The Queue: Saying goodbye to the Gallagio

I’ve had fun in this crazy casino of a raid tier, but honestly I’m ready for something new. Maybe a vacation to a void-infused husk of a world to fight a void lord. That sounds like it could be neat.

Of course the soundtrack won’t be as good, but you can use a break even from good things. With less than a week to go, we’ll all be embracing the void soon. Maybe in a relaxing void spa? That sounds like a vacation.

But for now, let’s answer your questions!

Blizzard hasn’t given us full list of items, only saying items such as “very old keys, or the cosmetic helms Jewel of the Firelord, Crown of Eternal Winter and Hood of Hungering Darkness.” But this isn’t presented as a comprehensive list, and I expect a number of now useless items will be included.

Is it an item that is now part of the collections tab, like a mount, pet, or transmog? Is it an item that was once used, but now has no purpose? Then it’s likely to be lost as part of the banking change. These are items that have already been removed from the game, but if they were in void storage they remained in void storage, ignoring the purge of depreciated items. If you take these items out of void storage right now, they’ll vanish after you log out. They simply don’t exist as items anymore; they are ex-items.

I’m afraid I don’t know where this leaves your Carrot on a Stick. It’s a trinket, which would mean it’s a useable item. But it also doesn’t exist in the game anymore, so I’m not sure.

While bugs and technical hiccups are certainly possible, items from void storage should be moved to your ordinary bank. No matter how large the bags you had in the bank were, the updated bank will be larger and should have room for anything you have in void storage.

So in theory, whenever you log on, your bank will just be extra crowded with stuff.

(1) I’m with Anna on this one: I’m going to check out Hearthstone Battlegrounds when the new season goes online on Tuesday, and wait out any maintenance day hassles. After that, well, seems like I ought to go pick up the new cloak, which I’ll need for future raid nights anyway.

(2) Cheese (hold the jalapeño)

701.

As you’ve seen, Dagran continues to give you weekly quests, but they stop rewarding upgrades. So when you hit 701 on the DISC belt, you can consider your work done. (And with the cloak, you’ll soon have a new upgradable item to work on. The Reshii Wraps in patch 11.2 can be upgraded to ilevel 730.)

Sepulcher of the First Ones, I love all the glowies and geometric shapes! But I think you would need to balance it with some cozy design elements, and I’m not sure what would match. There’s going to be lots of style experimenting to done when this goes live!

I think it was a fun event in that it wasn’t very demanding. It ran in the background as a nice little perk, and I could put as much or as little into it as I wanted. In the end, I didn’t do a ton. I didn’t get any mounts, but I got a lot of transmog which I’m pretty happy about.

With the (somewhat) recent change to allow you to collect transmog regardless of your character’s armor class, this was a great chance to pick up transmog sets for armor types you haven’t played as often, and I thought it went great. The double transmog drops boosted a lot Rare mounts, on the other hand, still felt very rare. (A 5% drop chance is a lot bigger than a 1% drop chance, but it’s still not a high chance.)

Personally I’m pretty happy to wander through old content, but I don’t do it in a grindy way (i.e. running all of my 80s through every week) so it doesn’t get tiring. And if it does, I’ll do something else. Over the years Blizzard has had great dungeon and raid designs, great music, great bosses (even when you kill them pretty quickly), and it can be fun to revisit them.

So I don’t feel like this was a boring event; it buffed exactly the kind of stuff I’d like to have buffed, and I got a lot of neat new looks. (I even had to learn to play my Mage a little bit, because it was a badly geared alt and though Shadowlands content wasn’t dangerous, I also couldn’t one-shot everything.) I had fun!

If this was the only thing in a patch, it would have been kind of unimpressive, but instead it was part of the Greedy Emissary event where we could also farm Treasure Goblins for new tier 2 recolors. We also had the new Arathi quest chain and Lorewalking added in the same patch, and it also overlapped with the Winds of Mysterious Fortune leveling buff (which is still live for a couple of weeks). So this wasn’t the only thing going on: if you wanted to farm for transmog or mounts, it was there for you. If you wanted to level alts, you have a good boost. If you wanted some new story or to revisit old stories, you had options for that. There was a lot to do and you could pick what you wanted to do most. And if you weren’t interested in any of it, you could just do something else.

I do think the increased drop rates are something Blizzard could just roll in to legacy loot. Maybe an expansion after a raid goes legacy, transmog drops are doubled and rare drop rates are increased.

People who did it when it was new have plenty of time to show off their cool loot, but people who came along later, or just weren’t lucky, can still collect stuff without spending a decade working on a 0.1% drop rate mount. Just make getting more stuff an everyday thing!

That’s all I have for you today, my friends. Take care of yourselves and remember… it is always Wednesday somewhere, my dudes.