The Queue

It’s Tuesday, I’m Mitch.

Queue know what that means. Let’s you this.

Sorry, everyone, but Adam is out today, stuck in some sort of snowy nightmare that’s knocked out his internet. That means you’re stuck dealing with me and you’ll see Adam on Wednesday. So be sure you ask all the really hard questions for him in tomorrow’s Queue, because I’m a super great coworker. :)

And now on to questions!

This Queue is dedicated to my Night Elf Warrior, who became my main in Legion. Before her, my Draenei Warrior was my main in Warlords and Mists of Pandaria, and my Tauren was my main in Cataclysm. One of the reasons I like having so many Warriors is so I can switch between them when an expansion feels thematically more suited to one of them, which I realize is kind of weird but whatever, you do you and I’ll do me.

I rolled a Lightforged and have been leveling him up, and hopefully he’ll be my main in Battle for Azeroth. I honestly have an RP reason why my Nelf is retiring. In the story as I tell it, she was utterly heartbroken by Thalyssra and the Nightborne choosing to join the Horde after all she did to save Suramar and likely she’ll die in the defense of Teldrassil, taking down a lot of Forsaken with her. Until we get there, she’s mostly tooling around Argus happily killing demons with her sidekick Darius Crowley, with no idea what the future will bring.

Just like my previous Warrior ended up retiring on Alt-Draenor, where he advises Yrel sometimes, and my Tauren died fighting Deathwing. Sometimes you gotta find a good way for them to go out. It’s a bit weird for me to keep leveling them as alts after I ‘kill’ them, but whatever, I’m not that consistent. I’m sure my Nelf will get leveled in Battle.

Anyway, here’s the Queue. Let’s get to it.

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 was a good run, Illidan. I didn’t exactly care for you during the expansion, but you turned into a pretty fascinating character at the end there. And while I also didn’t exactly care for Tyrande and Malfurion’s reactions during that final quest you sent me on, I liked the last part of the chain. There was something nice about seeing the three of you sitting together. Just a little window into your lives, echoes of the past that linger on. I think Legion did you justice, buddy. Enjoy…uh…well, whatever it is you’re doing up there in the sky. Punching things?

Yeah, probably punching things.

Dang, I mention dragons once in an answer and all of a sudden I’m nostalgic for Blackwing Lair and its utterly ridiculous number of dragons. Was that boss we just fought Firemaw, Ebonroc, or Flamegor? Who knows, because they all have exactly the same model.

But even so, I have crazy nostalgia for that raid, so you get to deal with a Netharion picture for today’s header.

I’d be lying if I said I was currently writing this later than usual, but I’m definitely writing it later than I had planned. Really, later than I have any reason to, if I’m being honest. But Monster Hunter: World has me thoroughly sidetracked, and I just lost several hours without even realizing it.

So here we are. Late to write, but on time to read. Let’s Queue, baybeh!

I want to start off Monday by talking about T’paartos, the Paladin we help during the Draenei Lightforged allied race quest chain. If you haven’t done it, I’d recommend you do so. All the allied race unlock quests are great, and while I can’t really pick my favorite, I think T’paartos is the most memorable character out of them.

He has such an innocence to him, and his childhood connected with me personally right away leading to a story that I was synced up to from the very beginning. His origin and backstory is almost comic-bookish, which is wonderful in its own way. But that’s not what made it.

Patrick Seitz was the voice actor for T’paartos, and I don’t know if he was trying to channel Jim Cumming’s version of Baulder’s Gate’s Minsc, but if he was, bravo. And if he wasn’t, my god it was just a near perfect unintentional reflection. The voice acting, combined with the story, put me squarely back into my teenage years when I was running around with Minsc and Boo bashing monsters and standing up to pure evil!

So yeah, the Battle for Azeroth alpha saw a new build last night. New zones opened up, a new dungeon, you can roll up an Allied Race now — that’s me up there as a Lightforged Draenei, for example — they made some changes to talents including giving Fury Impending Victory as a talent which means you’ll likely never take Storm Bolt again outside of raiding, and so I spent the night mucking about.

I love the design of Kul Tirans.

Let’s do that Queue, everybody.

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 got down to a whole 8 degrees last night (-13 °C for non-US readers), and it looks like that’s going to be the new normal for a few days. Ordinarily, the sight of an NPC nonchalantly crafting in the middle of a roaring blaze would be a cause for concern, but right now it just looks downright cozy.

Send help. And blankets.

Let’s answer some questions.

I have noticed a trend lately. A trend in which readers seem to be forming some kind of Mitch-worshiping cult. And this worries me, people. I am worried for you. Are you feeling okay? Do you need a hug? Is there a reason you are walking, arms open, into the dark inky void? Do I need to cleanse you with holy fire?

Just asking. Because we can make that happen if that would help.

You’d let me know if you needed something, wouldn’t you? I’m here for you. I just want you to be happy and safe. And if that requires the use of the Holy Light… well…

But for now, let’s check out your questions for the day.