The Queue: Like riding a bike

I played some Heroes of the Storm tonight for the first time since June. I didn’t do too badly, although my buddy and I only played in ARAM and I just could not get Heroes that I really jive with. Except for this one game as Orphea.

I could do almost no wrong. They were ready to jump face-first into my big sharp teeth and rending claws. It was honestly really refreshing. After all of this time I really do have to hand it to the developers who designed Heroes. It still feels like the most satisfying a game can be when everything is going your way.

While I try in vain to forget about the awful Brightwing game I had right after, it’s time for — The Queue.

I would change Battle for Azeroth to have an increased focus on naval combat, with players getting their own ships to customize and build little bases on.

Sort of like a Garrison, but more aquatic! There’s so much customization that can be done with ships that it would’ve been great to see what everyone came up with for their own personal vessel. I’m also imagining a scenario that you could do with a partner involving your ships and upgrades that you’ve given them to hunt down the opposite factions’ armadas. Sort of like Island Expeditions only more naval, with more ships ramming into other ships or launching arcane munitions at each other.

We didn’t even have to leave them behind, we could bring them forward into Dragonflight. Maybe with some Goblin/Gnomish ingenuity, we could turn them into Airships and have our own personal helicarriers to launch our Dragons from.

It took me a minute to realize you were probably talking about a real-life item and not a bit of loot in Warcraft. Last I checked there wasn’t really a manual on the big sword you just got off of a boss beyond — pointy end goes in enemy.

I’m firmly in camp number two. I might glance at the instructions on the initial setup, but as long as I can blunder my way through it I’ll leave them in the box. Only if something goes awry will I go to double-check them.

I am the different way when it comes to board games though, I’ll read through the instructions with more than just skimming to try and get a handle on what’s about to happen.

Horizon Forbidden West which I’m playing through right now. It’s so easy to just say, oh I need to go hit that unexplored area before stopping. Or accidentally going the long way because it goes past a Slitherfang site and I need those stupid earthgrinders to upgrade some gear. The next thing I know it was three a.m. and I have to be up far too soon.

I had this same problem with both Valhalla and Odyssey too so maybe it’s just that I can’t be trusted around open-world 3rd person games.

I’d like to be optimistic about it, that if we ever stumble into a true AI humanity can keep its stuff together and not treat it with hostility and terribleness. Basically, every bit of sci-fi writing about it though has had the creators being terrible towards their creations though, so I don’t have the highest hopes for humanity.

I say let them exist. If we treat them well, maybe they’ll work with us and we’ll finally get some cool future tech like all of the movies promised us.

That’s too much man!

Yeah, I’m not fully onboard with this either. The dungeon gear one is fine in my mind, dungeons are spammable enough that you can work towards getting the pieces you need without feeling like you’ve missed your shot for the week. There should also be enough gear out there that it won’t be the end of the world to be a little greedy with that piece that dropped to get a cool armored otter mount.

In raids though, that’s going to be another hassle. I don’t like that those are legit gear drops on a weekly lockout that are going into the mount. My raid group will likely be passing on all of the loot so that our Raid leader gets it all, and he’ll be Master Looting it out, so now he’ll have to wonder with these drops if the people really need them or if they’re just after a new mount. It’s extra trouble and I hope that Blizzard tweaks it so that this other otter mount uses less specific drops — like any pair of Vault of Incarnates items. This would let you just pick up the mount as you move into the next raid tier, or with any drops from LFR.

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Eleanor Rigby

Have a great week everyone, hopefully, you’re staying warm out there — don’t forget to leave Anna lots of questions for tomorrow!! Maybe questions about soup? It’s both soup season, and there will be soup events in Dragonflight!