The Queue: Uh, I can come back if you guys are in the middle of something…

It always feels so, so awkward to walk into the room and Garrosh and Saurfang are in the middle of their argument about killing Hellscream if he ever drags the Horde down that dark path again. I mean, okay, that’s great, but I had a quest? Are either of you going to be done soon so I can turn this in?

Also, seriously, don’t ask about the antlers.

This happens to me with great regularity. Not Minecraft — never played it, never watched a video of it, have no children — but Overwatch, because I love the lore but can’t handle playing the game due to the old being blind thing, or Tetris although I have played that. Still, it’s been decades since I played it last, and I still sometimes dream of blocks falling from the sky. Similarly, I’ve watched so many lore videos that I have daydreams and even actual dreams about the Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire game even though I only ever played PoE.

No. The game is gold dependent enough as it is.

Leaving aside the fact that we don’t know if the actual First Ones are even at the Sepulcher, because a lot of people have already made that point, it’s entirely possible that not only is the Sepulcher not in the Shadowlands, it might not even actually be a Sepulcher at all. I mean, if the First Ones are ‘dead’ then who buried them?

Furthermore, if they did wake up, why would Zovaal be any sort of problem for them? They seem to be responsible for making existence, at least as we understand it — I’m fairly sure Zovaal/The Jailer isn’t so powerful he could take on the creators of everything. I suspect what he’s looking for is where their secrets are kept, not them, as they’d be a magnitude of difficulty harder to deal with than anything he’s faced up to this point.

I definitely think it would be a bad thing for us if the First Ones woke up. They feel like the types who would just call blank slate on the entire Warcraft cosmos and start over.

I wouldn’t expect an announcement of the next expansion in January, I think that’s more likely going to be the period when we’re testing patch 9.2 and they won’t want to draw focus away from it. But it also could be the date of the 9.2 announcement — it seems unlikely that they’ll want to make a big deal about the patch unless they’re really close to a PTR for it, and I have no idea how close that is.

There are a fair amount of conventions Blizzard could attend if they wanted to make an announcement, or as you pointed out, they could just do an announcement on a livestream or make a video for it and release it. It doesn’t have to be at a convention.

It’s the ol’ confirmation bias thing again. They’re there, but you only really notice them when you have a reason to.

Okay, well, these guys are going to keep arguing but I managed to pop in and get the next quest so now I go outside and fight stuff. When I come back, I suspect they will still be arguing. Maybe Garrosh is just jealous that Saurfang gets to have his BFA glow up armor, but he’s stuck in that weird Naxxramas DKalike gear.