The Queue

Mr. Wiggles has impressed the Horde with his go-getter attitude and intense work ethic. He’s moving up in the world, much to the dismay of the Warmaster, who was hoping for a promotion of his own. It doesn’t matter. In the end, the Iron Horde will learn to fear the name Wiggles.

Say, I should probably answer some questions, shouldn’t I?

Did you know that you can see Cho’gall before the first fight in Highmaul even begins? He’s in the cells behind the elevator — apparently when he traveled to Highmaul after Nagrand, he was thrown in prison. As the elevator lifts you into the arena, Cho’gall starts to laugh. Either he’s gleeful because he knows that stuff is about to go down that will allow him to start his hostile takeover, or he thinks your transmog looks really, really funny. Probably the latter, because Cho’gall has absolutely no manners at all. Or, you know, sanity for that matter.

Hi. Welcome to The Queue, where Blizzard Watch answers your questions. Today The Queue is under the control of Matthew Rossi (@matthewwrossi) and here we go.

So last night was my first Blackrock Foundry run, assuming you don’t count LFR (which I’m not) and it was interesting. My DPS went from really bad to sorta okay once I got two Taner’s Terrible Spine‘s off of Gruul. Expect a warrior column about raiding as Single-Minded Fury soon. It’s definitely interesting to gear switch from the days of 25 man heroic raiding to the new normal/heroic flex system – I doubt I’ll even look at mythic this expansion, and I’m fine with that. Getting my alt (who I guess is now my main?) geared up for raiding and getting him into BRF was interesting, it feels a lot like I just started playing WoW after a long break, although I didn’t actually take much of a break.

Anyway, on to your questions.

As I promised in yesterday’s Queue comments. You’re welcome.

Seriously, look at that thing up there. I love cats, but that is an abomination in comparison to more recent models. I wanted a screenshot of this sweet little scene in my garrison and took a close look at the cat for the first time. Why does it have Homer Simpson’s hair as its hind legs!?

So we have this really fancy newsletter we were going to launch today, but I realized that I need to put a physical address in the eblast due to anti-spam laws. After thinking about it all of two seconds, I decided against putting my apartment address in the eblast and instead registered for a PO box. Unfortunately this all means the newsletter, which was supposed to launch today, will get delayed until next week.

Personally I blame the princes and princesses who take our money from distant lands.

Posting yesterday’s Twitter adventure was a bit of a gamble — those who aren’t fans of social media tend to be extremely vocal about that fact — but most of you seemed to enjoy it. For that, I’m glad.

Forward to today’s Q&A!

I’m not sure what exactly the map on the Horde war table is tracking exactly, but the little x’s and arrows and illegible writing is kind of fascinating to me. I wonder if the Alliance side has different areas marked out? I think I should pay a visit to my Alliance alt again and do some leveling, maybe.

I was really upset to hear about Leonard Nimoy’s passing yesterday — I grew up watching Star Trek. A lot of you asked in the comments from yesterday if we thought he’d get an in game tribute. Well, technically he already has one, and it’s been there since vanilla, down in Gnomeregan. Of course, he should be wearing a blue shirt and not a red one — I mean come on, everyone knows Spock’s always been a science officer and blue has been for science and medical since the beginning and yes I am a gigantic nerd thank you.

Let’s get to some Warcraft questions.

Guys, I seriously have zero idea what’s going on with this dress thing or why you keep asking me on twitter (@matthewwrossi if you’re curious) about what color it is. I play a warrior. I don’t wear dresses. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all a trick of GlaDOS.