The Queue

I’m just not into the us vs. them rhetoric that fuels Battle for Azeroth, but this is the story we have, so there’s nothing to do but roll with it.

Here’s a picture of a hamster to start the Queue off right.

I have a feeling today’s going to be a pretty big day in the World of Warcraft.

With that in mind, whatever does happen today, please tag your spoilers in the comments!!! As excited as you may be to discuss things, not everyone will be able to experience them until later today or tomorrow.

Understood? Good! Let’s Queue.

Yes, this is a Queue about another game. But at the same time it’s about WoW and what sets it apart from the rest of the industry year after year.

Look, I’m tired, I got my eye injections this week and it’s really been painful as heck this time, let’s just do the Queue without the pressure of me trying to be funny. Because I’m all out of funny this week.

Questions and answers and all that kind of thing.

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!

Every time I visit Stormwind’s throne room I get a little bit weirded out that the little boy I remember from classic is now sitting on the throne. I think it’s just that it’s a visual reminder of just how long this game has been around. He’s certainly changed from the days of Generic Blonde Child Model, that’s for sure!

You know what doesn’t change? Questions — you have them, and you’d like them answered. So let’s get to that, shall we?

It’s kind of like waiting for Godot, only it feels like it takes longer.

This month’s Splatfest was a special one — it was the one-year anniversary Splatfest! As such, Nintendo decided to have squids face off against the game’s newest playable characters: octopuses. When I say “newest playable,” I mean you normally need to have the Octo Expansion to play as an octoling. For the Splatfest, however, anyone on the side of octopuses got to play as one!

Given looks are everything in life, I went with the side of the octopuses. Their hairstyles are just so much cooler. Sadly, despite being the more popular side, squids won the overall contest thanks to actual wins. Ah well, it was a super cool and fun Splatfest — and I haven’t even mentioned the Shifty Station this time around (it was so good, you guys).

But enough of that. Let’s Queue.

Todays Queue is not about food exactly… but if you want to make it about the amazingness of a five course meal, that’s okay with me. Just be sure it’s about Pandaren cooking so no one gets mad at me.

I still haven’t adjusted to the changes to WoW‘s global cooldown rules, and for now at least, I’m having a ton of fun spinning around and murdering stuff in Diablo 3 instead. It’s soothing. I’ll did still play some WoW this week, just to re-acclimate myself to everything.

Now, I love WoW, and I love Warriors, but nothing in WoW is as much fun as Whirlwind on my Barb with full Wastes and both Bul-Kathos blades. I can Whirlwind forever.

This is the Queue. Let’s twirl towards some answers, shall we?

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!

It took over 40-some-odd tries, but I finally managed to get the Outlaw Mage Tower challenge appearance just under the wire. I don’t actually play Outlaw on my Rogue — the last time I saw that spec it was called Combat and I was raiding Icecrown Citadel. But it’s easily the prettiest out of all of the Rogue weapon appearances, so I’m glad I got my hands on it, even if I had to drop a chunk of gold on flasks, elixirs, and food in the process. Thanks, Legion. If I ever get around to picking up swords again, I know what I’m using for transmog.