The Queue: Fish sandwich

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The Gear Grease Fried Filet can only be found on the remote reaches of Darktide Roost in Shadowmoon Valley. This is probably a good thing, not because it was a bad sandwich, but because it looked at me the entire time I was eating it. Somehow, not even the Leech bonus was worth it.

Generally speaking, I usually pick the character I play the most — and it also depends on what server I’m migrating to. I play on roleplaying servers, so if I were going to transfer to another roleplaying server, I’d want to take a character I’m keenly interested in roleplaying. But I also like to raid, so that might fall into the equation too, depending on which class I’d like to raid with more. I’ve left plenty of old characters behind on various servers, but there’s two that will follow me no matter where I go — my shadow priest, who was my first raiding main back in vanilla, and my rogue, who was my second raiding main, and my favorite class.

I don’t think I’d destroy another Alliance town. They already lost too many of them (although when you take a step back and look at it outside the story perspective, zones are fairly equal in terms of Horde zones versus Alliance zones, now, something that couldn’t be said pre-Cataclysm) — but I suppose if I had to choose one, I’d probably pick Darkshire. I love that place, but I think it’d be interesting to see the area suddenly overrun by wild growth emanating from the Emerald Dream portal in the center of the zone. Nothing to do with the Horde, and everything to do with the Emerald Nightmare.

See, on the one hand, I like this idea. I really do. But that’s because I am one of those people that will play a zone out to completion, simply because I want to see the entire story. So for me, that would be the ideal way to gain experience and reputation — I’d be doing exactly what I love to do.

But on the other hand, that’s me, and not everyone feels that way. Some people simply don’t like questing, for whatever reason, even though that’s pretty much the primary way to level up in any RPG you can get your hands on. Some people would rather PVP for experience, some people would rather run dungeons for experience, some people would rather just kill endless mobs in a mindless frenzy reminiscent of Diablo. And there’s nothing wrong with any of those preferences, because that’s what they are — preferences.

So while I like the idea (and I really do!), I don’t see it as a feasible option, because sure, you’d be pleasing one section of the player base, but you’d be irritating another section of the player base at the same time, and that’s never a good idea.

Fandral had big plans for all that morrowgrain. Specifically, he was hoarding it and using it to slowly poison Malfurion Stormrage, keeping him tied to the Emerald Dream and far, far away from Fandral’s plans for Teldrassil — namely, grafting a piece of the Nightmare Lord, Xavius, on the tree and feeding it tremendous amounts of power conveniently supplied by the Cenarion Circle, who thought they were healing the tree.

Why’d he do that? Because his son Valstann told him to. Or rather, the Nightmare Lord took on the appearance of Valstann, playing on Fandral’s grief at the loss of his son and using that to further his own plans.

Back in the day, I guessed (and sort of hoped) that Fandral was gathering the morrowgrain as some sort of desperate attempt to bring Valstann back from the grave, using ancient rituals that had long since been forgotten and lost to time, dredged from the depths of the Emerald Nightmare. Missed the mark on that one!

I’m a terrible Hearthstone player, really. I only log on every now and again to play a few matches for fun, and I don’t really take the game too seriously, nor do I take card-collecting seriously. But I keep all the cards I collect — I’ll dust the unusable duplicates, but I won’t get rid of a card I collected and can use. Who knows, that card that isn’t very effective right now might be ridiculously effective when paired with cards that haven’t been released yet, right?

Dual pistols. Actually, just pistols in general. We have rifles of varying types in game, but we don’t have any smaller ones at all. And a hunter wielding dual pistols sounds pretty cool to me. Also, I have long been a proponent of flails or whips — I think both of those would be awesome. I’d love to see some new weapon types added to the game. Heck, I’d take that over a new class when the next expansion rolls out — rather than a new class to play, just give us some new options for the classes we’re already playing.

That’s it for today’s Queue — if you have any questions you’d like to see answered, be sure to leave them in the comments below!