The Queue: So, anything interesting happen yesterday?

Anything you guys want to talk about?

No?

Okay, nothing but dinosaur questions it is.

Relax, I’m kidding. Legion is on everyone’s mind, we’ll be talking about that. I’m not cruel enough to talk about dinosaurs today of all days.

Honestly, neither did I. I really bought the idea that they’d introduce a ranged class if they decided to add a class at all. But here we are, demon hunters, melee DPS/tanks. We’ve introduced three classes since the game started and not a single one has been a pure DPS class. We now have six tank classes, five healer classes, and only four pure DPS. Heck, I get why in terms of lore Demon Hunters are a DPS class that is melee only, but I would have stolen some of the Diablo 3 kit for them, personally.

I assume that like all other leather wearers, they will be able to equip cloth, but will prefer leather, especially since they’re a melee DPS/tank agi using class.

Lar, I think Tasmia Mallor said it best when she said ‘never underestimate the darkness in another’s heart’ — frankly, the Horde and Alliance have had too many conflicts over the years since they united to form the Might of Kalimdor to work together now. (Also, let’s be honest, players complained so much about them working together in the AQ era that it will likely never happen again.) Between the Wrathgate, the Horde attacks on Alliance troops trying to enter Icecrown, the Horde attacks on Alliance territory in Cataclysm, the Alliance counterattacks, and finally the fallout from the Siege of Orgrimmar, these two factions have enough dirty laundry to keep an entire rack of machines busy.

It’s as much about PvE story as PvP, really. Players complained that seeing Alliance and Horde work together broke immersion, so here we are, many years down the road from having kicked over the first domino that made working together almost impossible. After the Third War, Azeroth actually had a real chance for peace, and we’ve squandered it.

I’m sorry but I’m going to have to disagree with you. They’re on very solid lore footing.

We first met the Illidari in The Burning Crusade, where they were an order of demon hunters started by Illidan himself. Leotheras was one of them, Varedis another. Varedis was the only successful student of Illidan’s first five blood elf pupils, and he in turn trained more blood elves in the arts of demon hunting, according to Altruis the Sufferer (a night elf demon hunter and former student of Illidan himself). Illidan’s training methods include allowing a demon to enter the students, which is what killed three out of the five initial blood elf students and drove Leotheras mad.

In other words, they don’t have to absorb the Skull of Gul’dan to gain demonic features, they’re all exposed to multiple sources of fel energy. Remember, we saw with both Felblood Elves and Satyrs that elves who are exposed to fel energy can grow horns and hooves. Yes, Illidan did it by absorbing the power of the Skull of Gul’dan, but that was a instantaneous change that probably would kill most other people. The demon hunters Illidan trains are more gradually exposed to the demonic power.

The slightly different implementation of Spectral Sight isn’t a lore issue. The official site’s write up of the demon hunter makes that clear. “Demon hunters ritually blind themselves in exchange for spectral sight that enables them to better sense their prey.”

See, I like to think I’m fairly conversant with the game’s lore. None of the problems you list are actually problems. Illidan shoots an eye beam during the fight atop the Black Temple. Clearly his most advanced students (the ones being sent on a secret mission to a Burning Legion controlled planet, one might speculate) would likely be trained in a similar technique.

Not just us. The official World of Warcraft site, most other fansites, we all took a beating. A whole lot of people were curious about the next expansion, I’d say.

And that’s The Queue for today. Anne takes over for the weekend, ask her as many questions as you can, please.