The Queue: I still love Tanaan

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Despite the overwhelming amount of hate zones like the Timeless Isle and Tanaan Jungle receive, I still love both of them. While I like Legion‘s world quests, I’ll be sad if we never get a Tanaan-like again. I love going out and … killing. Killing everything. Forever.

Nay. You’re still stuck with me.

The Upper-Case Wars seem to be the world wars with Orcs as major players … or, you know, simply the canon way to refer to the RTS games. If there’s a Warcraft 4 RTS, that’ll likely be the Fourth War. The war with the Legion seems to be referred to as the Third Invasion or something like that.

Honestly, I’m pretty sure the Wars are just shorthand for the games and we’re not likely to see that terminology used again. There’s no compelling reason for it. And frankly, there are so many wars in Warcraft, have we ever actually ended one? When does one end and another begin?

Nah. As it is, I’m not much of a completionist — I’m picky about which things I need to completely fill out and there isn’t much logic behind it. For example, I love getting reputations to Exalted. I find filling up a bar and seeing constant progress really enjoyable. However, I find collecting pets and mounts pointless. Having more mounts doesn’t do anything for me, so why would I collect them? Of course, getting Exalted with every possible faction doesn’t do anything for me, either. Why do I enjoy one and not the other? Who knows.

I see the wardrobe much like I see pets/mounts. I’ll collect the stuff I think is cool. If there’s a set I like, I’ll go get it. But I don’t know why you’re try to collect every single piece of armor in the game. Especially the butt-ugly ones. Why? Whyyyy?

I don’t see an issue with the Friendly requirement for World Quests. It isn’t difficult to hit Friendly — you simply need to do the level-up questing content. I don’t think you even need to finish all of the zones, just… enough of each one. With Legion’s zone-scaling, you could theoretically grind mobs in one zone from level 100 to level 110 and save all of your quest rewards for level 110. The minimal reputation requirements on World Questing means you can’t do that anymore.

I think it’s fine. However, I’ll probably feel less-fine about it a year from now when I’m playing my fifth alt and, thanks to rested XP, I’ve hit level 110 within two zones, but I can’t participate in level 110 content until I’ve done those other zones, and…

Yeah, it’s an alt issue. For launch, I really don’t expect people are going to experience a hurdle. You’ll it Friendly simply by playing.

Mosquitoes. Screw ’em.

Treasures. Especially now with flying ezmode. Zip around the continent, getting treasures and killing rares. They’ll only give you 10-15 resources each, but that piles up. All of the purple clickables in Tanaan give resources — chests, apexis nodes, and so on. There’s really no better way to get a quick rush of resources. The purple clickables in Tanaan — the ones which give Apexis fragments for the daily — respawn. They respawn specifically because they can be used for the daily, but you don’t need the quest to loot them.