The Queue: I know where I’ll be in Legion

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!

Burning Legion? What’s that? Look, I’ll get down to the very important business of exploring the rest of the Broken Isles, I promise, but not until I’ve had my daily dose of caffeine. These wizards, man. They can do anything, am I right?

That’s pretty much all you can do in that situation. Unfortunately, there’s nothing out there to prevent tanks (or any other player for that matter) from accepting a queue if they have resurrection sickness. It’s one of those things that I wish Blizzard would come up with some sort of solution for, because let’s face it — you can’t really expect to effectively perform in a dungeon if you’ve got it.

Not even remotely.

All it does it further expand the framework and answer some questions that have been puzzling us for a while now. But those answers are just going to pose more questions — and the book may or may not clarify those. We aren’t going to run out of any tinfoil hat theories anytime soon. If anything, I thought of a couple dozen good ones while just looking at the preview of the book. When I’ve got the thing in my hands, who knows?

That’s a good question.

Really, that’s all I can say about that, because without the book in my  hands, I don’t really have any kind of answers for you. Yes, there is an implication that Kalimdor was not Azeroth’s only continent back then. But where those other continents went, whether or not they still exist, and anything else…well I can’t really answer that until I’ve got the book. And the answer might not even be in the book, for that matter…which means it’s going to be another one of those delightful mysteries to think about in the future.

From what I recall, Blizzard has stated that there are no plans to introduce any kind of single player campaign for Overwatch — it’s a team-based FPS title, the key phrase being ‘team-based.’ You’re meant to play it with other people. I have a feeling if they do anything in the realm of story development, they’ll just flesh out the history of Overwatch, rather than setting anything present-day — and that will likely take place in the form of graphic novels, comics, maybe even books, and those animated shorts they were talking about at BlizzCon last year.

This is also an excellent question, but I think maybe you’re looking at it from the wrong direction. The better question to ask would be “If Night Elves supposedly evolved from Trolls, why exactly do they look more like dryads?” I don’t have an answer to that just yet, but it definitely gives us several things to think about.

Currently both Survival and Marksmanship are getting some major overhauls — one (Survival) is taking the most drastic shift by shedding the whole ranged combat thing for a melee spec, and the other (Marksmanship) is ditching the pet part of being a Hunter entirely. You can do that right now — at least a little — by choosing Lone Wolf as a talent, which gives you a few different buffs if you don’t actually have a pet out. In Legion, Marksmanship Hunters simply won’t have a pet at all.

Right now Beast Mastery is the only spec that’s staying mostly the same as in fairly familiar to its current iteration — ranged weapon, ranged attacks, with your good old fuzzy (or scaly, or feathery) pal fighting at your side. You might want to check out last Friday’s Hunter column for more information Beast Mastery and how it plays in Legion so far — but right now, it seems like the only Hunter spec that’s going to be playing really closely to its current Warlords iteration.

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!