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by Adam Holisky 
Jun 2nd 2011 at 11:00AM
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior facepalming correspondent, will be your host today.Okay Twins, meet me over here in the private corner of The Queue, away from Cutaia, MattK, Grovin, Skarn, and all the other regulars.
/walks over the left
You here? Great. Now, I know that times are tough -- your big guys have been hurt, are hurt, or are just coming off some serious injuries. But 17-37? The worst record in baseball, by far? Let's not do this anymore.
K?
You can go back over there and read or play cards or whatever else it is that you do when you should be practicing. Just don't let Torri Hunter catch you ... Remember what he did in 2006.
Inbred asked:
I have 4000 JPs and 3000 VPs and I know that VP are being converted to JP in 4.2. So, what happens when you're at the JP cap of 4000? Will my VP turn into "Vapor Points", or will the 4000 cap be lifted so that I will have a total of 7000 JPs?
I can't find any official statement from Blizzard on this. However, the "community wisdom" is that you'll have a total of 7,000 justice points. You won't be able to earn any more justice points until your total justice points drops below the 4,000 mark.
Expect a post from Blizzard clarifying this soon™.
Devo_AS asked:
When are we going to get new Guild tabard icons? They are all VERY dated, pixelated and just uninteresting images. For example, why cant Arena team icons be used on tabards to add some variety? Or just some updated versions of the limited choice we have now?
Blizzard hasn't said anything about this, but I agree with you -- they're very dated. My guess is there are other priorities for the art folks. However, they are adding female forms of warlock demons, so who knows ...
Joe asked:
Could we still see epic gems in 4.2, or is it too late by now? Do we know everything about 4.2 by now, save for some class changes yet to come?
While Blizzard is still adding things into the client data files right now, no epic gems or anything that points to them have been added -- and as big of a thing as they'd be, I'd assume they'd already be here if they were. So, my gut is telling me not in 4.2.
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Reader Comments (Page 10 of 10)
Grovinofdarkhour Jun 2nd 2011 4:40PM
Dear The Queue,
It's been said pretty consistently for quite some time that Engineering is the least profitable crafting profession (with its only real competition for the bottom spot coming from Leatherworking, in my experience). In light of this, isn't it about time they made the http://www.wowhead.com/item=34060 and the http://www.wowhead.com/item=34061 (- which are already not BOP, potentially opening the door to AH hijinks -) no longer require Engineering to use? As an engineer, I wouldn't mind the loss of exclusivity at all, if we got a reasonable money-making opportunity in exchange.
Thanks,
Grovin
VioletArrows Jun 2nd 2011 6:07PM
"I wouldn't mind the loss of exclusivity at all" You'd probably be the only one. Nothing make players' heads explode faster than being told there will be one less thing to make them a special snowflake.
Jahka Jun 2nd 2011 4:47PM
Adam, why would you do this? I go to WoW to escape the horrible reality of the fact that my team went from amazing to toilet water from one season to the next.
/target Twins
/point
/mourn
AudreyR Jun 2nd 2011 6:10PM
I'm a Royals fan.
You had hope, once. What's it like?
Skarn Jun 2nd 2011 6:57PM
It's this glorious soaring feeling...until you realize you're a boulder and everything comes crashing down and shatters into shards of pain and suffering.
Skarn Jun 2nd 2011 7:07PM
Oh, forgot the System hates certain marks. Makes it hard to make arrows!
Anyway, I'm a Mariners fan. Ah, I remember the 2001 season. /sob
Nexonexo Jun 2nd 2011 11:28PM
Alright, so I finally got the recipe for vial of the sands on my Alchemist Tauren. I've read everywhere, MULTIPLE times, that goblins get about a 5800g deal, due to their racial discount. I also read that any goblin of any level can buy cheap mats to make the vial.
So why then did I have to spend the full amount on my goblin mage (non-alchemist) to get the mats? No deal, no discount, nothing.
Did they remove that discount for those special mats, or does the goblin have to be the alchy with the recipe now for the discount to work?
maxwell Jun 2nd 2011 11:58PM
Q:
A guildie whom we've been playing with for almost four months just disappeared. Considering that he only missed one raid during that time and that he implied he'll be attending the next raid -which was over two weeks ago, we as a guild (and me as the virtual mom of the guild) are really worried.
As nobody in the guild has his readl id for some reason, I tried /2, ex-guildies of him and even asked different GMs if they can just say if he logged into his battle.net account in the last two weeks but got nothing. I wasn't expecting getting his real id from a GM, but apparently I can't know if he logged in or not either. We just want to know if he's alright, but we can't think of any other way. Any suggestions?
Cricket Jun 3rd 2011 12:30AM
The GMs won't tell you about any of his activity for privacy reasons, however, if you impress upon a GM how worried you are and that this is unusual behavior on his part and if he really hasn't logged in for that time despite his clear intention of doing so, I think it may possibly be viable cause for them to contact his local authorities. You may not hear anything until and unless the guildie shows up again, but at least you'd know you'd done what you could.
Chances are he's just unexpectedly swamped in real life, these things happen. If his game time has run out and he can't pay right now or something happened in his social circles that takes up all his attention and energy, he may not have had the chance or the inclination to let you guys know.
Shandeigh Jun 3rd 2011 12:16AM
You used to be able to take a flight plan and while you were flying surf the web. The last few months it seems to d/c you if you are surfing more than a minute or two. Is this something that Blizzard has changed?
Cricket Jun 3rd 2011 12:36AM
I've had the disconnect problem for quite some time, so if it's a change it isn't a recent one. A stopgap solution I've found that came with some interesting side benefits is playing the game in windowed (fullscreen) mode instead of regular full-screen. It's likely more taxing on your system and may not be a viable option, but the disconnecting, at least for me, seems to be triggered by the game being in minimized state and this way I can just put other windows in front of it. I haven't had one of those disconnects since.
I still get the random "switch character" disconnects though :(
animagoosnezam Jun 3rd 2011 12:39AM
Is macro out dated ?
i had some discussion about macro last week with one of my friends and he consist that macro is out dated.
He play warlock and i play Hunter, one day he logged in with my hero to do my daily JC Quest, and day after, he ask me to delete all my macro because macro is out dated.
I told him they are useful but he deny it, i don't now what should i told him.
Is there any good warlocks site with some awesome macro ? Maybe this way he stop arguing with me about macro ?!
Shizzle Jun 3rd 2011 1:00AM
Does Blizzard have plans to release a Kharazan 5-man or Raid? I've noticed that in the new (read: Cataclysm) model of the Kharazahn tower, there is a zone portal behind iron bars up at the top that is not the main entrance (which is down below) nor is it the side door (which is in the middle of the tower). This entrance is on the top of the tower, on the north side and appears to have the beginning portions of what can easily turn into a flightpath (i.e. grifon nests, but no NPCs, etc). Any Idea what this is foreshadowing?
tomteboda Jun 3rd 2011 8:57PM
Its the new stadium. Take it away and go make them play in the dome like big boys and maybe they'll grow up.
Ok ok I know..they've had a lot of injuries this year. But I swear its the new stadium.. bad karma.