The Queue: Rock city

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’m not sure why this underground city in Neltharion’s Lair is so visually appealing, but there’s something about it that I really love — I think it has to do with all the golden glowing windows. It’s pretty dark when you’re this deep underground, and because of that, we’ve suddenly got a good look at what a city in WoW should theoretically look like late at night. We don’t really get that out in the regular everyday Azeroth — and I understand why, obviously they want you to be able to see where you’re going after all, but man, I kind of wish we had a city or two like this to just hang out in, if we wanted to.

Look, I’ll admit that Khadgar has given Tirion a run for his money, but between the Argent Tournament and Icecrown Citadel, I think Tirion’s still got Khadgar beat. That may change after this expansion — but it all depends on how often we run into Gul’dan, I think.

We don’t actually know just yet. Some mail sets have both a plate and a mail version on the alpha, some don’t. Once we can copy our characters from live over to the alpha, we’ll have a better answer to that question — both Rossi and myself have fairly substantial collections of transmog items, and I’m sure we’re not the only fashion packrats on staff.

Realistically, you’d think she’d be at least a little upset about it. I mean we’re not talking a two week vacation here, we’re talking thousands upon thousands of years. I suppose they were going for some sort of “love always waits” or “love is eternal” message here with all the years of silent devotion to her beloved. That’s sweet I guess? But I can’t imagine there were absolutely no moments of resentment or anger on her end — heck, she was a little snippy to Malfurion when she woke him up in Warcraft 3, so that’s at least one indicator that there was some strain going on. Tyrande, Malfurion, and their relationship get a little more attention in Legion, though — it’s pretty interesting, and may shed some more light on your question. Be sure to hit up Val’Sharah first if you’re interested in seeing what’s up with them.

We have scenarios of sorts in Legion — the Artifact quest chains are framed out in scenarios. But if you’re talking about the kind that you queue up for independently and can repeat when you want, we don’t have those. I wish they’d bring them back. I like them well enough as part of the quest design, but honestly I liked them better when they were a feature that worked as an alternate to dungeons. Being able to chain scenarios while waiting in line to get into a dungeon or a raid was great.

The Draenei have already fixed the Exodar — it’s fully functional! It hasn’t been reflected in game, but if you read the short story Velen: Prophet’s Lesson, it’s all detailed in there. The Exodar is ready to go wherever it needs to go, but Velen has decided that the Draenei are going to remain on Azeroth for now. …that’s probably a good thing, because we kind of need them going forward. I’m pretty sure nobody knows the Burning Legion as well as they do!

Everything scales to you — I started out in Val’Sharah at level 100, as as I leveled, the mobs scaled with me. I left to do other zones, and when I returned to Val’Sharah, everything is still scaled to me. It’s all level 108 now. Can it still kill me? Yes. Can it kill me easily? Not so much — not with the better gear I’ve acquired. I imagine as my gear gets better, the mobs will get easier to kill no matter what level I happen to be. It’s not really a noticeable difference, that I can tell.

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!