The Queue: Inspirational

I have a mild obsession with InspiroBot, and it is entirely thanks to you folks. I’m pretty sure Liz would not appreciate the comments consisting wholly of inspirational quotes, but I’m also even more pretty sure they would make me laugh heartily. Do with that information as you will.

Now, onto the good stuff — oh, and I’ve fixed last week’s oversight this time around. Very sorry about that!

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like it’s more difficult to get this feeling about a caster class than it is a melee (and especially tanking) class. I think maybe the one Priest set that has stuck out to me at least somewhat in this way is the original Mists of Pandaria Challenge Mode set coupled with Anathema.

Currently, I’m enjoying the red/black variant of the Priest Tier 20 set, which gives a similar feel — though it’s worth noting, I feel more like a badass as a Forsaken than I did wearing this stuff as a Night Elf.

{PB} Well, since you’ve eliminated Bikini Stitches as an option… I think that Druid of the Flame Malfurion, Betrayer Malfurion, and Shan’do Illidan all have very, very interesting implications if they were to become canon (retroactively or otherwise).

However, Archangel Diablo (the purple one) ultimately wins because he’s not only equally interesting as a lore opportunity, but he’s also not a Stormrage.

I have not, but I am (still) incredibly jealous of some of the Holy Priest staff variants. Seriously, some of those things would work so perfectly on a Shadow Priest that I will be genuinely sad if Blizzard decides against transmogging to off-spec Artifact weapons in the future.

Feel free to add more in the comments, but here’s mine: Who was the original “Mrs.” in The Graduate’s “Mrs. Robinson” song, and why was it changed?

(Remind me to answer this in the comments where I can properly spoiler tag it.)

“Oscra in Nagrand” – Mitch, age almost-25

So far, it seems like this chain of evolution involves getting smaller, standing on fewer legs, and also gaining more eye-holes. Clearly, this means that the next step in evolution would be a uni-pedal race of tiny, three-eyed humanoids.

I’ve taken the liberty of sketching one of these “Oscra” — which is what I believe they would most likely be called.

My secret is a pact I made with the Void Lords many, many moons ago. Also rock climbing. It’s a blast.

As for the second question, do you not know who you’re talking to? Shadow is the best. I literally have not put any points (beyond the free 100) into my Holy or Disc. Artifact weapons. If you pick anything but Shadow, I will disown you for the rest of forever.

However, I will also say that Holy is crap for soloing stuff, Disc. is nigh indestructible but also very slow-going, and Shadow can be squishy while leveling or for the very first bit of post-110 content but is otherwise very great. If you want a better idea about the two healing specs, I’d begrudgingly recommend asking my arch-nemesis about those.

Funny enough, checking the view of Azeroth from Argus was one of the first things I did, because I’m curious about this stuff, too.

Honestly, I think Blizzard will add landmasses if they need to, but I don’t think they necessarily need to quite yet. Whenever they do feel the need to, they’ll probably do what they’ve been doing so far and just add them to the map players use when they hit “M” while (understandably) not going back and updating things like the Ulduar globes or the Argus view.

With that said, I’m pretty sure new continents will remain on this side of Azeroth for as long as possible and that we won’t have a southern hemisphere pop out of nowhere — it just seems like it would be too much of a stretch, especially given the view from Argus. I can, however, see Blizzard adding a “back” to Azeroth down the line — but again, I’m not sure we’re at that point yet.

First Q: I wish I noticed, but every time I begin to notice, I blink, and I have no idea how long it was before that that I stopped blinking.

Second Q: In my totally biased opinion, Natalie Seline. She started the entire Cult of the Forgotten Shadow and brought about Shadow Priests as we know them! What did Ebonlocke ever do? Get his butt kicked by a sub-500 ilvl scrublord? No contest.

That’s all for today! Please leave Liz lots of questions so she doesn’t hate me (…but also, feel free to share InspiroBot quotes and/or provide your own interpretation of what an Oscra might look like).