Anna Bell

It's been a few days since Diablo 4 formally released, so I figured it's a good time to ask how we're doing with it so far.

When I've asked friends about which titles they're using in Diablo 4, there are two general sets of answers: the people who are taking this very seriously, and the people who are trying to craft the most ridiculous name for themselves they can.

I cracked this joke in the fabulous Blizzard Watch Discord, and if you think I’m going to let a gem like that go by without rehashing it, you must be new here, hi. One of my favorite things about playing Diablo is being able to juxtapose the gritty, literally dark gore against lighthearted jokes.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions, and we’ll answer them as long as we can slide close enough to the bottom quarter of the wall in this isometric view to actually see them.

Pausing a game in order to briefly step away is crucial part to a healthy gaming/life balance for many of us, but that doesn't mean Diablo 4 got that memo.

I don't exactly want to complain about the embarrassment of riches we currently face.

Y’all got anything going on today? Any special embargos lifting or whatnot?

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’re probably phoning it in because you have so much to comb through already anyway.

The idea for this discussion stemmed from the very careful, excellent research by Christian Thoma and Phil Ulrich in our Diablo 4 characters series.

It’s funny, when a game makes radical changes, sometimes there are little quirks you don’t realize until later. Sometimes a mechanic will change so that something that didn’t work before does now, and sometimes it alters your playstyle drastically because of it.

Anyway, if you like Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds, now you don’t need to have a churn slot open if you’re playing minions just for Magnetic. If only I had known…

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What is a best friend other than a social version of power rankings? Best of luck to all of you who sportsball.

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It’s the time of year again where I’m trying my best to not burn out before the end of the school year, while also simultaneously burning myself out by trying to cram an entire summer worth of work into the next few weeks. And then, when summer hits I’ll spend all day ferrying kids around between activities while also trying to make them do enriching things and also prevent skill backslide while they’re out, and also trying to keep current on my own life at the same time.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and will hopefully give us a little grace if we’re phoning in the answers.