The Queue: Shank Alley
@AlexZiebart
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 don’t know how much info we have on the Wardrobe yet, so my QftQ may not be answerable at this time. If you have a BoE item’s appearance stored already, and run across another one later, will you be able to tell that you’ve already “collected” its transmog?
Much like pets, toys, and mounts, the tooltip for gear will tell you whether or not you’ve learned it already. I’m sure there will be addons to make this even more obvious and, if you really need to, you can search for the item within the wardrobe.
I’ve been playing in open beta, and it’s a blast. However one issue that has been nagging me is that this seems less like a Beta and more like a free weekend. For what is ostensibly a Beta the game seems very well polished, in fact if there are lingering bugs or balance issues then I would think they would show more in specific team/map comps or very unusual playstyles and synergies.
5 days to test, correct, and retest for thoes unique circumstances seems laughably short. Do you think it would have been better for them just to release and give everyone a free week rather than keeping up with the “beta” pretense? Or is there some more banal backend server stuff they’re looking at rather than actual design issues?
Well, from this brief beta test alone, we saw Blizzard decide to disable competitive play for the duration of the beta and tweak it for a post-launch release. So I’d say it still counts as a beta test. When games have an “early access” period, that almost always means they’re letting you play before the game is complete … which is alpha/beta testing given a new marketing name. Remember, Overwatch isn’t releasing May 10 when the beta concludes. The beta ends May 10 and the game launches May 24. That isn’t 5 days from beginning to beta to launch — it’s almost a month. The beta only encompasses a brief period of that time.
Why is murder row in silvermoon called murder row? Who was murdered there? Searching online, people like to point out that the rogue and warlock trainers are there but that doesn’t really explain the name.
It’s probably a colloquial name given to it by the locals rather than an official name. If the local citizenry know that’s where the assassins and warlocks do their dark deeds, they’re going to refer to it by a spooky name and avoid it at all costs. I think every metropolitan area, old or modern, has places like this. Maybe that reputation is justified, maybe it isn’t, but it makes total sense Silvermoon would have somewhere like that.
Is dragon Chromie a male or female? I thought I’ve read before that she is a he.
Blizzard has previously confirmed Chromie is female in both gnome and dragon form. Yes, Chromie uses the typically male naming conventions in her dragon form, but that was either an error when the NPC was first put in the game or those naming conventions really don’t have as much weight as players give them. “Chronormu” is the only reason anyone ever thought Chromie was a lady in gnome form and a guy in dragon form. There was no other indication other than the name.
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