The Queue: Failure
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
I don't know which WoW Insider staff member originally cropped the image above so neatly, but they left it laying around our newsroom, and therefore it's fair game. Mine now! Sucks to be you, random WoW Insider writer! Guess who just stole your thunder! Yeah. That's right. It was me. (I hope it wasn't Rossi's picture ...)
If the above image is familiar to you, that's good! It goes hand in hand with the first iteration of worgen failure.
Cetha asked:
After reading the comments on the new female worgen faces, it made me wonder: How often do people actually look at the faces of their toons, besides in the character select screen?
When I build my toons, I always spin them around and pick the hairstyle that looks best from the back, since 99% of the time spent looking at my toon is spent looking at the back.
I see my characters' faces all the time! Aesthetics are very important to me in a game. Good aesthetics won't fix a bad game in my mind, but bad aesthetics will ruin a good game. I choose my characters' appearances very carefully, front and back. If my character looks bad, I don't want to play it. Yes, even if I can stick a helmet on them like some sort of paper bag of shame. There are races I simply will not play because I think they look bad and have stupid faces. Go on, guess what they are!
RogueJedi86 asked:
Does Vashj'ir have any rep factions? I notice because that list has two of them for the same zone (Therazane/Earthen Ring for Deepholm), with the rest for Uldum/Hyjal/Tol Barad/Twilight Highlands, but no Vashj'ir.
Vashj'ir has a hefty amount of Earthen Ring reputation from the shaman that you work with in early parts of the zone, and then it progresses into Alliance/Horde reputation. The Earthen Ring are present in multiple zones and is the major faction in Cataclysm. You'll be seeing a lot of them.
Fairlane asked:
With the domain change, will you be getting a new comment system?
... Bahahaha. You're kidding, right? Hahaha. Ha.
Oh. ... oh. You weren't kidding. Yes, it's a possibility. In the coming months, we're supposed to be getting a design pass to bring us in line with our new location, but the exact details of that aren't completely worked out. If we get a "new" comment system, it will be the one that Joystiq Prime uses. It's not new-new, but it's a little bit better.
Juanin asked:
Will the web adress www.wow.com stop redirecting to wow.joystiq.com at any time?
Yes, www.wow.com will stop redirecting to us in a few weeks. WoWInsider.com will redirect to us for ... hopefully forever!
dpoyesac asked:
Anyone know if the Brewfest boss has been changed to the LFD/auto-zone in/loot-bag system from the Midsummer boss (Lord Ahune)?
Yes, all holiday bosses have been switched over to this system.
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW Insider crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Leave your questions in the comments, and we'll do our best to answer 'em!
I don't know which WoW Insider staff member originally cropped the image above so neatly, but they left it laying around our newsroom, and therefore it's fair game. Mine now! Sucks to be you, random WoW Insider writer! Guess who just stole your thunder! Yeah. That's right. It was me. (I hope it wasn't Rossi's picture ...)
If the above image is familiar to you, that's good! It goes hand in hand with the first iteration of worgen failure.
Cetha asked:
After reading the comments on the new female worgen faces, it made me wonder: How often do people actually look at the faces of their toons, besides in the character select screen?
When I build my toons, I always spin them around and pick the hairstyle that looks best from the back, since 99% of the time spent looking at my toon is spent looking at the back.
I see my characters' faces all the time! Aesthetics are very important to me in a game. Good aesthetics won't fix a bad game in my mind, but bad aesthetics will ruin a good game. I choose my characters' appearances very carefully, front and back. If my character looks bad, I don't want to play it. Yes, even if I can stick a helmet on them like some sort of paper bag of shame. There are races I simply will not play because I think they look bad and have stupid faces. Go on, guess what they are!
RogueJedi86 asked:
Does Vashj'ir have any rep factions? I notice because that list has two of them for the same zone (Therazane/Earthen Ring for Deepholm), with the rest for Uldum/Hyjal/Tol Barad/Twilight Highlands, but no Vashj'ir.
Vashj'ir has a hefty amount of Earthen Ring reputation from the shaman that you work with in early parts of the zone, and then it progresses into Alliance/Horde reputation. The Earthen Ring are present in multiple zones and is the major faction in Cataclysm. You'll be seeing a lot of them.
Fairlane asked:
With the domain change, will you be getting a new comment system?
... Bahahaha. You're kidding, right? Hahaha. Ha.
Oh. ... oh. You weren't kidding. Yes, it's a possibility. In the coming months, we're supposed to be getting a design pass to bring us in line with our new location, but the exact details of that aren't completely worked out. If we get a "new" comment system, it will be the one that Joystiq Prime uses. It's not new-new, but it's a little bit better.
