The Queue

For various hockey-related reasons, I had to wake up before 6 am on Sunday. Then I had to watch a whole hockey game and a little bit of overtime. Then I had to be sad for the rest of the day.

Needless to say, I’m pretty tired now. I drank a lot of coffee today.

While I get ready for a nice big nap, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I decided to hasten my original plans and get a Nintendo Switch 2 now rather than wait until May. I’m now the proud owner of this new console, and I’m ready to… delve into my backlog of Switch 1 games.

Until Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave is launched, at least. Though I did get the new Mario Kart, and I’ve heard good things about Donkey Kong Bonanza. We’ll see how it goes.

Welcome to The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we buy things now just to be safe, we change our plans at a moment’s notice, and in the meantime, we answer questions.

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!

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.

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.

In this economy?

I’ve finally gotten around to playing the latest Dragon Age game, and it’s pretty good so far. I’ve made the first big choice (which city to defend from dragon attack) that I regretted about an hour after making it — so that’s a typical BioWare experience. I try really hard not to look up guides and playthroughs for the story beats of these games; I want all of my messiness to be fully earned. That one hurt, though, as I was left with a character I liked being sidelined and devastated by the destruction in their city, and another I didn’t have strong feelings for sticking around all happy-go-lucky. Still, I’ve come too far, and this just gives me the extra layer of reality, as there is no reloading a save in real life.

Still, my Necro mage is having a good time bopping around between planes of existence and trying to flirt with anything that has a pulse.

While I spend too long trying to figure out the path to that chest I can see just on the edge of that ledge over there, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I don’t believe in witches, but if they fly, they fly.

This is an extra-spooky Friday the 13th edition of The Queue, our daily Q&A where you ask us scary questions and we give you frightening answers. Hopefully. Probably. Look, scaring people is hard.

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BOO!

The butterfly I’m interested in is unfortunately not in a book. If it were in a book I could just check it out at the local library (btw support your local library). But instead it’s a rare drop World of Warcraft mount, which is in every way worse.

Still, we persevere, holiday after holiday and kill after kill. Eventually this butterfly will be mine. Maybe.

I was going to talk a lot about dinosaurs today, but then I ended up just discussing stuff you guys left in the comments.

There are few greater pleasures in life than immediately obtaining the new hotness and being able to show it off.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you answers. What, this old thing?