The Queue: Monster

Whenever you get the urge to complain about the current state of worgen female models, stop. Remember what you've just witnessed, and remember that it could always be worse. So much worse.
Starlin asked:
Many guilds just hit level 5. How does Cash Flow work? Does it turn on immediately or what?
Yes, it turns on immediately. It works quite intuitively. You loot a mob, it generates 5 percent more copper/silver/gold and deposits it straight into your guild bank. Your chat box will tell you how much was deposited right after it informs you how much you've looted.
Ez asked:
Are they doing anything about the astounding queue times for Cataclysm dungeons? Two hours without a hit is a tad too long I think.
There isn't much they can do about it. The queue times are horrifically long for DPS because tanks are quite rare. Healers don't have it as bad as DPS, but even their queues aren't instant. The only solution is to make more people play tanks. Maybe if, upon queueing for a dungeon as a tank, Blizzard went to your home and cooked you dinner.
bdew asked:
Is it me, or is the ilevel gap to get into heroics awfully tight? You need average ilevel 329 and the best items you can get outside of heroics and raids are 333, so it's just a 4-point difference. THere are slots that don't even have ilevel 333 items for some classes/specs!
Remember to take reputation rewards and crafted items into consideration. Unlike Wrath of the Lich King, it's expected that you put some effort into pre-heroic content before you can step into heroics. That doesn't just mean running normal difficulty dungeons. That means questing, it means finding craftsmen who can make you what you need, it means all of that sort of thing. I was shy of 329 for my first heroic, and it drove me crazy trying to find an easy drop to bring up my average. My buddies were doing some heroics and I wanted to join them, so it was a little frustrating.
I did end up joining them because I remembered I could get a pair of blue bracers crafted that would push me over the top. I had them made in a hurry and spent the night conquering heroics. Good times.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 14)
Task Dec 20th 2010 11:04AM
Dear The Queue,
What will be best for Xmas dinner:
Traditional turkey (or the kosher/vegetarian equivalent)
or
a stuffed Turduckin?
Open discussion for all.
Billlop Dec 20th 2010 11:06AM
If their gonna have a "kosher" Turkey then its not Christmas dinner
Veloxe Dec 20th 2010 11:08AM
Bacon wrapped stuffed Turducken.
Corath Dec 20th 2010 11:08AM
Turkey, by far. The best for leftovers.
djwesche Dec 20th 2010 11:12AM
Turduckin all the way.... mmm mmm goood!!!
Helston Dec 20th 2010 11:14AM
You people need to learn how to cook gluttonous foods!
First we start with a hummingbird, put that in a sparrow, stuff them both in a cornish hen, then put that in a chicken. Put all that in a duck, then a turkey, then in a bigger turkey. Put that in a penguin, stuff that in a peacock, then an eagle, shove it all in an albatross, then an emu, next comes an ostrich, then a leopard! Put all that in a pterodactyl, and then stuff it in a Boeing 747.
SaintStryfe Dec 20th 2010 11:20AM
Actually Koshering poultry is not hard. Alton Brown did it to a duck on his last Christmas special. It means drawing out excess moisture, using salt. He butterflied the bird (that is, cut it flat to remove the big arse cavity, sorry Stuffing lovers), and then koshered it by putting salt on it to draw out the less desirable moisture. It creates a lovely bird, if not exactly Norman Rockwell-like. Here's a video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc62e2IItJE
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For the Alliance.
/bringing it back to a similar topic.
Ilmyrn Dec 20th 2010 11:22AM
Ham for Christmas and Easter, Turkey for Thanksgiving. Crab dip for New Years, and roast beef for every other holiday.
shomechely Dec 20th 2010 11:29AM
Dude. You always stack ham for Christmas Dinner. Your next primary stat should be potatoes - always and then gem for cookies. Shheeesh! L2Holiday
brownyboi Dec 20th 2010 11:45AM
@ Helston
RvB ftw!
But how do you cook that thing?
Grovinofdarkhour Dec 20th 2010 11:50AM
But I don't have an oven big enough to cook a Boeing in!
xenothaulus Dec 20th 2010 11:57AM
You spelled ham wrong.
Jormund Fenris Dec 20th 2010 11:57AM
@Helston
We sweds have a similar dish called "Svan a lá slängstina" it's similar to yours, except reverse. You take a Swan, put a goose in it, put a duck in the goose, a hen in the duck, a dove in the hen, a blue tit in the dove, and finally you put an elk in the blue tit.
The recipie is a secret, and is to be made by specialists (for obvious reasons) but totally worth it, so've heard.
Faar Dec 20th 2010 12:04PM
Why would anyone bother with "koshering" anything, with salt or otherwise? What a load of nonsense!
Just kill it, and eat it. Like we did back in the stone age, before the abrahamic religions were invented. You think anyone wrinkled their noses at pork back then? Or crayfish? No way. Pigs and crayfish are good eats.
We killed 'em, and ate 'em, and the bacon sat well in our stomachs too, even that long ago. :D
Zebreck Dec 20th 2010 12:14PM
Honest to god real recipe.
Traditional Bediun Wedding feast:
Sheep into goat into donkey into camel.
Depending on what part you get (do NOT ask for the head) it can be pretty good. And no, I have not personally been to a Bediun wedding. However, one of the perks of being an archaeologist in real life is having friends who work all over the world, some of whom have ranches and a very strange idea of what Pot Luck means.
StClair Dec 20th 2010 12:36PM
@Faar:
Actually, most of the Abrahamic dietary restrictions make perfect sense if you're a desert tribesman without access to refrigeration or most other means of preservation. Most of the things on the Bad List would make you VERY sick, or be otherwise unsafe to eat, after a very short window.
Once you drill down to the core of these things, they're often extremely practical - like the Shinto taboos, which are mostly variations on "don't handle blood or biological waste."
Noyou Dec 20th 2010 12:38PM
My family does X-mas eve. In addition to the lasanga I am making (ground beef and ground italian suasage) we are having sliced italian beef and broasted chicken. (chicken inn - the best!) You guys can have your turkey and ham. :) My aunt usually gets some Cannoli's for dessert. Best part is I have a 2 min walk to get to where I need to go :) /win
icepyro Dec 20th 2010 12:40PM
This video was given as a Thanksgiving meal, but if you are going to do turduckin, I see that and up it by a quail in a cornish hen in a chicken in a duck in a turkey in a pig. Stuffed with bacon croissant stuffing and wrapped in bacon, with a side of baconators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ
79 thousand calories. Nearly 7kg of fat. That is all.
erknost Dec 20th 2010 12:41PM
Well... I'm gonna eat cuban Pork, and US Turkey and mexican Codfish. I LOVE the Pork, it's such a noble animal, it bring us the beacon!
BigBadGooz Dec 20th 2010 12:44PM
Traditionaly we go with the following
1.ham
2.turky(yes we have enough people to scarf 2 different meats)
3.stuffing(ain't no ordinary either )
4.deviled eggs(personaly I eat like20 of these buuuuuurrrrrppp)
5.PIE of all sorts