Anne Stickney

Welcome to The Queue, the Q&A column for all things Blizzard related. If you have a question for the Queue, leave a comment and you may see it answered tomorrow!

Sometimes my followers really make me question why I recruited them in the first place. Rok’tar, don’t you have better things to be doing, like heading out for that mission I just assigned? Sheesh. Let’s answer some questions.

Goblins were first introduced as a playable race in Cataclysm alongside the worgen of the Alliance. And while the worgen, and Gilneas, have a rich history that goes all the way back to Strom and the founding of the first seven human kingdoms, goblins don't really have that kind of background. In fact, even though the goblins have been around as a race dating all the way back to the RTS games, they've never really been more than sidekicks at best, supporting characters and comic relief.

Rossi’s gnome monk looks about as pleased to be tanking for us as Rossi is about playing a monk in general. Have you checked out our WoW leveling stream on Thursdays yet? You can catch the back episodes on our YouTube channel. On to the questions!

In case you didn't get your ticket to BlizzCon with this week's earlier batch of ticket sales, a second batch will be made available for purchase tomorrow at 10am PDT.

Professions now has a lengthy section of its own, detailing changes to upgrade items, crafting material changes, and for Jewelcrafters, some delightful news -- the addition of an Immaculate tier of epic-quality gems that provide +75 bonus to a given stat.

In Warlords of Draenor, we meet a different Garona, one whose origins began on this alternate version of Draenor. Oddly enough, no mention is made of her past, a past which was unusual to say the least in our version of history, and it appears that whatever ties she had to Maraad don't exist on this world. Which makes one wonder -- where did she come from?

My main is a jewelcrafter and an engineer, and neither of these professions were learned for anything other than giving myself a boost. I've had engineering since I created the character back in Burning Crusade, but I've flipped my secondary profession around a few different times to something I felt would be useful -- in Wrath I had leatherworking for a short period of time. I seem to have settled on jewelcrafting as a semi-permanent one for now though, mostly because I always need gems for something.

Raid testing for Hellfire Citadel is off to an immediate start -- testing for Heroic Iron Reaver begins tomorrow, April 17. With PTR raid testing, bosses are only available for a limited window of time, so be sure to clear your schedule if you'd like to try this one out.

If you're planning on attending BlizzCon 2015, prepare yourself -- because the most difficult part of that process is getting your hands on a ticket. This year, Blizzard is returning to Eventbrite for ticket handling, with a few changes to the process.

Timewalking now has an explanation to go with all the glimpses of information we pulled together last night.