Juanin asked:
Will the web adress www.wow.com stop redirecting to wow.joystiq.com at any time?
Yes, www.wow.com will stop redirecting to us in a few weeks. WoWInsider.com will redirect to us for ... hopefully forever!
dpoyesac asked:
Anyone know if the Brewfest boss has been changed to the LFD/auto-zone in/loot-bag system from the Midsummer boss (Lord Ahune)?
Yes, all holiday bosses have been switched over to this system.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue, Cataclysm







Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Grovinofdarkhour Sep 20th 2010 12:12PM
"The Earthen Ring are present in multiple zones and is the major faction in Cataclysm."
VERY happy about this. Have waited years to see them get their day.
Jack Spicer Sep 20th 2010 3:35PM
Agreed. Especially since I'm on Earthen Ring and forget all the time what the heck its supposed to stand for.
Natsumi Sep 20th 2010 3:39PM
Jack Spicer, RP extraordinaire and closet nerd :D
Hehe, I kid, a good friend of mine used to play on ER, I convinced him to play on a real server though XD
Herman Sep 20th 2010 6:02PM
yay cenarion circle 4.0
Cephas Sep 20th 2010 11:08PM
Err... the Cenarion Circle is the Druid organization and the Earthen Ring is the Shaman organization
(cutaia) Sep 20th 2010 3:06PM
"I don't know which WoW Insider staff member originally cropped the image above so neatly, but they left it laying around our newsroom, and therefore it's fair game."
I've got my money on Robin.
JC_Icefox Sep 20th 2010 3:16PM
It looks like she is wearing a dress, so I'm betting on Archmage Pants.
Natsumi Sep 20th 2010 3:25PM
Speaking of Robin, I have a feeling this week's Live Stream will be Worgen Druid :p
Windswept Sep 20th 2010 3:29PM
Hi there, sorry to hi-jack but I just have to say something.
I have been reading wowinsider( I will forever refer to it as wowinsider no matter what) for a while now. And i do love your posts cutaia (btw nice job on that seeder post on nooby hunter) but can you PLEEEASE go back to the normal baby ogre picture. PLEASE. i had a nightmare last night with your disembodied head floating around in my dreams.\
thank you, that is all
Natsumi Sep 20th 2010 3:35PM
@windswept
You think that's bad, how bout this one:
http://www.cutaia.net/wow/whatafox.jpg
(cutaia) Sep 20th 2010 3:38PM
"You think that's bad, how bout this one:"
Somehow I knew that one would come back to haunt me. :P
Natsumi Sep 20th 2010 3:41PM
Hey, at least it wasn't a list of books you read XD
Dreyja Sep 20th 2010 3:45PM
Why, WHY do I click these links when I know I'm going to regret it. /shudder. Natsumi, that was just... ack!
Yes, THAT picture will give me nightmares. That face should not ever have boobies!
I'm going to go pour acid on my eyeballs now. X-p
Natsumi Sep 20th 2010 3:51PM
(cutaia) posted that pic first! Don't blame me for it :p
Trump Sep 20th 2010 4:35PM
Wait... what?
(cutaia) has a WEBSITE?? Why did no one tell me this before?!
Insta-bookmark, (cutaia), i love your comments.
Never leave us!
epicboyz Sep 20th 2010 3:57PM
Damn! I didn't know (cutaia) stared in "Sleepaway Camp"! 0_o
Grovinofdarkhour Sep 20th 2010 4:08PM
Still going through with that suit against the New York Jets?
Dreyja Sep 20th 2010 4:20PM
LOL Grovin... but those jeans are, like, his size! He can't help it that he's hot. XD /rofl
Robin Torres Sep 20th 2010 4:45PM
Sorry to disappoint. It was Michael Gray.
When I got the Failure, I whined about it in Twitter and workchat and to The Spousal Unit, but neglected to take a screenshot.
So, Cutaia, are you on Twitter? Coz I would SO follow you.
(cutaia) Sep 20th 2010 5:08PM
"So, Cutaia, are you on Twitter? Coz I would SO follow you."
Nope, actually, I'm one of those folks who's still resisting the Twitter machine (hell, I barely even succumbed to The Facebook until rather recently). Typing something on Twitter just feels too much like casting a message in a bottle out to sea. Except it's a really tiny bottle. And the sea is full of them.
As mentioned above, I do have a website full of random stuff I've done, but it's been barely updated since Quinella was conceived. I've recently gotten my desire to work on it back, though, so who knows...maybe I'll actually put some content up every now and then.