The Queue: I bet you think this song is about you

Rutherford and I are really just trying to get some peace and quiet this week. Let’s all grab a mug of something warm while we settle in to answer questions! Hopefully, a bear won’t be sniffing at yours the whole time. Rude.

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Usually after the launch of a new expansion — it may even be during the pre-patch period — the previous current expansion is just bundled into the base game. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like Heroes of the Storm, where you get a discounted price on an overall bundle if you already own one or more of the items in it. So if there’s nothing about the waning days of Battle for Azeroth that you want to jump into, yeah, I’d wait for the change to hit.

Sort of. I haven’t come across any that are specifically a maze or a match game, but there are some that are really off-the-wall minigames. There’s one in Bastion I enjoyed which launches you into the air and then you have to hit a certain number of specific objectives on the way back down, for instance.

I’m being intentionally vague here because the discovery of some of them the first time is super fun — excuse me, you want me to what? — but rest assured you’re not going to be slogging away to gather 10 bear asses for every daily.

If you’re only rolling a fresh toon to get the story, no. It’s essentially identical — the only real difference is between, “what ho recruit, go kill murlocs” versus, “lok’tar ogar grunt, go kill murlocs.” They’ve been getting really good at writing quest text in a more specific voice, as opposed to “yes %RACE, what do you want?” so this may still be worth it to you, but the opponents, the plot, objectives, and the zone is all the same.

However, I will say that the new tutorial is far better at holding your hand and slowly teaching you how to play a new class than the previous one. If you’re rolling up yet another Hunter you may want to hit up the older starting zones instead — go transmog your gear ASAP — but if it’s a class you’re less familiar with it may be worth hitting up the new experience to really get your feet wet.

It can be tough to predict the market, but right now people are definitely ready to wrap it up and get it all finished, so items like Royal Jelly are definitely in demand. I’d also guess certain raid mats may be spiking right now because of people trying to finish AotC achievements — and even if not, the price on level 120/50 consumables is unlikely to get much higher than it is now.

I’m also curious to see what happens to the price of things like those void grub pets you literally can’t give away right now. I always plan on trying to sell things like my Sinister Squashlings during the off-season, but they never really go up in price, so it’ll be curious to see how those grubs perform.

So, the way leveling is going to work is kind of tricky. We’ve written a primer on what level you can expect to be when the conversion hits, but the good news is, once you hit level 10, you’ll be able to continue the leveling experience through any expansion you want — Chromie is just the best, most direct way to get there. Based on the level curve, you’ll probably want to stick to that single expansion for efficiency’s sake, but if you change your mind you can just go back to your capital city and start fresh in a new expansion.

If you’re talking old raids, they start at level 30 and then go up from there.

Look, Sibylle is finishing this one out because she literally ASKED me to.

I don’t like country — I do love folk though, and some of the earlier country kind of skews more toward folk. I’m really not a fan of Miley Cyrus. Regardless, this version of Jolene is going to be in all our heads for the rest of the day.