The Queue: Zombie goasts, leave this place
Rossi, Alex and I were talking about the DotA 2 leak that included some Half Life 2: Episode 3 strings that were most likely just Valve's trolling the fans a bit, as we have been anticipating the news of a new Half Life for some time now. There's some pretty amazing fan fiction out there, but none is as thrilling and amazing as the Half Life: Full Life Consequences series of stories featuring Gordon Freeman's brother John Freeman. Personally, I hope that Half Life 2: Episode 3 is as good as Full Life Consequences. It is time for me to live up to my name and face Full Life Consequences.
Also, I promised certain artistic friends that I would post a new art challenge in The Queue when I was given the reins, in the same vein in which Alex posted his paladin bubble art thing, which turned out to be exceedingly awesome. So, here's mine: Rossi and I are totally DPS warrior bro's Horde-side now, raiding together and generally topping charts and taking names. You should totally draw Rossi's male Tauren warrior and my female Blood Elf warrior doing their best bro-fist.
Skozz asked:
Will I be able to transmogrify my head piece into the Chef's Hat? It's blue and looks like it gives an armor bonus, but it has no specific type (Cloth, Leather, Mail, Plate).
Probably not. Chef's Hat would fall under two of the exceptions/rules for transmogrification. First, you can only transmog gear that has stats on it over just armor. Second, many "funny" or "silly" items have been excluded from transmog, including fish daggers, fishing poles, and most likely the Chef's Hat. Sad, I know.
ptay313 asked:
Two days in a row, I have killed Coren Direbrew, gotten my daily keg shaped chest, opened it and got... NOTHING! Is this an actual common occurence, or is Direbrew messing with me from beyond the grave?
For your first kill every day, Coren will drop his Keg-shaped Treasure Chest, which will always contain a small number of justice points. Sometimes the keg will contain rare items and mounts specific to the holiday. If the keg only contained these justice points, you will get the message "There is no loot." Sadly, this is lame and demoralizing. I would have much preferred the bag at least contain some Brewfest tokens or something in the bag by default.
Amanda A. asked:
Does anyone else get the impression that they swapped the vendor items and boss drops for tier 13 to reduce loot drama in LFR? A dps needing a tank ring would cause issues. A third of the raid needing a generic tier token won't.
I think the reason that the tier gear was removed from the vendors was two-fold. First, tier gear continues to be the best-looking, iconic armor from the tier that requires raiding to get. By keeping the iconic set items as part of the raids only, you give players a new incentive to try raiding and the new Raid Finder feature.
Second, by filling the valor point vendors with off set items, you don't have to itemize those items in the raid itself. The big example this tier is the fact that there are no plate shoulders for DPS classes in Firelands other than the tier shoulders off of Majordomo Staghelm. Had there been off set shoulders available from vendors, players would have been able to gear up and replace lower-ilevel items to make Firelands easier and work for their tier set pieces as a reward for completing content.
Tadiermot asked:
If you could trade places with any NPC for the day, which would you choose, and what would you do?
I would trade places with any repair vendor in the Firelands on a progression raid night. Stand around, repair some gear, and then retire.
fallemwarrior pondered:
Is it bad that when i que'ed for WSG the other day i tried to go back to our flag and purchase a Banshee's veil?
Gunblade for life.
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Reader Comments (Page 14 of 14)
Awesome Sep 22nd 2011 7:17PM
as of patch 4.2 my pet still runs aside me even though I am mounted,is that intentional or a bug?
Skarn Sep 22nd 2011 11:01PM
Intentional. I'm so happy to see my pet running with me again. :D
Cambro Sep 22nd 2011 8:16PM
When will we get a better comment system?
Amaxe Sep 22nd 2011 9:05PM
No chance in hell™
((What? Did you think I'd say Soon™?))
jishdefish Sep 22nd 2011 11:53PM
You opened the door by giving this queue a Half Life theme, so I'm going to ask a Portal question.
The Portal 2 DLC was supposed to come out 'mid-September' which Valve insists 'is still in the summer' (because they promised a summer release date). So, I've heard of a thing called "Valve time" or accurately predicting dates Valve releases something by when they say they are going to release it. What does it say about this DLC, and what should I expect out of this DLC?
Drakkenfyre Sep 23rd 2011 12:39AM
Valve time.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
I will have you know that this is on the official Valve wiki that they run. So it's actually considered truth at this point.
If Valve says a game will release on a certain day, at the very minimum, barring any other delays, it will release on 11:59:59PM on that day.
Expect the DLC on September 30th at the best, Fall at the worst.
Trippy Sep 25th 2011 12:26PM
Will it be possible to use 1 source item to transmog 2 items?
For example, will I be able to use Shadow's Edge to transmog both my Reforged Trollbane's that my warrior is dual-wielding? Or can Shadow's Edge only be used to transmog 1 Reforged Trollbane and would I need a second Shadow's Edge to transmog my 2nd Reforged Trollbane. (And yes, I know you can only possibly get 1 Shadow's Edge due to it being an item which requires a quest to obtain.)
Gurky Sep 23rd 2011 3:31AM
I wonder if Blizzard will ever experiment with different business models for paid character services. For instance, they reduce the fee when migrating from a high pop. to a low pop. server, or they could offer group (i.e. guild move) discounts?
Or is the point behind the cost to help reduce admin. in the first place (among others) ?
datgrl Sep 23rd 2011 6:40AM
Question for your column - Is there any chance of Blizzard ever upping the number of dailies you can do? Where would someone go do make a suggestion like this? Thanks :)
Drakkenfyre Sep 23rd 2011 9:00AM
A chance? Maybe.
No offense, but don't bother. It's been suggested over, and over, and over, and over. And each time they reply, it's always "We understand that as more dailies are added, some players want the be able to do more. We think the current amount is a good balance between a doable number, and so many that players feel swamped by them."
Or words similiar to that.
They don't want you having more than 25 because it would increase the amount of gold you could get on a daily basis, and more daily quests mean more quests for the servers to track.
Dailies used to be limited to 10.
JattTheRogue Sep 23rd 2011 6:50PM
I don't even care much about transmogrification; I cared about you saying I was wrong and reading stuff into it. But that's OK, be dismissive once you run out of things to say. The discussion/argument doesn't matter so he must not have been wrong, right? That must be it.