The Queue: All the single ladies
by Anne Stickney 
Jul 12th 2010 at 11:00AM
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. Anne Stickney will be your host today.
Everyone is somewhere else and therefore I have taken over this thing today. Column. Shindig. Let's get right to it, shall we?
There will be Cataclysm spoilers behind the cut.
threesixteen asks:
"Why does it have to be that when you die, your ghost is facing the exact OPPOSITE direction for running back to your corpse?"
Well threesixteen, spirit healers get bored. Really bored. I mean, look at what they have to do all day: sit around a graveyard, and wait for people to die. And how often do people die out there in the remote reaches of nowhere? More importantly, who bothers to talk to the spirit healer when they do, these days? Plus, they're all alone -- I mean, sure, if a few of them were right next to each other, they could play a round or two of canasta while waiting for Joemoocow the level 12 to accidentally run off a cliff and croak, but they don't have that option.
Being bored and alone makes a person a little goofy in the head. They like to point people in the wrong direction when they die because they think it's kind of funny to watch you stagger around like a dummy trying to figure out which way to run.
Entertainment. You take it where you can get it.
(cutaia) asks:
"With Anduin Wrynn growing up into a fine young man in Cataclysm... can he finally be killed?"
Having done some skulking around Stormwind on my Horde rogue, I can answer this with absolute certainty: You cannot kill Anduin Wrynn. He may look older, but at this time he's still only level 5. And if you get too close in an attempt to get a good look at the new model, Varian will see through your stealth and beat your face in.
Arlendor asks:
"What is the status of the Loremaster and Explorer achievements in Cataclysm?"
They're both still there! There is a new section called Explore Cataclysm that asks you to explore all the new zones, and a Cataclysm Dungeon Explorer achievement too. For Loremaster, it looks like none of the numbers have changed as far as how many quests you need to complete. Yet.
sclark1138 asked:
"What's happening with Tirion Fordring in Cataclysm?"
Fordring, fresh from his victory over being made into the world's largest human ice cube in Icecrown, has decided that Hearthglen is very nice. Very nice indeed. So he's moved in, kicked out the Scarlet Crusade, and the Argent Crusade is now making its home there.
Dreamstorm asks:
"Do the Twilight Cultists have any form of motivation to destroy the world or are they simply mind-controlled and to stupid to realize what they're doing (similar to the Scarlet Crusade recruiting Death Knights and Raven Priests)?"
Yes. They would very much like to see the world, such as it is, meet its end. They aren't mind-controlled; they're just barking nuts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 14)
Molly Jul 12th 2010 11:03AM
/Hands up!
Endario Jul 12th 2010 11:22AM
/cast Teleport: In the Club
N-train Jul 12th 2010 11:45AM
I raid with a druid who always seems to forget to put up his mark of the wild buff, so to remind him, me and another raider have a macro that /yells before a fight:
1: "all the single druids!"
2: "all the single druids!"
1: "all the single druids!"
2: "all the single druids!"
Both : "Put your paws up!"
At which point the druid will often respond: "If you like it then you shoulda bought a reagent".
Rin Jul 12th 2010 12:06PM
Goblin females having Single Ladies dance? Great.
Goblin males crankin' dat Soulja Boi? Awesome.
But I swear, if the female Worgens' dance doesn't at least touch on the dancing from Shakira's She-Wolf, I will loose faith in humanity.
Jason Jul 12th 2010 12:22PM
I LOL'd at the macro.
With regards to female worgen I'm going to put on my psychic octopus hat and predict Lady Gaga.
Ralod Jul 12th 2010 2:19PM
Love that macro:)
And I still think Worgen ladies have to be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67ZkAd1wmI&feature=related
Chetti Jul 12th 2010 2:27PM
HAHA wow I love that macro.. as a druid, it would be awesome if I ever saw that from a group. /paw up :)
Blondies Jul 13th 2010 2:12AM
@rin
According to wowwiki, we already have a race with dancemoves from shakira, Draenei.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Dance
Oh, and yes, I did notice the joke, I just found it lame ;)
Trilynne Jul 12th 2010 11:06AM
How will we know when we can actually go help take back the Echo Isles/Gnomer? I am really looking forward to these events!
Samutz Jul 12th 2010 11:37AM
You'll get a patch stating they are available in the patch notes, and it'll be all over the major wow news sites, such as WoW.com of course.
(cutaia) Jul 12th 2010 11:50AM
And like all new things in game, trade chat will be full of people arguing whether it sucks or rocks.
corpsehand Jul 12th 2010 11:06AM
"They aren't mind-controlled; they're just barking nuts.". Personally, I've always preferred the expression "pants-on-head retarded" for such things.
Anyway, a question. That zeppelin that's been hovering above Orgrimmar since vanilla. Does it finally go anywhere or do anything? Or is it just Thrall's equivalent of a captain's yacht?
Dave Jul 12th 2010 11:20AM
Some people just want to see the world burn.
Yep, 2930752835th Dark Knight Joker quote. If it bothers you, let me ask...Why so serious?
Shassar Jul 12th 2010 11:29AM
Damn it! It only bothers me 'cause I was gonna say that.
Dave Jul 12th 2010 11:32AM
@ Shassar HA! So is this grounds for a legal 'first'??
Eternauta Jul 12th 2010 11:33AM
It wasn't the Joker who said that. It was Alfred.
tatsumasa Jul 12th 2010 11:35AM
aren't they part of the cult of the damned? if they are, then their motivation is explained here http://www.wowwiki.com/Cult_of_the_Damned
Shassar Jul 12th 2010 11:45AM
@Dave
No, as you said, you're not first, you're 2930752835th ;)
corpsehand Jul 12th 2010 11:47AM
...none of this is answering the actual question that I posed...
JoeHelfrich Jul 12th 2010 11:51AM
No, the Twilight cultists are distinct from the Cult of the Damned.
In Lovecraftian literature, which is what *cough* inspired *cough* the old gods, the cultists see the rise of the deep ones as inevitable, and so help it along for one of two purposes. Some think that for helping them back to this world, the Old Ones will reward them by eating them last, meaning that they get to live longer and might have some sort of power in the mean time. The rest think the Old Ones will reward them by eating them *first*, so they don't have to live through the rest of the unpleasantness.
Which one's crazier? Kind of a toss up really.