The Queue: Mornings

Lately pretty much every morning has felt like waking up with a mind flayer tadpole, so I figured I’d embrace it. It’s the Queue. I’m kind of splitting my time between Faerun and Sanctuary lately — yes, I’m that one guy who likes Diablo 4 pretty much just as much as when it launched — and I won’t lie, there’s some cognitive dissonance.

Luckily, I tend to do Dark Urge origins and those are a fair bit more… shall we say sanguine? It makes it easier to leap between them when I go from giant barbarian soaked in blood to giant barbarian soaked in blood, I guess.

Why wouldn’t they have spirit healers? We meet people from other planets — including a Night Warrior of Elune, Thiernax, who came from the planet Fyzandi.

The Shadowlands aren’t an Azeroth-only thing, they’re a plane of existence. The Kyrian could easily show up on Draenor, Outland, Argus… any world you want to name like Xoroth or the ones from the Legion Invasion Points could have Spirit Healers.

Honestly, I think the way we get all hyped up for something like Hero Talents, then we get worked up over something about them we don’t like literally months or even years before the thing even comes out has to be dialed back a few notches.

It’s fine to feel like something isn’t what you want it to be, but for myself, I’m going to sit back a bit and not go on a long this is all the ways I’m mad that you can’t be a Colossus Fury Warrior until I get a chance to at least play the game on a beta or something first.

I’m mad I didn’t get to make the Piotr Nikolayevich Rasputin joke first, frankly. We should be able to turn into Osmium Steel.

Otherwise I’m quietly excited (but trying not to get too hyped up, see my previous answer about Hero Talents — that’s right, this Queue has continuity between questions) about the direction of Warrior Hero Talents.

Yet more continuity between questions!

The thing is, while I love the idea of cosmetic talents, we have to remember one salient point — the majority of World of Warcraft players do not play the game the same way people like us do.

The fact that we’re here, on a Blizzard fansite, means we’re already significantly more invested in WoW than the majority of players, and we’re more likely to care about things like transmog, character customization and cool cosmetic options. As much as I personally would love, say, a talent in the Colossus tree that just made you turn into metal, most players would not take it.

One of my absolute favorite parts of the game is the growing sophistication in terms of character creation options — new hairstyles, more detailed avatars, options like scars. But for a lot of players, they don’t even get to see their character that often and they don’t really care.

With extreme skepticism and a definite distrust for his potential Deep One origins.

Unless a genie shows up and grants me three wishes, I can’t even afford new games. So it’s gonna be BG3, Cyberpunk and Diablo 4 for the foreseeable future.

I mean, maybe I should make a list of games I would like to get and see if random strangers will buy them for me. So here’s a few I’m looking at.

• Outcast: A New Beginning
• Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Collection 
• Dragon’s Dogma 2

But yeah, financially speaking, medical stuff is a way bigger priority atm.

I swear, this game just gets me.

That was the Queue that was, I’ll see you all in March, take care and don’t let the Deep Ones drag you underwater to die this Leap Day.