Q&a

The holiday season can get quiet in the gaming world as we’re all pulled into real-world commitments and away from our favorite games. And that’s not to even mention that Blizzard’s already gone quiet for the holidays, with little in the way of updates and both the Overwatch and Legion betas closed.

Plus you lot spent most of yesterday’s Queue talking about Christmas movies.

What I’m saying is that doesn’t give us a lot of ground to cover, so today Mitch and I are answering your questions Cho’gall style (only I think we agree a little more often than Cho and Gall). So, enjoy today’s silliness — and please leave questions for tomorrow’s Queue, because we’re sure to need them to help fill out the holiday weekend.

Cheers!

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!

While we’re here, I want to let all of you know we’re going to be on holiday scheduling for the next two days. In other words, you’ll see content from us roughly every third hour, with The Queue showing up a bit later than it typically would. In addition, our leveling team livestream will happen tomorrow, but it will be at 12 p.m. Central rather than 2 p.m. Central. Cool? Cool!

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!

I haven’t actually gotten a chance to do any quests in Stormheim yet on the Legion alpha, but the scenery is beautiful. Giant statues, overcast skies and random lightning? I like all of these things, yes please. Let’s answer some of your questions, 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!

I finally got around to hitting level 100 with my Shaman alt. This time around, I did things a little differently. I finished every quest, found every treasure and did every extra mission in Shadowmoon Valley, and when I was done with that, I started flying around and finding treasures everywhere else. Between the treasure-finding XP (with rested bonus), XP missions from my garrison mission table, and collecting both herbs and ore from my mine and herb garden, it was a relatively painless process, and I have…every other zone on Draenor to complete for extra gold at my leisure. I can’t say it was easier, but the process definitely lent itself far more to watching Netflix on the second monitor while flying around.

Another bright and beautiful day has dawned over the Queue, which means that, yes, it is time for a new round of Q&A. (And also for some slight, very slight obsessing over the new Sugar Plum Sylvanas skin.)

So let’s dive right in, 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!

When I first started playing games, the major in-game maps as we know them now just didn’t exist. If there were maps at all, they were likely to be physical things that came in a game box, vaguely describing the game world in paper or (for fancier games) cloth. So how did I find my way around? I made my own maps with graph paper and as-neat-as-I-could-manage handwriting. How old-school is that?

I still have, tucked away in my desk, whole notebooks of game maps, particularly MUDs for which the graph paper method worked particularly well. Perhaps I’m spoiled these days, though, because not only do I expect maps in the games themselves, I expect good maps… and  WoW‘s just don’t meet my expectations. But whether you care about maps or not, read on for answers to your questions.

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!