The Queue: Momma said knock you out
by Alex Ziebart 
Dec 18th 2008 at 4:00PM
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.
Another day, more Q&A. Let's just get started, eh?
MauroDiogo asked...
I'm facing a bit of a dillemma. I've got a level 80 druid (Feral). a 70 warlock waiting to be levelled and a fresh new Death Knight (and many many other alts which I dont feel like levelling at the moment) I've recently spent almost 3K Gold in new tanking gear,enchantments and gems for my druid and the following day I went a bit emo and lost interest in the druid. To make things worse Allison wrote the article about how feral druids are doing in comparison with the other in-game tanks.
Shall I just stick with my druid and hope that better days will come or shall I focus on a different character?
Another day, more Q&A. Let's just get started, eh?
MauroDiogo asked...
I'm facing a bit of a dillemma. I've got a level 80 druid (Feral). a 70 warlock waiting to be levelled and a fresh new Death Knight (and many many other alts which I dont feel like levelling at the moment) I've recently spent almost 3K Gold in new tanking gear,enchantments and gems for my druid and the following day I went a bit emo and lost interest in the druid. To make things worse Allison wrote the article about how feral druids are doing in comparison with the other in-game tanks.
Shall I just stick with my druid and hope that better days will come or shall I focus on a different character?
Just stick with your Feral Druid unless you seriously do not want to play a Druid anymore. They're not all that bad. They're a little trickier to use, but certainly not bad. It looks a lot worse to the people playing them than to everyone else, too. Frustrating to play? Yeah, maybe. Bad tanks? Nah.
When my 10-man is running Naxx casually, it's pretty random who we use to tank. The Warrior? The Druid? The Death Knight? A Paladin we brought along? Doesn't matter much, really. When we buckle down and decide to get some achievements done, our Feral Druid is front and center doing most of the tanking, because they take so very little damage.
The Momma Said Knock You Out achievement was so hilariously easy because of our Feral Druid that we've decided it's easier to do the fight that way every single week instead of bothering with sacrifices. Some of our other tanks could not take a beating like that at our gear level. The Feral Druid, though? She's barely taking any damage at all.
Swipe is probably insanely annoying to use in situations you need to generate AOE threat, and that's a big frustration for Feral Druid players. Feral Druids still rock the house down when it comes down to picking a tank to mitigate obscene physical damage.
Buf asked...
Why don't Blood Elves and Night Elves speak the same language?
One, game mechanics. Keeping a language barrier between the factions is for the good of us all, as I've mentioned a few times before.
Two, their civilizations have been separated for thousands and thousands of years. They shared a language at one point, but after so much time being separated from each other, their language has probably just evolved into two totally different things. Heck, America's existence would be but a blink in the eye of a Night Elf (age-wise), and our English has moved away from the English in a lot of ways.
I bet there are times when someone from the UK would have no idea what the hell we Americans are saying to each other in a casual conversation. Different regions end up creating their own dialects. After enough time, those dialects can progress into an entirely different language. I think 10,000 years of isolation from each other is enough time for that 'different languages' stage to kick in.
Eternauta asked...
I have a very noob lore question: Is Illidan dead? Same question for Kael'Thas.
Illidan is very, very dead unless Blizzard decides to whip out some weird plot twist. We were given no indication that Illidan survived the encounter, unlike when you 'kill' Kael'thas in Tempest Keep. The quest item very clearly says, "Neener neener, eat it you suckers, I'm still alive!" Then we kill Kael'thas again in Magisters' Terrace and take his head this time. So yes, they should both be dead by now.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Zins Siel Dec 18th 2008 4:13PM
This is a more RP-centered question. How do you deal with quests / dungeons that progress the story (ie the Wrathgate) in RP when half the people haven't even done them? Another case of this is when someone kills Malchezzar in Karazhan, and then you're back there killing him again a week later. How does that work out in RP?
alwaypwns Dec 18th 2008 4:50PM
The healer in his party was AFK and wasn't paying attention, so it took a week to send him a rez.
