The Queue: You don’t look at all like your profile
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It’s hard to say who was more disappointed with the online matchmaking service — Wailing Mary Smitts, who was expecting someone…you know, alive, or Deathstalker Commander Belmont, who mistakenly thought Mary’s “wailing” moniker meant he was meeting up with a banshee. Either way, their relationship will either be nonexistent, or the stuff of a Paula Abdul song. You know. The one with the dancing cat.
Supposedly demon hunters go to the twisting nether when they die, like demons. In Legion, is there any difference when a DH dies vs. when other classes die? Or they just go to the same spirit healer?
I made it a point to go log on my Demon Hunter on the alpha and die horrifically just to answer this question. The answer is no, there’s no difference — same spirit healers, same afterlife. There is a bit where Illidan comments on your ability to come back to life in the Demon Hunter starting experience, but that’s just a little flavor for that particular quest chain. Think of it sort of like when the val’kyr show up to resurrect you if you happen to die during the Death Knight starting chain — it’s something that’s just in that contained starting area.
QftQ: Does one gain artifact power from running dungeons/raids of all kinds in legion? Or does artifact power only come from quests and world content? Also when say power I mean literal power for artifact traits not the slotted upgrades. I ask because I haven’t heard anything about this and I was reading/commenting on comments further down and slammed right into an area I knew nothing about.
Artifact power comes from everything. You get it from items that drop all over the place — in dungeons, during quests, even while just killing random mobs out in the wild. The items that drop can then be used to give you Artifact power, much like the items you can use to instantly give yourself Garrison Resources right now in Warlords. And you aren’t relegated to one activity if you want to power up your Artifact — it’s something that happens organically throughout the expansion.
Well Anne, just how sweet is your hunter transmog?
It’s pretty awesome.
Currently, I’m using the Captain’s set, which is a recolor of the Combat Mail set, along with a Penate’s Penance-Procuring Pistol (which is also the largest pistol I have ever seen). Basically I figured okay, if we’re going to go hunt things in the jungle, maybe I should try and blend in a little.
Also, it’s pretty.
Is 7.0 the pre-patch or the expansion drop?
Usually the pre-expansion patch is x.0.x — as in, the pre-expansion patch for Warlords was patch 6.0.2, the pre-expansion patch for Mists of Pandaria was 5.0.4, etc. If the patch involves the next expansion, it will be prefaced with a 7, so any pre-expansion patches that involve Legion content (like pre-expansion events, Demon Hunters, etc) will be a 7 point something.
Q4tQ: *spoiler-ish* Is there any connection to Illidan book in Legion? I’ve seen video of Demon Hunter starting experience and storywise it seems to be completely disconnected with the book. Another thing is Illidan done some enormous awesome crazy important stuff, is it mentioned anywhere in the Legion (I think some demons would be realy salty about it) or is it like an Ashenvale Alliance victory?
The only direct connection, without giving away spoilers, is that the Demon Hunter starting experience takes place during the book’s timeline. In other words, when you roll a Demon Hunter in Legion, the place you start out in is a place that Illidan sent Demon Hunters in the book. Nothing regarding Illidan’s exploits is directly discussed in Legion as of yet, but we’re still in alpha — I’m pretty sure someone’s going to start talking at some point. You do hear a little bit about what he’s been up to in the Demon Hunter starting experience, but if you aren’t playing a Demon Hunter, at this time in the alpha, you don’t hear anything.
Q4tQ: If Blizzard were to call you, and you alone, and leave the choice of what expansion comes after Legion entirely in your hands, but you are only allowed to hear the title of the two different possible expansions and nothing more, which would you choose? World of Warcraft: Rise of the Xorothian Space Raptors or World of Warcraft: Tides of Nazjatar (the latter of which also has the bonus title of Tides of Darkness 2: Eclectic Boogaloo)?
Tides of Nazjatar, hands down. Azshara’s been sitting idle all this time, it’s about time she does something. And if we don’t see her directly in Legion, I want to see her directly after. She’s a force that should be reckoned with. She’s a threat that’s been unaddressed for far too long. I’d really like to see what she’s been doing all these years, and maybe get some inkling as to what her plans actually are for the world. We’ve never been on the receiving end of Azshara’s wrath, and I think it’s high time we were.
Speaking of writing, why has Anne never written a novel (at least that we’ve been notified of)? With her tinfoil hat ideas that Blizzard (either) agreed with (or took), she’s proven she has a great imagination, and can link up to a great idea starting with what already exists. She could really write some excellent original work.
And I’ll follow that with I’ve been reading Alex’s book Blood and Masks, and it’s really good. Check it out if you haven’t already.
Rossi’s At Last, Atlantis will be my next book.
This is the bonus question in which I quietly note that I’ve been working on a book for years now (seriously, years). Unfortunately, trying to hammer out the time to concentrate on that story and actually write it out has been almost an impossibility — by the time I get done writing/talking/podcasting/everything else I do in the normal day-to-day, the last thing I really want to do is sit down and write more. I’ll get it done eventually, it’s just slow going. If I ever do get the thing finished and published somewhere, I’ll be sure to mention it.
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