The Queue: September Morn
@Kalcheus
I love the season of Autumn. Brewfest! Cool evenings! Apple cider! Leaves changing color! Harvest Festivals! Pumpkin spice! American Football! Brewfest!
Sadly in my part of the country it’s still annoyingly very much Summer, but it’s nice to start thinking about all the good times to be had before Winter has to go and ruin it all.
While we wait for the actual changing of the seasons let’s answer some queue questions!
Q4tQ: What is your ranking for the three class transmog sets coming in September?
In case you haven’t seen them yet, here are the Class Sets you’ll be able to get from the Trading Post in September:
While I have no intention of purchasing any of them, I would rank them:
- Rogue
- Paladin
- Priest
I could be talked into moving the Paladin above Rogue though if someone pointed out some good matching pieces.
Q4tQ:
Do your alts know each other, or are they all the centers of their own continuities?
Like RPJ and Petra are an unlikely pair of friends from penniless level 1 days.
Pretty much all of my characters exist in what I think of as a “side-canon” to the main story of World of Warcraft, so even if a couple of them haven’t been introduced to any or all of my other characters the opportunity for that to happen exists. Some of them even travel together, like my Highmountain Hunter and Blood Elf Death Knight.
For awhile I imagined my Dwarf Hunter as a ringleader of sorts for my other characters, but I found that he worked best being out in the world instead of coordinating things among them. He did meet my HM Hunter in Trueshot Lodge, though, so they know each other well.
q4tq: which race/class combo that’s not currently in the game would you most like to play as? (among the currently existing races and classes)
There aren’t many combos still missing, with Demon Hunter, Druid, Paladin, and Shaman the remaining classes still awaiting their chance to be available to all races (we’ll ignore Dracthyr/Evoker for now). There’s a temptation to say “Druid with the coolest new forms” but that feels like a copout. I’d have to go with Highmountain Demon Hunter, especially if their wings end up casting a shadow that looks like antlers.
Oh dang, that reminds me I haven’t done the new Warlock quests yet. Ugh.
What is the biggest financial mistake you’ve made in WoW?
I once bought an axe on the AH for [an ungodly amount of gold], to combat my bad luck with weapon drops, only to realize after I equipped it that it was a strength axe.
Unclaimed BMAH Container several times. There’s nothing like spending a token’s worth of gold to get a common recipe. Or a mount you already have … twice in a row.
The worst part is I haven’t learned my lesson yet, although I haven’t had the opportunity to win one for awhile.
My financial nemesis:
This is a little premature, since we’ve only had one day of it so far, but how are you liking Secrets of Azeroth? I’m a huge devotee of my map markers, etc. but I actually enjoyed the sleuthing without immediate map pings last night. If you were playing back at the beginning of WoW, does this bring back any nostalgia for old-school questing?
It’s definitely interesting to be sent exploring with minimal directions. While I’m not sure if I’m going to enjoy doing that daily, it does make a nice change of pace. Frankly, it’s the little lore tidbits revealed from the artifacts that I’m finding more enticing than the hunt through my vague memories of places I once visited.
As for old-school questing I was never a fan of the vagueness that sometimes accompanied them, or the inefficiency with how they were given. I once argued for the WoW Armory to show active quests on a character simply so I could research the objectives when on a non-gaming computer. So while I think it’s interesting how the Secrets are laid out, I do not have any desire to revisit the olden days.
Skip sidequests or complete them as they pop up?
Is there a third option for “it depends”? For me side quests are worth doing, but every now and again I’m not feeling the need to do them (Diablo 4) or I’m just so much more focused on the main quest chain that I’d rather not get distracted (somehow also Diablo 4). Unless completing a game eliminates the possibility of doing side quests, however, I tend to eventually go back and get them done.
If you were teleported into the game, and the only thing you had to worry about was environmental hazards and not monsters, what WoW zone with the harshest environment do you think you could handle exploring? Sure anyone could say they’d love to stroll around Elwynn Forest, but are you tough enough to see all of Dun Morogh or the Howling Fjords?
To be honest, with the infrastructure already present in the more “dangerous” zones I don’t think there are many that would prove a challenge to an average human teleported to Azeroth. I’d definitely get a workout traipsing around Dun Morogh, but with paths and places to stop already existing the likelihood of my falling prey to an environmental hazard feels low. That said, while I’d love to visit Highmountain, there’s no way I’m crossing those bridges to the top — they gave me vertigo in game, I can’t imagine what they’d do to me in real life.
Of course the zone that I’d get the least amount of exploring done is Vash’jir, as I do not have gills.
That’s all for the first day of September questions. If you’re thinking you remember the title is a Neil Diamond song, well you’re right!
Have a great weekend everybody, and be sure to ask Cory plenty of questions!
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