Phil Xavier

Can you believe it’s almost Halloween?

Yeah.

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I got nothing else to say on this intro, other than the fact that my character is wearing a carrot orange tabard. Let’s do The Queue, because it’s almost Halloween!

Praise Yogg — the community complaints have been heard, and Blizzard is increasing the amount of Bronze Celebration Tokens players can earn from weekly activities, starting effectively today.

Hearthstone is getting a new minion type: the Draenei have joined the fray in The Great Dark Beyondexpansion, and they're all about rewarding you for playing more and more Draenei.

Diablo 4 added a new feature in Season 4 that has since become a core part of the game, but it's easy to miss if you're not informed about its importance: I'm talking about Tempering, the ability to ask your friendly local Blacksmith to add extra affixes to your gear.

About six months ago, we went through a rollercoaster with the Hearthstone team making some terrible changes to daily and weekly quests, but later salvaging the situation and ultimately landing into some very positive changes.

Life can be complicated at times, but it can also be simple if you just make an effort to take a step back and look at things from an outside perspective.

This is The Queue, your column that’s always here — at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the internet, localized entirely within your browser of choice.

This sounds like the title of a Beatles album.

Anyway, the Darkmoon Faire is in town, and if you aren’t aware, you can talk to one of the helpful Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages to get teleported directly to the Faire grounds in either Elwynn Forest or Mulgore, depending on your faction, for the absolutely outrageous price of twenty-five copper.

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In the meantime, let’s do the Queue thing again!

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Since Diablo 4 launched, players have been asking for some sort of group finder or lobby feature that they could use to form groups with.

I have to say, I am loving The War Within like I haven’t loved any expansion since Legion.

This expansion has allowed me to play my alts without feeling like I’m “wasting time” instead of working on my main. It made gearing them up much easier, and it made their work towards things like reputations, currency, and transmog benefit me — the player — directly.

This expansion has allowed me to keep playing in a sorta casual manner but still having a clear progression path to push towards.

This expansion has allowed me to benefit from my Tank specs without having to go into dungeons with strangers and rush like mad to the end, pulling everything (which sadly is the norm these days). I can just do Delves with them, and frankly I’m having a lot more fun delving as a tank than as DPS. (Brewmaster is so much fun, you guys.)

I’m bappy.

But you know what would make this expansion even better? If they added a Tank spec for Brann. Classes like Mage and Rogue, and specs like Balance would benefit immensely from it.

While we don’t get Brann to invest in that Tank training like his brothers did, let’s just do The Queue.

I like the Starseeker sisters, Aranna the Demon Hunter and Elise the Druid, a lot. We’ve already gotten several cameos by the elder sister in WoW — she’s even in the Delves area in Dornogal right now, as part of the Explorer’s League — but we’ve yet to see Aranna, the younger sister (who really resents Elise’s fame and success) make her WoW debut.

Given how many Hearthstone references WoW is getting lately — Babbling Book! Corridor Creeper! and more — I really hope Aranna shows up eventually to stir up some drama with the Explorer’s League, and Elise in particular.

Now, with or without extra Starseeker presence in our lives, let’s Queue, ladies and gentlemen!