The Queue: Roll out the barrel
by Alex Ziebart 
Jun 23rd 2009 at 7:00PM
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com'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.
Many of our questions today are related to Patch 3.2 again, but don't take that as an indicator that it's all you can ask of us! We'll field pretty much anything WoW related in The Queue, so don't be intimidated. Just hit the comments and ask away!
Also, I'm going to make all of you listen to the Beer Barrel Polka because it has been haunting me since Polish Fest this past weekend. Augh. Get it out of my head.
Sedawk asked...
"Will there be more things to buy for Champion's Marks? Or should I go ahead and buy that hippogryph?"
Yes, the new Argent Tournament bits in Patch 3.2 will include additional items available for purchase with Champion's Marks. A few of the items we know about are the new heirlooms and the new Argent Squire which will act as a Mailbox/Bank/Whatever once every few hours. From what I got out of the wording of the Patch 3.2 PTR patch notes, you will need the Crusader title to access some of these new items, so make sure you have that.
A lot of us here at WoW.com are very interested in what the Tournament has to offer, so you can be sure that we'll be checking it out as soon as the PTR is up and available.
kooda asked...
"What are some good Shaman websites (apart from Totem Talk)?"
That depends on what you're looking for. Specific specs? General casters, or general melee? General healers? I'll rattle off a few I check fairly frequently...
- Shields Up! is a Resto Shaman blog, though the information it has can be useful for all Shaman. They're also on vacation until the end of July, sadly.
- World of Matticus has a great Shaman blogger.
- Big Hit Box is a Melee blog, with some info very useful to Enhancement Shaman.
Vinicius O. E. asked...
"If we are getting tier 9 on patch 3.2 then what are we getting on patch 3.3 when we finally face Arthas? Tier 10? We have 3 tiers in vanilla WoW and 3 tiers in BC so is Blizzard giving us 4 tiers in WotLK?"
Patch 3.3 will probably be Tier 10, yes. We've never seen four tiers of gear in one expansion before, but note how raid progression is pretty different in Wrath compared to The Burning Crusade. In The Burning Crusade, Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern were two separate raid instances but shared a tier for gear. Wrath of the Lich King has been more linear than that. If those two raids were in Wrath, SSC and TK would be on different tiers of gear and difficulty.
Xonate asked...
"Okay, I've been looking around on the site for a while now and I can't find it. How would one get in touch with some of the writers here at WoW.com? Or, if you want me to be more specific, how can I start throwing things at Matthew Rossi. Non-hurty things."
That was answered a few days ago!
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW.com crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column! Leave your questions in the comments and we'll do our best to answer 'em!Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Windswept Jun 23rd 2009 7:08PM
I love this song. I play it to make my living :D
dfgreat1 Jun 23rd 2009 10:59PM
I miss Brewfest!
Danafi Jun 23rd 2009 7:09PM
I am trying to help my Girlfriend's Warrior gear up from Prot to some form of DPS spec, I am thinking Fury, but I can't find any websites that have a good guide on what Heroics to do and gear to buy. Any hints?
jbodar Jun 23rd 2009 8:20PM
You could start here:
http://www.wow-loot.com/warrior.htm
It also lists rep rewards.
Retropally Jun 23rd 2009 7:10PM
I hope they release some naxx equal items for the champions marks...multiple alts need some lovin :P
Sarakin Jun 23rd 2009 7:48PM
just go run heroics for ulduar gear man
Bubsa Jun 23rd 2009 9:52PM
Yeah, seriously, you're missing a massive part of this patch.
richard.ashton Jun 23rd 2009 7:11PM
Wow, that it?
AareDub Jun 23rd 2009 7:16PM
If you transfer servers, does your /played time carry over?
Ezlo Jun 23rd 2009 7:38PM
Yup, just transferred myself and can confirm this.
Taladan Jun 23rd 2009 7:45PM
Yes. I just tranfered from an US server to an Oceanic and I still have my /played 194 days.
On the other hand, maybe I shouldn't mention that number...
Zalvi Jun 23rd 2009 10:09PM
also, your instances reset, it happened to me when i xfer i did VoA, OS, and EoE on wednesday and thursday and when i log in to my new server i didnt have raid IDs and the heroic got reset too.
johnthediver Jun 23rd 2009 7:18PM
So I write a little shaman blog. No theory crafting or anything, but I try to be entertaining. Spend most of my time talking about casual to moderate raiding, achievements, and things in the world of World of Warcraft (redundant?). Word of warning, I do a bit of bitching about real life things too.
www.sham-wows.blogspot.com
Crash Jun 23rd 2009 7:25PM
Did you tried any pierogi or bigos on Polish Fest, Alex?
Michael Jun 23rd 2009 7:27PM
I recently bought a mechano-hog. How do I find out how many other people on the server already have mechano-hogs?
Jay Jun 23rd 2009 7:42PM
That would be related to a question I have (and asked yesterday, but it was probably buried on the last page of the comments):
Are there any achievement-tracking sites that will show the stats on a particular achievement? Like how many people on a given server/battlegroup have that achievement, what day was that achievement first received, etc.?
I say it's related because, if there was such a site, you could search for Get In Da Choppa! and see how many people on your server have cycles.
Scunosi Jun 23rd 2009 11:30PM
Not totally true about the Chopper achievement. When my GM buddy made mine, he also got the achievement even though I ended up with the chopper. Not sure if that was a bug or not but it sure had us panicked for a few seconds thinking it was suddenly BoP.
And to hijack this comment, I've tried logging in to my account here many times, but the only option it gives me is to log in using my AIM account, something I don't have. I even tried making on last night but AOL is still as broken as it was 10 years ago and I'm still stuck with this dopey ogre. >:[
Jenessa Jun 23rd 2009 7:29PM
I have a question, I have found a quest in BRD where you have to be dead to receive it, are there any others like it in the game? I am an oddball and like to do silly things like that.
&&That song brings me back to polka dancing with my grandma and grandpa when I was 7 :)
josh Jun 23rd 2009 7:31PM
The only other quest you get while dead, that I know of, is actually part of the Linkin quest chain in Un'goro. You're given an elixir that you drink at the Gadgetzan graveyard and you do a 'ghost walk' to find the quest person.
keith Jun 24th 2009 11:06AM
There's also the one in Zul'Drak (IIRC), where the big troll comes and "kills" you, and you have to go find the ghost troll in the catacombs or something like that...