The Queue: Movin’ right along

Huntsman has been hunted! My guild got Mythic Huntsman last night, after a couple of em-bear-assing wipes that certainly weren’t caused by an overeager bear forgetting a Very Important Mechanic. Now that Huntsman is no more it’s time to move on to the next hardest boss in Castle Nathria checks notes — Heroic Sire Denathrius??

It turns out that the difficulty curve of Nathria is a little disjointed. Mythic Shriekwing and Mythic Huntsman are both considered easier than Denathrius. Which after having pulled him 18 times and only barely having a handle on what’s going on in his second phase — I understand why people say that. There’s so much damage going out, while he’s throwing everything and the kitchen sink at you. We haven’t even reached the final phase where the fun really begins! I’m looking forward to the satisfaction that comes when we finally dust him.

In the meantime, I take you now to — The Queue.

I’ve gotta give it to Plague Deviser Marileth on this one. Putricide perfected a plague that would wipe out all life on Azeroth. Which is pretty impressive, there’s a lot of life on Azeroth! All sorts of things that must be poison and plague resistant too. But that’s just one planet! Marileth has access to the knowledge of countless planets from people who’ve arrived in the Shadowlands. He’s much nicer, but I bet that he’d plague circles around Putricide if pushed.

I mean Putricide has what, two slimes? Total amateur hour compared to Marileth.

Yes. So many times yes.

I used to love Temple of Kotmogu, but sometime in the last couple of expansions, the Horde has really lost the thread on how to win it. I swear I used to win nine out of ten when I got that one — now I’m lucky to get three wins in ten. Don’t even get me started on the Isle of Conquest either. Has Horde ever really known how to win that one? At least Alterac Valley feels like it’s 50/50.

This is definitely something that was supposed to have been solved by splitting the epic battlegrounds off into their own queue. In practice though, I still really wish I could turn them off. I bet that there are some Alliance players out there complaining just as hard about Temple of Kotmogu though. These kinds of faction based generalities usually wind up that way.

Well, you’re both right.

There is a 1.2k Anima quest from your first kill of Denathrius. You get a quest item version of Remornia to turn in for your big pay anima pay out. Then you get a second 1.2k Anima quest from Bolvar. He’ll only offer it to you if you’ve already completed the quest to get 3 clues out of the Twisting Corridors to find Anduin. 

The best part of both of these is that if you can be patient — no easy feat when each of the quests has juicy lore tied to their completions — they’ll each complete the quest to earn 1,000 Anima for your Covenant. Let me tell you, that feels super nice to be able to complete five minutes after logging in on Tuesday.

What’d they ever do to you?

They are kind of annoying, but I think that’s by design. Trickster Fae are like that though. If you’re not hating them by the end of the encounter, they haven’t been doing their job right. It does sound like you need to go on a crusade against them to see if you can totally wipe them out once and for all. I’m sure that they won’t make you feel foolish at all by the end of it.

Just hope that they don’t ever team up with the Virmen and the Murlocs. That’d be a truly unstoppable army of annoyingness.

You’re thinking too much like someone from Earth. They wouldn’t use giant cannons to start controlled avalanches, the Gnomes would invent an avalanche control ray that would inevitably backfire and create a giant snow elemental that would rival Lokholar from Alterac Valley. Next thing you’d know they would’ve been kicked out of Gnomeregan by its legion of snowball elementals and somehow half of the Gnomes would turn into Snow Gnomes.

The Dwarves would probably just send someone up to hit the snow with a hammer until it started an avalanche.

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Ring of Fire

If you’re currently being buried beneath a ton of snow remember to dress in layers if you have to go outside. Have fun shoveling!