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Well I don’t know about the rest of you, but the weather here decided to give us a white Christmas and dump a truckload of snow over the course of the day. On the one hand it’s very pretty, on the other I have places to be this weekend that are kind of contingent upon my getting the car out of the driveway, so I’m hoping it disappears in the next 24 hours or so. But hey! Another day, another Queue, and more questions to answer, right? Let’s get to those.

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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?

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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.

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Motionless. Bald. I know I talked about this in yesterday’s Queue but I still can’t get over these guys. Right now they have taken the title for Weirdest Thing in the Alpha. We’ll have to wait and see if anything else pops up to take the crown. Until then, let’s get to your questions!

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Sometimes you see things in the alpha that you just don’t quite understand, like the frozen, naked, bald, Blood Elf mannequins stationed in strategic locations along the Broken Isles. Why are they there? We don’t know — I’m assuming they’re marking a spot for something. Why the old male Blood Elf model has suddenly turned into a marker, I couldn’t tell you. Nor why they are bald. Or, you know, standing around in Burning Legion central clad only in their skivvies. Let’s just move on to questions I can answer, why don’t we?

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Even though the only thing currently open on the alpha is the Demon Hunter leveling experience, it’s not what I’d call boring at all. The team over there has really outdone themselves as far as zone design, and given all the little details just in that one little slice of the Legion experience, I can’t wait to see what the Broken Isles look like — and what kind of visual updates Dalaran got. I loved Dalaran in Wrath, I thought it was an amazing capital city and I’m really excited that we’ll be going back there again. I just hope Jones is still around. I miss that fuzzy little guy.

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Okay so on the one hand, I’m kind of terrified at the sheer size of the infernals on Mardum. I mean I think these things give Deathwing a run for their money, size-wise. On the other, they’re almost kind of…cute? Basically what I’m trying to say here is if Warlocks get to summon these things in Legion, I may just have to re-think my class of choice. Let’s answer some questions, shall we?

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I miss the Crowleys. When last we saw either of them, Darius had just agreed to surrender Gilneas City in exchange for his daughter Lorna’s safety, and got the heck out of there before waiting to see what Sylvanas would do next. Since then, we haven’t heard a peep from either one of them. Given that Genn is listed on the Legion cast page, I’m kind of hoping we’ll see both Darius and Lorna make a reappearance — I think Lorna would make an excellent Outlaw. I mean come on, she’s the daughter of a rebel leader and we already know she’s handy with a shotgun, I bet she’s a crack shot with a pistol. And I’m interested in whether or not she demanded she be affected with the Worgen curse just to avoid that whole being risen as Forsaken thing, whether her father continued to try and keep her out of harm’s way, or what exactly happened to them both.

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I can’t seem to escape Sylvanas, the Forsaken, Bolvar or the Scourge lately — they all keep popping up in various conversations with various people. And for some reason we ended up with a couple of Scourge-related questions yesterday on top of it all! But hey, it’s fascinating lore, so I’m not going to object to all the chatter, weird coincidence or no. Let’s answer some questions, shall we?

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Due to the sudden glut of post-BlizzCon news, we didn’t really get to do the leveling stream this week. I logged in just to make sure my character didn’t have any mail sitting around waiting to be picked up, and that’s when I remembered I have this new deer I tamed somewhere in Dragonblight. He’s cool. We’re just, you know, hanging out until Thursday. But for now, I guess we’ll stick to answering some questions!