The Queue

Me, late? Never.

Intro! I promise I’ll do this.

I suppose there’s a kind of irony in an insomniac oversleeping the day he has to write the Queue.

Anyway, I did that, and now here I am trying to get this done super fast.

I’ve been making a concerted effort to pare down a lot of things in my life lately, especially stuff like baby toys and that ugly tote bag somebody gave me as a gift but is just a little bit too big to be functional. It’s really motivated me to start paring down the amount of crap I’ve hoarded in games over the years, too.

Either fortunately or unfortunately, there’s no way to remove a particularly annoying mount in a fit of pique.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll answer (assuming it sparks joy).

Turns out that the crab didn’t give my guild as much trouble as I thought it would…

Anduin on the other hand. We’ve had a doozy of a pickle of a time managing to not blow ourselves up with the Blasphemy colors. It turns out that it’s really easy to accidentally have one of those go off on the tanks and then it’s time to wipe.

At least it’s really easy to reset the fight by sending everyone into Kingsmourne, so it has kept the repair bill low.

While I try and teach my raiders the difference between light and dark, it’s time for — The Queue.

Surprise! After a small discussion in the comments about who was or was not writing today, I decided to throw everything for a loop and take over today’s Queue! Also Liz needed someone’s help and I couldn’t sleep.

So yes, I’m writing The Queue on April 1. Don’t worry, though, I’ve saved my April Fool’s joke for another article.

Until then, we Queue.

Yeah, tomorrow is that day.

Today, however, we’re still operating under normal internet rules… so really, nothing much changes? Sorry, don’t mean to be cynical, just very aware that the internet is often a scary place.

It’s the Queue. I’m listening to Celldweller’s End of an Empire and thinking about the next session of the D&D game I’m co-running for the Tavern Watch crew.

So I started off this Queue by looking in the Blizzard Watch Discord for a couple of questions and seeing one from Jaigerbomb about transmog. As we all know, that’s like number 2 on the Matthew Rossi Must Answer This scale, right under prehistoric fauna and just above angry people with big weapons yelling and hitting things, and so I answered in a flash.

And then it occurred to me that this question was from a few days ago, so I went back in and looked, and sure enough it had already been answered in a previous Queue. I am sad now.

This is the Queue. I am having a sads.

One thing I really like to do with transmog is to pull one accent accessory that doesn’t match. It’s almost always a flower crown.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’re usually fashionably late with the answers.

We may not be World First raiders but my guild has been doing pretty well in Sepulcher. We took a bit of a slower start to the tier than usual, spending a little more time in Normal than we normally do to get a few extra tier pieces for people and last night we finally saw some good progress into Heroic. We cleared all the way up through to Halondrus in just three hours, getting first kills on the Prototype Pantheon, Lihuvim, and Xy’mox 2: Portal Boogaloo. We even managed to knock a bunch of time off of our best Dausegne kill. It turns out that getting powerful upgrades like second legendary items and tier set bonuses really helps… go figure!

Then came Halondrus.

While he may not be as tough on Heroic as he is on Mythic, it’s possible that he may take us a few more attempts than the last few bosses…

While I look up some good recipes for crab cakes, it’s time for — The Queue.