer them, assuming they don’t save the world from the Burning Legion and then disappear.

When creating your character in Dungeons and Dragons, the first two major decisions you face are choosing your race, and choosing your class.

The Uncorrupted Voidwing is a quest reward for defeating N'zoth on Heroic or Mythic difficulty in Ny'alotha, and it will be available until the launch of Shadowlands.

Another boss down! Hivemind has fallen and we’re moving further into Mythic Ny’alotha. I’m a little sad to see it go, partly because I love the massive amounts of targets in the Hivemind encounter — having a giant Twilight Devastation rip through a huge pile of bugs will always be super satisfying — and partly because my team is getting into the tougher bosses now. I’ve come to really appreciate how much I dislike the soccer mechanics on Dark Inquisitor Xanesh. They were already really unforgiving on Heroic, but when you jump up to Mythic they are a binary pass/fail. Either your soccer players get their goal or the raid wipes. No second chances, no get out of jail free cards — just splat. Mistakes happen! We’re only human, but man is it rough when you’re having a great pull, and then you blink and everyone is dead.

It also made me appreciate just how lucky I am to be sharing tanking duties with a guy I enjoy playing with. We’d gotten halfway through our night and realized that we weren’t on the same page for the tank swaps. It’s probably because we’d spent the first part of raid comparing the various qualities of rum and whiskey. I’ve had good co-tanks and not so good co-tanks and man is it nice to know that I’ve got a partner who isn’t taking everything too seriously.  It’s a little thing, that can help make the raid wipes just fly by.

But enough about Xanesh. It’s time for — the Queue.

Before I even get started on this, let's be clear -- while I love Dungeons and Dragons, there are things it does not do as well as other game systems.

We are diverse human beings, with diverse opinions.

Forsaken are not going to knit a sweater and a tea cozy for the living any time soon.