The Queue: In which Fox communes with nature

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!

I had the sheer joy of a Fox Van Allen visit earlier this week when he drove through my town during his lengthy cross-country road trip, and of course I couldn’t pass up the chance to introduce him to some of Colorado’s friendlier wildlife. No ground squirrels were harmed in the taking of this photo — but they did receive a nice pick-me-up for the day and a substantial pile of critter-friendly food to stash away for those cold winter months.

Having discovered that the best thing to do with a large stash of gold is to purchase some Medallions of the Legion to max out my reputation with everyone on Draenor, I decided to finish knocking off the last few achievements I need to pick up Draenor Pathfinder and fly my way around the world. I still need Assault on Darktide Roost, which is weird because it’s the first assault quest I ever completed. And because it’s an assault quest, I just kind of have to wait for the thing to roll around.

Beyond that, I’ve been fiddling with other games — I just finished playing through the entirety of the Mass Effect trilogy, which was really fun. I tend to pick up a lot of games during Steam sales, so I have a backlog of various games to try out and play. Next on the list is Armikrog, which I helped fund through Kickstarter. It’s a point and click puzzle game that was done with stop-motion claymation. If you remember The Neverhood, this is done by the same team of people, right down to the music.

…I’m probably going to have to dig up my old copy of The Neverhood when I’m done with this and replay it for old time’s sake.

I really, really, really like Gilneas. I love the atmosphere, I love the scenery and I love the story. I do not, however, have any max-level worgen characters, because there’s nothing to do with Gilneas after that starting experience. The whole zone is so thematically interesting and unlike pretty much anything else on Azeroth, I really wish that they’d have done more with it. I’m hoping maybe we’ll see more on Gilneas in Legion, since Genn’s in the cast list on the expansion website. Fingers crossed!

We might see a little bit of information, but I doubt we’ll see any major news until BlizzCon at this point. I’m actually pretty okay about this, because it means that we should get some really good panels this year, and a lot of information to process. Since we’ve had a few months to look over Legion, and Blizzard has had a few months to look at our reaction and what we’d like to see more information about, I’m hoping that means we’ll see panels that are targeted to what we’d really like to hear, the stuff we’d like clarified.

I think it’d be cool to see, but I’m guessing the earliest we’d see it is pre-patch for Legion, when all changes and pre-expansion event stuff goes live.

Ordinarily I’d say this is a result of Titan interference, but I think it’s just one of those weird planetary quirks that pop up in the Warcraft universe — planets, for whatever reason, always have some kind of wild, natural element that acts as protection. Or maybe it does have something to do with Titan interference. Maybe having the Titans suddenly show up on a planet somehow influences the planet itself, causing it to spawn these natural protectors as a by-product of Titan presence. We don’t really know — maybe Chronicle will clear that up when it’s released.

There are two catch up weekly quests, one for each part of the collection chain. For Abrogator Stones, you’ll want to talk to Kluk’kluk out in Tanaan Jungle for the weekly quest Abrogator Arbitrator. He’ll hand over five Abrogator Stone Clusters in exchange for 14,958 Apexis Crystals.

For Elemental Runes, you can talk to a Renegade Ironworker in Tanaan Jungle for the weekly quest Work Work Stoppage. He’ll hand over 75 Elemental Runes in exchange for 20,000 Apexis Crystals.

That might seem like a lot of Apexis Crystals, but doing things out in Tanaan Jungle will usually give you more Apexis than you really know what to do with anyway, and it’s a nice way to get some guaranteed quest items, if the raid bosses in Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry weren’t particularly forthcoming with the drops that week. Stash them away like a friendly ground squirrel. While they won’t see you through the cold winter months, you should still have enough for your legendary ring in no time.

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!