The Queue

This header image, as with all of our very best header images, comes from the magnificent Mike Eng (Rades) and is in answer to a question asked by Heffenreffer:

QftQ – are you making the Canadians do all the articles tomorrow? you know cause…. American Thanksgiving

We in fact had a discussion about this earlier in the week, in which Rades and Matticus (two of our Canadian contingent) discussed taking over the site while the Americans were away and covering it with Canadian flags. Matt stipulated that the flag had to contain a no Pepe sign instead of a maple leaf and… let’s just say things went downhill from there, resulting in the image above.

However, to answer the question, both Americans and Canadians contributed to the site today, though I’ll probably be cooking by the time you read this. That out of the way, let’s move on to our daily 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!

So yeah, the Alpha dropped, and yeah, I’m in it, and yeah, so far it’s just me running around on a Demon Hunter because I can’t import my main and character creation is disable for all classes but Demon Hunters. I ran one character through all the available test content last night (remarkably less buggy than you might expect for an Alpha) and I have to say, I enjoyed the evil bats.

I mean, come on, look at that thing. It’s evil.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games. There may be some spoilers for Legion here. I’m trying to avoid any lore/story related ones, but they may slip through. In fact, today’s Queue will be more talking about being spoiled than actual spoilers, since that’s what y’all talked about.

It’s Monday again, which means today’s Queue might be a short’un.

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!

I miss the Crowleys. When last we saw either of them, Darius had just agreed to surrender Gilneas City in exchange for his daughter Lorna’s safety, and got the heck out of there before waiting to see what Sylvanas would do next. Since then, we haven’t heard a peep from either one of them. Given that Genn is listed on the Legion cast page, I’m kind of hoping we’ll see both Darius and Lorna make a reappearance — I think Lorna would make an excellent Outlaw. I mean come on, she’s the daughter of a rebel leader and we already know she’s handy with a shotgun, I bet she’s a crack shot with a pistol. And I’m interested in whether or not she demanded she be affected with the Worgen curse just to avoid that whole being risen as Forsaken thing, whether her father continued to try and keep her out of harm’s way, or what exactly happened to them both.

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!

I can’t seem to escape Sylvanas, the Forsaken, Bolvar or the Scourge lately — they all keep popping up in various conversations with various people. And for some reason we ended up with a couple of Scourge-related questions yesterday on top of it all! But hey, it’s fascinating lore, so I’m not going to object to all the chatter, weird coincidence or no. Let’s answer some questions, shall we?

Yeah, beta build. Datamining. Tons of neat stuff. It’s all crazy awesome, and I’m digging through it just like y’all. But please, please, don’t get too excited, or upset, about anything you discover. Datamining is awesome but it’s also not in context, stuff gets left in that’s never meant to go live, old versions of new content. Just keep a bowl of salt next to your monitor for a while, okay? Expect nothing until it’s announced. It’s just easier that way.

Anyway, here’s the Queue. Let’s talk. There are some spoilery things here because that’s what happens when you talk about datamining. I understand if you’re trying to avoid those, so be warned.

I absolutely adore Karazhan. I have run it hundreds, perhaps thousands of times, both in at-level groups and at higher levels. (Memorably, I recall trying to do the raid with a group of three Paladins during Wrath of the Lich King. We started around 2am and I don’t think we’d figured out how to get past the chess event by 5am.)

The art and atmosphere are great. The music is great. The boss encounters are fun, and some have a great sense of humor (like Opera) while others have been given a sense of humor by the players (like Shade of Aran). In part, I just like the place, which feels like nothing else in World of Warcraft, and in part I have lots of great memories of running it with friends during Burning Crusade. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing it return in Legion, but we’ll talk about that more in today’s Q&A, below.

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!

Anyone else a little disappointed that we didn’t get a 40 man raid version of original Deadmines for the anniversary?

It’s me, Matt. I’m doing this Queue. Let us begin.