Elizabeth Harper

It's Tuesday, which means it's maintenance day for North American realms: but today's WoW downtime is a completely normal one hour maintenance, which ended just on time.

Yes, that’s it exactly, we are working, working very hard to accomplish things and definitely not sitting here watching a countdown to the next Dragon Age game. Nope, not me. I am way more responsible than that.

So let’s talk about Warcraft and its many microtransaction-related follies of the past day. This is the Queue.

While we've been admiring the Startouched Furline (12-month subscription mount) and the Coldflame Tempest (anniversary mount), Blizzard has rolled out another shiny new mount in World of Warcraft (retail): the Trader's Gilded Brutosaur.

The War Within patch 11.0.5 rolled out this week, and while I've been enjoying the anniversary the launch has been a bit rocky.

World of Warcraft turns 20 years old on November 23, but the celebration kicks off sooner: WoW's 20th anniversary event started on October 22.

This year isn't just another anniversary: with World of Warcraft turning 20, the game is getting a massive anniversary event that will let us relive old glories, collect plenty of loot, and even show off our favorite transmogs.

It's patch day for World of Warcraft, so it's no surprise that there's a long maintenance today: The War Within servers were scheduled be offline from 7am - 3pm pacific today, but came back online an hour early.

It’s pumpkin season, people. I don’t mean the season of everything being pumpkin flavored (though there is that too), but the gloriously spooky season which the jack-o-lantern has come to symbolize. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and who knows what’s lurking in the dark.

So let’s cover some questions, and celebrate the season.

The week's biggest Blizzard news is the semi-successful Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred launch, but we also have news of the next WoW patch and Hearthstone expansion — both of which I'm looking forward to.

Today’s Queue is definitely not haunted. I’m going to go into this with positive, definitely not haunted vibes, so there will definitely not be any hauntings. Mhm. Definitely not.

So let’s get to the questions.