The Queue: Yesterday was Thursday

I know I told you all that I’d be writing yesterday’s Queue — and that was the plan! I promise! — but I must tell you… that was not me. That was Jovan pretending to be Rossi pretending to be me. Don’t worry, though, I am the real me today.

Or, I guess worry if you hate me. Either way…

Let’s Queue.

While I do think the next expansion is going to have some sort of major shakeup in terms of factions, you already brought up my main issue with this theory — what would the Alliance do? There’s no way Blizzard would ever do something like that for one faction and not the other.

Now, there have been rumblings of unrest from within the Alliance, but nothing as major as the ones within the Horde. 8.2 and 8.3 would need some serious development to make that happen. What I do think, though, is that we’re going to see some sort of readjusting of faction lines. What those entail is another question.

Don’t get me wrong — I’d be all for an all-undead or pro-Sylvanas faction. I just don’t think it will happen.

I know how it can feel to continually apply and not hear back. But you’re doing the right thing — sticking with it and applying to tons and tons of places. And in case you’re not doing it already, branch out a bit. Don’t turn down any opportunities, even if they don’t necessarily sound like what you were looking for. My non-BW job is one I delayed applying for until the last minute because, based on the pitch, I really wasn’t sure if it would be my kinda thing. I am so glad I finally reached out, though — I absolutely love what I do, and I was thiiiiiiis close to missing out on that because I almost ignored an opportunity that I was unsure about.

This gets brought up somewhat frequently, and my answer doesn’t really change. I think we need to wait to see BFA’s full story before we can really make that call. The narrative in WoW has never quite been told on the level it is now, and I have trust in the writers that they’re not going to “Garrosh 2.0” Sylvanas.

How? I don’t know. But I do believe they won’t let that happen.

What I will say is that, while Sylvanas definitely hasn’t done anything favorable (by most players’ definitions, anyhow), she is not as prevalent as Garrosh was. She’s still working mostly in the shadows, and we don’t know what she’s been scheming. Any time we saw Garrosh, his goals were clear. His methods clearer. He wanted power, and it didn’t matter what he had to do to get it or who he pissed off in the process.

If literally anyone had said, “I’ll be your ally but we’ll be equals,” how do you think he would have responded?

That’s why I think this will be different. Players may dislike Sylvanas (almost) as much as they hated Garrosh, but her MO is completely different. We’ve seen her do things Garrosh might have done, but we’ve also been absent for many more things she’s doing. I think it’s those actions in the shadows that will make her story a third-act divergence from Garrosh’s.

Oh man, I am so not the right person to answer this. Uhhh…

Okay, I legit am not someone who has a lot of alts. But I will say that a lot of WoW’s classes end up using a similar-ish rotation. (Ramp), build, spend, cooldown, execute. Most of my characters’ rotations end up looking the same (E, E, E, Shift-E, E, E, E, F, R) because the same types of skills exist across many classes. If you can figure those out and map them accordingly, you should be okay for at least the basic rotations.

If you want to min/max a bunch of characters?… I dunno. See what the alt-crazy commenters have to say ;P

Aqir? Technically, Mantid, Nerubians, and Qiraji are all descended from the Aqir. So we have seen them a lot.

That said, what were you looking at that said they’d be in Voldun? I know they’re part of the backstory — they turned a beautiful, lush jungle into the desert it is today — but I don’t know if we were ever meant to encounter them. Either way, we have seen Aqir since Arcatraz! (And if you meant the Qiraji, we’ve only seen them very briefly during Cataclysm.)

Anne is the best person to ask, but going off of the unofficial timeline from Wowpedia, it looks like… 11 or 12-ish years have passed? Anduin was officially 10 at the start of WoW — which was 4 years after Warcraft 3 — and he’s now 18. So 8-ish years have passed since WoW released, and there were 4 years between that and the end of Warcraft 3.

It’s not an exact answer, but it’s still pretty dang close to what I remember it being. Which is to say, a whole heck of a lot shorter than I thought. So much has happened in WoW that it feels like decades have gone by. Really, it hasn’t even been one decade.

I don’t think N’Zoth is going to be the final boss of this expansion. I have precisely zero guesses as to who might be, mind you — but I don’t think it’ll be N’Zoth. I think he’s going to stick around for a while longer. Perhaps him waking up the other Old Gods is what ushers us into 9.0 and the reemergence of the Black Empire. I’d be all for that, frankly.

Sorry, I know I didn’t answer your question… but I genuinely do not have a clue where we’re headed, boss-wise.

Lothar: It’s a tie between Captain Marvel and Captain Placeholder. The former because Brie Larson, the latter because nostalgia.

Kale: Who is the second one, exactly?… I’m giving this to Nola, but only because of the voice actress. The new “draw a shape” WQs are awful, and Nola clearly can’t tell what shapes actually are.

Happy Friday, y’all! Don’t get too wild.