The Queue: Case of Deja Queue

Hey, wasn’t I just here?

I could’ve sworn I was just here. Or is it more like I’m still here? Either way, I’m here, you’re here, my cat is here, let’s do this thing.

While I try to figure out if I’m alive, dead, or stuck in a box, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

There are some hurdles for sure, but I also love the idea. Let’s set 10/20 raiders loose into these places and force the whole group to do the super annoying skips perfectly every time. It’s gonna go so well, I bet. I also can’t wait to see the whole raid have to wait while the timers count down because someone got lost on a run back.

As long as they cap it to a wing, that’s basically just a larger-sized dungeon anyway. You’ve got X trash to clear and two to three bosses to take down. None of the bosses are likely to be a very long fight anymore. Maybe even add some extra trash to clear for some wings. The hardest part is just going to be corralling the players and herding them all in the right direction. It’s tough enough some nights to wrangle five players, now you want to double or quadruple that number? Madness!

I bet it would lead to some pretty interesting trash shenanigans from the upper-end groups, though. Pulling things onto bosses, mind controls for buffs, trying to pull two bosses at once — I mean if they didn’t despawn outside of their arena… Maybe Blizzard would relax those rules for the sake of the competition. Stranger things have happened!

If it works well enough, there could even be a Mythic Raider International to go alongside the dungeon version.

Yes, yes they should.

More importantly, I want them to bring back Siege of Orgrimmar or Nighthold. Both of which had a trinket that messed with cooldown times. I want to see the developers put that back into the game in a way that it’ll always be available to players in an expansion. Think of the wacky shenanigans that people could get up to with that!

Of course, there’s also all of the delicious drama that could arise as a result, too. Think of the RWF raiders who are forced to run Timewalking raids non-stop to earn their shorter cooldowns! Think of the vast sums of gold that would change hands because of it. It would be some fun chaos for people on the outside.

The raids are cool too, I guess. Both are large and sprawling, with a good variety of not-too-hard boss fights that could probably be dumbed down to timewalking levels. Garrosh and Gul’dan are both top tier Orc villains to beat, so they’ve got that going for them, too.

Sometimes you just want to dangle the carrot of a dungeon in front of other people.

Other times, you were out doing things and then realized that you could see a herb or a mining node just over there. Only just as you’re about to pick it, something jumps out and attacks you. Being a tank, you slowly kill it, but between the killing and the mining afterwards, you’ve missed your group finder queue. That handful of materials was definitely worth your time to hit the requeue button, though.

Of course, there’s the secret third option, where you’ve just been attacked by a squirrel that broke into your house. This is considerably rarer, but it does happen. Those little guys can be vicious! They’ve got such sharp teeth and claws, and you just had to have that extra messy peanut butter sandwich right before you played.

Look at Bacardi there, poised and ready to leap into action to get you the best loot you can possibly get. Those are the eyes of a stone-cold loot hunter. Or a cat who’s just noticed that someone moved a bag of treats. Could go either way.

Would you rather

Live in a nice house on a volcano, that may or may not be active.

Or

Live in a shack out in the middle of a desert, that is on a fault line.

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Saving Grace

I’ll see y’all in a week! Make sure to leave lots of questions for the other Queue writers in the meantime.