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The Queue: Super Strength

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Every so often I wonder just how strong the various races of the Warcraft setting actually are. I mean, relative to each other. Draenei and orcs are probably around the same (Draenei are a bit bigger and beefier, so they might be a touch stronger, with the orcs making up for it with frenzied rage), but are tauren the strongest? I mean, they’re big. What about worgen, or ogres, or… it’s kind of hard to compare strength when you have a three foot tall race that can use swords twice their own size, one in each hand (seriously, watch a gnome fury warrior sometime) vs. a nine foot tall race. But I do think that, proportionately, gnomes might well be the strongest race on Azeroth.

Either that or I’m just saying it to drive the gnome haters in the audience into a frenzy. Anyway! Let’s talk some Blizzard games!


The Queue: Sometimes I miss Cairne

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I found it kind of sad but sort of nice that even though Cairne is gone, his ghost was updated with the new tauren model in time for Children’s Week earlier this month. I also found it really weird that I was still taking my orphan to go witness Cairne’s funeral several years after it actually happened, but we’ll just ignore that one. Question time!


The Queue: You spin me round

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Sometimes I kind of wish the Darkmoon Faire were around more often than once a month. But then I realize that if it were, I’d be really, really tired of it by now. Instead, I’m still having fun racing things and flying through hoops and shooting out of cannons and riding carousels.


The Queue: Aging rock stars

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I did not actually notice until opening my selfies from this week’s leveling stream that ETC didn’t get the same model upgrades that everyone else received in Warlords of Draenor. Of course they’re still called L90ETC on the banner too, so I’m just going to chalk it off to the band still foolishly trying to cling to the good old days. That’s definitely it.


The Queue: I desperately want to talk about Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs

I’m not going to, because this is The Queue, Blizzard Watch’s own column about the various Blizzard games we all play, and I’m here to talk about those games with you via answering your questions. So far as I know, none of you have asked about Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs, and it’s not a Blizzard game, so I really shouldn’t talk about it here.

But I really, really want to. I want to write 600 words about how the dinosaurs would totally win. But I’m not going to.

But they totally would.


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