11.Who Cares, It's Almost Midnight! - Episode 28 Show Notes Welcome to Episode 28! – 1:45 There is so much to discuss as we are on the cusp of the eleventh expansion of World of Warcraft. Naturally, I suggestions for Blizzard for improving the game as the main topic “What have you done lately?” – 6:09 Holy crap, there is so much I have done. Buckle up. It all seems to revolve around stories this episode. Some piled up unlearned recipes leads three of my characters onto huge tangents in Northrend...
Aug 19, 2025•2 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Episode 27 – Gotta Collect Them All Show Notes Welcome to Episode 27! – 2:59 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! SQ Book Club – 8:11 A review of Dungeon Crawler Carl , the first book in a fantasy series by Matt Dinniman. It gets the official SQ book recommendation for portraying the im...
Jul 29, 2025•2 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 game. Plenty of talk about lore and storytelling in WoW throughout the years an...
Jul 06, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 26
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 celebration was 90 minutes south of SQ headquarters in the fair city of Bosto...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 59 min•Season 2Ep. 25
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 Libraries – 59:21 Why the lore? – 1:02:46 Why content creation? – 1:05:54 Lightning Ro...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 24
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 Champion and Best WoW NPC! News – 49:26 Season of Discovery Phase 8 – some new conten...
Apr 17, 2025•2 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 23
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” March Goblin starting zone revision 1 discussion Brief news segment The Main Event ...
Mar 21, 2025•2 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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 Around Undermine and Patch 11.1 – 36:03 First thoughts of Undermine and connections to the OG Goblin star...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 21
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, forward a little, but mostly talk about what we are liking and looking forw...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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 thank you to Snek of Vol’dun for the fantastic interview last month, th...
Feb 08, 2025•2 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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 new year. Interview with The Snek of Vol’dun – 8:52 Why the Sethrak? ...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 Karazhan Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDNwkGDS84 “What have you done lately?” – 16:52 Trivia is ...
Dec 30, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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 interview with Josh getting to know him as a content creator and his experi...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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-us/news/24148556/. •Trading Post is overflowing this month; check it a...
Nov 13, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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-ansurek-in-the-war-within-full-guide-to-rewards-access/ 3.Delves and ho...
Oct 05, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 confusing •Soulbound and Bind on Equip gear historically •Transmog and lea...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 that the new bad luck protection system works perfectly fine by getting ...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 creation, introverts, milkshakes, and a love of history/lore – 37:20 7.What i...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 launches Aug. 26 - I was only one day off! Early access on Aug. 22, Se...
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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, expansions 2 years or so; next in late summer, trilogy, so great ti...
May 25, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 Alliance Popping in to a tavern or inn for a local drink: Pig & Whistl...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 Plunderfest stuff, that gets us to news News updates •2.6 – let’s talk...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 disagree. Absolutely enjoyed my conversation with longtime WoW player and podcast...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Show Notes for Episode 4: I hope you enjoy this first attempt to interview members of the World of Warcraft community about how they play, the role WoW plays in their lives, and issues around the game. For a first interview subject, the choice was obvious. As co-host of the Thrall's Balls podcast, Gershom was the first WoW content creator to reach out to me and to talk up this podcast on that show. In this first bonus episode, Gershom and I have less of an interview. Instead, this is a wide-rang...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Episode 3 is up and focused on the breadth of features in 10.2.5. Are you liking the breadth or wishing for more depth? Ever completed a Superbloom but forgot to pick up the quest first? Comments, answers & help for all of it, along with an expansion announcement! (SQ, not WoW) SQ Ep. 3 is on your podcast platform of choice. I'll see you out there! Don't mind this: SKmW1OYni0tWQd9S8iYc Episode 3 Show Notes: Opening: Tyrande and Shandris talking about the future of the Night Elves in a Bel'Am...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Ep. 2 Show Notes News: 2024 Roadmap; Community Council Interview, 10.2.5 soon! Side Quest: PTR Follower Dungeons review My Month in WoW: Many levels from XP boost, trivia; breaking down & joining SoD Question of the Month: What excites you about WoW’s future? Next Month: What are you using your boost on? Main Topic: Is WoW entering a Golden Age? YES! Contact me at soloqueuewow at Gmail, social media, Patreon
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 2
New podcast about adventuring alone in WoW with Dave Gagne Main Topic: Why this podcast at this time? Question of the month: What has you excited about WoW? News: Features for solo players; CoT trivia; Gear Updates Roundup of resources for solo players Next month: testing Follower Dungeons Thanks to my loving, patient wife All music/sound effects property of Blizzard Intro/outro music courtesy of my friends in OGRE soloqueuewow at Gmail & socials
Dec 02, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The introduction episode of Solo Queue, a new monthly podcast about adventuring alone in Azeroth. Host Dave Gagne will share his experiences playing the massive multiplayer game World of Warcraft while steering clear of other players. Coming soon to a podcast feed near you and info on most social media platforms at soloqueuewow. See you out there!
Nov 18, 2023•3 min
