The Queue: Home reno time

I went to a home renovation tradeshow over the weekend, and it hit me after that it would’ve been the perfect place to sneak a little Warcraft housing booth into! There could be a huge market for people who want to use it for basic housing design work. It certainly wouldn’t be any more out of place than the candy booth(s), or the free caricaturist.

I’m sure that there would be a few confused people, but imagine the joy on some kids faces as they got something fun to do while their parents go and learn about drywall repair!

While I take my ideas straight to the top of the Blizzard marketing division, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Of course, who has all the time to do them all 100% correctly 100% of the time? In this economy?!

Sometimes I won’t take the option to cheat in them because the challenge is the point, like original Mage Tower stuff. However, even in the original Mage Tower, I had no problem getting lots of alts their fancy weapons with higher gear levels and power from the patches after it. I did the Shadow Priest one, and I’m a terrible Shadow Priest! I have the Ret weapon, and that only took me like 15 attempts, max.

There are also lots of times at the beginning of an expansion that a grind for some annoying currency can be done faster than intended by cheesing some fast respawning critters — and I’d be lying if I said I’d never taken advantage of that and lined my pockets early.

I might’ve also cheesed a few achievements in Spider-Man 2 by just looking up where they are. Is that cheesing or cheating? Either way, sure, I could figure out where Aunt May is buried by running around every graveyard in New York, or I could just look it up and be done in 20 seconds. Sometimes things are just easier that way, it’s not like I’m not still playing the game, but my enjoyment will come from accomplishing more involved challenges like finding every teeny tiny Spider-bot crawling around the city.

I’d name her Sharr’yn as a further Ozzy tribute. They both have red hair, too! Quick, someone get the Mayor of Blizzard on the phone and pitch them this.

Worse than Nefarian straight-up breaking Hunter weapons?! I don’t think so. But it would be close; a broken weapon is a total DPS loss, but losing your perfectly arranged transmog? That’s at least a partial DPS loss. As we all know — if you look good, you kill good.

Almost always. Starting from a coherent look really can help. You have a color scheme and a theme, and from there you can tweak things to just how you like them. The only other way I made new transmog sets was to find one standout focal piece and color-match from there. It helps that Warcraft kept a lot of themes similar across the color spectrum. Purple was often crystally or void-y, red was Horde or fire, blue was Alliance and frost/water, etc etc.

Whenever I competed in my streamer friends’ transmog competitions, though, he had a rule that what you were showing off couldn’t use more than two pieces of the same set. So I had to get extra creative if I wanted to win those highly coveted internet stranger approval points. You can’t just get those any old way!

Well, this is the biggest feature that they’ve ever introduced to the game — on top of changing how addons and the transmog system work. It touches so many pieces of it, and has to have thousands and thousands of things all displaying at once. So I am willing to expect there to be a few extra bugs to squash. However, I am very impressed that the game was playable on night one of the pre-patch. I still remember the days of being a Tuesday night raiding guild, and just always writing raid off on patch releases.

These’ll all be ironed out soon enough, I’m sure.

Bacardi is so perfectly poised and ready to take your feedback. Too many cloaks? Not enough bracers? He’ll definitely take that into advisement. Sure, he might not get around to acting on it, but he’ll definitely remember you said something.

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