The Queue: Floating Mostly Naked Man

This is The Queue, and we’re talking about Blizzard and its games. Y’all talked a lot about Overwatch yesterday. I’m not in the Beta, so… yeah. I did what I could.

For some reason there is a mostly naked human just kind of floating there in the Warrior class hall. I do not know why he is there.

Gear levels, character levels and the like are a mechanic that players use, not the characters. I mean, it’s not like a worg on Draenor is actually a level 92 animal while a worg on Azeroth is level 22. This is purely for our sake as players. So in essence there’s plenty of green gear on Draenor for them to find in their days salvaging.

It’s very Crusader-ish.

I mean, I get why people would be excited, but for me, it’s a Paladin thing and I’m not likely to level a Prot Pally in Legion, so… more power to you guys, it’s neat looking, I hope you enjoy it.

As far as I can tell, since Marks doesn’t have a pet at all, yes the restriction remains. (I’ve leveled a Marks and a Survival Hunter, haven’t done Beast Mastery yet.) Should they? Yes, absolutely they should. It’s in the name of the spec — Beast Mastery is about mastering beasts. Letting Survival tame exotic beasts basically says “Hey, we get the special melee stuff and your entire deal.”

That’s just my opinion, of course, and I really only play the one Hunter alt, so take it with as much salt as you think warranted.

Keeping in mind I didn’t get to raid heroic HFC because my eyes have been steadily degenerating (I didn’t even know that was what happened, but hindsight’s all I have going right now sight wise) but I really enjoyed getting to fight Kilrogg in HFC. Pretty solid fight in my opinion.

As for my favorite encounter in WoW, I’d have to say it’s a toss-up between old school Nefarian from Blackwing Lair and tanking Spine of Deathwing, just because that was the perfect storm of Warrior tanking mobility on a fight.

I am not one of the owners of this site, and I don’t hold an editorial position here. So all I can offer you is my opinion. But in my opinion it’s a very simple reason why we did this.

Content droughts.

Back in the old days, we would dread content droughts. They would make us physically ill, because we knew what would happen, and it happened at the end of The Burning Crusade, at the end of Wrath, at the end of Cataclysm and at the end of Mists of Pandaria.

Namely, nothing. For months. At the least.

By going to a broader coverage where we still focus on World of Warcraft but we’re free to talk about other Blizzard games like Diablo 3 or Hearthstone when they have some news, we can avoid some of the worst affects of content droughts on us as a site, namely that we have nothing to talk about.

You’d obviously want to ask Alex or Adam or others for other reasons, but I feel confident that the one I’ve given you has come up in our discussions on hundreds of occasions.

Okay, that’s the Queue for this Tuesday. Alex is up tomorrow, and I’ll see you guys on Friday. Heh. ‘See’ you. Man, that’s never going to actually seem funny to me.