The Queue: New specs
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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!
My Hunter got a fabulous new pair of goggles in this week’s leveling stream. While she’s busy flaunting her new specs, I had Lasik done earlier this week and have ditched the specs entirely. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was six years old, so needless to say, it’s a little weird. 20/20 in both eyes now though, which means I have absolutely no problem reading and answering your questions!
Does Legion has the same “random leveling perks” system that WoD had? I actually kind of hated that; I knew I’d get everything eventually, but getting things that used to be built-in to my spec at random was really irritating because 1. I felt like I should have just retained them all from the get-go and 2. since I didn’t get to choose when I got them I ended up having to re-learn things in my rotation halfway to 100.
Nope! Leveling perks are all gone, they were a Warlords-only thing. I guess the closest equivalent to those in Legion would be your Artifact talents, but those aren’t assigned at random. You can pick and choose which ones you want to go for — of course you need to make your way through the various branches, but you should be able to fill in everything eventually, just like how you got all the Warlords perks eventually.
QftQ: What do you think of the whole delayed launch of the demon invasions? I’m kind of annoyed by it, was looking forward to new content to do. Relearning my alts is fun, but I’m sick and tired of WoD content.
I actually don’t mind the delayed rollout — it gives us time to figure out our new rotations and abilities in the context of an expansion and content we’re already familiar with. Like all the content we’ll be clearing out to pick up all the Wardrobe appearances we’re missing.
Q4TQ: As an officer of a RP guild, we are preparing our guild’s story for Legion. The main problem is no one seems to be clear on whether there is a 5 year time span between Draenor and Legion. Interviews and Tweets from Blizz have contradictory and nothing recent as far as I can tell which is driving most of us RP guilds crazy. Has there been any confirmation or news on this, and if not do you think there will be a time jump or not?
The length of time between Warlords and Legion is one year, same as all other expansions (with the exception of Mists, which was two.) In the Magni: Fault Lines comic, Moira mentions that it’s been four years since Magni turned to stone — which was back in Cataclysm. Cataclysm was year 28, Mists was year 30, Warlords was 31, so we can assume Legion is year 32. Hope that helps!
Easy Q4tQ: Do we get another character slot per server to fill with a new Demon Hunter? Or am I going to have to roll him on another server?
Yes you do! No need to create a Demon Hunter on another server. I’m assuming this goes into effect with the pre-patch for Legion, since players who preordered the expansion will get to make their Demon Hunters early.
Q4TQ: If I don’t read Illidan before playing Legion, will I get heavily spoiled by the game, especially the DH opening experience?
Nope! Illidan doesn’t really detail the events that happen during the Demon Hunter intro, it just sets up the reason for the scenario your Demon Hunter is thrown into, and details what’s going on elsewhere while the Demon Hunter intro is happening. The game doesn’t spoil the novel in the least.
QftQ: So speaking of Mercy, can somebody give me the skinny on Mercy’s outfit? Is it a kind of futuristic uniform that’s actually standard issue for medics? Are there guys also flying around dressed like angels with wings and halos? Or is it just an one-of-a-kind armor that Mercy herself uses? It’s pretty neat either way.
Mercy’s outfit is one she designed herself! It’s called the Valkyrie swift-response suit, and she put it together after becoming Overwatch’s head of medical research, to help out with healing on the front lines more expediently. I don’t know if she ever made more of them, or if she’s got the only one — but considering we haven’t seen a lot of medics running around in the things, I imagine their use wasn’t widely spread. Or if the suits were widely used, I imagine their popularity dropped off dramatically after Overwatch was disbanded, just due to public perception of the whole scandal.
That’s it for today’s Queue — if you have any questions you’d like to see answered, be sure to leave them in the comments below!
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