The Queue: Sitting pretty

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!

When I saw Talanji’s mount take a seat, my first reaction was “Oh my gosh this is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen,” but it was quickly followed by, “Why don’t any of my raptor mounts do that?”

I do not have an answer. However, this has opened my eyes to a wild new world in which almost every mount could, in theory, take a seat and be pretty dang adorable while they do it. I think I really need this in my life — who’s with me?

They were already in Kul Tiras — Parin Tinklocket mentions that a friend of his even had a tinker shop in Boralus, which implies that said friend has been there for a while. Unfortunately, all the Gnomes that were in Boralus have disappeared, which is why Parin’s out in the wild — he’s looking for them. So Gnomes aren’t uncommon for Boralus or Kul Tiras at all. Honestly, with being a major port city and all, it’s entirely possible that Kul Tiras has seen most of the Alliance races before, and most of the Horde races as well. I mean, you have pirates to the south, and pirates will take just about anyone, you know?

As someone who’s done all previous iterations of this achievement, I can tell you my experience has traditionally been that I get 90-95% of the required pets in the first week or two. That’s followed by several months of running one particular raid every week waiting for those last one or two pets to drop, because they never seem to do so. I got Invincible before I got the last pet off the Lich King encounter.

I’m not saying everyone’s experiences will be similar, but I am saying that maybe expecting to knock out that achievement in a week or two is a case of raising your expectations just a wee bit higher than advisable. It’s worth the grind, though!

I’m not sure exactly what step you’re on — if you have yet to encounter/complete the quest where you’re sent to defeat G’huun, you’ll want to head to Zanchul — you’ll see the quest marker, Bwonsamdi is waiting for you outside on one of the lower levels. It’s a little out of the way, I missed it myself initially.

If you have already defeated G’huun and completed that portion of the quest chain, you should have a quest from Baine in Dazar’alor. But keep in mind there are prerequisites to that quest popping up. You need to be Exalted with the Zandalari Empire, and you’ll need to complete the epilogue of the War Campaign — and that requires defeating Jaina Proudmoore in Battle for Dazar’alor.

You can, however, complete this step on LFR — no need to join a full on raid team or anything like that. Once you’ve done so and turned in the associated quest, Baine should have the next step of the chain for you.

That’s such an excellent question, but I don’t have an answer for you — yet. I will say that the whole Chromie situation last expansion still hasn’t been fully explained, I feel like there are plot points in that scenario that we’re missing, and I suspect those plot points are going to come back and bite us sooner rather than later.

I don’t think it was one person trying to kill Chromie, I think there were a lot of groups trying to accomplish that task — but I do think that there was one ringleader orchestrating the entire thing. The important question with the Chromie scenario isn’t necessarily who was trying to kill Chromie, it’s why they were trying to do so. What did she do that necessitated that kind of action?

Whatever it is, she hasn’t done it yet. At least, not in our timeline.

Look I know this isn’t exactly on-topic, but as someone who has made more than a few batches of fried rice I feel like it’s my duty to fill you in on the rice thing. Ideally, you want day-old rice. If you don’t have day-old rice, you can just make some rice yourself — make sure you rinse it really well before cooking. When it’s done, spread it out flat in a single layer on a cookie sheet, stick the cookie sheet in the freezer for 15-20 minutes or so. Take it out, put it in a container, stick it in the fridge till dinnertime. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s close enough that you can make do.

Alternatively — next time you make rice, make a super big batch of it. Freeze what you don’t use immediately. It’ll keep in the freezer just fine, I promise!

Okay back to the usual topics, I swear!

Yep! Your weapons and armor all lose durability over time. If you don’t regularly repair your gear, it’ll break on you. Usually the paper doll will pop up on your screen well before that happens, though. Just make sure you’re repairing your gear when and where you can, and it shouldn’t be an issue.

You can only roll for loot once per cycle with the Warfront bosses — but their cycle is independent of the usual weekly reset. So even if there’s standard weekly server maintenance going on while you’ve got access to Darkshore or Arathi, you’ll still only be able to loot/bonus roll a single time. In other words, if you already killed Ivus and rolled for loot, you won’t be able to do so again come Tuesday. Sorry!

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!