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The QueueApr 16, 2016 12:00 pm CT

The Queue: I’ll have a venti…whatever that is

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’ve been wondering why the Ledgerdemain Lounge suddenly decided to go the coffee house route instead of the bar we saw back in Wrath, but I think I figured it out. No one in Dalaran can read their handwriting. I mean if you’re going to put the specials on a board outside, maybe you should make them legible, right? Also they appear to have gotten rid of Jones, who is still nowhere to be seen. But I might be a little biased on that front.


PUNTABLE ASKED:

What’s the big deal with Fjarnskaggl? Am I missing some inside joke? Do people just like saying Fjarnskaggl?

What’s the big deal with Fjarnskaggl? What’s the…

Why, Fjarnskaggl is easily the best, most desirable herb in the entirety of Azeroth! Incredibly rare, curiously beautiful, and full of surprises. I detailed some fun Fjarnskaggl facts on my Twitter:

These are, of course, all completely true facts and definitely not things I made up off the top of my head. You can trust me*. I’m an herbalist.


CHRTH ASKED:

Q4TQ: So what is Elegon, actually? Is he/she/it a Celestari like Algalon? Or just a titan-created form that resembles one?

The only reference to what Elegon is exists in his dungeon journal entry — it calls him a “celestial dragon.” Mind you, this information was released in Mists of Pandaria. Since Chronicle‘s release, I’m more inclined to think that Elegon may be another example of a constellar — Algalon is one of them. I say this for two reasons:

First, the physical similarities. Glowing blue beings embedded with stars aren’t exactly something I’d consider common. Algalon is the only named one we’ve seen, but the Celestial Defenders and Blacksmiths encountered while defending the Thunder Forge are possibly also filed under that category.

Second, Elegon is clearly a piece or part of the Titan facility in Mogu’shan Vaults. That means he’s willingly working with the Titans in one form or another. The constellar are pretty much working hand-in-hand with the Titans.

Of course I could be wrong — and Elegon may be some kind of relation to the constellar, but not actually one of them. The constellar are basically observers for the Titans, acting as watchdogs to make sure systems are running smoothly, and initiating fail-safe operations in the event that they aren’t.

That seems to be what Elegon is doing in Mogu’shan Vaults. When you bring him online, he comments that all the cores are operating at peak efficiency — and then he notes your presence. As soon as he does, he goes from observing and noting system performance, to getting rid of the unknown entities messing with Titan tech. And if you don’t shut him down in time (by defeating him), he initiates a total destruction sequence.


VINOBIANCA50 ASKED:

Question, please. Do you know if Blizz is working on updating the Goblin and Worgen models for Legion?

We’ve heard nothing about it from Blizzard as of yet — they seem to be working on the really old models right now. Most of those old Warlock demon models they’re updating haven’t been touched since vanilla — the same with many of the critters and creatures that are getting updates. In comparison, Worgen and Goblin models are nowhere near as old, so I’m guessing it’s a matter of priority. But that’s just a guess on my part.


LOTHARFOX ASKED:

I was watching several videos lately of “facts you didn’t know about Warcraft.” One that popped up several times was this small, relatively unknown, maybe wiped out clan of orcs on Draenor called Lightning’s Blade. The idea was, to join them, you stood atop a tall mountain with an axe, got struck by lightning three times, and if you survived, you got to join the clan. Few ever did.

This was in a game, not just the RPG, so it seems cannon. And they were left behind when the orcs went to Azeroth originally, so they should have still been around when we time traveled back to Draenor. Why weren’t they in Warlords at all? Or were they, and it just wasn’t in an obvious place?

Keep in mind that the game you’re referencing — the one where the clan’s joining ritual was mentioned — was Lord of the Clans. That game was never actually produced, and isn’t considered canon. However, they were mentioned very briefly in the manual for Warcraft 2 as allies of the Thunderlord clan. And in Burning Crusade, you run into three Farseers with the moniker “The Lightning Sons” attached to their names — that may be indicative that they were once, and are perhaps, the last remnants of the Lightning’s Blade.

As for why they aren’t in Warlords … well, they were never really a major clan in Warcraft lore. Maybe they were wiped out by Grommash’s united Horde. Or it’s possible they exist, but they’re just on a far off continent we didn’t actually get to explore in the expansion.


CAEC ASKED:

Has it really only been 5-6 years that our characters have “lived” from day 1 of WoW to “today”? Geeze. I’m not one to pay attention to lore/time much, but I was just looking at a timeline and that seems like an awful short amount of time for so much upheaval and conflict to occur.

I initially looked up the timeline because of all this Jaina talk and my thinking how is she not a grandma by now, but I guess if only a little over 5 years has passed since the time in the spotlight she had in Warcraft 3….sheesh.

Yep, it hasn’t been a lot of time at all. World of Warcraft began in year 26 of the timeline, and as of Warlords, I believe we’re in year 31. Each expansion took place over the course of a year, with the exception of Cataclysm, which took place over two. Cataclysm took place in year 28, Mists of Pandaria took place in year 30.

If you read the novel Illidan, you’ll see that the events of Burning Crusade were really, really fast paced in comparison to how long it took real-time for everything to go down.


OMEDON ASKED:

Q4tQ: Are leveling dungeons live enough in legion alpha for us to know any minimum ilvls to queue up and level via dungeons? My healer friends (who REEHEEFUSE to nuke anything as a healing spec, regardless of what anyone says) will feel a lot better about only owning one artifact to start if they know they can just heal dungeons to level.

At the moment, there’s nothing really defining item level requirements for dungeons in Legion on the alpha. We can’t copy our characters over yet, so we can’t compare what our own item levels are in comparison to what’s required. I do know that with premade characters, they are initially set up with an item level of 680, prior to completing the Artifact quest chain.

After completing the Artifact chain, that item level bumped up to 688, and all dungeons were unlocked. Considering the fact that my main hasn’t really been participating heavily in raid content beyond LFR, yet her item level is 687, I don’t think anyone really has anything to worry about — just shoot for 680 by Legion, and you should be just fine.

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!

 

*you should definitely not trust me.
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