Solo Queue - A World of Warcraft Podcast

Solo Queue - A World of Warcraft Podcast

A now twice-monthly podcast about adventuring alone in the World of Warcraft! Host Dave Gagne shares his years in Azeroth steering clear of most group content for various reasons. Why do you fight alone? Even if you don’t, come for tips on solo play, diving into various aspects of WoW, and even finding your first steps into dungeon and raid content. Stay for the aural ambience, the drink of the month, and WoW news affecting solo players (and lately, the news is good). This podcast adventure is now in its second exciting year! Available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon/Audible, YouTube, Podbean, Goodpods, and many other podcast feeds. To contact, find @soloqueuewow on all socials and at Gmail. I’ll see you out there!

Episodes

July 5, 2025 94 mins

Episode 26 – HDYS Interview with Matt Rossi!

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 26! – 2:03        

A wide-ranging interview with games journalist and fiction writer Matt Rossi!  I’m not even going to pretend to make a list of topics, but we talk about starting hit WoW career with his wife, how to approach WoW when your job demands that you spoil all new content as soon as it hits test servers, and his need to dive into lore in any gam...

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Episode 25 – Celebration! Warcraft 30, Down Time, and the Best NPC is…

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 25! – 1:54        

A celebration in three parts, the first of which is celebrating my return to WoW and the SQ mic after an unforeseen absence.  Big thanks to Ali for coming on for Episode 24 and to Ali and Gin for having me on Live, Laugh, Lore to talk starting zones!

 

Warcraft 30th Anniversary Event in Boston – 16:22

The second...

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April 22, 2025 94 mins

Episode 24 – HDYS Interview with Ali!

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 24! – 1:45        

An interview with the creator of the now-retired Dungeon Fables podcast and the current co-host of Live, Laugh, Lore, Ali Andras!  A variety of topics listed below but beginning with the current game in Undermine, DRIVE, and 11.5.

 

Talking some WoD – 28:35

 

How Does Ali Solo? – 39:44

 

Player Housing – 49:00

 

No Mo FOMO? – 54:11

 

Books and ...

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April 16, 2025 156 mins

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...

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    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...
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    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...

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    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,...

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    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 ...

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    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...

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    December 30, 2024 132 mins

    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...

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    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...
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    November 12, 2024 146 mins
    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...
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    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...
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    August 26, 2024 92 mins
    Episode 13 - Early or Not, Here it Comes The War Within launches Full episode notes to come after I get a little sleep and get bored during a meeting at work. Dave
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    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...
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    July 23, 2024 111 mins
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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      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,...
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    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...
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