It's another short and sweet World of Warcraft maintenance this week, with servers scheduled to be offline for just an hour.

Leveling professions in Midnight can be an expensive, tedious process, so we're happy to report that the Darkmoon Faire is in town to award you with easy profession points right as the expansion launches.

For some of you, time has changed. Clocks have fallen back, and somehow the powers that be have granted you another hour of life. Of course, they’ll take it back in a few months, but enjoy it until then!

For people in some Canadian provinces, we’re just not doing daylight saving any more. I had no time change at all, no extra hour, and you’d think no extra confusion! However, somehow that isn’t the case. My phone worked right and kept the time it was supposed to; my lady friend’s phone, not so much. My computer that I’m writing this on has fallen back, and my Xbox fell back and couldn’t be convinced to not fall back. All of these will get ironed out in the coming days, hopefully, but what’s really weird is that now I’m basically on Central Time, and that’s super odd.

It won’t be so bad; it’ll mainly confuse me when I jump on the BlizzardWatch podcast, as now I join that an hour later. At least until Spring, when I’ll go back to my old time. I’m so glad that we’re not doing anything confusing like Daylight Saving Time anymore.

While I go mess with other fundamental forces of nature, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column — The Queue!

All good things must come to an end, and sometimes, so must all foul things -- like vampiric rituals meant to bring one's wife back from the dead by opening the very gates of Hell itself.

We've had some happenings over the last week, but it's hard to get too excited for anything except WoW: Forever, which launches on Wednesday.

World of Warcraft's Trading Post has cooked up new mounts, pets, and transmog items for the month of November, as well as giving you chance to help yourself to a second round of returning items from last November's Trading Post in case you missed it.

The next season of Diablo 4 is coming soon, sending players to tackle not one, but two fearsome Corrupted Reapers.

There has been some discussion lately as to the meaning of the Queue. It is, of course, a Q&A column, but that’s a Q and not a Queue (and explains why we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for questions some days). Liz claims it’s from “login queue” but none of you people are waiting to log in, unless it’s to reserve a name in Forever. Hope that went well for you this week, by the way. Personally, I think “Queue” is just short for “Queuenathan.” “Please, call it The Queue; The Queuenathan is my father(‘s column).”

Look, it’s a Friday. This is the Queuenathan, our daily Q&A column where occasionally I go off the rails and sometimes I even answer your questions.

Before we say our goodbyes, there was a lot of WoW stuff to discuss, including the Forever naming window, which did not go smoothly.

A demo version of Talebound, World of Warcraft's forthcoming standalone game mode, will be available to play on the Midnight patch 12.1.7 PTR beginning October 30, 2026 through November 1, 2026.