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by Alex Ziebart 
Jan 13th 2009 at 3:00PM
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 Tuesday, another maintenance. As much as I'd like to write something amusing here to entertain you on your slow, boring day, I've got nothin'. Bone dry. I'm like the freaking Shimmering Flats here. Well, you know, like the north parts. Not the south parts with that little lake. Just the dry stuff, people. ...Oh, screw it.
Jamesisgreat asked...
Now I've hit level 80 and am looking at all the loot available to me as a feral druid, I've spotted a few of the PvP pieces that you can purchase with just honor. So my question is - where's the best place to grind honor nowadays? AV? Wintergrasp? Elsewhere?
When I buckle down and really grind out some honor, I run Strand of the Ancients unless Wintergrasp is about to come up, then I take a break and do that instead. On the weekends, I pulled in a good 30,000 honor a day. That's not typical, and it took some pretty long play sessions, but it's definitely possible if you have a lazy Sunday.
I had a few people tell me Alterac Valley was better honor, but I guess your mileage may vary on that one. It really wasn't better at all, in my experience. I hit it a few times, and ended up kind of empty on honor. It seems your gains are heavily dependent on a game going into turtle mode with one side playing heavy defense so you can farm HKs. That's not really fun, and doesn't happen all of the time. When a Strand plays out like it's supposed to play out, you get pretty good, steady gains rather than the occasional Atlerac Valley giving abnormally high gains.
How about you readers, do you guys normally get more honor from Alterac Valley or Strand of the Ancients? Has my experience with the BGs just been wonky and not the norm at all?
Dustin R asked...
I recently started playing WC3, and finally figured out who Lil' Timmy (or was it Tommy?) was. Since you save him in an optional quest, I figure that he doesn't come back into play, but did Blizzard ever re-use him?
Since you're referring exclusively to Warcraft III here, I assume that you haven't seen his WoW incarnation beyond the BOE, Lil Timmy's Peashooter. He's actually a boss in Stratholme now, on the Scarlet side. He's stuck as a poor little ghoul, and he's a nod to the South Park character as the same time. He yells "Timmy!" when he spawns.
If you have seen that and you're asking about Wrath, no, he's not in Wrath. He's a dead man. ...boy. Ghoul. Thing.
Rhondis asked...
Speaking of this red snake, what's with the huge worm-like thing in the Apothecarium of Undercity? It seems to be dripping some... green stuff. Are there any quests that mention that "thing"?
Alex Ziebart: Stealing Rictus's jokes since January 2009! No, sorry, there's no quests involving that thing. It's just decoration. Disgusting decoration.
Joby asked...
What's the deal with the extra 999 reputation once you hit exalted with a particular faction? Why are they there, and are they as meaningless as they seem, or should I bite the bullet and grind out that last 999 points?
It's wholly unimportant. I think it's there to annoy the hell out of anal retentive players that absolutely need to see their bar filled in. Sure, you're Exalted, but you have 998 more reputation points to fill in! Get back to questing, losers!
Twothirteen asked...
What is Mr. Bigglesworths reason for being in Naxx? Did Blizz just put him there for fun? Does it matter whether someone kills him or not, or whether someone makes him a temporary pet using those criter bites?
He's mostly a gag, originally a nod to Austin Powers, but the 'story' behind Mr. Bigglesworth is that he's Kel'thuzad's cat from when he was alive. Commander Eligor Dawnbringer tells us about it in Wintergarde Keep. I strongly recommend Alliance players go listen to Eligor educate the 7th Legion on what lies within Naxxramas. Each of the bosses have a little bit of a story behind them, and he even gives some hints as to how a few of the bosses work. If you're a Horde player, the full conversation can be seen on Wowwiki, it just loses a little of the flavor when you don't have the projections to look at.
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Zarfay Jan 13th 2009 7:17PM
Love the video
I don't pay you to sing!
