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by Alex Ziebart 
Feb 2nd 2010 at 5:00PM
In this edition of The Queue, we answer a couple of new questions, and a couple of questions that we've answered approximately seventeen thousand times. Okay, not that many, but it certainly feels it. Hopefully between the new and the old there's something for everyone.
cactusham asked...
"Can Horde queue up for Stockades and Deadmines, and can Alliance queue up for Ragefire Chasm and Wailing Caverns?"
Assuming you're in the appropriate level range, yes! There's no threat of a bunch of Horde zoning out of the Stockades in the middle of Stormwind because the tool drops you back where you queued, not outside of the instance. It's a good opportunity to see content that normally would have been incredibly difficult to access.
Babaloo asked...
"How do you handle many whelps?"
Run directly into the middle of them and spam all of your AOEs while everyone else in your party also spams their AOEs and then get disconnected due to the obscene data flood.
That's how my raid's rogues seem to do it, anyway.
Montas asked...
"When Cataclysm hits, we (our 80s) won't be able to go back to the 'old world' becouse there will be "new old world." Will it be posible to help someone level up in old world? Will I be able to make the Loremaster achievement? Also, will chat channels be separated for old and new 'phase' of these zones?"
There is no old world and new old world. There's no phasing, there aren't multiple versions. When Cataclysm hits, the old world will change for absolutely everyone, even people who are leveling their very first character and only own vanilla WoW and none of the expansions. Azeroth as we know it now is going away permanently.
So yes, you can help someone level, because they'll be seeing all of the same things you will. We don't know what's going to happen with Loremaster yet, but it will most likely be updated to reflect the rest of the world. That, or we'll be given a new one.
Medros asked...
"If the Dragons are all children of the individual aspects, where do the proto drakes come from? A lot of them match in color to the various flights, but I would think that Alexstrasza wouldn't let her kids just be hanging out in Northrend, not after what happened at Grim Batol. Also, where in the evolution chain would they be? Higher than whelp, lower than a full Drake? Proto is defined as 'first, earliest, original' so would these be less evolved versions of the Dragons of Azeroth? If so, why didn't they evolve with Malygos, Alexstrasza, Neltharion, Ysera, and Nozdormu?"
The Proto-Drakes are what the dragons were before the Titans raised them up. They were more or less just beasts, like any other thing in Northrend. The Titans empowered many of them (not all of them), and they made the Aspects and the Dragons from them. Dragons and proto-drakes are two different things now, but at one time they were the same.
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Reader Comments (Page 9 of 9)
Mike Feb 3rd 2010 8:03PM
Question for next queue:
Are there any class beginner's guides out there designed for people who nothing about the class but still know a lot about another class? For instance, I know everything about Death Knights and Paladins, but I have no idea what the difference between Rogue talent trees, what green stats a Frost Mage should go for in PvE, or why Expertise is valuable for Enhancement Shamans.
Guapa Feb 5th 2010 10:32AM
I guess you could just go with a normal beginner's class guide and pretend that you don't know anything about other classes. A bit of self-deception goes a long way every now and then :-)
Richard Feb 6th 2010 1:28PM
I was recently perusing one of the top raiding guild's websites (I honestly don't remember which one because I looked at all of them that night). I noticed on their roster page, they had listed how this one particular paladin had come to their guild. It looked something like this:
Guild List
Fluffy Bunnies of Doom > Spiked Turtles of Anger > Fire Hounds of Death > Best Guild in the World
So, my question is how do you get noticed by the top guilds in the world? Do they go out and recruit? If so, what separates these players from the millions of other top geared players?
Lychee Feb 8th 2010 4:59PM
Here's a question about HoTs and DoTs- Do stat changes take effect on already applied Hots/Dots, or does it go by what stats you had when you cast them? For example, if I have Rejuvs rolling on most of the raid and I get a big haste buff, will those preexisting rejuvs start ticking faster? Or do only my rejuvs cast while I have this haste buff get a speed boost?
Keith Barriere Mar 2nd 2010 9:18PM
Here is a late question for you guys. I roll on a Horde server and lately we have had an influx of Alliance rerolls. Now, I can sort of understand them calling out for Heroism when we all know it's actually Blood Lust (we had it first). But why do many of them on loot rolls go /roll 1000? I have never met anyone who did that who wasn't an alliance turncoat and curious as to why Alliance players do that?
siimmart Apr 19th 2010 12:12PM
Hey, dear WoW.com answering-dude!
Well, here's the problem- I wanted to buy an authenticator. Plain and easy, yes.
Add it to my cart, check. (Checked if it was EU, check) Price- 6.99 €. Uhkay.
Wipe my sweat, check. Pressed ''proceed (or next, or whatever it was)'' check.
It needs to be logged in with the battle.net account, check and check! Again, pressing
''Proceed (or, youknow what I mean)'' and now what?!
''Please enter the 6 digits from your authenticator''
Is this some kind of a cruel joke?
Is it going to be fixed?
Can I buy it anymore?
Did I do something wrong?
Did I accidentally nuke the russians with some kind of hacking?
Etc, etc..
I asked more than 1 question, I hope that You find light in your heart to forgive me.
Thanks in advance!
-Yonga
Tysent Apr 24th 2010 4:19PM
Is it realistically possible to get exalted with your WSG faction before Cataclysm hits? Don't see how they would keep it around, at least not without changing it a bit.