The Queue: I am the night(bane)

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I expect this will be true. The character boost will regularly bring you up to the latest expansion. They want players to be able to jump right into the latest thing, and when the next expansion releases, level 90 won’t be the latest thing. It’s possible they won’t change it to a level 100 boost, but it’d be strange if they didn’t.

I don’t know if existing, unused boosts will become boosts to 100 … but why not? Unless boosting to 100 will cost more, you’ve paid for the boost, so it might as well boost you to the latest thing.

I’m not a big fan of Mists of Pandaria in general, but I thought the combined culmination of Valley of Four Winds and Krasarang Valley was really well-done in the hell yeah fist-pumpy sort of way. Various storyline threads throughout those two zones (which were one big zone early in development) came together to make a really cool, kickass moment. For some reason, leaving Valley of Four Winds, then coming back to it later with reinforcements made it feel so much better than getting that cinematic after Valley of Four Winds alone.

Done! You’ll see Liz weekly.

We can probably make something like this happen. We have plans to build hero guides and things along those lines, and once we’ve made some headway on that, we could link to those guides with the free hero rotation.

It isn’t Tuesday anymore, but I hope you went with the curry. You should always use your leftovers!

I don’t min/max my followers, though I know I should be. If I have a choice of two blues and a green follower in the inn, and the green follower looks cooler than the two blue ones, I’ll pick the green one. I’ll spend more time leveling a new follower if it means I have people in my garrison who look totally badass. I’ve gravitated toward having mostly female followers because some of them look so cool. For example, I recently picked up Lucia Nightbane. She’s in today’s header image. Human female character models are my favorite in the game (which should be obvious if you pay attention to my characters) and I absolutely adore that paladin set. She might replace Shelly Hamby as my favorite. Was she a blue follower? Nope. Just a green.

It’s nice that they’re putting out capes that are more than a square piece of cloth, but I’m still not a fan. Cloaks are, in my opinion, the least visually appealing thing in World of Warcraft. I turn them off every time. Without cloth physics, they’re just stiff dangly bits. Given that’s the piece of armor you’re looking at during most of your playtime, I turn them off.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled by superhero MMOs where cape physics are one of the single most important features.