The Queue

Mitch and I finished this post about right now, because I went to bed late and he went to bed at a sensible hour which means we didn’t have time to meet up to tag team your questions before now. So I’m afraid there’s no clever intro today — let’s jump straight to your super awesome questions.

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. This is expected to post to the site on Tuesday, July 19th. As y’all likely know, that’s the day that patch 7.0 for World of Warcraft will drop, as I predicted. It will likely be a tumultuous day, full of hijinks and complications and unforeseen consequences.

But we’re all going to stay calm and get through this together. We’ll handle the unexpected server delays, the equally unexpected bugs that never showed up on the Beta or PTR, and the manic rush of people trying to experience the systems changes and new transmog system with equanimity. Everything is going to be okay.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to run around flailing my arms wildly and shrieking. What? That’s how I handle things calmly. It’s patch day, let’s talk about Blizzard games.

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!

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!

Here I thought explosive sheep were very much an engineering thing, but it looks like some enterprising goblin or another managed to figure out how to genetically engineer a new breed of sheep. A better, stronger breed of sheep. A breed of sheep with ten times the explosive capacity, and a million more times the mess.

Ick.

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!

My Hunter got a fabulous new pair of goggles in this week’s leveling stream. While she’s busy flaunting her new specs, I had Lasik done earlier this week and have ditched the specs entirely. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was six years old, so needless to say, it’s a little weird. 20/20 in both eyes now though, which means I have absolutely no problem reading and answering your questions!

Ran BWL, Molten Core and Ulduar. Got a few decent mail pieces, but the prizes I sought most still elude me. Maybe I’ll hit Dragon Soul next. Heck, if you guys have any suggestions for good Hunter transmogs, let me know.

This is the Queue. We talk Blizzard games. Let us partake.

The title will make sense (maybe) after you read today’s Queue. And even if it doesn’t, it’s really no sillier than our everyday titles (probably).

I could work some more parentheses into this introduction, but instead let’s wish a happy birthday to Mitch and then dive in to today’s Q&A.

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 never fails, as soon as I get my Hunter to 100 and start farming for transmog gear, I see nothing mail drop. Plate? Oodles of it. Cloth? Swimming in it. Leather? Everywhere I look, man. But there’s nary a mail drop in the six raids and twelve dungeons I ran looking for the stuff. It’s irksome, I tell you.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games.