Solo Queue - A World of Warcraft Podcast

Episode 23 – The 10 Years Ago Thing

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 23! – 4:42        

Another full episode as we dive into three areas!

 

Best WoW NPC Tournament Coverage Rounds 1, 2, and 3 – 6:43

The upsets, the lopsided victories, and the first three rounds of this grueling six round tournament.  Coverage by region.  We end the segment with 8 NPCs left to fight for the (someday) famous title of Solo Queue Tournament of 64 Champi...

Episode 22 – Bookending Gallywix, Best NPC Tournament, and Putting Light into the World

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 22! – 3:06        

• Big thanks to Ease, the host of Realm Maintenance, for interviewing me for that podcast a couple weeks ago; great conversation about WoW, 11.1, and Solo Queue; check it out on your podcast feed of choice or (hopefully) it will hit YouTube in video form
• A trimmed down episode for “early” Mar...

Episode 21 – Undermine, You Get My Drift?

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 21! – 8:58        

Busy world in life, in game, and in podcast.  Lots of 11.1 going on!

           

“What have you done lately?” – 16:17

• Love is in the Air recap
• Library in our Player Housing when?
• Barely hitting the 2000 points for the Trading Post
• An unexpected and difficult adventure to earn the Troll Heritage Armor

 

Main Topic:  First Laps Aro...

Episode 20 – The 1st Annual State of the Warcraft World Conversation with Gershom!

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 20! – 3:10        

Solo Queue welcomes back Gershom, co-host of the Thrall’s Balls podcast and a big early supporter of me and this show one year after being the first How Do You Solo? Interview guest.

We are here to talk about the state of World of Warcraft just before the 11.1 content release.  We look back a little,...

Episode 19 – Three Drinks in on Lunar Love, Confucianism, Socrates, 11.1, and a Meh Castle

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 19! – 8:04

A few words from me on the guiding principles of Solo Queue and why consistent publishing is not really one of them.  Sorry to miss the two episodes a month pattern on the very first month.  I am okay with that and hopefully you are as well.  Still hoping to get you 24 episodes this year.

 

And a big ...

Episode 18 – How Do You Solo? Interview with The Snek of Vol’dun!

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 18!

First episode of 2025 and Season 2 of Solo Queue is an interview with The Snek of Vol’dun, a vocal proponent of making the Sethrak a playable race.  A chance social media encounter turned into a great conversation with a fellow solo player.

Still planning for a regular episode in January as part of the twice-monthly plan for this n...

Episode 17 – The Real Anniversary Episode

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 17!

First year of Solo Queue in the books and stumbling into some creative WoW-adjacent media got me thinking about all the value added to WoW by content creators outside of Blizzard.

            Four Tanks and a Healer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47d3fjDNSQ

            Stormwind University:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgpgEy-UW8

            Kara...

Episode 16 – How Do You Solo? Interview with Josh Allen Show Notes  Welcome to Episode 16! Not a lot in the way of show notes for this episode.  There is an intro with me trying to dream up the perfect person to talk about the past, present, and future of the Warcraft universe in the wake of Warcraft Direct.  Then…   Interview with Josh Allen, aka Lore, aka devolore – 3:13 An awesome, informative, insightful, and wide-ranging inte...

Episode 15 – Princes and Paupers Show Notes  Welcome to Episode 15! Anniversary Trivia returns, it is good to be in game and behind microphone again, hanging at the 20th Anniversary event, and so much going on!   November News at the 20th Anniversary Celebration – 13:50 •07 is coming, including Siren Isle zone. •Classic News – Cata Classic gets the Firelands raid and SoD Season 6 is coming https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-u...

Episode 14 – Losing the War Within My Schedule Show Notes  Welcome to Episode 14! Getting the episode started, an apology for how I got it started, and can I mention my busy schedule any more times?  Hold my Thunder 45…   September News – Where better to do the news than at Brewfest! 15:13 1.RWF is over. Nuf said. 2.Getting into Raid Story Mode and Max Level Campaign https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/news/unlock-story-mode-for-queen-a...

Episode 12 - You Still Want to Start WoW NoW? Part 2 Show Notes Opening Bit •Official Apology letter from Solo Queue HQ for the delay of Part 2   A Few More Words on the WoW Map •The whole screen map, zooming in and out •The quest log and small map, explanation of different types of quests and all the new symbols added to the map legend   A Few More Words on Gear and Gear Upgrades •Gear is the heart of WoW, but it can be very confu...

Episode 11 – Up All Night Show Notes  Welcome to Episode 11! – 3:25 (10:00 pm) The goal of this episode was to throw age to the wind and unwisely pull an all-nighter enjoying the final days of Dragonflight and recording an episode.  The segments of the show are broken up by hours in the all-nighter!  Stick around to find out how it goes.    July News – 7:43 (11:00 pm) 1.Midsummer Fire Festival – I did lots of levelling and proved t...

Episode 10 – How Do You Solo Interview with Gin! Show Notes    Welcome to Episode 10! – 3:25 Introducing…Gin! – 4:37 1.Finding WoW 2.Warcraft II music holds up  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWh1xy6gvU  3.History as a raider and social aspects of WoW – 15:30 4.How does Gin solo?  Story or single-player challenges, like Delves – 28:30 5.Delves as the evolution of WoW’s single-player experience and the Great Vault 6.Content creat...

Episode 9 – First Raid Clear of…Dazar'alor? Show Notes  Welcome to Episode 9! – 3:27 •Sound issues lately - I think I have them resolved. •Goodpods listed Solo Queue was as a Top 50 video game podcast last month! •Upcoming episodes: 10 will be an HDYS interview with Gin of Live, Laugh, Lore podcast.  Ep. 11 will be just the second half of the introduction to playing WoW.  Sorry to leave you hanging, ThatSkyGuy!   News – 8:37 1.TWW...

  Episode 8 – So You Want to Start WoW NoW? Show Notes The Basics of WoW •What is an MMORPG (and why is this a solo podcast?) •What is WoW? ◦Scene - Azeroth, Draenor, Argus and other planets in the universe ◦High-fantasy world of physical combat, magic, cosmic forces, politics, conflict, and the lives of various everyday characters of many races ◦Timeline of WoW ◦Predecessors RTS I, II, III •Retail vs. classics ◦Retail since 2004,...

Episode 7 - The Just Barely Not April April Episode (Oops I…)   Welcome to episode 7: I started with good intentions of hitting the main topic of how to start playing WoW in 2024. Well, news swallowed up most of our time, so that topic is coming to a special episode soon!    The all-new “I Was Wrong” segment A healthy mea culpa for various incorrections in previous months   Location: Stormwind, the human capital and heart of the Al...

Episode 6 - The Just Barely Not March March Episode Welcome to episode: Odd time in WoW for me, vacation, time away, busy, end of expansion Back to some basics.  We are in one of my favorite Horde starting zones, Mulgore What did I accomplish in WoW last month? •Vacation stuff •No SoD •Did rip out the Hearthstone event •Did my March Trading Post and 1000 tenders •To do so, started leveling a 17 Tauren Paladin •Started into the Plun...

Episode 5 - What to Expect When You're Expecting (a WoW expansion)   Show Notes   Welcome back for episode 5 of Solo Queue and welcome to you if this is your first time listening.   1. Opening thoughts Coming to you from the westernmost island of Pandaria, in the Townlong Steppes and looking for any sign of a land mass that could host The War Within.   I am predicting a TWW launch of Tuesday, August 27, 2024.  I dare you to disagre...