The Queue: King of the North
@MatthewWRossi
Welcome to the first Queue I write since we reorganized the site. As you can see, I have gained a new title, and with it, all the attendant powers and responsibilities therein. I intend my rule to be just, fair, and utterly without mercy.
Your questions. Let me feast upon their souls.
I assume I can do that now.
I have an urge to level an ally. I may as well act on it.
I’m leveling a couple of Horde right now and I have to say, getting to see the Horde side of things is always interesting (or Alliance side, back when I was maining Horde in Cataclysm). It’s funny that you can forget that each faction views itself as the good guys — even when Vol’jin was leading a rebellion against Garrosh, he viewed himself and his supporters as a family and the Alliance as a heartless monolith. Playing both Horde and Alliance through the 1 to 60 levels definitely shows you how both sides can view the same events very differently.
I don’t like that the ‘new era’ starts with a late queue. I need my queue, can’t have my queue when it’s late :(
Just as a head’s up, all Queue’s will be starting at noon from now on.
Q4tQ:
In HotS, Overwatch characters recognize Starcraft characters as “fictional.” But no character from Warcraft (or Diablo) recognizes any other franchise, and no one recognizes them. I thought maybe it was a “which was released first” ordinal thing, but then I realized that The Lost Vikings should recognize (and be recognized by) everyone in that case.
Another random migrainey thought While Starcraft canonically exists in Overwatch-Earth, Hearthstone apparently does not, even though it is shown in the opening, because if it did, then someone would recognize Thrall or Jaina or whoever. That means that Warcraft characters are double “shielded” from the rest of continuity.
I”m sure it means nothing, but if it did, what WOULD it mean?
Here’s a thing from Hanamura that makes this all even more complicated. The ‘Fighters of the Storm’ arcade game in Hanamura features Garrosh Hellscream and as we reported a while back, there’s a Lost Vikings machine in that arcade too. So why doesn’t everybody recognize the Lost Vikings?
One possibility is that Hanamura’s arcade is considered a retro oddity. Overwatch is set in the future — an undisclosed amount of time into that future, in fact. It might also be an alternate history to some degree. It’s possible that StarCraft is the only Blizzard game D.Va knows, much as modern Basketball players probably aren’t all that up on how Netball originated. (Seriously, look it up, it’s a real sport.)
Either that or we’re not really meant to think that much about it. Much in the same way that Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, was the star of comic books that Barry Allen read which inspired him to take the name The Flash when he gained super speed himself, only to later meet Jay and discover his comic book favorite was actually a real person from an alternate Earth. D.Va may just now realize that although Kerrigan is a fictional character on her Earth, she actually exists in an alternate reality with a different history.
Sure, it’s probably just an easter egg. But we can always play around with the idea. Maybe at some point they’ll make a Terran inspire skin for D.Va and really confuse the heck out of us.
Oh right, 100 demons is the one after the 12 WQs. Drat. I was thinking of just progressing my Shaman through the chain as far as possible while the tower was still up, but I got other junk I wanna do, too, and I can’t be arsed with that right now.
Guess he’ll stay at 5133/21000 for a while, then. Doubt I’ll get most of my toons through MotS but eh. I’m still interested in only doing the campaign while the rep buff is up, but at this point only really as a way to manage what I do each week than a real min-max kinda thing.
The person who suggested going to Felsoul Hold was spot on. You can finish the 100 demons in really no time at all there. First off, everything there is a demon. Secondly, the cannons let you just blast demons out of the air all the live long day.
Failing that, try a couple of Legion Assaults. Lots of demons there, too.
Has the Livestream time been changed, or is that gonna be in an hour from now?
The Livestream is on hold while we try and figure out how best to proceed with streaming and what people actually want to watch from us. It won’t be on for the forseeable future.
Q4TQ: Do you think we’ll be able to get our Class Mount immediately after completing Breaching the Tomb next week, or do you think there will be an artificial delay of a week?
From what I understand, the week after Breaching the Tomb you can start the small quest chain that ultimately rewards you with the mount.
Math is fun… and soul crushing.
The final rank of Concordance costs 154,000,000,000,000 – one hundred fifty four trillion.
The total cost of all traits are 865,842,644,766,330 – eight hundred sixty five trillion, eight hundred forty two billion, six hundred forty four million, seven hundred sixty six thousand, three hundred thirty.
Out of that cost 865,840,416,000,000 are from the final 49 ranks in Concordance, this is 99.99974258991014% of the total amount of AP.
Please don’t grind yourself to death trying to max out your artifact – we are clearly not meant to do it.
I haven’t checked the math here, but it seems close enough considering that just the first rank of Concordance costs half a billion AP all by itself. I’m not working myself very hard grinding AP at the moment.
Okay, that’s this Friday’s Queue. From now on, I only do Friday Queues, so say hello to Adam and leave him lots of questions for his first Queue in two years next Monday.
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