The Queue: Days keep getting away from me

It’s Wednesday already? How did that even happen? And worse, how does it keep happening? Every week, Wednesday leaps out of the shadows unexpectedly, always surprising me.

And so here we are. Wednesday again.

I feel like this is a trick question of some kind, but I can’t figure out what kind of trick question it is or what Mitch would have to gain by asking me such a question. Is there an ulterior motive at play here, and if so what kind of devious plot is in the works?

Hm. Well, since I can’t quite figure out how I’m being tricked, I will give my esteemed coworker the benefit of the doubt and try to answer this question with the appropriate gravity. (Gravity: on.)

I’m feeling pretty run-down this week, and I’m worried I’m getting sick. I’ve been getting plenty of sleep (probably) and I really shouldn’t feel this tired. Maybe I’ll spend the rest of the day in my pajamas, nestled in a pile of pillows and blankets. I’ll see where that leaves me.

And how are you?

I’d say I talent swap once or twice every time I log in. I have a (more or less) standard build for raiding, but there are a lot of talents I’ll swap through situationally. I carry around a stack of talent swap books just in case, because you never know when a different talent will come in handy.

I have a few talents I only spec into when I really need to focus on single-target healing. I swap between Jade Serpent Statue (better for single-target healing) and Chi Ji (better for raid healing) a lot, though Jade Serpent typically gives me more total healing. I also love Refreshing Jade Wind, which is a pretty mediocre talent (particularly compared to Jade Serpent Statue and Chi-Ji, which it shares a tier with), but it’s absolutely incredible in fights where you spend a lot of time clumped together where its small AOE HOT can really shine. I love it, but using it burns a lot of GCDs and I have to be in melee with a good number of people for it to shine. In dungeons I want Thunder Focus Tea, but Upwelling is better for raids.

Then there’s Kickweaving, which swaps Rising Mist (which converts some damage to healing) and Spirit of the Red Crane (which converts some damage to mana). Unless I need to do damage, there are better talents on those tiers. I tend to do a more conventional healing build than Kickweaving. But because I’m to lazy to git gud at two different specs, I tend to solo as a Mistweaver, which means a Kickweaving build.

I’m sure this is gibberish to the non Mistweavers in the audience, but we can all agree that it adds up to a decent amount of talent swapping. I’m definitely swapping more than I was in Legion… though, in fairness, that could also have been because I was playing lazy. (Lazier.)

Who you knew used to be a lot more important than it was now. If you met a healer or tank you liked, you would friend them so you could pester them for dungeon runs later. Getting groups together was such a hassle that if you found a good tank or healer, you would keep tabs on them and (politely) pester them with group invites whenever you wanted to do a run. Groups have become so streamlined now that you can run most things without even paying attention to who you’re running with. But back in the day, if you found a good player you would cling to them, because the strength of your friend’s list was would let you run dungeons.

I don’t really miss the effort involved… though I do still rather cling to good tanks.

Goblin, all the way. Both Goblins and Gnomes are clever, but I think Goblins are more likely to want to get back to the world. There’s money to make! Things to blow up! They can’t waste time on this ridiculous desert island. (Plus they need their Kaja-Cola!)

But I suspect a Gnome would be dazzled by a well-stocked lab, diving into science and not really noticing as the days passed. Why bother going home when there’s all of this science right here]?! The average Gnome would just spend their time inventing things until they got hungry… at which point they would probably still keep on with the inventing.

If it were a poorly supplied lab, I’d put even odds on the Goblin and the Gnome.

I think it would be a giant book that you would stand on in a sort of surfing pose, like you do on the Lorewalker cloud mounts. It would flitter its pages as it moved, like a bird flapping it swings.

It is a taco devoid of all joy.

And that is all for today, my friends. Adam should be here tomorrow with more ansewrs for you, so be sure to ask away in the comments. Until next week, this has been Liz.