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by Michael Sacco 
Jan 2nd 2011 at 2:00PM
Am I talking about Alan Wake or falling asleep with The Queue open in my editing software? In your heart, you know the truth.
Borayar asked:
Just finished the Sun Oblisk quest in Uldum. Why is the meteor beam shooting toward Azeroth's core? Titan engine? Ragnaros' goblin BBQ? Twilight Hammer's community spa tub?
Uldum conceals machinery that can be used to re-originate Azeroth -- that is, scrap the whole darn thing and start over. It's likely that this is these are the devices that would've responded to Algalon's request should we have failed to change his mind.
Styopa asked:
Why don't they just raise Cairne Bloodhoof? I mean really, no lvl 14 priests anywhere around?
It's important to make a distinction between game mechanics and lore. You couldn't use a Phoenix Down on Aeris either.
Thedoctor2031 asked:
I've been wondering about raids. Which raid are we supposed to go to first? Are all of them of the same difficulty level? Argaloth wasn't to difficult of an encounter when my group tried him, but Halfus absolutely destroyed us. Magmaw also looks rather easy but than the Omnitron Defence System looks rather intimidating. We don't even think we should try council at the Four Winds. Any thoughts?
All of the currently-available raids are on the same tier, so they should provide similar challenges, though some specific encounters will definitely be more difficult than others (just like every tier before this). And, just like Wrath's Vault of Archavon, encounters in Baradin Hold will be much less difficult than encounters in "real" raids.
Biggjudicem asked:
For the 12 days of Winter Veil giveaway, are all the winners going to be announced at the end, or is is when each individual 'day' ends is the winner informed right away?
We inform the winners privately, though it may not be until a few days or more after the contest ends.
DarkFinch asked:
Characters have been able to buy racial war-mounts using Honor points for quite some time. As a horde character, I've managed to get all 5 mounts... But now I'm wondering, why hasn't Blizzard given a war-version of the Goblin trike? Has Blizz mentioned anything about adding such a mount to the game?
Black elekks and hawkstriders weren't available until a few patches into Burning Crusade, so if we're getting a PvP version of the goblin trike, it may not be for a while yet.
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 7)
Joseph Smith Jan 2nd 2011 3:05PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerith_Gainsborough
Warning! 13 year old spoilers contained within! ;)
SaintStryfe Jan 2nd 2011 2:52PM
I.. .had... just gotten... over... poor.. Aeris!~!!!!!!!! BWAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!
=;^;=
Kanfazar Jan 2nd 2011 3:04PM
The scene with Seto was sadder for me.
Especially thanks to the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI8bHs6Qvk
Inahu Jan 3rd 2011 12:53AM
That's odd to me, because I wasn't moved by Seto's 'death' at all. Not even a little bit, I was in fact, bored. Red XIII was one of if not the most dispensible characters ever to exist in an RPG, and his personal tangent-storylines proved more of a chore to work through.
All of Cosmo Canyon needs to die violently.
Hangk Jan 2nd 2011 3:04PM
Some day there will be a video game franchise lamer than Final Fantasy.
And on that day, the seas will boil, the skies will turn to blood, and fire and ash will rain down and DESTROY THE WORLD. Because Final Fantasy is just that Bog-damned lame.
That is all.
Narshe Jan 2nd 2011 3:11PM
Go back to 4chan please.
icepyro Jan 2nd 2011 3:09PM
Btw, I would just like to say I got a late start this morning so I opened my reader, saw contests to enter and did that then opened the Sunday Funnies. I finished that, and being still tired, I got up for some more coffee. I have to admit a small amusement at sitting back at my computer yawning, glancing at the reader and the top thing says "Wake up".
Wualu Jan 2nd 2011 4:43PM
I just completed lore master achivement and Cairne sent me a message with the tabard... he is alive... somewhere XD
Utakata Jan 2nd 2011 3:22PM
Michael Sacco answered:
"'Why don't they just raise Cairne Bloodhoof? I mean really, no lvl 14 priests anywhere around?'
It's important to make a distinction between game mechanics and lore. You couldn't use a Phoenix Down on Aeris either."
