The Queue: Havi’s ravens are jerks

Listen, you stupid bird, I am the Battlelord of the Valarjar. I don’t care if you like me or not.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk about stuff.

Warning — Spoilers

As it turns out, they have a reason. To break it down, the two ravens had a magic gem that let them read everything written they came across. A Night Elf named Ravencrest (perhaps Kurtalos himself, perhaps an ancestor of his) ended up tricking the birds and stealing their magic gem and as a result the ravens harbor a grudge against all Night Elves.

So there you go. Night Elves done irk those ravens something fierce.

Here’s my thing about that zoo.

The Nighborne have been stuck in that barrier for ten thousand years. In that time, they were so ignorant of the outside world that they would exile people and had no idea what happened to them — had no idea if they survived or died, had no idea whether or not it was habitable outside the dome. (Some quests imply there were folks smuggling in outside goods but this strikes me as strange considering we’re told they had to use the Nightwell for sustenance because they couldn’t get food.)

So my question is this — where did those zoo animals come from?

The only answer that makes sense is that Suramar has had a breeding program for all the animals in its zoo for ten thousand years. They couldn’t be getting new animals in, especially not animals like the various dinosaurs (unless you’ve seen a devilsaur anywhere near Suramar, where would they even get the breeding stock from) and so they were basically using their captive stock to continue their animal’s lines.

So either those are the most inbred dinosaurs ever, or the Suramar zoo cheats in some fashion. Either they polymorph other animals into dinosaurs to keep the breeding stock refreshed, or they summon the animals through the barrier somehow, or something even weirder than that.

That zoo just raises further questions.

As I understand it, it’s the max level right now. I believe it’ll be going up in patch 7.1.

This is why I use Thorim as my combat ally. You summon him, he doesn’t choose when he appears.

On the one hand, I’ve used World Quests to get geared for raiding. I don’t run Mythic dungeons (at least I haven’t yet), I just do my World Quests every day (at least whichever faction has an Emissary up) and that’s all I needed to get myself raid ready. I do Heroic dungeons only when a World Quest directs me into them. And I’m perfectly content with this system.

On the other hand, I do find myself wondering what the point of LFR is anymore. World Quests give better gear especially if you get lucky on a Titanforged piece or two. I pretty much think that I’ll just do raids and World Quests this expansion and I’m okay with it. I’m not sure if I should be or not.

There’s a reason I switch mains a lot now.

I mean, just your average Demon Hunter alone had to eat the heart of a demon and feel it consume him or her from within. Your Death Knight died, was raised and forced to endure an existence where inflicting pain and death sustains them. My original Warrior went to every raid from Molten Core to Hellfire Citadel (I finally semi-retired him this time around).

One of my Draenei Warriors is still in his Garrison. He’s likely never going to leave it. I think he’s earned his retirement, and while Draenor isn’t his world, it’s very close. I think he’s happy there.

I mean, can you imagine what a Forsaken Holy Priest’s state of mind would be?

Yeah, I think about it a lot. Then again, I’m often told people can get used to a lot. Some of the stuff that’s actually happened to me (I’ve died twice, for example) freaks people out but I generally don’t think all that much about it.

That’s the Queue for this Tuesday morning. Thanks for coming around and chatting.