The Queue: I’m willing to wait for it

I still haven’t seen Hamilton. I’m mad about it. Let’s Queue.

There’s a very fine line between fun and necessary. There’s also a fine line between “eh, it’s just one more mob to clear” and “we’re not clearing that one mob and if you pull it we’re votekicking you.”

I feel like the fairest way to go about including something like this would be to have a big button you can press before a boss that grants, say, 10% chance to crit if you have a capped trade skill, but that’s clearly incredibly boring. On the other hand I’d love it if I could use my Skinning skill in a dungeon, but I also remember the good ol days of ‘LF Skinner with Finkle’s for UBRS’ and then having to roll against everyone else for the skin of the Beast.

Basically, I like the idea of it but in practice I hate it.

Hacks, report to Blizzard immediately.

Nah, it’s a Vulpera racial trait that increases the size of your backpack.

There’s just SO MUCH in Warcraft as a whole that it’s hard to say which slice of its history would be best in song form. I’d go with something relating to Humans, though, just because while one Elphaba is doable, even for community productions, I feel like painting an entire ensemble cast of Orcs or Night Elves for every performance would be a bit much.

I think the whole character arc of Arthas would be a good one, though… you could give him a musical theme in the sweeping love ballad with Jaina, and then twist it a little bit. Maybe just tune it to the minor in a single note at the end of the ballad, then make it more discordant as he goes more and more wrong. Give Mal’ganis the villain song, which would be a semi-duet with Arthas using his theme, which fits in perfectly and the two would become one from there on out. The set could be similar to Spamalot‘s, with a big scaffold piece at the back which could be a castle or Icecrown depending on the scene.

At some point Muradin comes out from the back and sings “What Did I Miss.”

I tend to not be an RPer, so this question isn’t really for me. I have headcanon-y stuff about my characters, but a lot of this is post-facto. Rutherford Bear Hayes only became the best boy after I’d already named a few other pets after dead presidents, but ended up loving the bear as a tank. I generally pick a class first, then decide which race I want to play (with the rare exception of Vulpera where it was backwards, and I decided a Rogue was as good a pick as any) as opposed to coming up with a good lore-worthy combo.

I will say I want to see Undead Paladins just because I want to see how all that lore shakes out.

Dolla dolla bill, y’all.

Most of the team owners either already had sports teams or other massive business in the locations they chose. Jeff Wilpon owns both NYXL and a stake in a little-known team called The Mets (though his dad is the majority stakeholder). Cox Communications is a major donor to a ton of varied sports teams, but they chose Atlanta because that’s where they’re headquartered. The Dynasty are outliers because they don’t have a big background in industry or meatsports — they’re owned by Gen.G, a big name in esports.

Though esports in general are much bigger in Korea than the rest of the world, for a myriad of reasons — PC Bangs giving Korean kids an unparalleled level of access to gaming at a much younger age regardless of their parents’ tax bracket, for one — the companies there just haven’t bought into Overwatch League the same way as the rest of the world. Ironically, they have a much better infrastructure of grassroots competition and ‘feeder’ teams than the rest of the world. Honestly, maybe that’s why — the Lunatic Hais and Runaways of the nation see their relatively small investment paying off in a better way than the multi-million dollar buy-ins for the League.

Because it’s Ion, I’d lean toward systems rather than lore or cute graphics.

Just spitballing, I’d say we’ll see a much more fleshed out version of what the heck Covenants are about. We know their general lore and all that from the Shadowlands alpha questing experience, but we have no idea what the end game looks like, other than cool transmogs. All the zones seem to have major hubs with features akin to the mission table (or… something…) that we can’t access yet. I’d assume each Covenant will have its own in-depth endgame quest similar to the whole Illidan thing in Legion.

I’d also guess some professions-related stuff, as that’s something that hasn’t shown up in the alpha yet beyond a few errant herbs and ore nodes.

I do expect some one-off not-as-in-depth announcements too, like maybe release date, but I’d guess we’ll see a lot of systems discussion.