The Queue

I asked for questions over on Twitter yesterday evening, hoping that I’d get a couple, turn in The Queue early, and get to bed. Of course, dozens of people then had questions so I’m sitting here typing and researching frantically with 20 minutes until the deadline. Just another day behind the scenes at Blizzard Watch. Hey, maybe I will have something to say in that $10 Patreon tier Behind The Scenes Podcast I’m supposed to be hosting. Huh.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

One of today’s questions reminded me to remind all of you that Curse of the Worgen was an excellent comic series that is totally worth the read — or a re-read, if you’ve read it before. Mind you, I like just about everything involving the mysterious Scythe of Elune and the Worgen, so…I suppose you could say I’m biased? I’ll take it. You know what else I took? Your questions, and then I answered them. So let’s get to that part!

Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood.

I won’t lie, it’s the one reason I might actually play WoW Classic at some point.

I’m just gonna dive right in today.

The header image for this Queue is my rabbit Grimalkin. She was a very good rabbit. She died a few years ago — she got sick and ultimately the vet didn’t think she could be saved. But before that, for about seven years, she was my rabbit and I loved her very much. She was a part of our family, and she would often come over and lick my eyes — I half suspect she knew there was something wrong with them before anyone else did and was trying to help.

I miss her every day. She was small, and gray, and brave. She would charge the cats and grind her teeth, and one time, she did a backflip in order to drop kick one of the cats who was trying to get into her enclosure. I can’t really tell you just how much her loss changed me, how much I miss her binkies and her loafing next to me while I played Mass Effect or Dragon Age. She made my life better and I know there’s a hole in me now where I will never see her again. Lodur once drew me a picture of a rabbit wearing Warrior Tier 2, and I know that was Grimalkin in her heart of hearts, the Warrior Bunny.

Five years, little girl. We haven’t forgotten you. We never will. I hope to see you again, doing binkies wherever good little rabbits go. Every time my eyes act up I remember.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk about stuff.

It looks like the Queue is all about Druids this week, so who am I to buck the trend? Let’s get to Queueing!

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

Like Rossi, my cohort in lore speculation and sometimes quasi-madness, I too enjoy Malfurion Stormrage. Mind you, when I look at characters I tend to see their potential, and sometimes I feel like that potential is sadly underutilized. But his shift (no pun intended) in Darkshore from obsessed-with-neutrality to terrifying-forest-god was exactly what I was hoping to see one day. You don’t mess with a centuries-old dude who has an almost complete mastery over the powers of nature. It’s just…a terrifically bad idea. Point is, I can enjoy characters even if I don’t necessarily enjoy the way they’re currently being interpreted — which was a lot of my problem with Malfurion. Sometimes his writing just didn’t make logical sense.

Anyway, on to your questions!

Yep. I like Malfurion. He’s had a lot of awful storylines in WoW, and some really bad choices for his character, but I still like him. Especially now that he has abandoned that whole ‘neutrality’ deal and is openly murdering fools in Darkshore. Give me a lot more of Malfurion wasting people with roots and coming out of the dark as a giant bear to eat people’s faces.

It’s the Queue. Let’s chat.

Today is Day 12 of having a headache. It gets immeasurably painful when I do any sort of physical activity and turns into a dull, regular headache the rest of the time. It’s been real fun. But hey, the doctors insist I’m not dying, so there is that.

Anyhow, that’s as clever an intro as you’re gonna get from me today. Let’s Queue.

Toss your coin, make your wish.