The Queue: Revenge of the Queue

Just when you least expect it, Thursday shows up, eager for revenge on the rest of the week. I’m not sure how it happens, but somehow Thursday is always a surprise. Sure, it comes after Wednesday every week, but it’s stealthy about it, you know?

Let’s dive into the questions.

Liz: I’m really seeing opinions all over the map this expansion, so… I’d say go with what you think is fun. I personally boosted a Shaman to play Resto/Elemental.

Mitch: I promise this isn’t my usual bias poking through, but Shadow actually seems to be pretty universally well received. Outside of that…I don’t actually know. Liz is right, the opinions are pretty varied on the new classes. In a completely unscientific perusal, I’d say people new to classes like them. People who’ve been playing a class for a while don’t like ’em.

Liz: Mitch is actually one of the few people I know who’s completely content with his revamped class.

Liz: What I find really interesting is that a lot of players seem to be unhappy with their current mains in Legion… but are into other classes that they previously didn’t play seriously. I’m one of them! I’m really unhappy with my current Windwalker Monk, but might main a Mistweaver (which I’ve never played end-game) or an Elemental/Resto Shaman or a Holy Paladin. I haven’t decided yet because there’s no class I’m in love with right now. (But I do agree with commenters saying Warlocks have the worst of it right now.)

Mitch: Again, I don’t have a good answer (sorry, I’m terribly unhelpful today). Keep in mind, though, numbers are one of the last things to be changed. So, something could be overpowered right now and be the least powerful in literally less than a week. It’s all about playstyle right now, if you ask me.

Liz: It’s not so much a numbers thing, at least not for some, as it is a feeling thing. Some classes play tremendously differently and the people who enjoyed the old style are just not into the new style. Take my Mistweaver example. Mistweaver vastly different than it was in Warlords. I didn’t play it in Warlords because it was a weird healing style that didn’t quite click with me — I healed on a Paladin and a Shaman instead. But now I think Mistweaver’s great. It’s likely to be my Legion main.

Mitch: I totally agree there. Which is why, “Which class got nerfed this time?” isn’t really answerable, imo.

Liz: All of them! None of them!

Mitch: Basically.

Mitch: To be honest, I’ve gone through the motions with expansions before. I’ve hated changes, loved some, and felt completely neutral about others. It’s exhausting. You know what I’ve always found, though? I still play the damn game. I adjust. No change has ever gotten me to stop playing and nothing has ever really pushed me to stop playing the game how I have always played it. I fully admit, I don’t understand some of the changes the Blizz devs seem to be making. The camera distance change makes zero sense to me, and I’m fairly confident Watcher’s own argument makes zero sense within the context of anything but itself. But I’ll live, and I’ll keep playing. Plus, to avoid being all Negative Norton in this answer, there are plenty of amazing changes coming to Legion that I think will outweigh the bad ones.

Liz: I think the longer the delay between expansions drags on the less excited I am about the expansion. During these lengthy delays, when things are constantly changing, I gradually care less. And less. And less. It feels like nothing we hear matters much because it’s in constant flux. And at the same time I become less interested in the current game, because it’s all about to be outdated. I’m just not capable of maintaining enthusiasm for the duration of these longer development cycles. But this is how I am most expansion cycles; it’s not Legion-specific.

Liz: Unless they change it again, which seems unlikely this late in the development process, you can change your specialization any time, anywhere (as long as you’re out of combat). If you switch to a specialization you’ve had before, you’ll have the same talents and button bars you had last time, otherwise you can pick your talents. If you want to change talents, you either need to be in a rested area or you need a scribe-crafted reagent.

Mitch: I don’t have much to add except for a very cynical laugh at this: “…which seems unlikely this late in the development process…” And to clarify what you said, you can only freely change talents outside of rest zones if you do not have a talent picked for that row at all.

Liz: You’re a Shadow Priest. You’re never the optimistic one! Er. Well. Except in the last question. Of course Blizz has done some crazy back and forth corse correcting on us before. Maybe they will again.

Mitch: There are two approaches here… The first is that DK Arthas is strong, but not as strong as the first DK. Which means he’d likely be defeated. The second, however, is that DK Arthas defeated Illidan, and Illidan is kind of a boss to Teron’gor (since Illidan is the Big Bad of Black Temple), which means, transitively, Arthas > Teron’gor.

Liz: Aren’t they both already dead? Is this a competition to make each of them even dead-er?

Mitch: Look, dead peeps gotta find entertainment somehow.

Liz: Duels to the death?

Mitch: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Liz: I say Sylvanas shows up and kills them both. Not that she cares about Teron’gor, but he’s guilty by association.

Mitch: Why didn’t I think of that?

Liz: TOO LATE.