The Queue

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Okay, enough talk, Queue time!

Much of yesterday’s discussion in the comments related to Easter celebrations. What did I do for Easter? Nothing. Because I’m a curmudgeon. Holidays are for the birds. Onward, to the Q&A!

Welcome to the Queue, the daily Q&A column for all things Blizzard.

Earlier this week I was goofing around in Dragon Age: Inquisition and found a really neat set of ruins where everything was just … frozen in time. It was weird and kind of creepy. But it was also really visually striking, and I found myself thinking back to the Caverns of Time and how I’d like to see more stuff with it. It also made me wonder if bronze dragons have the capacity to simply halt time altogether — after all, we got a really cool sequence of time reversal in the Murozond encounter during Cataclysm. I’m sort of hoping we haven’t seen the last of the Infinite or the bronze dragonflight, because both concepts are just too interesting to pass up.

Also, I did in fact fix the whole frozen temple thing and everything promptly collapsed. I’m still a little sad about that one.

Welcome to the Queue, the daily Q&A column for all things Blizzard.

One of today’s questions reminded me that we really don’t have enough Rexxar right now. That’s a situation that should be fixed, because Rexxar is basically the best, even if he doesn’t have Misha on this version of Draenor. I’ll forgive that. But I still think we could use more of everyone’s favorite Mok’Nathal.

I spent last night thinking about humans. We’re terrifying if you really stop and think about us. We can eat things that are toxic to most other species. We can survive broken bones, gunshot wounds, all manner of injuries that would incapacitate or even kill most other species on Earth. Humans used to hunt by simply walking after our prey until it fell down dead from exhaustion. Then we figured out how to make things get dead even more efficiently. Spears, spear-throwers, slings, bows… we’re a terrifying bunch.

The Queue is late today, but I have a very good reason — see, I was finishing the first round of payments for the writers at Blizzard Watch, and I entirely blanked that I needed to write this.

Mind elsewhere and all that. Good times. Let’s get down to some Q&A.

I recruited the follower standing behind my character in the header image because she had the Treasure Hunter trait. She seemed out of place, given most followers are wearing some variety of battle armor. This follower, Iven Page, is wearing a t-shirt, suspenders, jean shorts, and nothing else. Not even shoes. She’s an affliction warlock. Are warlocks so OP they don’t even need armor anymore?

Also, I refuse to recognize the existence of April Fools’ Day. (Though we will have a wrap-up of all the April Fools’ goings-on at the end of the day.)

Want to know how to make a boat load of money in Warlords? Just get your level 3 garrison on a handful of characters and run gold missions all the time. 1,000g/day per max character isn’t terribly hard to pull off. You just make a disgusting amount… so much so that I wonder if it’s going to be possible to buy your game time with that.

Buckle up. Nerd rage ahead.

I kind of wish there were more pet battle guides out there that didn’t automatically assume I’ve just got an Unborn Val’kyr sitting around to use for every battle, because I don’t. There’s a limit to how far out of my way I will go to do some pet battling, and camping the wilds of Northrend is over that line. I just want to beat the Celestial Tournament for once, you know? Just once would be neat.