The Queue: Ridiculously big weapons are fun

The Blade of the Tribes. It’s a pretty awesomely ludicrous weapon. We’re well past the point of plausibility here. I also crafted a War of the Dead, and that’s pretty crazy too. I love Mighty Weapons. I wish WoW had them. Arms Warriors could use them.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk Blizzard. There will be spoilers for Legion here, as well as for World of Warcraft Chronicle.

Predicating this with my hope that we get three tiers of raiding, not just two, in Legion – we know that both Gul’dan and Tichondrius are in Nighthold (and apparently killable) and that the last of the Pillars of Creation, the Eye of Aman’thul, is involved there as well.

So the next tier of raiding is likely involving the use of all five Pillars (the Eye of Aman’thul, the Aegis of Aggramar, the Tidestone of Golganneth, the Hammer of Khaz’goroth and the Tear of Elune) to try and stop the Legion. And that’s interesting to me, both because the last Pillar is named for Elune, and not Eonar, and because the Tear we use as players in the game is given to us by Elune, after Xavius steals the original one. This implies several things. It implies that Elune was somehow involved in the shaping of primordial Azeroth. It implies that Elune is watching over us right now, active and taking part in the world — it was the death of Ysera at the Temple in Val’Sharrah that led to Elune shedding a new Tear to replace the one Xavius stole.

This makes me think that Elune is the spirit of Eonar released when the Titans fell against Sargeras. Ysera was one of two of the Aspects chosen by Eonar, after all. And this also makes me think that the Temple of Elune in Suramar, which became the Tomb of Sargeras, is where we’ll be going next since the ancient Night Elves used the Pillars to seal a ‘wound in the world’ and erect the Temple of Elune two thousand years before the Sundering. So, if I think the Tomb of Sargeras is the second tier raid, what would be the third tier?

Well, think about it — what’s on the other side of the Tomb? The portal the Legion are using to invade. And how do you kill a demon for good? You kill it in the Nether.

Sargeras hates the Void Lords, they’re the reason he turned against the Pantheon in the first place. He killed a nascent World-Soul to prevent them from corrupting it into a Void Titan that could theoretically deform reality enough for the Void Lords to invade. When the Pantheon refused to see the rightness of his actions he killed them for it.

The Nathrezim seem to enjoy Void energies — Sargeras first encountered the Nathrezim on a world seething with Void, so at least some demons like the Void itself. The Void Lords are unfathomable entities, far harder to comprehend than even the Old Gods.

So essentially, the word from Sargeras down is ‘Void Lords bad’ but that doesn’t stop some demons from playing with Void energies and Void beings like Voidwalkers.

It would be interesting if we got another class that was like Priests (ranged DPS/healer) instead of another tank class. Every new class (DK, Monk and DH) have been tank classes. I’d like it if we didn’t get yet another tank, it’s been done. Two of the three new classes in WoW are Tank/Melee hybrids, so a caster/heal one would be variety at least.

I don’t know about Pit of Saron but the difficulty felt weird doing Nexus on level 92/93 toons. Some of the bosses were easy, but some were pretty hard, and I blew up tanking the last boss.

Timewalking scales people down but it doesn’t seem like the mechanics take into account changes that make dispels harder, as an example. But it could have just been we weren’t taking it seriously enough.

I can’t speak as to your sanity, but yes.

The token trade in mechanic was introduced to give raiders something else to do with their Tempest Keep/SSC and Hyjal/BT tokens. Season 3 gear was the new hotness at that time, it wasn’t available for tokens, but Season 2 was on the Honor vendors by that point so it was seen as okay to let players get it without Arena. If you wanted Season 3, you had to do Arenas.

Now here we are eight years later and it’s all available for honor, but nobody told the vendors on the Isle.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. I’ll see y’all next week.