The Queue: I have CMS trauma
@MatthewWRossi
Going over this Queue, a few paltry hours from yet another doctor’s appointment (one in which my foot will have chunks of callouses carved off, and no, that’s not a joke) and I’m realizing that I’m trying as hard as I can to give short answers because every time I get excited and write a long one the CMS crashes.
Like that sentence above. That’ll probably kill this Queue. I’m literally shaking right now imagining it.
I forgot that Earthen are a thing. Like I was in a group with abuncha dwarfs and it took me a second to process that oh these are the rock people
- 2007 — Woah, where did all these skinny blond people come from? And the tendril faced, hoof polishing folks, who are they and why are they all Shaman?
- 2010 — Werewolves? In my WoW? It’s more likely than you think.
- 2016 — Why do the Horde have Night Elves now? And why do I have a goth version of the blond skinny people from 2007 as an Alliance Paladin?
- 2018 — Fatter Humans! Skinnier Trolls? Dwarves on fire? Robognomes? Foxy Fox People who are Foxes? Madness!
- 2022 — So I can play as a skinny Dragon pretending to be a skinny elf?
- 2024 — I got me a Dwarf that’s made out of shale and he’s about to set sail.
Q4tQ: is anyone surprised that Blizzard continued its tradition of major announcements the day after the BW podcast? :P
You’d think I wouldn’t be, but somehow, no matter how often it happens (and keep in mind I’ve been on a lot of podcasts over the years) I am still surprised.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Q4tQ: With all the Druid stuff in the final patch of Dragonflight, I thought for sure that was the moment Blizzard would let any race roll a Druid, yet that moment came and went with nothing changing. Now I look at all the 11.2 stuff, and my knee jerk reaction is that Ethereals are finally coming as an allied race. Do I dare hold onto hope despite the lessons of the past that nothing is a sure bet?
World of Warcraft, for all the times it crushes our dreams, also does crazy stuff like let us play skinny Dragon people pretending to be skinny Elves or deny us player housing for 20 years before finally giving it to us.
Blizzard is a bizarre Janus faced entity that takes away our Night Elf Paladins with one hand and gives us Kul Tiran Druids with the other. You never know when we’re going to get an Allied Race or a change to which classes can be played by which races, and so, I don’t think you should ever forestall yourself from dreaming big. The worst thing that can happen is nothing, and in the world we currently live in, nothing isn’t even remotely the worst thing that can happen.
Allow yourself to dream.
I like Faerin. she’s complicated and feels real. i wouldn’t mind seeing her going forward.
I like that she’s kind, and caring, and wants to help, but is also very often overly sure of herself and it ends up costing her.
I think getting at least 70% of a patch’s content on release is ideal. It’s fun to feel a little overwhelmed for a week or two. And then you get a handle on it. And later on you get an event or two to spice things up until the next patch.
11.1.5 only had maybe 30% of its content available on patch day (and even that was incredibly buggy).
Earlier we talked about how stuff in WoW can sneak up and surprise us. I forget that years of the game has changed the way patches work — I remember when I was astonished that Legion started releasing content in staggered waves, or the way Mists of Pandaria did the Dominance Offensive/Operation: Shieldwall quests. And that was more than 13 years ago.
What I’m getting at is that sometimes I forget that patches do this kind of staggered release and then when new stuff happens weeks later I get all confused like a bird repeatedly flying into the same window it collided with yesterday. How could this thing that happens over and over again happen again?
Q4tQ Are you looking forward to visiting K’aresh, or would you have preferred to stay on Azeroth?
I want us to go to Sanctuary. Just rock up on Sanctuary and start farming Diablo himself for some nice pants.
I hope the CMS didn’t eat this Queue, I really can’t hunt my way through it looking for the one paragraph that’s just too extra to post.
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