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The QueueFeb 8, 2021 12:00 pm CT

The Queue: Latest and greatest Superb Owl

How about that Super Bowl yesterday, amirite? I’m writing this before the final score has been posted so I don’t know who did or didn’t win. I hope it was your favorite team! If not, better luck next year.

While I check the scores, I take you now to — The Queue.


I’VE BEEN TRYING TO CALL BEDEFIANT

Q4TQ: Re: Horde Hall of Fame for Mythic Raiding Closing at 100 while Alliance has only 20. (Backstory first & Question is at the end) Personal story: I was in a guild all throughout BFA- super fun but it was pursuing Mythic but not at a crazy hardcore rate. Fast forward to Shadowlands… the guild shuttered and moved to horde bc it was EASIER to do Mythic AS HORDE. Needless to say… it really was sad and disappointing. To have Mythic Raiding be the reason for my awesome guild to break & be destroyed because of this. Shameful on Bliz’s part. This will only continue to get worse… unless they do something.

Here are some of my options: 1. Buff Alliance Mythic Raiding (unlikely) 2. Get rid of Faction Restrictions (unlikely… sadly) 3. Toss your hands up and say theres nothing to be done (likely and I think the current mindset of Blizzard right now) But honestly… Bliz is slowly yet surely twisting the dagger into the Alliance faction while they are saying… there’s nothing to be done. Ridiculous. Sorry for the rant but… What do you think? Can anything be done?

I’m sorry that your guild folded, that’s rough. Mythic raiding is hard, I’ve moved a guild across servers before to try and give it a boost in recruitment for Mythic raiding. It’s not easy to do, and that’s not even counting in a faction change. We lost a few long term players who just didn’t want to move to the new server.

Your three options are pretty much all spot on. Without some major tweaks from Blizzard, nothing can be done. It’s almost entirely a player base perception thing now. The two factions’ racials are pretty well balanced for Raid content. Some winners, some losers in terms of powers but they’re about even. It’s just because for a while the Horde was better, so the bigger guilds raided Horde. In order to overcome that you’d have to buff the Alliance only stuff — a lot. There was almost a bigger showing of Alliance guilds in the Race to World First this time out, but Blizzard changed the Bleed debuff on Stone Legion Generals to not be cleared by Dwarven Stoneform, so the guilds who were going to swap factions, wound up not.

The Hall of Fame was supposed to be their way of encouraging more guilds to go to the opposite faction, but we haven’t seen that bear out in practice. Mythic raiding is hard, both inside and out of the raids. Players are just looking for whatever is going to make their lives easier, and for the majority right now that’s going where they can find the most players. Even the promise of a fancy title limited to the first 100 Guilds can’t overcome the natural distrust that comes with packing up an entire Guild and swapping it to the Alliance side of things. There are just too many hoops to jump through.

If it’s any consolation Alliance will always rule the Mythic Keystone and PVP Arena scenes though. You can’t beat Shadowmeld and Every Man for Himself.


MEMENTH HAS BEEN ON THEIR OWN FOR LONG ENOUGH

Ok, so if you were to have a sitcom of two dead warcraft characters, who would they be. And who would be the person ( also dead ) that drops by to spice up the show season 3?

Dead characters –Varian and Vol’jin. The show would be called A Very Vexing Vacation, and it would be a comedy about Varian and Vol’jin going on a road trip, but they don’t really get along. Kind of like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Gul’dan would be the surprise third season guest star who they wind up racing to their destination to secure the last room at the hotel. All sorts of shenanigans would ensue.

If it’s live characters there’s only one choice — Khadgar and Illidan riffing on the Odd Couple.


MUSEDMOOSE YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO DO TOO MUCH

Q4tQ: what WoW creature would be the scariest real-world predator?

Giant Spiders. I already don’t want to think about how big some of them can get in warmer climates than Canada. If they get to be big enough to abduct things like full-grown humans? Just burn the whole world down — we had a good run.


RED’S COLD AND EMPTY

I’m waaay too lazy to sim, and I’m wondering what is best:

– 187 ring with my two worst stats (crit and haste) BUT an extra socket with +7 agi

vs.

– 187 ring with my two best stats (vers and mastery)

I’m also too lazy to sim, but from what I know about rings, you’re going to want the best stats one. The power you get for having your best two things will usually more than make up for any amount of primary you could socket. Plus since rings don’t have primary naturally, it’s way easier to just hang onto a ring with your perfect stats for a long time. There were people in my guild in Battle for Azeroth who were still using a Battle for Dazar’alor ring at the beginning of Ny’alotha progression, just because it had a big pile of their best stat. They weren’t happy about it, but it would sim higher than basically anything else for them.


NO ONE’S AROUND TO JUDGE SPENCER MORGAN

I’m still holding out hope that human heritage armor is less “white, blue, with gold trim, and lions stamped on everything” and more “barbarian highlanders”.

I’m really hoping that we get the next heirloom armor announcements out of BlizzConline. We’re definitely due for some news there. The Goblins and Worgen armor was forever ago!

I don’t think we’ll see a barbarian highlander look though (as cool as it might be), the Gold lions/stone/blue accents are too much the Human aesthetic in Warcraft. Imagine if the Blood Elf Heritage armor wasn’t Red and Gold with phoenix wings, Blood Elf players would’ve rioted! The trick is making a good set of armor that doesn’t look out of place on Plate wearers and Cloth classes. So maybe something closer to Anduin than Varian.

That’s if we get Humans in the next batch of heritage stuff. I’m putting my money on Draenei and Troll as the next two races. Humans, Orcs, Undead, and Night Elves all got some pretty iconic looks in the Warfronts last expansion.


I CAN’T SEE CLEARLY WHEN ENO’S GONE

Is Sika best WoW girl?

Yes.


AND MOVEWOW SAID, OOH, I’M BLINDED BY THE LIGHTS

Q4tQ: If players come back for new content in 9.1 or 9.2 how do you think Blizzard will handle catch up for the Renown system?

I can’t imagine they’ll just go here you go. You’re now at the same level as everyone else. At the same time I think you’ll need to have your Renown up to more easily play the newest content.

I bet there’ll be a system where once you complete a part of the new questline you’re just jumped up to Renown X. It worked pretty well to keep people more or less on the same level with each other for the Heart of Azeroth. Magni just made it 50 after a point, so you could start using the Essences.

As long as it’s slightly less than what the people who played every week from the beginning are at, there’s not really any grumbling. Which is the height of silliness, it’s not like them getting jumped up faster takes anything away from the people who played the whole way through.

Today’s Anna Earworm™ Blinding Lights

Stay warm out there folks, Alberta is in the midst of a gnarly cold snap and all I want to do is cocoon in seventeen blankets. While I cocoon, y’all don’t forget to ask Anna a bunch of questions for tomorrow.

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