The Queue

Y’all can blame our Holy Paladin columnist Mike Eng for the header image. Since this is my last Queue of the big “BlizzCon forces everyone else to be doing something else so Matt writes the Queue over and over again” period, I thought we could all go out with something special.

Hopefully y’all asked a lot of questions. Let’s do The Queue again.

(Yes, that was to the tune of Time Warp.)

With half the office away doing BlizzCon, you’re stuck with me again. I promise someone else will be doing the Queue come Wednesday. (I’m still doing my usual Tuesday Queue.)

I’m very sorry, I’m sure you’re all very sick of me by now. But let’s do The Queue anyway.

So it turns out I’ll be maining a Fury Warrior in Legion after all, because thanks to the Legion Q&A I know that Titan’s Grip isn’t going anywhere — the Artifact weapons for Fury Warriors are 2h weapons, they’re just not sized properly yet. Special thanks to Jay Wilson for answering the question at the Q&A, and Dylan Rondeau for asking the question in the first place. Whew. I’m super happy now.

Let’s do this first post-BlizzCon Queue while I’m all happy.

So, I watched the cinematic like a million freaking times.

Can it be Summer 2016 yet?

Okay, let’s do The Queue. Questions?

I was going to talk about BlizzCon but then this happened.

Welcome Dakotaraptor, a contender for largest Dromaeosaurid ever. Not only is it nearly the same size as Utahraptor (it’s built on a more gracile body plan, so it almost certainly weighed less) but this late Cretaceous raptor is a game changer for a variety of reasons. It’s much akin to its relatives Velociraptor or Deinonychus but scaled up to bigger than even Jurassic Park dared dream, and it had long feathers on its forelimbs in a structure that even the most anti-feathered dinosaur grump would have to admit is a wing.

Wings. This nearly twenty foot (six meters) long raptor had wings. No, it couldn’t fly with them any more than an ostrich can, but it had clear, unmistakably feathered forelimbs. At this point, if you put featherless raptors in your dinosaur movie, you look like an idiot. It would be like having hairless lions and tigers in your movie because they look cooler. Just stop it, Hollywood.

This will be another in the long line of BlizzCons I don’t get to go to.

Well, can’t just sit here feeling sorry for myself. It’s Queue time.

Though I’ve been part of the site since I was hired in 2007 and was Editor-in-Chief in the Wrath era before handing the reins over to our current Commander-in-Chief, Alex Ziebart, this is the first Queue that I’ve written. I might have penned a few editions of The Queue’s predecessor, Ask A Beta Tester, but that is lost to the mists of time. In any case, the future is now and questions demand answers. Though I’ve been told quite pointedly that I cannot answer in lolcat memes. Sigh.

I’m listening to Brainsaw by Therapy? and writing The Queue. BlizzCon is in a few days.

Let’s talk about Blizzard games, 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!

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!

The above image is even funnier if you imagine Gul’dan’s voice actor saying “boop.” Side note: It’s kind of weird that the eyeballs of all these past chieftains were inexplicably preserved. I mean…does Draenor have formaldehyde? Because I kind of assume eyeballs just…decay over time into nothing at all. Or maybe, you know, it’s just magic and I probably shouldn’t question these things. Instead, I’ll answer your questions!