The Queue: Something isn’t right here

One of the best memories of Burning Crusade was that one time I figured out how to fly upside down. I nearly made myself motion sick but it was totally worth it.

That is doubtful — what happens if they throw say, Tracer into Heroes of the Storm, and then during Overwatch beta testing decide to completely revamp how her abilities work and what she can do? That would be silly. I would not, however, be surprised to see Overwatch characters making an appearance over there after the game has launched.

He was free and quietly corrupting the Watchers in and surrounding Ulduar for quite some time before we showed up on Northrend. As for the glass, it was likely shattered by one Watcher or another, or Yogg’s tentacles are larger than they appear and he swatted the dome open. Something along those lines, probably.

I don’t know, but man I’d pitch in on that one myself. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Black Temple and all, but it’s sprawling enough that a quick teleport back to the middle from each wing would be pretty nice. For that matter, something similar in Blackwing Descent would also be nice.

You’re never going to see classic servers. I don’t really understand the appeal of them, except from a pure nostalgia angle — gameplay has improved so much in the last ten years that I cannot imagine actually wanting to go back to the days where everything was marvelously inconvenient.

With heroics, it’s once per day. Wearing the tabard should net you a healthy amount of reputation and shouldn’t take you too long. And if there are any faction based quests you haven’t completed for the factions you’re looking for, hammering those out is a good idea too. If you look up the faction on Wowhead, you’ll see a list of all quests that will give you reputation for that faction, it’s a good place to start. Heroics tend to grind out the rep pretty quickly though.

If you’re talking about the trailer, you’ve got time mixed up a little bit. The orcs originally invaded Azeroth in year 0 — about 30-35 years ago, depending on when Blizzard has decided that Warlords begins. Mists of Pandaria took place in year 30. Garrosh didn’t just go to an alternate universe, he also skipped back in time. So on this alternate Draenor, it’s pretty much year 0 for them — the year the orcs invaded Azeroth — and they are connecting their portal with our own, 30 years in the future, and an alternate universe on top of that.

In other words, we aren’t just traveling to an alternate universe, we’re also traveling back in time, to a degree — but back in this AU Draenor‘s timeline, not our own.

I’m kind of hoping that once we return to Azeroth, we’ll see these guys in and around the major cities as NPCs. Maybe they’ll even casually remark as we walk by, “Oh hey, look — you see them? Man, I served under them on Draenor. It was insane, I don’t know how many times I thought we were going to die, but they pulled us through every time.” Like they retired, but they remember us from our glory days when we served together, you know? It’d be neat.

If you go running through Frostfire, you’ll notice some sections that are eerily similar to Blade’s Edge on Outland. It’s kind of a mix between the two, but most of Blade’s Edge is made up of what Frostfire was, I think. The upper rises of Blade’s Edge likely contain pieces of Gorgrond as well. That area of Draenor got hit particularly hard when the world shattered, so nothing quite matches up as it should, and you can tell there were giant chunks of the world that simply vanished without a trace.

That’s it for this weekend’s Queue — don’t forget to leave plenty of questions for Monday!