The first patch for Shadowlands is patch 9.0.5, which just went live today.

It's a giant walking tree whose leaves will change depending on the season — and it's also the newest World of Warcraft mount.

I heard we all get a chance to relax for a minute today. No responsibilities, no appointments, just downtime. See you next week!

Oh, that’s…not what “downtime” means? Oh. …oh.

This is The Queue, where as long as you have questions to ask we definitely don’t get a break from answering. Nor would we want one — probably.

So we're all waiting for Diablo 3 patch 2.7.0, which is still on the PTR and we have no current idea when it will be considered fully tested.

Right now, a good deal of World of Warcraft's gameplay loop is about Anima.

In advance of BlizzConline, Blizzard has still been hard at work on patch 9.0.5.

My group finally downed Mythic Hungering Destroyer! Don’t ask me how Blackhand got there though. Someone must’ve been messing with some wacky time streams. Who knew that he was the hero that we needed all along?

We wound up using four tanks to kill Destroyer and it ended up trivializing the extra debuff mechanic pretty much, it just took a long time for people to stop running the big deadly laser beams on top of each other.

While we get ready to save the soul of the Sun-King, I take you now to — The Queue.

Brussels sprouts, the dreaded green that kids the world over find yucky.

We all have those spells, don't we?

As things stand right now, while it's certainly quite doable to gather 1000 Anima a week for the Renown and all your Anima needs -- like gear upgrades, improving your Covenant HQ, or just to pick up rare mounts or other cool items -- it can be a trifle of a chore and it often feels like you're running the same errands.