The Queue: Goodnight, sweet prince
by Alex Ziebart 
Jun 29th 2009 at 6:05PM
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.This weekend marked the end of an era, my friends. A champion (cheater) of the people (Gnomes) has fallen from grace (the thumbnails at the top of our site). The people (you guys) have shouted to the rooftops (our comments), "Down with oppression (martial arts techniques)! Down with corruption (GM lewts)!"
So it is done.
JustSaying asked...
"Can someone please change those 4 pictures near the top of WoW.com's page? I'm tired of seeing that stupid gnome head every time I come to this site."
Since you asked so nicely, Karatechop has been replaced.
Spidey asked...
"I've been leveling an alt (Troll Hunter) recently and decided to go mining/engineering, mostly for the bow/gun enchants and the like. I just leveled engineering to 200 and decided to go grab my Goblin Engineering membership. While doing the quest for membership I realized that the Alliance have Gnomes as a playable class, but how come the Horde doesn't have Goblins? In fact, Alliance has two "small people" races (Gnomes and Dwarves). Any chance the Horde will ever get Goblins or anything smaller than the Forsaken? I think Goblins would be cool, or dare I say, Murlocs as playable races."
I really don't have anymore insight on the topic than anybody else you might ask, unfortunately. Only Blizzard knows what Blizzard does. What I can do is give my opinion, though!
I really don't think we'll see murlocs as a playable race anytime soon. Or ever. It's funny to think about, but... no, not gonna happen.
Goblins? I could see it. If it happens, I don't think it will be the Steamwheedle Cartel. What they would probably do is have one of the many Trade Princes throw their lot in purely with the Horde, and keep the Steamwheedle Cartel nice and neutral. The Cartel sees staying neutral as being in their best interests business-wise (which is why they aren't officially members of the Horde, even if they favor them), but maybe other Goblins don't feel the same way. It certainly wouldn't be the first time we've seen a story about a mega-corporation getting their heads too high in the clouds, and deciding having their personal army would be a good move. Well, maybe the first time in Azeroth. But not the first time in fiction.
So will Blizzard do it? No idea. Could they do it? Sure!
Hal asked...
"Will we have new sources of Crusader badges in 3.2? Will they be from new tournament dailies, the exalted Silver Covenant/Sunreaver quests, drop from the 5/10/25 instance bosses?"
Yes, there will be new sources of badges. We don't know their drop rates from the instanced content yet, or even if they drop there at all, because that stuff isn't available for play yet. The various quests acquired at Crusader and Sunreavers/Silver Covenant Exalted all give Champion's Seals, though. Once you've hit those landmarks your Seals-Per-Day will skyrocket. Well, assuming you like daily quests the will!
DM7000 asked...
"Aside from the Argent Tournament, what is another way to raise rep with home cities? I mean I've done some of the low level quests and I'm still at most revered with my main faction (Thunder Bluff since I'm a Tauren) everything else is honored. Any tips or anything? I really want the Crusader title."
You pretty much have two primary choices here. The first being keep hunting down low level quests. If I remember right, nowadays you'll still get the full rep gain off of even grey quests. Find quest hubs you haven't done, and tear through it. That would be the most varied and interesting way to do it.
The other way is to do cloth turn-ins, but that requires either a lot of gold or a lot of time spent farming. Every capital city has a cloth turn-in NPC for their faction. First they'll ask you for 60 Wool, then 60 Silk, then eventually you get to Runecloth. There's no Netherweave or Frostweave turn-in, just Runecloth. And it takes a lot of cloth to make any rep progress.
If anybody has any other suggestions, please leave them in the comments!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
impurezero Jun 29th 2009 6:12PM
I guess all those requests for Karatechop removal I made were ignored because I asked like a jerk.
Thank God for like-minded people nicer than myself. :)
offday Jun 29th 2009 6:59PM
I think it was stupid to even address it, asked nicely or not. Do people have any real questions?
