The Queue: Still don’t know what I’m playing in Midnight edition
by Elizabeth Harper on February 19, 2026 at 1:00pm
It’s been a whole 24 hours, and I’m still in the same boat. What am I going to play in Midnight? Nobody knows, least of all me.
But let’s get to the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions. To the comments!
The Epic Games Store is giving away Return to Ash and Stalcraft X for free this week
by Anna Bell on February 19, 2026 at 11:00am
What made Heroes of the Storm special… and why it’s still worth development
by Cory Taylor on February 19, 2026 at 9:00am @CoryjTaylor
The Queue: Still trying to pick a spec edition
by Elizabeth Harper on February 18, 2026 at 1:00pm
Midnight is a tough expansion for me. I refuse to play a Monk if I can’t have Xuen (p.s. Xuen is no longer baseline). I don’t love being a Paladin when I can’t live out my battle cleric fantasy by being a healer, which my guild doesn’t need. What am I supposed to do now?
Well, we’re a week from early access and I still haven’t decided. It’s probably fine. I’m sure I still have time. The answer will come to me any minute now. (Help.)
And whether I successfully decide on a class or not, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions (but sometimes we have questions of our own). Let’s get to it.
Count your blessings to win this week’s Hearthstone Lunar Blessings Tavern Brawl
by Ted Atchley on February 18, 2026 at 11:10am @honorshammer
Lore Watch Podcast: Who was the High Elf Xal’atath is piloting, and more weird body questions
by Anna Bell on February 18, 2026 at 11:00am
A quick Wednesday morning WoW maintenance (we hope) to resolve bank issues (we hope) — servers are back online!
by Elizabeth Harper on February 18, 2026 at 9:00am
Hearthstone’s new pet, a “cute” version of C’Thun, continues the unfortunate trend of gacha pets
by Phil Xavier on February 17, 2026 at 5:00pm
The Queue: Ketchup
by Anna Bell on February 17, 2026 at 1:00pm
At this point I’m more or less done with the prepatch event — or, at least, I’m doing about as much of it as I can stand. Now, I’m doing my own prepatch prep. Namely, I’m trying to wrap up all these little random quests in my log from expansions past that I just can’t seem to shake to clear quest slots for next expansion. Unfortunately, every one I do is apparently part of a long chain I don’t want to miss or mess up the next steps of, so I’m out here killing N’zoth once a week for… parts? I only have to kill Teron Gorefiend in Legion one more time for Khadgar to be satisfied before he sends me on to the next bit of the adventure. I need to do some stuff for Wrathion but I’m not sure which expansion he’s in, and the description just tells me to find him.
Anyway, we’re here now. So, that’s great. Love that for me.
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and at least I’ll get some lumber out of it.



