Elizabeth Harper

Today's WoW maintenance isn't too bad, but it is longer than usual: all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled to be offline for two hours of maintenance.

We're in a bit of a lull for Blizzard news this week, as World of Warcraft settles into patch 12.0.5, Diablo 4 settles into its latest expansion, and Classic waits for its next phases to launch (coming soon!).

In Diablo 4’s latest expansion, my Necromancer has more pets than ever. I can have up up to 27 necromantic minions, and though I don’t yet have the gear to have quite that many at once right now, I did equip a new Runeword that is helping to fill the loneliness in my heart by summoning ghost wolves, based on the number of other minions I have up. Though the ghost wolves only last for seven seconds, they’re constantly being resummoned, and so I am surrounded by a veritable army of the goodest ghostly boys at all times. Truly a miracle of dark magic.

Sure, I can’t find myself on screen in the chaos, but it’s worth it.

If you’re new around here and don’t understand, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column, and today we’re talking about lot about Diablo and little about kaiju. It’s a perfectly ordinary day, so let’s get to the questions.

This week's Hearthstone Brawl is a rerun from years ago, but it's a fun one...

It's another quick maintenance for World of Warcraft, with only an hour of downtime scheduled for all WoW servers.

Though we haven't come down from our Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred high, Blizzard has continued to bombard us with new announcements.

You know the feeling. You’ve gotten a new hat and you just have to wear it somewhere, even though you’re in a city full of extremely judgmental elves. You can’t just stay inside with such a fabulous new hat. You have to go out and find some weirdos to appreciate it with you.

And that’s all I have to say about the May Trading Post, which went live this morning. (Though any comments complementing my hat are welcome.)

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we usually do not talk about hats this much, but there are trying times. Let’s get to the questions.

I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I am a little surprised at this week's one hour scheduled server maintenance.

Last week we had WoW patch 12.0.5, and this week we have Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred (patch 3.0.0).

The latest World of Warcraft Twitch Drop is a new color variant of the murloc plushie decor that we've seen a few times before: the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle, a light gray and pinkish option on this cute Player Housing Decor item. The Cuddly Pearl Grrgle decor item is available from April 23 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern) through May 21 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern).