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by Alex Ziebart 
May 8th 2009 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. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
I was horrified to find endless amounts of Wisconsin hate in the comments of yesterday's edition of The Queue. Come on, Wisconsin rules! Well, no, the few bubbles of real civilization in Wisconsin rule. Milwaukee, Madison, and maybe (maybe) the Green Bay area. Everything in between those points are like something out of a horror movie. In transit from Milwaukee to Madison, all of the passengers in the car keep their eyes squeezed shut while the driver breaks out in a cold sweat. Packers fans fling themselves at your vehicle like the undead, crying out for your blood and pounding their fists on your windows. The only thing that you can do, the only thing you want to do, is keep driving.
Milwaukee, though? Totally rules.
aw232 asked...
"I'm starting to think that there won't be a raid included in 3.2. I've heard about a new battleground, an expansion of the argent tournament but nothing about a new raid. Is there any confirmation or denial on if there will be a new raid before Icecrown?"
Well, they said that there will be one in patch 3.2 back in last year's BlizzCon. Does that still mean that there will be one? Not necessarily, but I think that there will be. When it was mentioned, it was stressed that what it is will be a bit of a mystery. I think we haven't heard much about it because they want to keep that air of mystery.
JLocke asked...
"Somebody called me?"
No. Begone!
Farstrider asked...
"Does anyone think it's feasible to apply the stat adjusting mechanic that the heirloom items have to legendary items? Maybe give them some more use since they are... well, legendary."
I don't think Blizzard would do this, even if I personally think it would be cool. They've made it pretty clear over the years that they want Legendaries to be replaced eventually. They're exceptionally good weapons for whatever stretch of the game you get them, but they shouldn't last you forever. It's largely because this is an MMO. You always need bigger and better goals to keep you moving forward in the game. If Legendaries scaled, you'd find yourself in a spot of "I can never upgrade my weapon ever again."
We, as players, might think that Legendaries should last forever. From a game design standpoint, it's just not a good move. So I don't think we'll see scaling oranges.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 7)
tim May 8th 2009 4:44PM
Or make it scale to a mid-level expansion weapon. Something that could be replaced in early raiding, but would be useful during heroic runs. That way you'd still get to see people carrying them around every so often.
Ryuhakubi May 8th 2009 8:11PM
Personally, I always thought that an item capable of "upgrading" the legendaries should drop from the last boss of the expansion, but only to an epic level... For example, a sword that was outstanding on its own could have dropped from K'J in the sunwell, with a "use" effect that you could place on thunderfury, upgrading it to an equivilant epic. (Perhaps with the flavor text of "Energized by the Sunwell itself") That way it wouldn't matter if someone was farming thunderfury, it would still require them to have a level and skill appropriate drop to begin with to get the old legendaries up to snuff.
TL;DR version:
Perhaps a weapon from the "ultimate boss" of an X-pac be "fused" to an old legendary to make them useful again, if not OP. I think that would be a reasonably elegant way to make it work. *shrug*
Eisengel May 9th 2009 6:51AM
Actually I have no idea why Blizz links item quality only to ilvl. I think it should be linked to ilvl and level. This way Thunderfury may be legendary for a level 60 character, but only epic for a 63, and then maybe only a lowly common weapon for a level 67. Blizz definitely links ilvl to player level, it's how they populate the quest rewards and why they have level restrictions, so I don't see why it should be impossible for gear quality tooltips to slide along with your level. Then we wouldn't be talking about something that is always Legendary, but obtainable as Legendary and useful up until some max level at which other drops and quest rewards are better... which seems to be Blizz's intent.
kubien May 8th 2009 4:13PM
Does Blizz have any plans to make spawned quest mobs auto-tagged?
I'm getting very sick of doing the Threat From Above fight a minimum of 3 times, because someone has nothing better to do with their time than steal the Bombardiers over and over and over.
tatsumasa May 8th 2009 5:27PM
take a moonkin with you who has starfall
/moonkin sound
neadamthal May 8th 2009 4:14PM
**** with the caveat that they are not attainable any longer else everyone would go get them.
MusedMoose May 8th 2009 4:14PM
I hope these are legit questions, and not just me having missed something:
1: did Blizz remove the "Bloodsail Admiral" title from the achievements? I've been through every category I can think of looking for it, and it doesn't seem to be available anymore. Not that I'd mind actually being able to quest in Booty Bay without the NPCs all being dead, but I really wanted the title for my DK.
2: has Blizz said anything about adding Jewelcrafting trainers to the non-expansion cities? I know there are quartermasters, but no regular profession trainers except in Exodar and Silvermoon until you hit Outland. Kind of inconvenient.
Shad3Wolf May 8th 2009 4:21PM
Re: #1
It's actually a Feat of Strength, so you wouldn't be able to see it in the Achievements UI until earned.
http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=871
Gnosh May 8th 2009 4:22PM
JC was billed as a perk of BC, and only BC-enabled accounts have access to it. As blizz doesn't have a way to keep NPCs from talking to players below a given expansion level, they had to put the new trainers somewhere you had to be upgraded to get to.
By contrast, inscription was added for EVERYONE, and actually dropped in the patch BEFORE wrath.
While it's feasible that they'd make JC available to everyone, it's unlikely. After all, they don't want to make the bullet pointed features on the back of BOTH expansions wrong! WHERE ARE MY DANCES
/run EndTroll()
Haillo May 8th 2009 4:16PM
I've been wondering about the fate runes you can get in Icecrown and the offerings you can get in Zul'drak.
Theres going to be a new raid in Icecrown, and there also has been speculation at a possible raid on top of dtk.
Both items, the bones and offerings are extremly easy to get and both provide good buffs, and quite personally I dont spend 30mins in Icecrown for the fate rune useage, and little time in Zuldrak.
So can I assume a main reason for these easy buffs is for the possible new raids that may come?
Sorro May 8th 2009 4:21PM
Whatever happened to epic gems? Still no sign of them in Ulduar...
Shade May 8th 2009 4:25PM
The only epic gems I've seen around are the Stormjewels you can get from the fishing dailies - they're a really rare drop, but they're purple quality gems.
Chuck May 8th 2009 4:26PM
there are some epic gems you can get from the new fishing dailies.
Lyraat May 8th 2009 4:52PM
I'm guessing Blizzard is saving them for Icecrown like they saved them for Hyjal/BT in BC.
Lemons May 9th 2009 6:04AM
Those new epic gems are just...shit. Unique equip? and their rarity means you'd end up spending like 2k gold on what is, in reality, something like +4 agility -.-
Shade May 8th 2009 4:24PM
Phoo, I totally posted a question waaaaay too last minute on the last Queue post, so I'll just...ask it again here:
Okay this may be a dumb question but what, exactly, is 'keyboard turning'? I'm relatively certain I'm not guilty of this as my keyboard stays rather firmly in one place when I am playing, but I keep hearing people use the phrase. While it presents the most delightful mental images of people swinging their keyboards around wildly, like those dudes on street corners advertising for cell phone stores and the like, a real definition would be appreciated.
Omestes May 8th 2009 4:30PM
Using your arrow keys to move your toon.
It isn't as fast, accurate, or responsive as using the mouse.
I personally think its a bunch of wasted hate.
Keyra May 8th 2009 4:31PM
"Keyboard turning" is when someone is using the W, A, S, D or the cursor arrow keys to turn their character instead of using the mouse. Now while this might be fine for solo playing, or if you need to stop a moment and grab your...wait for it...MOUNTAIN DEW(tm)!!!...while you're on autorun, but in the middle of a raid it can (and does) detract from the time you might need to do something like heal someone whose portrait is blinking red while simultaneously turning toward said person and out of the line of fire from that freaking hunter.
Amethyst May 8th 2009 4:41PM
I used to be a keyboard turner, using the arrow keys. I didn't even realise that it was a bad thing until all my guildies shouted at me, and one of them even gave me a mouse and told me I had to use it. I'm very very glad they did. Now I understand why everyone makes keyboard turning jokes
Thromanan May 8th 2009 4:28PM
I know this is just speculation at this point but will the new 5-man in icecrown have better loot drops than the rest of the 5 man dungeons? A reg mode that is almost as hard as a heroic, and a heroic that is really hard? Some thing that might drop some i213 gear since there are now 2 full levels of gear above that?
I might go into a new 5 man just to see it but if it is going to be i187 and i200, I know i wont be running it repeatedly.