The Queue: Fruit of our efforts

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!

I haven’t quite finished the Nightfallen quest chain, but I think I’m nearing its end — and I’m a little sad about that. Suramar is hands-down my favorite zone I’ve ever played through in this game. Just on the merits of that one zone alone, I think Legion is poised to nudge Mists of Pandaria out of the number one spot on my favorite expansions list. We’ve still got a lot of expansion left to play, but I can already tell I’m going to really, really miss this place when we’re gone.

You do not! You can get it no matter which spec you’re in. However, I’ve seen reports that it can sometimes take a little time for the sheep to show up. From what I understand, if you’ve been tagged for it, the sheep will follow you around — if you don’t see it immediately, just have a seat and wait by the stairs.

Yes it does — or rather, they do. Although this isn’t reflected in skyboxes, there are several Druid spells that refer to moon phases, and different phases of the moon have been mentioned in the books before as well. It’s one of those things that I think would be cool to see in game — the moon waxing and waning between phases like it does out here in the real world. However, I think it’s also one of those things that sounds easy, but ends up being pretty difficult to create, and the payoff probably wouldn’t be worth the time invested in making it happen. Regardless, it might not appear that way in game, but yes, phases are a thing.

Your Artifact weapon does only have 35 traits — but that last bonus trait is repeatable. It can be leveled up 20 times, which is where the number 54 is coming from. If you max it out, you end up with a 15% bonus to damage or healing. It’s up to you whether or not it’s worth it to max that out. But basically it’s just somewhere to dump all the extra Artifact Power you happen to be picking up while doing your usual rounds of quests, dungeons, raids, or PVP after your weapon of choice is already maxed out at 35 traits.

The difficulty rank for dungeons ramps up from Normal to Heroic, and Heroic to Mythic. While you can queue for Heroic dungeons through the Group Finder, you have to form a group yourself to attempt Mythic dungeons. This also means you have to travel to the dungeon directly in order to enter it — you can’t just queue remotely and get automatically teleported in. Mythic dungeons are more difficult than their Heroic counterparts, and require more coordination. They also have better rewards, and they can scale up in difficulty over time, if you use Mythic keystones — rewarded at the end of a successful Mythic run — to enable higher levels of difficulty.

That’s dungeons. For raids, it’s kind of the same thing. You have LFR, which is the easiest possible mode, then Normal, then Heroic, and then Mythic. It’s just another level of difficulty, with greater rewards as a result.

If the Arcan’dor had been known of when the Blood Elves were going through their arcane addiction withdrawals in Burning Crusade, I think it probably could’ve solved that issue, or at least provided some kind of alternative. But the end of Burning Crusade saw the Sunwell restored — so the Blood Elves don’t really need another source of magic now. They have it with the Sunwell.

The Nightfallen are a different story. They weren’t addicted to the Nightwell so much as they’d adapted to it, feeding off of it for nourishment. However, the fruit of the Arcan’dor pretty much released the Nightfallen from their ties to the Nightwell — they no longer needed the sustenance of the Nightwell to survive. Blood Elves may have been addicted to magic, but they didn’t use the Sunwell for food, so it was a slightly different set of circumstances.

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!