The Queue: Wait, I’m not supposed to play Diablo 4 as a dating sim?

I mean, it’s kind of hard for me to believe it when people tell me that Diablo 4 is an ARPG and not How I Met Everyone’s Mother with my burly Barbarian regaling her presumably winged children with the story of how she met Lilith.

Come on, she’s literally telling me how much I need her up there. It’s not subtle.

I just wait until my cat gets bored enough.

I’m going to speculate a bit here.

I think we’ll get two new Allied Races in The Last Titan. One is going to be Vrykul of some capacity, because we’re going to Northrend and I figure the Earthen can chat with their various ‘cousins’ and talk them into joining up. The other will be the Nethersent, if they don’t end up as playable before that.

I personally hope that if they do introduce Vrykul/Iron Vrykul/Odyn’s weird Dead Vrykul in Lightning Bodies and Nethersent Draenei, they give both to both factions. If not, then I think give the Vrykul to the Horde (let the Humans see what it’s like when your relatives join the Horde instead of you) and the Nethersent to the Alliance just so we finally get Draenei Warlocks.

I feel like we’ve really forgotten the Golems with all these fancy Titan-Forged and Earthen and so on. Dwarves have been making rock and metal punchy animated statues for a long time now, and we’ve even seen elaborate enhanced versions like the Omnotron Defense System.

Imagine there’s some clan of Dwarves — and yes, it has to be actual Dwarves, not Earthen — who in desperation have created intelligent Golems to defend them from the often inimical forces like Void, Fel and Death magics. Maybe the intelligence wasn’t even their intention — maybe they were working with some old magic writings kind of like what turned Magni into a statue and instead of servitor Golems they ended up with self aware Warrior Statues.

That’s a potential Warcraft version of things like the Warforged or Automatons without just cribbing them wholesale.

I did some research, and according to Blizzard’s support pages, you absolutely can do this but there are restrictions. For example, your alt will need to be ranked second, third or fourth in the guild, and they will have had to have been active for at least a week before you can move to dethrone the current GM (and yes, that’s what it’s called).

According to the help guide, if your character can’t see or use the dethrone option, it could be because the GM has been logged in within the last 90 days, or because someone else is active (within the last 90 days) who is a higher rank than your character and thus is considered next in line to be GM.

Hope this helps you.

Serious answer: After leveling my Eternal Realm Barbarian to 70 and completing LoH content, I started a new Seasonal Barbarian and played the entirety of the original campaign and am almost done with Vessel of Hatred — and I’m already level 70 and Paragon 71, with all of Lord of Hatred to go. Just cleared Torment 3 on the new character, while my Eternal Realm character is flirting with but not quite geared enough for Torment 7,

I’m going to be honest — I love the story of LoH, and I enjoyed taking a character through the entire game and the other campaigns to see what it would feel like to play to Skovos on an entirely new character. I’m also really annoyed with Eru, who is even told by a glowing lion and his leader and friend Ormus that he’s being a jerk and he still goes on to be a jerk.

Less serious — Lilith and I are having some trouble in our relationship — for example, her dad is a complete and utter nightmare and she’s still holding on to some behaviors he taught her. But I believe we’ll get through this.

That’s the Queue for this week. See y’all next week, if I can wrestle myself away from Sanctuary (still the worst name for a place I can imagine) long enough.