Karilyn Jun 29th 2009 8:16PM
I'm glad it was removed. It's one thing to feature a story on him (or gold sellers / account hackers / etc )
But it's another thing entirely to treat him like some sort of hero. It was in very low taste.
Mike Jun 29th 2009 6:15PM
Why are there Alliance NPCs riding around in the Barrens?
Keyra Jun 29th 2009 6:18PM
I noticed them too one day. It's not like they're part of any quest chain that I'm aware of, it's just some patrol that roams through. <shrug>
Mike Jun 29th 2009 6:24PM
Actually, if you kill them you get a drop that starts a quest. It's not unheard of from the opposite site either, as near Loch Modan there are Horde outrunners.
Kemikalkadet Jun 29th 2009 6:25PM
I assume you mean the pack of rare elite Alliance outriders?
If you killed them they drop "A runed scroll" which starts a quest. The story is soething along the lines of someone in Darnassus is sending spys out into the barrens and the outriders were delivering a message back to them, you have to go and kill one of their officials to send a warning to stay out of horde territory.
divinite Jun 29th 2009 7:08PM
I saw them the other day too, on my way to put out fires. They are rare elites, but were friendly to me. I'm guessing they drop something good for young hordies though!
Valhalaar Jun 29th 2009 6:17PM
I would like to know what are happening to the Heirloom shoulders with 3.2 with the removal of Emblems of Heroism. Will we be able to purchase them for the same amount of Conquest or Triump? Or will they all be moved to Stone Keeper's Shards?
Melimasth Jun 29th 2009 6:20PM
the shoulders will prolly stay the same since they arent completely removing emblems of heroism. they just wont drop from instances anymore.
James Jun 29th 2009 6:23PM
it's been mentioned a couple times that the vendors will still allow tradedowns, so you can trade your valor or whatevers down to heroism to get the shoulders and stuff you want from their vendors.
Chilleia Jun 29th 2009 6:25PM
I'm guessing you will still be able to trade in your badges of X for the lower ones. For example, you can trade in Badges of Conquest for Valor, and Valor for Heroism ( i may have messed up the order of Valor/Conquest)
Caelin Jun 29th 2009 6:16PM
No
Tianbeast Jun 29th 2009 6:19PM
I've found that doing the Turn-ins in Alterac Valley is a good way to get rep with all your base factions.
Golis Jun 29th 2009 6:26PM
This is absolutely true... I was able to get exalted on everything but those pesky gnomes just through AV... however, this was before the addition of reinforcements (when a match lasted long enough to get the resources and turn in mass quantities of various stuff).
Now, I can't even think of a match that would last long enough for me to gather enough stuff, zone back to the beginning, hand in quest, go back for more, etc. Don't get me wrong, I don't miss the old days, but it does limit the possiblities of AV being your one-stop shop for exaltation.
impurezero Jun 29th 2009 6:33PM
I personally find low-level quests the way to go.
I had Ambassador at level 38 just because I've been going for Loremaster from the beginning.
People kept asking me how the hell I did it, and I didn't understand why. I had gotten it without barely even trying.
Rodrigo Jun 29th 2009 6:33PM
AV enabled one guy from EU-Guldan (might be wrong??) to get Exalted with the Exodar during the time 2.0 was out, but the actual expansion wasn't... The Faction was in the game, but there was no real way to interact with them, so he got it via the AV turnins, I suppose...
Bronwyn Jun 29th 2009 7:03PM
This is what I do. You can gain quite a bit of rep with the "main" faction (Org for horde.. is it IF for Ally?) doing the AV turn ins and not too shabby residual rep with everyone else.
Aricharthau Jun 29th 2009 7:08PM
actually there's a trinket (i think it's an AV quest reward) that lets you port back to the beginning.
Nizari Jun 29th 2009 8:50PM
@Rodrigo: I know that in 2.0, blood elf NPC's with quests for Silvermoon City rep appeared in several Vanilla WoW towns (Kargath, Freewind Post, Stonard). I'm guessing that similar Exodar quests came in 2.0 as well, and he probably did all those plus the AV turn-ins.