The Queue: Virtual tickets, Ashkandi, and more

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

This weekend was quite short on questions — at least, questions I could answer without traveling forward in time to play Legion and then travel back to tell you about it. Don’t be shy! If you have questions, please ask them!

In previous years, the virtual ticket was available for purchase up to, through, and even shortly after the event. Buying it after the event didn’t provide live coverage, obviously, but it let you watch the archives of the panels. Personally, I wouldn’t wait until the day of the event to buy your virtual ticket, but that’s entirely because I always expect everything Blizzard-related to crash on its release day. You don’t want to be buying your ticket five minutes before the Opening Ceremonies and find out the store crashed due to heavy load and end up missing everything.

Zero chance. I think it would have been a good candidate, but Ashkandi is already in the game — and has been since vanilla. The original drops from Nefarian in Blackwing Lair and an updated version of it drops from Nefarian/Onyxia in Blackwing Descent. Much like the devs won’t use Benediction/Anathema, they won’t use items players can already access for their artifacts.

I’m divided on what happened in Admiral Taylor’s garrison. It might not have been tied to anything larger and was just a way to include drama/remove Admiral Taylor for parity with the Horde’s equivalent. If it is part of something larger, I don’t anticipate we’ll see a followup in Legion — it doesn’t seem to fit the motif. If we see a followup at all, it’ll probably when we loop back around to dealing with the Scourge. The Scourge still exists as an entity via Highlord Bolvar and Cataclysm showed the Cult of the Damned trying to wrest away some modicum of power for their own. What happaned in Taylor’s garrison seemed Cult of the Damnedy.

Wrathion seemed to be there to offer a warning moreso than running from something himself. The Cult of the Damned might be building up to a death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation for the major factions. Who knows?

First, for those of you who don’t know, this is a true thing. Fox has been offered an awesome opportunity and is pursuing it. If you want to know more, he might discuss it on this week’s livestream — pretty sure he’ll still be here for that one. Now, to answer the question, Fox is the only person who ever called us Fox Force Five. We’ll probably go back to the far superior, far catchier “some peeps from Blizzard Watch playin’ video games.”