The Queue: Overkill and delicious tears
by Alex Ziebart 
Dec 15th 2008 at 9:00PM
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.The image I used for yesterday's The Queue raised some eyebrows, with a lot of people wondering what it was or where it was from. It's just one of a series of paintings throughout Dalaran of the various player races. There are some hanging in the inns, some in the shops, et cetera. My plan was to cycle through them all over the next week or so, and random selection gave me the incredibusty human female first. It might be interesting to note that I'm pretty sure that painting is a nod to Tifa Lockhart of Final Fantasy 7. It could also just be a regular ol' human female wearing the level 1 Warrior starting gear. Who knows?
Today you get the Female Blood Elf, and now let's get the Q&A started.
Plaguenog said...
Any chance they'll let me use Badges of Justice to buy new badges? Or possibly a reduction in prices for lvl 7o badge gear? I'm basically looking for any reason NOT to use as many of my lvl 70 badges for gems to Auction off.
I very sincerely doubt they'll offer any conversions or anything of that sort at this point. That doesn't really fit the approach Blizzard has taken with other things in WoW's two expansions, which is leave those items in their content and start fresh later. It's probably safe to turn those badges into gems or vortices.
Zrob asked...
What is overkill? Not overkill as in /cast Overkill, but rather: Boss hits you for X. (y blocked) (z overkill)
It's how more 'extra' damage the boss (or you) did to its target on the killing blow. If you have 5,000 HP left and the boss hits you for 7,000, 2,000 points of that damage is overkill. It has no real bearing on the gameplay, it's not a mechanic you need to do anything with or worry about, it's just for boggling at and/or epeen stroking. Overkilling a Death Knight for some obscene number makes you feel all tingly inside, you know?
Kriegle asked...
What does QQ mean?
Like some of our readers mentioned, it's supposed to look like two crying eyeballs. I'm not sure of its exact origins, but I know it's an emote that's been on Battle.net for years. It definitely didn't start with WoW. I'm sure it was much faster to tap QQ in the middle of a Starcraft match than T_T or ;_; or :'( or whatever other crying emotes the internet has spewed forth. Plus, typing "QQ more" feels more satisfying than ";_; more."
Ing said...
I want to farm the ZG mounts, what's the best way for a Rogue? Currently 78. I think I might have trouble soloing, right?
Soloing it as a Rogue probably won't work out very well, but just bringing a Healer along will let you do it. Unless you have a gearset with obscenely high dodge, you'll just be taking too much damage to DPS the bosses down before you get DPS'd down. It might be more doable solo at level 80 in decent gear. It all depends on how Rogue Dodge will end up scaling in higher end equipment. At 78, though, you should be able to get by with just a Healer glued to your hip. Dinging 80 will just make it that much easier.
Good luck on your mounts, and you should give soloing that stuff a try anyway! I may turn out completely wrong and am underestimating the power of a level 80(ish) Rogue. If you die horrible, well... repair bills never hurt anybody.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Offsprnge Dec 28th 2008 8:53AM
Who is this person and why does he keep posting awesome boob pictures? =P
h8rain Dec 16th 2008 10:05AM
Looks like Tifa from FF7:Advent Children, but I could be wrong.
Angus Dec 16th 2008 11:13AM
I saw Advent's Children last weekend because of a sincere need to see someone wielding swords larger than him as if they weighed .5 lbs.
That is in fact Tifa.
No doubt about it, she even gets in that pose to fight one of Kadash's gang while putting on her gloves. Wrong shirt, but that's a nod to her FF7 outfit.
Offsprnge Dec 28th 2008 8:53AM
Who is the person and why does he keep posting awesome boob pictures? =P
Offsprnge Dec 28th 2008 8:53AM
Also, according to Urban Dictionary and another source I read before I can't come up with QQ implies:
"Contrary to popular belief, QQ is not a set of crying eyes. It actually originated with the advent of Warcraft II. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. Thus the term "QQ" was to tell people to just quit because they are unskilled. The term later developed and lost it's origin and is usually mistaken as crying eyes.
In contemporary gamer culture, QQ has become the mainstream emoticon for crying eyes, though it is still often used in it's traditional sense. "
Also, how do I change the typo from my nick? =X
Chris Anthony Dec 15th 2008 10:22PM
I've seen this debunked a couple of times already (and the fact that this comment and the subsequent one can't agree on which game it's from is a decent sign that neither explanation is all it's cracked up to be). Also, unfortunately, Urban Dictionary isn't a particularly good source for this stuff, because people tend to rate up the explanations they like or that *want* to be true rather than the ones that actually are.
That said, regardless of the origin of the term, the way "QQ" is used *now* is to represent a pair of crying eyes.
Percinho Dec 16th 2008 3:58AM
Interestingly, in Serbian the word 'kuku' is used to denote someone who is whinging or whining.
It derives form the serbian word for cuckoo, a bird which is regarded as cowardly for its habit of putting its eggs in the nests of other birds.
Well I think it's interesting anyway... :-)
DanH Dec 16th 2008 4:29AM
This isn't a personal dig, but it's amazing how readily people will believe something if it's prefaced with the words "contrary to popular belief" (I had the exact same thing myself with that Urban Dictionary reference).
It's like the Emperor's New Clothes, but backwards. Somebody says "no, you only believe that because everybody else does" and we instinctively assume they're right.
Amaxe Dec 16th 2008 8:27AM
Heh, QQ always makes me think of "Dukes of Hazzard" and that Sherriff character who would say something similar but it was supposed to be him laughing
Gives me a weird mental image when I see "QQ more" posted
Drakkenfyre Dec 16th 2008 8:49AM
WarCraft 2 didn't have Battle.net connectivity. In fact, Battle.net didn't even exist when WarCraft 2 came out. Not until WarCraft 2: Battle.net Edition came out could you use Battle.net with it, and that didn't come out until after StarCraft was out, lol.
Shinrai of Rivendare Dec 17th 2008 11:05AM
It sounds more like a mac command then a pc one. Just wonder if that was the case.
(Apple = Alt on pc)
hence
Apple + Q
pax368 Dec 15th 2008 9:14PM
QQ comes from Starcraft. During a battlenet game a quick Escape then double Q let you quit quit out of a ranked match without a loss really quick by shutting the game down, blizzard fixed this but thats where it came from battle.net, by not allowing your opponent a win by quitting just before losing. Then people would QQ on the forums about tactics, zerg rushes and whatnot and then people would tell them to stop QQing.
Skulltula Dec 15th 2008 11:57PM
Escape didn't bring up the menu in Starcraft, it was F10. But don't QQ about it.
Dez Dec 15th 2008 9:17PM
Tifa!
Ian R. Dec 15th 2008 9:19PM
***maybe slight Horde Spoiler***
Now that the Taunka are part of the Horde, when do you think they'll let us creaty Taunka skinned Tauren? I want to create one named TaunkaTruck! :D
Ametrine Dec 15th 2008 9:25PM
My hunter's AOEtank Gorilla is named Tonka...
Zelius Dec 17th 2008 9:06AM
Probably as soon as they'll give the option of Horde Mag'har orcs and Alliance Wildhammer dwarves.
The Dark Wayne Dec 15th 2008 11:58PM
that is 100% grade A win
Iwanttobeasleep Dec 16th 2008 2:09AM
You could just create a female tauren, since the tauren and taunka women are identical.
Patrick Dec 15th 2008 9:21PM
In the patch notes for 3.0.8 there was a mention of the turrets in Strand of the Ancient now using "falloff damage". What do they mean by "falloff damage"?