The Queue: White chocolate stole the show

Well, after it seemed like it would be a match of dark vs. milk chocolate, with white chocolate mostly an afterthought, it turns out that white chocolate won the Splatfest. And not just, like, a normal win — they swept every. single. category.

So, well played to Team White Chocolate. Shiver, we’ll win the next one.

Until that time, let’s have a Queue, shall we?

Mind you, I’m far from the most lore-savvy person here, but unless something has changed, Freya created the Emerald Dream — and Freya is a creation of the Titans. So as far as the Primalists are concerned, I would think the Emerald Dream would only be a stopping point on their way to an even more “original” world.

I saw all of you saying that Count indicates a higher position — but who cares? Baron is cool. I mean, they’re both cool, but you can be all kinds of barons! Robber baron, oil baron, Baron of Blizzard Watch, Baron of Bears, and so forth.

Baron/Baroness takes the win here.

Well, I’m not the best to ask since I’m usually sticking with the Priest, but when I do play alts, tailoring them to the character is something I’d like to do more of — but I know myself well enough to know that I need an addon or Opie ring or something to be better about that.

For now, however, I typically stick with mounts that are “practical” — i.e., they take up very little screen space, like the Taza’vesh Gearglider.

In a way, it’s kind of proportional to how quickly that ding occurs. With leveling in WoW, it feels nice to level-up in a new expansion because each level takes a moderately long time but not TOO long, and the reward of a new talent (especially with talents that rarely involve more than 2 tiers) feels significant.

Conversely, early leveling in WoW — after your very first time, of course — happens much more quickly, and there are definitely times when I’ve just banked talents because thrill from the speed of leveling outweighed the thrill of a new talent. And that’s kind of where I fall with the Profession Knowledge right now. I’d rather just keep cruising and bank points, because oftentimes, I need more than one point to hit a new milestone anyhow. Plus, like you mentioned, they can be complicated and a bit overwhelming. It’s more fun to put a bunch of points in so you can get a better idea of the end goal as you’re allocating points than it is to slowly trickle progress into a pathway you may not want to follow 10 points later.

…I don’t know if that really answers your question, but I empathize all the same.

Play a Shadow Priest. And yes, I’m saying that because, well, it’s me — but they’re also both fun and powerful to play right now. Granted, I think this is personally the most complicated the spec has ever felt — and the most cooldown-reliant — but when it all clicks, it feels great.

Also, you get to be purple as often as you want, and extending that purple to something like Tyrael’s Charger is freaking awesome.

I always have a soft spot for the Linken chain from the original game. It’s one I’d originally heard of while watching CHEAT! and I always made sure to stop and do it as soon as I hit level 47 on a character. It usually would get me an entire level to do the whole chain, and the whole thing is a fun homage to a lot of Zelda moments.

That’s our Queue for today! My sense of time is very off, so please leave lots of questions for Monday’s writer. And until next Tuesday, have a great Thursday!