Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. This week, Matthew Rossi's rabbit Grimalkin is using her priestly powers of mind control to answer your questions about World of Warcraft.

Hello.

Do you have any greens, or perhaps a carrot or two? No? Some pellets, perhaps? Or a banana chip? I enjoy banana chips and would gladly eat one now if you happened to have one.

You don't have any of that? I disapprove. But as I told Matt this morning while he was giving me some carrots, I'll fulfill this duty of answering your World of Warcraft questions. You're sure you don't have any banana chips? Not even one?

Hmmph.

Salty asks:

When Cataclysm starts up, will us 80's have a rested xp bonus? Well, Salty, I think it is unlikely. I don't believe that max-level characters still accrue rested benefit (Matt reports that none of his seemed to in either the start of Burning Crusade or Wrath), so it is probably not going to happen. It seems likely that Blizzard prefers that you experience the content fully on your first play-through and only adds shortcuts after. Still, if you have a level 80 character or characters and you'd like him or her to gain rested, simply leave those characters in an inn and roll a goblin (I approve of their ears) or worgen (I disapprove of their presumed bunny-eating ways). Your 80 toon/toons should accrue rested as normal in that scenario, as will any 80 characters you leave in inns once Cataclysm has launched.

Andrew asks:

Any insight into what the design intent for varying buff durations could be? Why, for example, are paladins' blessing buffs 10/30 mins, while druids and mages have 30/60 min buffs, and others, like Horn of Winter and warrior buffs are just a few minutes? What is the point in making us keep track of all these buffs? I've been leveling a paladin tank through the dungeon finder lately, and let me tell you, it's a pain in the ass having to refresh blessings on everyone every 10 minutes.

To answer your question, I meditated on the two different aspects of it while chewing on a bit of leaf and letting the sun warm me. Then my nose got itchy, so I scratched it. As far as I am aware, there has been no announcement yet on whether or not you'll need Cold Weather Flying to fly in Azeroth itself.

Anyway, yes, there is a point to buying cold weather flying for your 70 alt, and that is that even in Cataclysm, it will make the 70 to 80 stretch in Northrend much, much easier as well as letting you do quests in Icecrown, Sholozar and the Storm Peaks that require it. Unless we're informed that Cataclysm will be providing some other zones for leveling from 70 to 80, we just don't have anywhere else to go to get those levels, which we'll need to experience the next expansion 80 to 85 content.

Plus, we're not in the expansion yet, and we're at least several months away. You could have your 70 alt to 80 by that time, easily, and having Cold Weather Flying will only make it all the easier. Yes, absolutely, you should get it. And then get me some carrots. They grow in Crystalsong, but those snooty Dalaran cooking quest givers are hoarding them.

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