This week every year I go on vacation to a family reunion, the date of which has been set in stone since my grandfather was a toddler, in a rural enough place that I have to drive 30 minutes to get cell reception. Every year since I began content creation, something major has dropped this week — it’s been exactly one year since Overwatch League’s inaugural season finals, for instance.

So, what I’m trying to say is, you have me to thank for any major drops that happen this week. You’re welcome.

Let’s Queue!

The Mythic difficulty of Azshara's Eternal Palace has only been open a week, but it's been a very busy week.

When we think of World of Warcraft, one of the main elements of the game that has helped to definite it is that it is, in great part, the story of two factions.

As of right now, I see two contradictory paths that patch 8.3 could take.

Overwatch's new hero — who we've been calling hero 31 — is named Sigma, and he's on his way to the game soon.

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!

Can we just talk for a second about Lady Zharessa? I mean, out of all the really cool naga transformations, she probably got the coolest of them all. Multiple arms and lobster legs? The snake tail on your run of the mill naga is neat and everything, but I suspect being able to deliver death pinches is a lot more useful in the long run.

You know what else is useful? Questions with answers. Let’s get to those, shall we?

Some of us loved the Warcraft movie, some of us did not -- but if that film did anything, it proved that you could absolutely realize Azeroth and the Warcraft series in a live action/digital effects milieu and it could absolutely work.

A minute into the compilation video of WoW in Unreal Engine 4 and it looks better and more imaginative than most things in other fantasy games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Obviously no one at Blizzard is silly enough to tell me which race they're thinking about for their next Allied Race, so when speculating about what would be a good fit, there are quite a few variables to keep in mind.

One of the things the Elder Scrolls series does pretty well is carving out huge swaths of time between games. For example, The Elder Scrolls Online is set more than a thousand years before the events of Skyrim, with two eras having ended and started between them. Of course, the Elder Scrolls timeline is not what I would call uncomplicated, but it’s got nothing on World of Warcraft when it comes to complicated timelines.

But I really think that we should get a Warcraft 4, and I think it should be a game set hundreds of years after the game we have now, when the Horde and Alliance as we understand them are long gone and everything is different. Orcs and Humans staunch allies! Night Elves an expansionist power, the Forsaken and Scourge combined into a new faction called The Unliving ruled by Bolvar and Calia, all sorts of new stuff.

Let’s talk, Queue Believers.