DeathPaladin Dec 18th 2008 5:16PM
For rerunning instances from an RP perspective, my best excuse is to pretend it's like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Rerunning the instance is reminiscing about your first run, and the inconsistencies between each run are simply due to having a bad memory.
Hoggersbud Dec 18th 2008 6:12PM
Does anybody actually RP instance runs as if they were part of some continuity? I've never seen it done.
Aldheim Dec 19th 2008 2:15AM
Answer here is pretty simple, actually: the only timeline that matters in WoW is your own.
I have a level 80 paladin and a level 70 death knight. For the paladin, the Wrathgate has happened- he did the quest, he saw it, the consequences are there. For the DK, it has not. Just as for a freshly made level one human character the Defias are alive and kicking and Westfall is a hive of scum and villainy- and for my paladin, the Defias were rooted out years ago and Westfall is secure enough that they can send a whole brigade out to Northrend to fight the Lich King.
It's pretty much the only way for things to make sense, I think.
Phun Dec 19th 2008 11:26AM
@ Hoggersbud
I was in a Karazhan pick up once (I know) where the two priests started the run by conducting a 15 minute prayer to Elune.
Elune obviously has a bad sense of humour as we wiped on Attumen, sigh.
Marco Polaris Dec 18th 2008 4:14PM
I wouldn't be so fast to assume Illidan is dead until there's some evidence past the Black Temple to suggest it, really. Kazak lived on through his debut as a raid boss in the Blasted Lands, and despite Molten Core being the second raid dungeon in vanilla WoW, Ragnaros and his armies are mentioned as being key figures in the Twilight Hammer's plans to create a cataclysmic conflict between the powers of ice and fire during the Midsummer Festival quests. On the other hand, the death of Nefarion is mentioned in Netherwing Ledge, and Kael'thas' own defeat at Tempest Keep is made rather official in the events of Quel'Danas.
All things said, I agree that we probably did kill Illidan, but I'm not going to regard it as canon truth until I hear it out of an NPCs mouth. Somebody who has, feel free to show me the door.
bongato Dec 18th 2008 4:16PM
Where on earth can I get the recipe for the Ebonweave flying carpet? Supposedly it's in game...
Gerogero Dec 19th 2008 1:34PM
Well if I remember correctly, when you loot Illidan, you kinda take his head.....Im sure your dead when your heads chopped off by 25 people. :P
Dan Dec 19th 2008 1:47PM
I think The Queue should refuse to post questions of those, like the poster 2 posts above me, that clearly reply to unrelated posts simply because they do not wish the post to appear on (*gasp!*) page 5.
Xavs Dec 18th 2008 4:18PM
Magisters Terrace was merely a setback.
Ty Dec 18th 2008 4:50PM
dude, they took his head.
I appreciate your subtle sarcasm.
Piper Dec 18th 2008 5:36PM
He'll get better.
Lich!Kael would probably be the awesomest thing ever. Now he hungers for your magic AND brains!
Mike Dec 18th 2008 7:36PM
No, this was a triumph.
I'd make a note; it was a huge success.
He's still alive. And has cake.
Arashikou Dec 18th 2008 7:50PM
It's only a flesh wound!
Allison Dec 18th 2008 8:07PM
He'll be back on his moon base.
Elry Dec 18th 2008 11:43PM
@ Ty
Headless Chickenman for next years Hallows End maybe? (referring to the Belf mount of course!)
Hokuto Dec 18th 2008 4:18PM
Well, since a certain dwarf that's been dead for years (hint: he's blue blood) suddely revealed to be alive (AND kicking), I wouldn't doubt Illy can be alive somewhere.
mitch Dec 18th 2008 4:25PM
Illidan is dead.
Ragnaros is an old god, I'm not exactly sure he can be killed. Much like C'thun, what we killed in AQ40 was a shade of what he had hidden.
eillind Dec 18th 2008 4:41PM
Rag isn't an old god, he's an elemental lord from the elemental plane, its different.
You are correct about C'thun though. We just killed one of his eyes.