The Queue: This was unexpected

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I feel like I should point out just as an FYI: If you’re in any of Blizzard’s story scenarios this expansion, make it a point to look around. In some cases, there are fun references to be found. In others, there are small quest chains that you really don’t want to miss out on. They’re never obvious, and they’re just out of the way enough that you wouldn’t really see them unless you took a moment or two to poke around and check your minimap for telltale yellow exclamation points. Since you’re only in there for a short period of time, it’s easy to miss them if you’re just blazing through the scenario without paying attention to your surroundings. So keep your eyes peeled, because you never know what — or who — you’re going to find while you’re out there.

They didn’t, and I’m kind of bummed about it too! The spec window does list all the core spells you’ll supposedly need, but it doesn’t really go into detail like the old abilities tab did. I miss that tab. I’d like that tab back. Particularly for those alts I haven’t played since I don’t know, Wrath of the Lich King (Paladin, I am looking at you. And I am frowning.).

I’m still having fun with the app, although I’m not quite as vigorous in using it as I was the first week. Since missions don’t give Order Hall Resources, using the app drains my supply pretty quickly.

I do find the filter tool for world quests pretty handy, but it’s also kind of annoying, in a way. I love that I can filter for which ones offer what rewards. I can’t stand that I cannot actually do this in-game as well. Since you can’t log onto the app and the game at the same time, it means my in-game map is just a glut of different locations that I have to mouse over in the vain hope I can find the ones I’m looking for. Either that, or I have to log out of the game, log into the app, do the filter search, then try and remember where those quests are while I log out of the app and back into the game.

Basically the app has some marvelously convenient features, but they don’t play as well with the game as I’d like them to. If we could log into both app and game at the same time, that would solve my problem. Or, you know, better idea, give us the app quest filter feature in game so I don’t have to do a mad scramble dance while I figure out what the heck I’m going to be doing on any given day.

…and it would be cool if using the app would slowly feed you resources or something. I mean, doesn’t have to be a lot of resources. But a little perk would be nice.

It’s a hidden ban. As far as the person hit with the bozo is concerned, they can still post, and their comments show up — but nobody sees their comments other than themselves. Sort of like when one of us goes on and on for five minutes in the live stream before realizing we had the mute button pressed on our mic and nobody actually heard anything we were saying — talking into the void, as it were.

I think I approach this differently than most, because I’m a roleplayer — none of my characters are heroes. They aren’t the big names going in and killing big bosses or whatever. The closest was my Rogue, who’s a mercenary for hire and will happily help out in big fights as long as it’s interesting. If it isn’t interesting, she doesn’t care. But that’s roleplaying, and I think you’ll find that a lot of roleplayers take that tactic.

As far as canon game lore goes, usually when discussing the fall of one thing or another, it’s references as whatever major lore NPC happened to be there at the time, and “a band of heroes” or “a band of adventurers” — the heroes are never, ever mentioned by name. It’s crafted that way so that everyone playing the game can essentially be a self-insert. Tirion Fordring was definitely there when the Lich King fell, and he was accompanied by an army of remarkable heroes. You can easily look at that description and assume that one of those heroes was your character — and everyone else who plays the game, raided Icecrown Citadel and took down the Lich King can say the same.

I think it caps at 200% — 100% success for the mission, and 100% success for the bonus should the mission successfully complete. I can’t imagine why there would even be a need for it to go any higher than that, honestly.

I feel like that’s probably the route they’re going to take. We aren’t going to keep carting our Artifact weapons around after the expansion is over. Simply adding the appearances we’ve managed to unlock to our Wardrobes after Legion is done seems like it would be easy enough. I do think that they’ll probably disable the ability to unlock rare or special appearance options after the expansion is over with — sort of like how they shut down legendary quest chains at the end of an expansion. If you want the super pretty rare special thing, you’re supposed to get the super pretty rare special thing while the content is current, and all that.

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!