The Queue: I keep being surprised it’s 2023

I have not actually played Garfield Lasagna Party, but I do know it exists. And because I couldn’t continue to live in a world where you might not know that, I have shared that information with you. I have not seen or heard anything to make me willing to spend almost $40 USD to pick it up.

It’s the Queue. Assume I’m reading all of your questions as Gollum.

That indeed sounds like a useful thing, and while I don’t have room in the Queue to explicate it all out for you, here’s a basic rundown.

• You can run Elemental Storms for Elemental Overflow, a currency you can trade for ilevel 359 gear. This is not a rep grind, but as you collect pieces, you can later get the Storm Sigils you need to upgrade your gear to ilevel 385.
• You can collect Valdrakken rep by deciding between Wrathion and Sabellian and doing quests such as Keys of Loyalty. This quest is an Epic Weekly World Quest and the other quests in the area, which also reward both Valdrakken rep and rep with Wrathion or Sabellian respectively, are also weekly. So you can do a quest or two every day for the week, or blitz the whole thing and be done with it in a day. Both Wrathion and Sabellian have quartermasters who sell ilevel 389 epic pieces.
• Have you met the Cobalt Assembly? There’s usually at least one Epic Weekly Quest in the area per week, and you can also run around doing various things like free for all PVP to collect Cobalt Assembly reputation. You can pick up various crafting profession recipes and a selection of ilevel 389 rings here once you’ve repped up enough.
• Honestly, there are usually quests in Valdrakken to go check out — the capital hub of the Dragonflight expansion usually has quests like Aiding the Accord that involve grinding reputation (3000 per week with any of the big four reputations) and then doing an activity, and this rewards about 500 rep to each of the big four — Valdrakken, Dragonscale Expedition, Maruuk Centaur and Iskaara Tuskarr. There’s also  a cache of Valdrakken Treasures that can contain high ilevel rare or epic gear as well.
• There’s also the Great Hunts that take place across the Dragon Isles and which you can participate in for Maruuk Centaur rep and decent rewards, but I haven’t really done many of those so I can’t really talk too much about them.

I know I’ve left out or forgotten things, but that’s the great thing about the Queue, y’all can chip in and flesh it out in the comments.

Honestly, the first time I recall seeing the Warlock as a playable D&D class was in the middle of all the various splat books that were being pumped out for D&D 3.5e, and then of course it got a new iteration in 4th Ed that’s been pretty influential in terms of their modern iteration.

The D&D Warlock came out in 2004, which is right about the time that World of Warcraft launched, but it’s fair to say that the Warlock from the MMO is based on the RTS games and predates the D&D version. All are of course rooted in folklore of Witches and Warlocks throughout history, as is Pathfinder’s Witch.

In a lot of ways the Warcraft version of the class has had influence on the tabletop versions mentioned above simply because it’s been around a while and a lot of people who designed these games have at one time or another played it.  And of course, the reverse is true as well — many people working on WoW today, for example, are lifelong TTRPG players. Plus, the whole making pacts for power idea is as old as occultism itself.  I’d like it if the Warlock in WoW got options to summon things besides Demons — a Titan Warlock who pacted with order spirits, or a Death Warlock making deals with Shadowlands entities could be an exciting change of pace.

My guild’s only 4 or 5/8 Normal (I honestly can’t remember which atm) but I can tell you that if you can clear those, definitely give the first boss, Eranog, a shot on Heroic.

We’ve cleared him the last two weeks because the fight is basically just like Normal Eranog with more damage and health, so once you have the dance down and are killing the adds properly, it’s pretty much the exact same fight and it’s an extra piece of Heroic loot per week while you’re prepping for Diurna and Raszageth.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. I went longer than I expected on the first two answers so I have to worry about the Queue glitching, so hopefully next week I’ll answer a bunch of shorter questions to even it out. Stay safe, have fun, yell really loudly at random moments for a boost to your attack power or health.