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The QueueApr 28, 2023 12:00 pm CT

The Queue: In which Xiv makes me blush

Uh… yeah, well, let’s talk about stuff other than my face.


FELINAE

Q4tRossiQ – what other non-dinosaur prehistoric creature would you like to see added to the Warcraft ecosystem? Should it be on Azeroth or somewhere else?

Oh wow, are you opening a Pandora’s box here, I could easily list hundreds of options. I’ll keep myself under control and do a short list of critters I’d want to see added. I have to cut a lot out because the Queue breaks if the post gets too long.

  • The Ordovician filter feeder Aegirocassis, for the time one of the largest creatures in the oceans and a filter feeder like modern Baleeen whales
  • Arthopleura armata, from the Devonian, one of if not the largest invertebrates to ever live on land. Think of a millipede the size of a small car.
  • Eryops megacephalus, which lasted from the Carboniferous to the Permian, a large temnospondyl amphibian with some wicked teeth.
  • Erythrosuchus africanus, the ‘red crocodile’, was not a crocodile or even a crocodilian, but an archisauriform reptile closely related to the common ancestor of all archosaurs. Approaching five meters (almost seventeen feet long) with a huge head full of massive teeth

I’d probably want to create another of those Titan Petri Dish zones like Un’Goro or Sholozar, perhaps even as part of the areas we’ve seen hinted about in Dragonflight like Avaloren.


DOMEHAMMER

Why are the forbidden reach rares all have such ridiculous amounts of health? Figured I could solo a rare or two in morning before work but they all had health far beyond anything soloable.

My guess is that they don’t want players to be able to easily solo them right now because they see them as grouping opportunities, which extends the viability of the creatures as content. Once 10.1 comes out and we start gearing up in Aberrus, I expect we’ll see folks start soloing those rares.


SHUANNAREBORN

Disregarding intelectual property rights, copyrights and everything else that protects a work of art – what movie character would you like to see as:

A: An escort quest NPC across Tanaris Desert
B: End game raid boss
C: Quest giver for a long and complicated quest chain culminating in a Massive Battle and awards a Great Shiny Mount. He or she will accompany you as a NPC for as long as you still have an active quest. If you abort the quest, he or she will pester you with in game mail until you agree to pick it up again.

So?

Me? I’d like A: Laurel and Hardy – in Foreign Legion uniforms. I feel that would be proper. As for B: Tony Montana – enrage line “Say hello to my little friend!”. And finally for C: Hannibal Lecter – because I think his in game pestering mails would scare the s**t out of me.

A – Dr. Henry Armitage, a librarian who recently had a strange and off-putting assailant break into his library and steal a copy of a forbidden tome called The Book of the Names of the Dead. He needs you to take him to Ahn’Qiraj, where he fears the book will be used in a ritual to summon something horrible.

C – After you get to AQ and stop the Qiraji Horror, Armitage keeps pestering you to take him around to meet a bunch of artists, poets, and others who are seemingly going mad. He then entreats you to take him to Kul Tiras, where a ship’s captain tells of a gigantic underwater temple that rose from the sea, and of course he wants you to take him to said formerly underwater temple which is now on the surface.

B – Sorry, but your A and C led into the B, which is also the climactic battle of your C quest.

The underwater temple is of course the resting place of Great Cthulhu, the sunken island of R’lyeh, and the climactic battle is with an awakened Cthulhu, who has come to Azeroth to show these whippersnappers who call themselves Old Gods what cosmic horror is really all about. Cthulhu cannot actually be defeated, although its physical manifestation can be disrupted long enough for R’lyeh to begin sinking again, as the Great Old One does not belong in Azeroth’s reality and can only stay so long as its tether to R’lyeh is maintained.

You get a cute little Cthulhu pet and an invisible Qiraji Horror mount (yes, it’s so nightmarish that we can’t even see it, seeing it would drive us mad) for the completion of this quest.


ARTHONOS

Q4tQ: have you ever knowingly taken someone else’s leftovers? I ask as I stand here eating the last slice of pizza my daughter brought home.

Do you mean, have I ever asked my wife is she going to finish that pizza? Or have I ever just taken them and eaten them?

Because yes.


MUSEDMOOSE

Q4tQ: what small feature of 10.1 are you looking forward to the most?

For me, it’s the new dark iron dwarf customizations. I’ve been leveling a dark iron warrior, and it’s a blast. Hitting things with a glowing red hammer while wearing armor that looks like it was its own forge never gets old. But having purple hair and darker skin will make it even better.

I’m happy we’ll get new Mythic+ dungeons, I was pretty tired of the old rotation.


ENO

Rossi, what was your main character in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous like?

A Bloodrager who used a variety of combat magic — stuff like Lightning Bolt, Haste, Fireball, etc etc — with the Draconic Bloodline. My initial Mythic class was the Angel, but I went with Gold Dragon in the end. I really loved watching her turn into a Dragon and destroy demons, let me tell you.

My slightly less played characters were an Elf Sorcerer/Azata who specialized in being extremely hot (both literally and figuratively — very high Charisma, lots of fire spells, liked to flirt with everything with a pulse), an Oread Cleric who ended up as an Aeon — they were very into being Lawful — and of course a Tiefling Barbarian who went Angel and loved killing demons to prove she wasn’t anything like them.

I played Wrath of the Righteous a lot, y’all. I wish they’d bring Mythic characters into PF2.


XIV

What a great header image. Can we all agree that this man is beautiful? I wouldn’t mind if all warnings came with a scowl like that.

Just gorgeous.

I’m trying to get better at not letting the body dysmorphia win, so I’m just going to say Well, thank you, although I don’t see it myself.

 

Thanks for being here, guys. See you next week/month for patch 10.1.

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