The Queue

Is it Tuesday already? I always screw up which day of the week it is on a holiday weekend. I don’t know, it definitely feels like Monday.

Regardless, I’m on deck to answer all the burning questions you may have. Let’s get Queueing on this lovely — are you sure it’s not Wednesday?

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!

You know, Brann’s all supportive of his brother in front of you, talking big about Magni’s sacrifice and how he’s really proud of everything he’s accomplished. But I really have to wonder — behind closed doors, was there ever a “So, my brother is a rock now I guess” conversation? I mean, all of the Bronzebeards just seem to accept this as a pretty normal occurrence.

Also, if Magni ever gets done with saving the planet and decides to settle down and start seeing people again, can we officially call it carbon dating?

I’m not sorry. Let’s get to your questions.

Ah, WoW Classic. The beta test that reminds you of just how much fun it is to die three times in a hole in the ground because you’re surrounded by angry bears. Having finally finished with the cave of a million angry bear people, I’m now running from the Wetlands to Ironforge because I’m just that kind of dumb.

Update — I died a lot, but I made it to Ironforge and took the tram to Stormwind from there. Having now trained 2h swords, I’m broke, and transmog doesn’t exist so I won’t look good for a while now. Still, I felt it was important to be repeatedly savaged by crocolisks in order to spend all the silver I had on two handed sword training.

Classic, you really are just the worst. And yet I can’t stop playing you.

I was up late last night doing my weekly Wednesday stream, so let’s cut the formalities. Get me some coffee and some questions, and we’ll get this party started.

My guild has been working (without much success) on Herald of the Titans, and really I blame myself because I made the terrible mistake to play a Paladin. Not that there’s anything wrong with Paladins. I have played with some very excellent Paladins. I’m just not one of them.

But enough about me. How are you today?

This month’s Splatfest was Teleportation vs. Time Travel. I was far too busy on Saturday to participate, sadly… which may explain why the wrong side won. That said, this one was tougher than I initially expected.

Why? The fact that time travel is up against teleportation inherently implies that you can ONLY time travel from your current location. Most versions of time travel I’ve seen in sci-fi have allowed people to teleport as they time travel. If you can’t do that, it’s a little less exciting — but it’s still better.

Oh well. Let’s Queue.

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!

A stroll around Boralus had me stumbling upon an auction that brought back a flood of memories. Who here remembers the original Haunted Memento? Originally introduced during the Scourge Invasion event that heralded the arrival of Naxxramas in patch 1.11, it gave players the Haunted buff, which would cause a Scourge Haunt to follow you around. You could also throw it to other players, which would immediately trigger the /cower animation on them. In patch 6.0, it was nerfed to trigger a random 15 second haunting instead of a constant ghostly companion. Why? Weirdly enough, because the ghost was the number one source of creature spawns in the game, and it was causing server performance degradation.

That’s a powerful ghost. Let’s get to your questions!

Between the WoW Classic beta (so far, surprisingly bug free) and Diablo 3 starting Season 17 today, it’s a busy day. What do y’all want to talk about?

Also, today we learn that I can apparently talk at length about polearms.

Oh, wow, that’s a really bad pun.

Watching Mitch play through the Undead starting zone in Classic on the Blizzard Watch stream yesterday brought back a whole lot of memories. Do you whippersnappers not remember how we walked, on foot, uphill to our questgivers, who weren’t even marked on the minimap? You’re all spoiled rotten, much like the Undead starting zone.

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!

Hi, it’s me, the Gnome you were definitely expecting to see today. Yep, no shenanigans here! Just a good time answering questions! No, no that is not an Orb of Deception in my pocket. I have no idea what you’re talking about!