The Queue

All I have done since I closed the podcast this Tuesday is play Diablo 4, use the potty, shovel emergency food into my craw so I can continue to play Diablo 4, and love my wife. And that last one I don’t have to think about because she’s the only thing I love more than Diablo 4 right now. My cat and dog are on par with it, and the rest? Well, I’m sure it’s all very nice. But I don’t have a giant winged hat or glowing tattoos all over my body in real life, much less blow up demons with blood orbs.

Anyway, let’s get this Queue done so I can go back to Sanctuary and see just how bad Neyrelle has screwed this all up.

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is out and while the release was just a tad bumpy the game is playable now! Mostly!

I got a chance to preview the expansion before it released and of course I spent my time playing around with the new Spiritborn class and it’s pretty fun! For the record I went Gorilla since I tend to die to stupid things and the Gorilla spirit is the most tanky, but one of the key passives is based on swapping between the spirits by using different abilities in the rotation and I think I’m going to see if I can get that to work. I will say I enjoy Spiritborn more than Rogue — my previous main — so I’m thinking I stick with it. At least until we get Amazons in the next expansion.

While I try to find Neyrelle again, let’s answer some questions!

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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We’re into October and I’ve had many many pumpkin spiced beverages now. I can’t believe there was a time in my life when I stuck up my nose at them and refused to indulge. They’re so great!

Pumpkin makes everything around fall so much better! Pumpkin pie? Pumpkin spiced treats? Those tiny pumpkin candies that are like candy corn but pumpkin-shaped? All super delicious! Somehow even pumpkin-shaped Reese’s Peanut Butter cups taste better!

It’s very rude of the headless horseman to just wear a pumpkin as a hat, that pumpkin could’ve been pie!

While I try and add pumpkin to more things, it’s time for — The Queue!

Well, Quevians, it’s been a busy week, and though it’s coming to a close, we still have to survive Friday and then spend the weekend preparing for the Monday to come. Can we do it? Can we defeat another week? Only time will tell.

Shattered Space is a real paradigm shift of a DLC, it takes the standard Starfield experience and treats it like that weird cube the Cenobites have in the Hellraiser films. Now, I’m not saying it’s a genre altering masterwork — in a lot of ways, it’s as quirky and weird as Bethesda games always are. It has weird bugs and weird bugs, glowing people trying to kill me, and a whole lot of desperate people who are willing to believe their big snakey god has sent me despite all the evidence that trusting me is an absolute mistake.

It’s the Queue. I keep shooting ghosts and hoping for the best.

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.

While I excited it’s finally October so I can let my spooky freak flag fly, it’s also the best week of the entire year: fat bear week kicks off with the bracket reveal today. Who you got?

Rutherford Bear Hayes was unavailable for comment. Because he’s a bear, and doesn’t speak English.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and the swarm of bats we’ve suddenly become will squeak out an answer.

Hello friends! Cory was unable to write today’s queue so I’ve stepped in to answer all your questions! I’m also here to gripe about the weather, which has remained decidedly un-autumnlike in my area. The next few weeks may be a little cooler, but I’m still seeing way too many 80°F/27°C days in the near future.  I shouldn’t complain about the weather too much though as I was very fortunate that Hurricane Helene didn’t wreak damage near me — there are some areas in Western NC that are just gone (here’s a list of ways to help if you’re inclined to). Fortunately the death toll wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been but a lot of areas are still recovering. Here’s hoping it won’t be much longer for needed relief out there.

Sorry, didn’t mean to turn this intro into a downer. Let’s answer some weather-free questions on this October eve.

New mounts are neat and all, but does it have wings? Can it take to the sky? In the case of this guy, I think not. He’s too loaded down. All that gold has downgraded his buoyancy. So I’m sorry, crocolisk, but you aren’t going to make it into my coveted list of favorite mounts.

What about you, Queue? Let’s chat.