The Queue: An ethical dilemma

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!

Is it okay to punch a corgi if he asks you to do it? What if you know it’s just an illusion, and that’s definitely not really a corgi politely requesting that you smack it silly? Would you be all right with attacking it even as it’s staring at you with those big soulful eyes and helpfully wagging its little tail as it encourages you? I spent a good ten minutes deliberating these very questions on my latest Alliance alt.

Then the goggles wore off and I punched Flynn right in the kisser. No regrets.

Yep! WoW has always been one of those games that could run effectively on a potato if asked. Well, maybe not a potato — but I played vanilla WoW on a tablet PC with few issues. Unfortunately, it also wasn’t exactly taking advantage of the latest technology, like, you know, multi-core processors. In theory, the changes they’re working on should improve performance for people with high end machines. It’s being tested on the PTR at the moment, and should come into play when 8.1 launches next week. Fingers crossed!

Yes there is! We’ve actually got a couple of galleries of underwater locations — one of them focuses a bit more on Alliance locations (but includes that odd little wedding), and the other features five Horde underwater dives.

There’s no actual purpose to any of these locations — or at least, there’s no real purpose as of yet. But it’s kind of cool that the Tortollans have this little underwater society going on, one that you really wouldn’t notice unless you decided to dedicate some time to just swimming around. The bars include NPCs you can talk to, as well as vendors — they’ve actually got quite a bit going on!

I mean…we were kind of in space when we went to Argus, and we’ve been on different planets before. I’d be happy with an expansion that took us somewhere else — I like the exploratory aspects of expansions that featured other worlds. New locales like that let Blizzard’s design team put together some really weird, otherworldly zones and scenery that just wouldn’t work on the Azeroth we’re more familiar with. I don’t know how on-board I am with StarCraft looking gear, but I mean…if it were designed well, it could be cool.

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That would be cool! I’m kind of curious how they’ll approach the Pandaren heritage armor, actually. They could go full Pandaren with something themed to Pandaria — but the playable Pandaren aren’t really from Pandaria. They could go with a Huojin/Tushui theme, and do something with similar armor models, but different color palettes.

I almost think, though, that it would be more interesting to go the full Pandaria route. Pandaren from the Wandering Isle don’t really know all that much about Pandaria — by the time we encounter them, it’s been so long since they’ve seen Pandaria’s shores that even they kind of consider it a legend of sorts. If they really want to explore their heritage, going to Pandaria would fit that bill nicely. Plus, it would give Blizzard an opportunity to lead us through a quest chain that covers Pandaria’s history a little more in-depth, which is what they’re trying to do with the heritage armor chains anyway.

Yes, she does. It’s long and greyish-white, you can see it in most cinematics.

Running your hand through it feels like raking your fingers through a million cobwebs.

You’re welcome.

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!