The Queue: Blame Greg
by Michael Sacco 
Sep 9th 2011 at 11:00AM
In the spirit of today's final question, I'm gonna blame Ghostcrawler for something completely unrelated to his job. Greg, buddy, I need to get paid more than once a month. Ikea doesn't shop itself.
Side note: Alex, what were you on when you made this image?
Spectres asked:
If the language (Troll) was changed to (Zandali) why wouldn't they change the language (Gutterspeak) to (Forsaken)? And for that matter, what reason could their have been to not let Worgen speak (Gilnean)?
Well, there's no real reason to change Gutterspeak to Forsaken. Gutterspeak is the name of the language (which, by the way, only exists for gameplay reasons). The Troll language is called Zandali, so changing it from "Troll" to "Zandali" made sense, at least. And Worgen would not speak Gilnean, because Gilneans speak Common, like pretty much all Humans.
nicko666 asked:
Is there any reason for the hour delay on auction house payments, or does it serve purely as way to slow us down?
I assume it's a mechanic to stem the amount of business the serious auction house players can do, but for everyone else, it seems a bit irritating.
This question was answered quite well by commenter eel5pe:
The delay is there to help combat gold sellers. One of the ways that gold sellers used to stealthily transfer funds was by having the buyer list items on the AH at prices way over value (which is why AH lurkers may have occasionally noticed grey items listed for thousands of gold), and then the gold seller would buy them. Blizzard got wise and implemented an hour delay in which whatever magic code they use to filter through the millions of auctions that happen every hour does its thang and sniffs out suspicious sales.
Aje asked:
As a Holy Paladin, it is absolutely essential that my offhand be a shield - or can i rock one of the other spellcasty offhands? (granted the B.I.S. items are shields, but let's just say i haven't progressed that far)
A PVE healer will find it completely unnecessary to use a shield if there's an off-hand with better stats available.
Fweet asked:
If I put another player on ignore, I can't see their text. (I can't recall at the moment if emotes are also blocked, or if mail from that player is deliverable.)
Is it possible to make the player's avatar turn invisible, too?
No.
Dinojake asked:
Will the Raid Finder allow characters to que up for raids that are below them in terms of level? Could I que up for a level 60 raid on a level 70 character, a 70 raid on an 80 character and so on?
No info on that functionality just yet.
Marius W asked:
Why is Ghostcrawler still head developer?
Wrath and Cata all had major mistakes that Blizzard has admitted to doing.
Cata is a bore as most people would tell you. Not all, but the majority has not been too thrilled with Cata.
He doesn't really stray much from what he has done in the past and most of the new stuff we get it are features "borrowed" from other MMO's.
Wouldnt it make more sense to get in some fresh blood to mix it up in WoW.
C'mon, we are fighting recycled bosses in Cata raids. We are doing recycled heroics.. 4 of them. Not 1 or 2. 4 of them are old dungeons that mainly had their scripts fine tuned.
The man is out of fresh ideas.
I barely know where to begin here. I'll just correct you on the most obvious one: Greg Street is lead systems designer, not lead producer or game director or lead designer or "head developer." He designs game systems like character classes and professions. If you have complaints with art direction, encounter design, overall game philosophy, or a myriad of other areas of the game, you'd probably be better off taking them up with the people who're actually in charge of them.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 13)
Felix_rew Sep 9th 2011 11:03AM
What are the biggest and smaller weapons ingame?
MattKrotzer Sep 9th 2011 11:08AM
This is hard to answer, due to weapons scaling differently on a race/gender basis.
However, I would say that the largest weapon is probably the mace wielded by Forgemaster Throngus, in Grim Batol.
The largest wielded by a normal player-race NPC is probably the large totem poles wielded by the tauren in the Caverns of Time Mount Hyjal instance.
I hope that helps!
Antman Sep 9th 2011 11:11AM
this sounds like a joke from wowbash, some one asks what's the biggest sword in wow and before a guildie can make a smart remark another asks what's the smallest, so his guildie looks like he's saying his... is the smallest.
loop_not_defined Sep 9th 2011 11:11AM
I'm wondering if the smallest weapon is the Barman's Shanker. Anybody else know?
Uriah Sep 9th 2011 11:11AM
Thunderfury is a pretty big 1h sword.
loop_not_defined Sep 9th 2011 11:12AM
...not counting Wands or Throwing Weapons, of course. Or Off Hand caster items? Uh...
Smallest main hand weapon?
loop_not_defined Sep 9th 2011 11:14AM
Would the largest be the giganto-sword from Naxxramas, Armageddon?
http://www.wowhead.com/item=40343
Revynn Sep 9th 2011 11:15AM
I can't imagine them getting much smaller that the Barman's Shanker.
As for the biggest, I'm willing to bet that it's a toss up between Armageddon and Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood (the original from BWL).
Grovinofdarkhour Sep 9th 2011 11:18AM
Felix,
I know it's OT, but grats on beating Matt to the first post. :)
Wilk Sep 9th 2011 11:19AM
http://www.wowhead.com/item=18388
Every hunter must transmog this, the smallest ranged weapon in the game (not counting throwing weapons).
mikebulko Sep 9th 2011 11:22AM
smallest (compared to average size of similar items) probably has to be stoneshatter:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=18388/stoneshatter
Natsumi Sep 9th 2011 11:33AM
Maul of the Redeemed Crusader is the largest 2h weapon in the game, especially on a fat Tauren. Unfortunately it's from Naxx 40, so if you don't have one you never will.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=22809
Smallest, I'll have to give to the best Fist type weapon ever invented in the history of WoW, Hurd Smasher. This annoying little bugger was amazing in PvP in the hands of a Rogue or Fury Warrior back when level 60 was the cap. Good times... good times...
http://www.wowhead.com/item=13198
droknar Sep 9th 2011 11:43AM
For largest I'm guessing one of the monster two-handed swords.
Ashkandi (http://www.wowhead.com/item=19364) is obscenely big (sticks into the ground on a tauren's back), though Armageddon is probably bigger.
As for smallest. There are fist weapons whose models are quite literally brass knuckles. A small mesh going over the knuckles of the character. I think those have the miniature crossbow beat.
Rodrigo Sep 9th 2011 11:53AM
This reminds me of an old Matthew Rossi post:
"The warrior approach to DPS should be walking up to your enemies and hitting them as hard as you can with the biggest thing you can find. Stormherald should have another Stormherald welded to the top of it, and a Torch of the Damned welded on top of that."
http://wow.joystiq.com/2008/04/25/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-are-warriors-underpowered/
Bapo Sep 9th 2011 12:09PM
Not a weapon (though it could be, given its model and a couple of abilities involving shields) Bulwark of Azzinoth. Draenei need not apply, since you make everything into a friggen buckler.
John Sep 9th 2011 12:17PM
The largest item I can think of would easily be Twins Pact. This is also my pick for a feral transmog weapon.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=47302/twins-pact#screenshots
biggjudicem Sep 9th 2011 12:42PM
It's not abtainable, but I'm sure when you kill murmur, he drops a MASSIVE mace )http://media.photobucket.com/image/murmur%20corpse/Raorou/WoWScrnShot_072508_174238.jpg?t=1242048368 anyone?)
fallemwarrior Sep 9th 2011 12:47PM
http://www.wowhead.com/item=27840
thats pretty big if you ask me
Vangelis Sep 9th 2011 1:07PM
I reckon this must be the smallest
http://www.wowhead.com/item=35851
Smoke353 Sep 9th 2011 1:17PM
The smallest main hand weapons would certainly be low level green fist weapons, some of them are nearly invisible.