Groovymarlin Jan 13th 2009 7:38PM
Is it obnoxious to re-post my question from the last Queue? I am looking for a "DK for Dummies" type guide that really gets into the very basics of how to play a DK. I've never played melee classes (in WoW) and I'd love to level my DK, but I'm totally clueless on what it's all about.
Loge Jan 13th 2009 8:10PM
I don't know if they're exactly what you need, but try reading these:
http://www.wow-pro.com/class_guides/death_knight
Hope it helps.
digitalmishap Jan 14th 2009 12:21AM
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but back in the day, max exalted used to have a purpose. For the AV rep, getting max exalted allowed you to get your Stormpike Insignia rank 6.
I haven't leveled to exalted in AV but once, and that was when 60 was the cap. They may have changed it now, or completely taken it out all together.
Catalyst Jan 14th 2009 12:23AM
DOh.... it's mentioned in reply 76.
Stephen Jan 14th 2009 1:35AM
Why is tier gear usually not as good or equal to other drops of the same sort in raids? It happened with Tier 4 and now Tier 7 that the gear I'm wearing when my token drops is generally better or as good as my Tier equivalent, and it dropped from earlier and easier bosses! What gives? It's hard to justify to a raid that you need the Tier piece because the set bonuses are better overall.
Skorp Jan 14th 2009 4:24AM
About Little Timmy:
Doesn't he sell a kitten in Stormwind?
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8666#z0z
About the 999/1000 exalted rep and its uselessness to grind to 999:
An exception is the Alterac Valley faction rep where you will get the Rank 5 insignia when reaching exalted and the Rank 6 epic insignia only at full 999/1000 exalted.
Skorp Jan 14th 2009 4:46AM
Forgot to add:
"In Stormwind, there is an NPC named Lil Timmy who looks very much like Little Timmy from Warcraft III. In Warcraft III there is a ghoul named Timmy, and in WoW there is a ghoul named Timmy the Cruel. They could be the same. Some speculate that Timmy-ghoul was in fact Little Timmy, though Timmy can be seen in Warcraft III later in the Undead campaign selling Ice Shards. In the neutral campaign in Warcraft III set chronologically later in the timeline, Timmy is with his mother on Theramore very much alive.
Timmy may have later moved to Stormwind to sell cats, explaining how there is a living Timmy there bearing such a resemblance."
- http://www.wowwiki.com/Little_Timmy
Firazz Jan 14th 2009 10:27AM
Ok, here is a question, or set of questions:
I've been playing WoW for just over a year, and taking my time leveling. I have my first toon waiting at 69. And I'm a bit confused at the relationship between the new WotLK content and older BC content. My primary toon is a healing-focused druid.
1: Is it still worthwhile to grind leatherworking skill and harvest mats for the Windhawk armor set? At what point does it stop being worthwhile?
2: At what point should I consider doing BC heroic content? And is there a point in doing BC heroics in the process of leveling beyond just seeing the old content?
codemerc Jan 14th 2009 11:01AM
This may have been addressed before, but I am having a hard time understanding resets on instances. I get Heroic Arch. Vault and Naxx-25 reset each week. When do Heroics on 5-mans reset? Everyday at 10am server right? Is it a 1-day reset on 10 man Vault then? What about 10 man Naxx?
Mark Jan 14th 2009 11:36AM
Recently I saw an astonishing message come up "dalaran is under attack" - how is that possible? its a sanctuary, you can't attack anyone/guards even if you wanted to, right?
erogroth Jan 14th 2009 4:11PM
Is there any word on Iron Boot Flask in patch 3.0.8? Is it going from a cost of 10 Relics of Ulduar to 250 still? And if so are the Relics going to be BOE or BOP?
I assumed that since it was going to be raised to 250 Relics they changed them to BOE but after the article I read on wowinsider the other day about that possibly not happening I don't know what to think.
I am level 80 but I have just barely got into Icecrown and have not even touched Storm Peaks yet. I don't know if I should hurry up and grab my Iron Boot Flask now or if I have time to just play through the content at a casual pace.