The Queue: Esteemed leader

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 ducked into Siege of Orgrimmar to pick up a few missing pieces for my wardrobe, and finally came face-to-chin with Gallywix’s new model. It was an experience I felt needed to be shared, because he’s…certainly…something, isn’t he? You’re welcome. Let’s get to your questions!

The sudden turnaround of Grommash Hellscream at the end of Warlords of Draenor will likely always remain a mystery to me. It’s not just that he suddenly decides to side with us. It’s that we — and the Draenei population — are all of a sudden gung ho about having him around. There was no explanation for it. He cheers about Draenor being free, when he was a big part of the reason it was so screwed up in the first place.

They seem to have some kind of spawn timer. I couldn’t tell you what that spawn timer hinges on — whether it’s just a certain length of time, or people completing a certain amount of world quests on the Isle. But I do know that I managed to complete that quest in about twenty minutes, just by swinging around various spawn points and waiting for them to pop up.

You don’t have to worry about someone camping a spawn point, though. The chest can be looted by multiple people before it despawns, just like herb and ore nodes.

I have to admit, after everything Suramar handed to us, story wise, the Broken Shore feels incredibly underwhelming so far. I was really excited with the Suramar stuff because of the care taken to tell a story — each quest had meaning, and sure there were a few filler quests, but nothing too major. But every quest so far with the Broken Shore has felt like a filler quest. For an area that’s supposed to be really important to the game’s storyline, it’s feeling more than a little flat, you know?

Also keep in mind that I’m not including the Anduin quest chain for Alliance in this assessment — that chain was phenomenal. It also wasn’t part of the main Broken Shore quest campaign, either. It doesn’t count towards the achievement, it’s a standalone.

Yes – there’s a small chance you can nab a legendary from PVP strongboxes, arena wins, and rated/unrated Battleground wins. It’s as small a chance as anywhere else, but it is possible.

No, I think it’s probably a case of not wanting any formal announcements until all contracts are signed and the position is underway. I highly doubt it’s any kind of hush-hush secret project —  it’s probably just one kind of protocol or another that they have in place for new employees. Blizzard likes to make official announcements for these kinds of things, after all.

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!