The Queue: Frightening little things
by Alex Ziebart 
Jun 29th 2011 at 11:00AM
Ah, patch 4.2. It's nice having something I can do solo on a high-end character. Kick back, relax, kill some mobs at my leisure. I only wish the first tier of Firelands dailies wasn't so ... limited. Two quests per day until the next unlock is a bit boring! It gets better, though.
Skar asked:
Where's my /map animation?
It isn't /map. You have to actually open your map (or your mail) to see it. Though if you have your map open ... you probably still won't see it.
Knob asked:
Now that Firelands is coming, let's speculate on future raids in this expansion. Do you think we'll see a War of the Ancients raid? I know it was hinted at during Blizzcon (Afrasiabi said that we're going to see the Infinite Dragonflight in action), but with Firelands having been pushed from 4.1 to 4.2 and Abyssal Maw being cancelled, do you think WotA will end up on the chopping block as well? And will we ever hear about where Deathwing is holed up? We always knew that Illidan was in the Black Temple, Kil'jaeden was waiting to be summoned in the Sunwell, the Lich King was on top of the Icecrown Citadel....but where is Deathwing? It seems like he doesn't have an iconic place to call his lair.
Cataclysm has made me very unwilling to rely on things Blizzard says at BlizzCon. I'm fairly certain that almost every major Cataclysm feature discussed at the past BlizzCon(s) ended up either changing so much as to be unrecognizable or were straight up canned. That's understandable to some extent -- some of those features just weren't working out -- but this expansion has reached nearly comedic levels as far as how much hasn't happened/won't happen.
I would love to be able to say, "Yes, absolutely, we're getting War of the Ancients," since Blizzard talked about it at BlizzCon, at a fansite gathering, and to the press, but the reality is that we have no flipping idea what Blizzard is doing this expansion.
Deathwing ... who knows? Maybe we haven't seen his lair because we'll fight him in an instanced version of the overworld. Showdown over Stormwind City?
Neroh asked:
I was excited about the new roar sound effects in patch 4.2...but they sound horrible. What's the deal!?
Fun fact: Those /roar sound files have been in the game files since the very beginning, back when the game launched. They were just never used. Those recordings are probably six, seven years old. They were most likely never used because they sound absolutely awful. Players liked the worgen roar so much, however, that they decided to enable them for everybody.
If you play a draenei or a blood elf, your roar isn't actually a roar. It's a /charge emote reassigned to /roar. Why? Because Blizzard didn't have a roar recorded years in advance for you guys, and it didn't record anything new for anybody when implementing these /roars. You guys get a recycled sound file, and everybody else gets one from 2004.
bebop6275 asked:
Why is one of Hakkar the Soulflayer's nicknames The Faceless One?
I think "Faceless" is just one of those stock titles to make something sound evil. It probably has no relation at all to other Faceless-styled things in Warcraft.
Things that are faceless are scary. See: The Slender Man internet phenomenon. Unless you're easily creeped out like I am, then don't look into the Slender Man at all. Really. Don't.
My question to you:
Is it just me, or is World Shaman a super-lame and awkward title?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
jtrack3d Jun 29th 2011 11:04AM
Yea, well play a druid night elf, shift into bear or cat and /roar.... = /lame. Not awful... lame!
theRaptor Jun 29th 2011 12:35PM
The /roar for my Troll druid is quite clearly a human roaring. It isn't just a matter of "old sound files" (as the rest of the Trolls ones are as old) it is just wrong.
Eric H. Jun 29th 2011 11:06AM
And I had just gotten over Slender Man......
Grumpy Wow Guy Jun 29th 2011 12:41PM
The Slender Man is just the perfect sort of thing to scare the living hell out of the wife.
/mwuhahahaha
Hal Jun 29th 2011 11:13AM
World Shaman - very lame. Especially because, for those of us who didn't read "The Shattering," this title seems to come out of nowhere.
