The Queue: The Kweh
by Michael Sacco 
Feb 19th 2010 at 3:00PM
So how many people do you know that pronounce it "kweh" instead of "kyoo"? All it does is give me chocobos on the brain.
Boredbetweenclasses asked...
"When WotLK came out the design of the Chamber of Aspects seemed to imply that there would be at least five bosses, with one for each flight, as there are five gate points which all have two guardians of each flight. (Though the question remains as to why, as mortals, we'd even want to fight against the last three good-aligned dragonflights.) But over a year later with talk of Cataclysm coming soon we still only have The Obsidian Sanctum as an encounter there. Is there any indication of expanding the raid content within the Chamber in the future?"
The Chamber of the Aspects was, I believe, an area that was added as a contingency plan in case there needed to be some emergency raid content -- dragon encounters are comparatively easy to whip up compared to others, and the entrance area is already there.
Tom Chilton recently indicated that we might get a new one-shot raid in the Ruby Sanctum before Cataclysm launches, though, so if you've got a hankerin' for another fight where you avoid breaths, cleaves, and tail whips, you might be in luck.
Mortuus asked...
"Old news here, but a relatively recent hotfix reduced the amount of times Jedoga Shadowseeker sacrifices a pupil to produce her "wipe everyone" ability to once per fight. Why, exactly? Why is Blizzard even bothering with such a trivial fight? Sure, I've wiped once on that fight, only because someone (me) didn't understand the mechanics until after we were smoking piles of ash, but the second run through, and every other run through, even in heriocs, went by without a hitch. Why was this change made?"
That fight, and other fights like it (Anomalus, Ionar, etc) were based around much lower DPS benchmarks than the average puggie can do today with the advent of cheap tier 9 gear and badge items. The number of times those phases occur is lower just to avoid the annoyance of DPSing for five seconds, waiting through a phase change, DPSing for five seconds, etc.
It's just a good quality-of-life change, and as someone who does random heroics in t10 gear, I appreciate it.
Morgatho asked...
"I heard that in Cata, once you get a 310 flying mount all your 280 mounts will scale up to the higher speed, true or false?"
At BlizzCon '09, Blizzard said they were considering this. We've gotten no new word on it since.
Mark asked...
"I recently ran Stratholme with my mage (trying to get the mount) and I noticed when I use invisibility the scourge can see me. What I don't understand is why they have a big blue circle over their heads, with all the different kind of scourge, is that some kind of symbol used by the Lich King to keep track of which ones are which?"
It's a blue radar eye thing, which was added above the heads of mobs who can see through stealth in the Burning Crusade so rogues know who to watch out for.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Thorie Feb 19th 2010 3:04PM
What large-tusked animal went extinct for the building of Orgrimmar?
Ghostroo Feb 19th 2010 3:16PM
If you mean the "extinct" creature just outside Thralls building (Grommash Hold), it's not really a dead creature but rather a large tree stump adorned with Mannoroths remains. http://www.wowwiki.com/Mannoroth
However if you're talking about the tusks that are built in to many of the buildings around Orgrimmar and other places (towers outside Orgrimmar that the Zeppelins dock at), then it's most likely huge mammoths. There's allot of places where you'll spot huge skeleton remains as well as the fact if you look at the size of Deathwing, you pretty much have an idea of just how huge some creatures can get.
Eddy Feb 19th 2010 3:40PM
I was thinking about that the other day!
My thought was those giant thunder lizards.
Baval Feb 19th 2010 4:09PM
Thralls an accomplished Monster Hunter (wields a Hunting Horn) and those are Akantor Tusks
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs31/f/2008/196/d/e/akantor_by_havoc41383.jpg
Sinzaram Feb 19th 2010 7:12PM
I think the bones might not be tusks at all, but ribs.
Fletcher Feb 19th 2010 7:59PM
I *think* (couldn't be certain) that I read somewhere that the Orcs actually carve trees into the giant tusk shapes. Which makes sense, considering the sheer size of whatever would have to provide them otherwise, and the lack of colossal tusked behemoths in both Azeroth and Outland. I suppose the first Orcs could have done it with Gronn ribs, but those are rare (and dangerous!) enough to make their use as a common building material unlikely.
Bvannas Feb 19th 2010 8:48PM
You know all those people grinding leather in the storm peaks?
Someones got to put the tusks to good use, and seen as the horde arent gonna use cows for meat, what do you thinks in the burgers?
Natsumi Feb 19th 2010 10:32PM
I heard that!
Barthy Burgers FTW!
Bryan Dare Feb 19th 2010 3:05PM
Stupid SquareEnix. What happened to wark? Why kweh? *sigh*
I miss SquareSoft.
QQ
xvkarbear Feb 19th 2010 3:17PM
Did you not play final fantasy 9? (Before SquareSoft became SquareEnix)
It was most definitely kweh before Enix came along.
Bryan Dare Feb 19th 2010 3:22PM
Yes, I most certainly played IX; it's probably my favorite.
I don't remember the kweh though...
I remember Bobby Corwen! =D
Hehe.
Saint Feb 19th 2010 3:24PM
I imagine Kweh and Wark as two different noises from the same creature.
Chocobos are similar to chickens. Chickens make that clucking noise they make, but when they get excited they make that BWAAAK noise. Calm Chocobo goes kweh, surprised Chocobo goes waaark!
Yeah.
Raze Feb 19th 2010 3:28PM
/fistpound at FFIX comment.
Best game in the series, by far.
@Saint
'Kweh' is just the noise they make period, now. Wark is no more.
There's a mini-game in IX where your chocobo screams "KWEEEEEH" every time it gets really close to treasure. Generally all caps do not denote serenity.
Cyanea Feb 19th 2010 4:35PM
Wait wait wait...
I'm -NOT- the only person online who loves FFIX?
Banic Rhys Feb 19th 2010 4:49PM
FFIX is all well and good but FFVI is where it's at!
Kefka shall rule you all!
Kirkules Feb 19th 2010 4:55PM
VI followed by IX for my favs. Oddly the first picture on the latest Drama Mamas column reminded me of Kefka. It's FF day at wow.com!
scalien Feb 19th 2010 4:59PM
Not at all. Though I will admit the ending was weak. But the game had me entralled until the end.
I've only made it to the end of 3 of the FF games. Can never get motivated to do the final bit of grinding to kill the last boss on a lot of them. For alot of them the story just wasn;t interesting enough for the extra hours.
kabshiel Feb 19th 2010 5:15PM
I love Final Fantasy, but most of the games devolve into random weirdness by the end. FFIX was one of the worst in that regard, but the first 2/3 of the game was really great.
Oni Stardust Feb 19th 2010 5:28PM
*raises hand*
Can I join the "I love FFIX" club to?
Awesome game, It's so good I forgive it for having a final boss that comes out of frickin' nowhere. I've been thinking of playing it through again.
oniryuujin Feb 19th 2010 5:52PM
actually someone came up with a pretty good theory that the last boss in 9 was the soul of the Ifia Tree, provided some excellent points for it too, but thats nothing compared to 10's when we find out the mastermind is a Tick and no reason whatsoever on how a freaking Tick got that powerful.