The Queue: Look ma, no ground

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It took me long enough to unlock flying in Draenor, but I managed to finish it off last week. Since then, I’ve been taking my draenei around and collecting various rare items in an effort to see how much XP I can wrangle. The answer to that is “a substantial amount,” although I don’t know if that will actually carry me through to level 100 just yet.

All you need is one! Once you have it unlocked on one character, every character that heads to Draenor will be able to fly out there.

Honestly, I keep forgetting that I can fly. Not on my alt, on my main. I still reflexively mount up on my ground mounts out of habit. So no, I don’t really feel forced or obligated to fly — it’s just there as an option if I want it.

I can honestly say I’ve never done that before — but I have heard of plenty of people that have done it. Heck, even all the way back in vanilla you’d run into people who leveled specific names just to participate in the PVP grind and get a title that went with the name. I don’t really utilize titles very often myself, and I don’t actually look at them very often, either, unless it’s a really noticeable title. If I run into a Scarab Lord for example, that’s rare enough that I’ll notice it right away.

Usually with titles, I just pick the one that sounds the nicest with whatever my character’s name happens to be, and go with that. Or one that suits the character’s class.

Let’s be real here, for a moment: There is nothing particularly exciting about fishing out here in the real world, either. There’s a reason people go fishing to relax — because there’s very little involved in the process. Unless you’re out on the ocean hunting for some kind of crazy fish that can kill you, most of the time fishing is just sitting by a lake and waiting for a tug on the line. It’s not exactly an adrenaline-pumping process.

That’s kind of how I approach fishing in WoW, too. It’s one of those things that is there to do, if I want to kill some time and maybe do something in-game while I’m watching the latest episode of whatever show happened to catch my attention on Netflix. I don’t really do it because it’s fun, I do it because it’s there as an option, and I kind of want the achievement points.

I’m not sure there’s really a way to make it exciting either, honestly. You could offer all the tantalizing rewards in the world, but that just means there’s more of a reason to do the boring thing for the goodie at the end, not that the boring thing has suddenly gotten more interesting.

It is definitely way, way too early to call. I’d say at this point either some kind of evolved trogg, some kind of crazy evolved troll (like the dire trolls), or possibly, if you really want to stretch, some kind of devolved night elf. As in, hey look at those crazy Highborne on that island out there with their own civilization — whoops, they got hit with the Curse of Flesh and it did some really weird things to them.

I don’t know if they’re robots, but they are creatures of order — and fleshy organic life is kind of the embodiment of chaos. I think maybe we’ll see more about just what the Titans are in the upcoming World of Warcraft: Chronicle book that’s due out next year. Given the timing of the book’s release, and the fact that we’re after Titan relics called the Pillars of Creation in Legion, I’d say it’s a safe bet that we’ll see some kind of answer to this question soon.

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!