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The QueueMar 14, 2025 1:25 pm CT

The Queue: We all really need a nap

No, I didn’t die this pull. I don’t know why you would think that. I just really needed a nap.

Probably we all really need a nap.

This is the Queue. Let’s chat.


RED ASKED:

Q4TQ: how much of a drama queen is your average Corrupted Machinist (the guys who channel a red beam in Awakening the Machine)? You interrupt them and they’re like “OOOHHH I can’t believe you interrupted me, I’m literally dying” *drops dead*

It’s slightly less dramatic than a Goblin Hunter feigning death. I mean, it’s up there, but come on, have you seen a their feign death animations?


FALLANGER ASKED:

qftq: is it just me or are we on the path to one united azeroth?
this last few expansions we have moved a lot of enemies and neutral factions to ally with us, just this expansion we have kobold allies and venture co allies.
thoughts?

I think WoW had danced around this line for many of the twenty years it’s been with us. The Alliance and Horde have been at each other’s throats on and off, but there has almost always been another, larger threat that has required us to combine our efforts and to defeat it. We buddy up, help each other out, defeat the Burning Legion, and then…

…the cycle repeats. We’re back at each other’s throats, and then — oh no! — there’s a world ending threat…

We’re currently in a string of two mostly cooperative expansions, where we are working together (more or less) to defeat larger foes than one another. I would like to think this is an ongoing trend, and we’ll keep working together. After all, cross-faction play and cross-faction guilds have co-mingled the factions more than they ever have been — even if there are players out there who don’t participate in or like cross-faction play, the game supports cross-faction to an extent that I don’t think it could be untangled again. (At least not from a systems level.)

But also… world of Warcraft has those twenty years of cyclical history of the Alliance and Horde teaming up to fight a big bad, and then going back to one another’s throats. It’s been two expansions, but I think I need another expansion (or two) before I’ll believe we’re into cooperative play all the time.


DR_BOMBAY ASKED:

has the flood of people in the new goblin city zone abated yet? is it safe to complete the quests that take me there yet?

You are safe to head into Undermine. It can still be busy, but the week one crowds (and the week two crowds) have definitely thinned.

However, crowds aren’t gone, particularly around the Incontinental Hotel because that’s where the raid entrance is, so you’ll have players congregating. Rares also spawn extremely quickly, and there’s a world boss in this relatively small zone so there can still be a lot of players and activity… it’s just not what it was in the first weeks.


JALAMENOS ASKED:

Quit job?
Live in van?
Reject society?
Rob convenience stores for money?

No no no.

Live in a van and make YouTube videos of living in a van (down by the river?) and become a viral video sensation to fuel your lavish van lifestyle.


KALCHEUS ASKED:

Q4tQ Do you think it’s now a two-team race in the RWF? I dunno how Method catches up unless we hit another reset.

I think there is a possibility Method catches up. Everyone is currently on Mug’zee, and Method has been getting his health down much faster than the other two guilds did — that is, they’ve made more progress in fewer pulls. I don’t think it’s likely they’ll catch up, with both Liquid and Echo having about a hundred more pulls on Mug’zee than they do, but I don’t think it’s impossible for them to close the gap.

But as to the rest of the race… Hotpot Hero is the only other guild that’s gotten as far as One-Armed Bandit, and they only have it in the 50% range. Everyone else is on Sprocketmonger Lockenstock or earlier.

I think it’s Echo and Liquid’s fight to lose. If they hit a huge roadblock (or if a nerf goes out while one guild is asleep but the other guild is raiding), other guilds could catch up. But I think the gap is so wide that Method is the only one that could catch up right now. Everyone else is realistically fighting for fourth place.

That’s all for now, Queue. I hope you are having a pleasant Friday, and have a good weekend planned. (Or a weekend of nothing planned. That can also be pretty good.) I will catch you back here for more discussion next week, possibly even on time.

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