Cory Taylor

Shadowlands Season 4 continues, and this week's Fated raid is Castle Nathria, so it's time to go beat up Sire Denathrius and the rest of castle's inhabitants for higher ilevel loot.

Dang, so many of you had your birthdays over the weekend!

Happy birthday to Eno, Tiger Hawke, and FuzzyBunny!

While I try and figure out if there was a major holiday nine months ago, it’s time for — The Queue.

We're Fated to go back to Sepulcher of the First Ones this week for Shadowlands Season 4.

I honestly forgot what I was going to say here because while I was procrastinating writing the Queue, I actually finally got the Blackhand Mythic mount!

I’ve been farming that once a week on my Druid for a long, long, long time. It took until its 170th kill for it to drop. There are about another 100 attempts scattered across my other characters, but the Druid was the only consistent one that I was running Blackhand on. Especially since I had it down to a quick post-raid routine. Take my garrison portal, use the mole machine to go to Gorgrond, fly up to the boundary, and kill Blackhand — five minutes, easy peasy. Now I don’t even have to think about it anymore! I’m free!

While I figure out what’s next on the old mount list to hunt for, it’s time for — The Queue.

There are a lot of different titles in World of Warcraft.

I think my favorite thing about Fated raids is that we’ve gotten to see Rendle in Castle Nathria again. I love this lil guy. Just so eager to please and fix our gear for us!

I also love that I think his pile of gold has gotten bigger since the last time we were in Nathria. That’s one of the little things that has made World of Warcraft so great over the years, little touches like that.

While I give him a little more gold after yet another Sun King’s Salvation wipe, it’s time for — The Queue.

After a long and hard-fought fight against the Jailer, the last Fated boss has fallen to my guild. Here are the spoils of our victory — this ooey-gooey cat.

I will love and cherish him forever, even if I think he could be scaled up a tiny bit more.

While I try and figure out what a jelly cat eats, it’s time for — The Queue.

This is definitely, 100%, not a cult.

Just trust me.

While I go take care of a… thing… it’s time for — The Queue.

Streaming World of Warcraft is something that has become a big business.

Unless it’s your destiny to fight fate, then you can’t not fight it.

My guild bopped our way through Heroic Fated Castle Nathria this week. It was just like riding a bike! Sort of. We had some trial and error, and the new Fated affixes made a couple of the fights interesting, especially the Sun King fight. Having a thing pop out that puts shields on every enemy in the encounter really messed with some of our timings. We also ran into a situation on Sire Denathrius where the new Fated creation that needs to be interrupted spawned right as we were being pulled down into the second phase of the fight.

It didn’t come with us. Turns out it can still hit you with its cast from all the way up on the top floor.

Other than that it wasn’t too bad! I like getting to see the content again in a new way for these few months while we wait for Dragonflight to come out.

While I go polish up on our boss strategies for Sanctum of Domination, it’s time for — The Queue.