The Queue: A lot can happen in a day

So just yesterday a murderer was convicted thanks to a herculean effort by a lot of people to overcome systemic racism, Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard, Jim Steinman died, and a whole lot more besides. It was a big day. On a personal front, I went to the doctor and found out I’m doing better health wise than I thought, which was nice, although I’m still a weird mutant who produces way too much iron. Sadly, it’s enough iron to make me sick, but not enough to grow steel hard skin or anything like that.

Anyway, let’s chat about Blizzard and games and stuff.

Honestly, I’d rather Malfurion and Tyrande retire from leading the Night Elves. Malf has always been crap at it, he’s too much a neutral guy leading the Cenarion Circle and doesn’t respond fast enough when the Horde attacks the Alliance, as BFA showed us. I mean, Malf had the power to stop the Horde in its tracks, but he was always a step behind, and he let Saurfang backshot him like a chump.

Tyrande was a better solo leader, tbh, and so if Malf is gonna stick around I’d be okay with Tyrande retiring for a while, Shandris taking over with Maiev’s help, then Shandris and Maiev start dating because it would torque Jarod off something awful, and they take the Night Elves into a more militant direction where they’re much more willing to start things in Kalimdor, making strategic moves to isolate the Horde and grow their own power base.

I’m going to just look at the Horde, and not Allied Races, because otherwise we’ll be here all day.

I mean, for one example, Orcs are the Gnomes of Draenor. They’re the smallest, smartest race of all the ones created by the Titan Aggramar, because like Ogres, Ogron, Gronn and Magnaron Orcs are descended from the primordial giant Grond, who Aggramar made to balance Draenor on his visit there, making Orcs fit the role of super smart, super small race that Gnomes fit on Azeroth. So maybe something that ties into their relatively diminutive stature and intellectual prowess? Orcish Ingenuity, where they can activate it and get an idea which adds 10% of a random stat for 10 seconds? Yeah, that could be cool.

Tauren are already the best of the entire Horde, so I’m not sure they need anything else. Maybe Plainsrunning.

Trolls developed one of the oldest civilizations on Azeroth that wasn’t either built by the Titanforged or the Old Gods, although it’s pretty clear that there was some kind of Titan influence, what with that lock on Uldir having one of its three seals in Dazar’Alor and Uldir being in Nazmir, where the Zandalar lived before they packed up and moved to Dazar’Alor. They were never much for Arcane, though, so maybe a resistance to Arcane magic?

Forsaken should be immune to Priest Mind Control spells and otherwise get resistance to any magic that would compel them to act in a way they don’t want.

Blood Elves are extremely good at put downs and insults. All Blood Elves get a racial Taunt, which can force an enemy to attack them for a few seconds.

Goblins get a permanent 5% discount on all purchases, but their reputation for greed and selfishness means they have a 5% higher cost on rep grinds.

Horde Pandaren get the ability to cook special Horde only recipes. They’re not buff food, it’s just Horde food that the Pandaren who joined up with the Horde learned to cook.

I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting to clear “Somebody actually liked bombing runs” from my WoW bingo card today.

I am not getting sucked back into AC Odyssey again. I played that game for 287 hours just on PC, and probably easily twice that on Xbox. I have enough XP that I actually ran out of things to spend it on and bought every single ability and every single bonus ability available and have 333 ability points left unspent. I’m done. I’ve finished the game, done like three New Game Plus playthroughs. I’m done.

Dear God if they ever make a sequel to Odyssey with Kassandra as a playable character my life is over. I’ll never do anything with my life again.

Okay, that’s the Queue. Take care, y’all, and be safe.