Sorry and with all due respect, though technically true...that is a bit of a weak answer.
A lore explanation can be found during the Troll start-up zone. I won't give any spoilers away...other than to say a healer NPC gives a reason why some can't be resurrected after the main Vol'jin event. Something to do with the soul being sundered from the body in such a voilent way, that resurrection is unobtainable.
I would further speculate in the case of Cairne, he may not want to come back. His life and reason for being there is done, so time to move on. Like Thall passing the leadership torch to Garrosh only he chose permadeath instead. And kinda like a player in a fit of nerd rage refuses a Rez during a PuG Heroic gone horribley wrong and logs off instead as also another take on this.
Artificial Jan 2nd 2011 7:41PM
Just because they occasional throw bits of meat to the wanks doesn't make explanations of this type not fanwank. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanWank if you're unfamiliar with the term.)
The real explanation is that game mechanics are part of the game, not part of the lore.
Utakata Jan 3rd 2011 5:05AM
And just because it doesn't suit the disagree'able with burrs up their asses, it doesn't mean it's fanboi meat one is throwing. Unless of coarse you can disprove my claim and can prove I am a fanboi. Good luck with that.
Either way though and like it or not, the expanation does answer many of questions around lore and death ingame and as well bring some consistancy with the game mechanics. Not sure what the issue is here. /shrug
Darasen Jan 3rd 2011 9:00AM
Something to do with the soul being sundered from the body in such a violent way, that resurrection is unobtainable. ...
At the risk of being argumentative allow me to assure you that my characters souls have sundered in some Extremely violent gruesome horrific ways.
StankyLegEvans Jan 2nd 2011 3:30PM
I've got a question. Before 4.03a, Mannoroth's armor was in Orgrimmar affixed to a large tree in the Valley of Honor. What happened to this armor after the Shattering?
thelopes Jan 2nd 2011 4:12PM
It is now Garrosh's armor.
Anvika Jan 2nd 2011 3:32PM
Are there any new rare spawns?
Shuckles Jan 2nd 2011 3:38PM
This has probably been asked before but I've been losing sleep over it so I must bring it up again.
During my world travels fulfilling the call of the Archaeologist, I stumbled across a site I had been to many times before. Southeast of Mannoroc Coven, nestled in a valley hidden behind a mountain, there are walking skeletons and the Centaur Necromancers that raised them. Not so moving, however, would be many skeletons of creatures since passed into the nether that these necromancers had yet to rise. Among these appears to be a very scary thought, should they change their minds. Two huge skeletons of... Naga?
I know the secrets of Azeroth are many, and parts of its past still hidden, yet to be discovered, but surely Queen Azshara's twisted people were not gifted with such a thing as what these two became? I therefore ask.. What, in name of the Light, were these two things?
Muuma Jan 2nd 2011 3:55PM
http://www.wowpedia.org/Dead_Goliath
Shuckles Jan 2nd 2011 4:11PM
One of the definitions of Goliath simply is "A person or thing of colossal power or achievement." They most definitely are goliaths in size and what is probably power, but what they are, beyond that, is what I am more interested in. Are they, in fact, Naga? Or something far more sinister? Or perhaps sinister is in the completely wrong direction?
Anteia Jan 2nd 2011 11:43PM
Well, okay, let's look at this logically with this theory:
Azshara and the rest were turned INTO Naga by, what we presume from the whisperings implied, were Old Gods. We know some of the old god lieutenants before were REALLY HUGE. What if the 'naga' form wasn't original when Azshara and her higher ups end up in it, and instead is based on a race that was wiped out earlier on that served the Old Gods? Sort of the Old Gods 'recreating' their new servants in the image of older ones? That would explain the skeletons we find being FREAKING HUGE and the later naga not being so. They're not the same race, the naga were created to LOOK like the previous race. I have nothing at all to back up there once being giant naga-esque creatures, but that's my theory.
Vrykerion Jan 3rd 2011 12:01AM
They're Hakkar's cousins (or they use the same dentist). :D Take a look: http://oddcraft.net/wordpress/2010/09/10/go-goliaths-go-go-goliaths/