The Queue: Ahead of the Curve

I don’t usually use this space to give shout-outs, but my (relatively new-ish) raid team added an extra night of raiding this week to get Kil’Jaeden down before Antorus released. We managed to down him on Sunday night, but because it was an off-night, a few important team members weren’t able to be there.

So what did we do? We went back in last night and got that [frolicker] down again. Not only was it cool to down him a second time (seriously, that guy sucks), but it was even cooler that so many people were willing to put in the time to earn a few more people the Ahead of the Curve achievement. It’s one of those things that reminds you how awesome a guild can be.

Now, it’s Queue time.

Blizzard has been better about encrypting these, so datamining may not get them out the second servers come up — I mean, it might — but there’s definitely going to be a team that clears Antorus on Normal super quickly. At that point, the cinematics will be out.

What I’m saying is, the cutscene(s) will be out today. Please tag spoilers if you choose to discuss them, and watch out if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Edit: It’s out, folks!

No, no, of course not!

You do, however, have to purchase each writer-specific expansion pack for The Queue in order to get a Queue from that writer. The Mitch expansion comes with one of five random MS Paint Originals, just FYI.

I’m sorry, but do you not like butts? How dare you!

But also, there are certain addons that change the character portrait to an actual model rather than a static image. I guess that might do it? There’s also the action camera thing (which I personally have no experience with). Outside of that, you are able to set the camera to not automatically rotate into the default position, which allows you to set it to a certain angle while you kill things and not worry about it moving if you move your character.

I’m not one to comment on someone’s senility, but you are right about the Elixirs. Savage Gifts have a chance of containing Elixir of the Rapid Mind, but keep in mind, those don’t work above level 99.

I’m all for half-naked anythings. You should know this! Bonus points to the half-naked Troll Females from WoW’s alpha ;)

Do I think that’s the case? Ehhhhh…. Blizzard’s been fairly reluctant to actually make entirely new faction capitals for whatever reason (probably resources), and Suramar was so intricate because it was a huge part of the expansion’s story. I’m not entirely sure they’d redo Undercity and Darnassus unless they planned some pretty deep story content there.

That said, I really, really hope destroying them opens the way for awesome new replacements. One of my favorite parts of Cataclysm was seeing the new Forsaken architecture take over the original ones (which were just decrepit versions of Human buildings, for obvious reasons). I’d love to see brand new faction cities with brand new buildings and architecture.

Well, to me, it means an easier identifier when picking questions. But I generally peruse the top-level comments for questions regardless of whether or not “Q4tQ” precedes them.

As far as “we’ve had this conversation” goes, I’ve considered this before, but I’ve also seen people reply to these remarks with, “Well, I never saw the conversation, so could you please repeat what others answered with?”

Well, I wouldn’t look at it as “giving it up,” for starters. You can always come back to the game. It’s not a relationship where one person can’t handle being “just friends” afterward — you are in control of the entire dynamic here.

Anyhow, if you’re finding trouble motivating yourself to do something, just… play less. Find another game to enjoy in the meantime, hop on WoW if you feel like checking back in on it, and see what happens. Alternatively, try to find an activity you haven’t done before (or in a long time) and see if that’ll get you hooked. I go through periods where I get super into pet farming, for example, and that tends to keep me pretty motivated, even if it’s not on something I do most of the time.

My thoughts boil down to two things:

• I’m gonna miss Knaifu talking to me.
• We pretty much knew this was going to happen from the beginning.

I was prepared for this, and I’ve been through enough expansions to know that each is essentially a reset button, but the lore I’ve gotten from Knaifu is awesome. That’s fairly specific, though — my alts don’t have talking weapons so I won’t miss them as much, to be honest.

That’s it for today!

If you’re raiding Antorus, good luck killing them bad guys. And as another reminder, please tag spoilers if you choose to talk about any! Have a great Tuesday! ^_^