The Queue: Polar

As I’m typing this the winds are starting to pick up and the temperature is dropping. I’m in for a chilly few days where I live, and there’s snow and plummeting temperatures across a lot of the east coast right now. Stay warm out there folks!

While I find another blanket, it’s time for — The Queue.

I just have started calling any extended period of cold temperatures snowpocalypses. At least this one might be being caused by a Polar Vortex which is also a pretty badass-sounding name. It certainly packs more of a punch than Nor’easter. Vortexes are always scary and mysterious.

I’d say yes.

It does feel like most groups will push a little harder on Fortified weeks as opposed to Tyrannical weeks. Which doesn’t make me feel like the affixes are doing the job that they should be. I don’t know what I would replace them with though. Especially with them being just a flat health/damage buff that’s always present with keystones now, they should just equalize them and apply a flat buff to the keystone system as a whole. Rather than having a boss week or a trash week. I think players would appreciate it more knowing that they only have to worry about the changing affixes instead of seeing that it was a trash week that had Enraging or Inspiring on it and then just skipping that week entirely.

Having just three affixes feels like the right amount.

Congratulations!! I peeked at the log you linked, second place on damage — great job!! Now that Sylvanas has been defeated are y’all still going to keep clearing each week, or are you hopping on the rest and relaxation train to patch 9.2?

I already think of all of my characters as sharing the gold, it just depends on which server they’re on how much value they can actually get out of it. So I do wish that it was easier to share amongst my low and high population realm characters — especially where it comes to buying pets and mounts. Since they’re usually much cheaper on high pop realms.

I also think that reputations should be shared account-wide. It’d be nice not having to regrind my Mage through the 9.2 reps to get access to some of the fancy stuff off of them. Especially since there are more and more account-wide unlocks and items showing up with reputations now. Ve’nari had the Maw and Torghast upgrades, there are all the armor tokens and such from Korthia, as well as upgrading your armor to higher levels with the research, and the new Legendary effect coming in 9.2 will eventually be craftable for any slot of gear — and I think that’s looking like it’ll be account-wide too.

I’ll still always know which characters are which, and they’ll all have their own personalities as much as they do. I’ll never not think of my Druid as a bear and my Mage as fire even if they shared some reputation gains or pulled all of their gold from the same central vault.

Me neither, Justice for Ursoc! Bears unite!!!

I still don’t have one! I keep calling and calling Maldraxxus but nobody is picking up, maybe someone left a phone off the hook somewhere in Plaguefall…

Congratulations on your neat Necroray mounts though!

Assassins Creed Odyssey. 

I only played it because of how effusive Matt Rossi was in his praise of it and Kassandra. I hadn’t played an Assassins Creed game since the second one, so I definitely wasn’t paying any attention to this one. Then I saw this badass Greek running around and stabbing people with a spear and crashing ships into other ships and I was tempted. Once I got to be the one stabbing people and ramming ships and flirting my way across Greece I was sold. Even the real-world stuff didn’t feel like it was as poorly placed as what I remember from the first and second games in the series.

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Think about Things

Don’t get too buried in snow that you can’t ask Anna any questions for tomorrow!