The Dewd Jun 29th 2011 11:20AM
I haven't read The Shattering and I'm ok with it. I not a huge lore buff but I do find it interesting and read KYL and some of the articles they link to on wowpedia. Given what happened with the pre-Cata events and the fact that the crisis forced him to abdicate his leadership of the Horde and return to his roots in Outland and embrace his "true calling" as a Shaman, it makes sense.
RuzGofDI Jun 29th 2011 11:24AM
I read The Shattering, and I don't recall them using it in the book for any of the Shaman featured in it.
loop_not_defined Jun 29th 2011 11:31AM
I think I'll get over it eventually, but it does remind me of boxing/wrestling/whatever:
"And in the other corner, we have World Heavyweight Shaman THRAAAAAAALL!"
Eldoron Jun 29th 2011 12:12PM
I'm ok with it... because I'm not a troll, neither a whiner, nor those ppl who throw sh*t at everything because it's fashionable nowadays to say "it's bad"
Hal Jun 29th 2011 1:00PM
It's just that, if you're not getting lore from sources outside the game, here is how things look regarding Thrall:
Elemental invasion:
-Thrall runs off to Outland for training.
Post-Cataclysm
-Thrall summons you to help him save the world. Well, he's going to hold open a big hole into Deepholm, but the rest of us get to save the world.
Patch 4.2 Trailer
-"Man, are my arms tired. Oh, hey, Ragnaros . . . yeah, that guy has to go."
Patch 4.2 Quests
-World Shaman. So important that an NPC will ignore putting the killing blow on you (who stands between him and Thrall) and several other powerful, important lore figures (who can apparently be stunned just that easily) to "kill" Thrall. Apparently his orders were "James Bond style trap, where he is practically dead, but could get out of it if we don't pay attention. And let's not pay attention."
devonaelick Jun 29th 2011 12:21PM
It doesn't matter how silly World Shaman sounds now, because at the end of this it'll be Thrall, Aspect of Earth.
Pyromelter Jun 29th 2011 12:28PM
What makes it even more lame is that there are so many different ways to go with a shamanic master.
Master of Elements (or Elemental Spirits)
Prime Minister of the Earthen Ring
The word "world" seems to also be out of place, since Thrall has significant dealings with elements on 2 different worlds... so why not
Thrall, Shaman of the Universe. (c wut i did thar?)
@Eldoron - chill out man. This is a website devoted to discussing World of Warcraft. No need to rage out. Calling people names because they have an opinion that doesn't jive with yours is not cool, man.
Kaphik Jun 29th 2011 3:01PM
I don't like the World Shaman title either. What exactly does it mean? Archdruid makes sense, World Shaman sounds like a Mary Sue title.
Abbadon Jun 29th 2011 3:21PM
Thrall a-ah
Savior of the Universe
Thrall
He'll save everyone of us
Thrall
He's a miracle
Thrall
King of the impossible
He's for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
He'll save with a mighty hand
Every man every woman
Every child-he's a mighty
Thrall
Katherine Jun 29th 2011 6:46PM
They just didn't want to call him Captain Planet, even though he gains power over the other elements through the power of HEART.
With your powers combined, Thrall is CAPTAIN PLANET!
Raginghobo Jun 29th 2011 7:00PM
World Shaman f*** yeah! Here to save the mother f***** day yeah!
yujie.max Jun 29th 2011 9:19PM
@Raginghobo
I firmly believe you left out an asterisk in the second part of your thread.
almosteasy2814 Jun 29th 2011 11:07AM
Next content patch...Heroic Scarlet Monastery and Sylvanas going Lich Queen and holing up in an updated Karazhan.
Necromann Jun 29th 2011 11:12AM
Heroic SM would be awesome, but I dont want my Banshee Queen to be a raid boss. Maybe it us because my first toon (and still my main) is undead and I felt attached to the storyline, but I wouldn't like to kill her or have someone else rule UC.
MattKrotzer Jun 29th 2011 11:14AM
Also, I don't see any lore-related reason why Sylvanas would be in Karazhan. It's not even remotely in Forsaken-held territory, and she has no connection to Medivh.