The Queue: Top 10 most-asked questions, plus Yoda

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 (@adamholisky), senior editor at WoW Insider, will be your host today.
I really like Ice's first question, mainly because we do get all those questions a lot. But there's a reason we get them too -- there's a lot of players, even veterans, who don't follow every single bit of WoW news that comes out. So we're happy to answer them.
This is also the same reason Blizzard CMs answer them every once in a while, because they're so widely asked that it's good to get saturate the community with answers sometimes.
Ice asked:
My top 10 most asked questions
1) When will we get new character models they have been planning?
2) What will happen to valor points and rewards in 4.3 can I buy full Tier 13 on day 1?
3) Why cant pandas be DK because of X and Y?
4) When will beta start?
5) Will we actually kill deathwing or does he turn good?
6) Who will rule the black dragonflight after DW?
7) Any hero class plans? (too early?)
8) How will we know the difference of alliance panda and horde panda in pvp?
9) Who writes the queue next time?
10) Is monk hero class?
11) Bonus 11th most asked question from Drakkenfyre: Do you think Blizzard will ever do "classic" servers? I think I should go ask. I don't know if anyone's ever asked that before.
My answers:
- No idea. There's a lot of speculation that it'll come in MoP, but it's entirely up to Blizzard. This is definitely one of those things that it'll release (and we want released) when it's done right.
- Valor points become justice points, and valor rewards will be added to the justice rewards. You can't buy full tier 13. You can buy some of tier 12 with justice points -- only the gloves, chest, and legs.
- Because DKs are getting removed in Patch 5.0 ... What, you didn't see that part of the class panel?
- Dec. 20, 2012.
- You actually kill Deathwing.
- Your mom. Maybe my mom will help out.
- Nope, no plans anywhere that we've seen for a new hero class.
- There might be different armor sets, but as Blizzard has said, most players recognize their opponents not by their silhouette but by the red nameplate/text over their heads denoting them as an enemy.
- Alex writes it Mondays and Wednesdays. Adam writes it Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sacco writes it Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. All three of us occasionally toss it off to another writer if we're bogged down with other work.
- No, the monk is not a hero class.
- Blizzard has said many times it'll never do a classic server. Of course, it's said that about other stuff too... But lots of us really think Blizzard means it about a classic server.
Alzeer asked:
about warlocks, when they summon a demon is the demon basically alien from other planet like the burning legion demons? or the demons come from some dimension on azeroth itself?
The warlock demons are summoned out of the Twisting Nether or the Void. Each warlock is "attached" to a demon permanently, and when the demon isn't needed, he's unsummoned and returned to his home.
Andrew asked:
Can we expect a profession leveling revamp in MoP? 600 level is very daunting, especially with all the mats you have to gather just to level. Think they will add the multi-skill point feature from Cata to the lower levels of the professions?
You're right, 600 skill-ups is pretty huge. My guess is that Blizzard will do just what you said and continue to add in (hopefully easy) multi-point skill-ups to lower-expansion profession content. I think it's entirely appropriate to have the last 75 (and especially the last 25) points be difficult, but there comes a point when holistically things just get out of hand.
This would be a great question for Ghostcrawler and the design team during the next dev chat. Maybe Zarhym or someone from the CM team has even talked to them about it -- it might be worth posing on the forums now even.
LowercaseJae asked:
Thoughts on a moose mount?
I'd be surprised at this point if we didn't eventually get one. Blizzard loves pop culture references, and the moose and pony mounts have become a cultural icon in the WoW community -- just the perfect kind of thing that Blizzard would like to add as a nod to the community.
Alex asked:
I vaguely remember hearing something about Illidan coming back someday...was i just hearing things or was this actually mentioned?
Metzen talked about Illidan a couple times at BlizzCon. Looks like he'll be making another appearance some time in the future, maybe in MoP, maybe in the expansion after that. Too soon to know when.
Raymond asked:
Do you think a Gnome Monk can take a Pandaren Monk?
Absolutely. Gnome monks are the Yodas of Azeroth -- small but very nimble. Pandaren monks are the Kevin Smiths of Azeroth -- quick-witted but too fat to fly. Which one wins? Depends on how much they've had to drink.
Actually ...
On second thought, the Pandaren monk would win, because his larger size lets him hold his alcohol better. And if something goes wrong, the Pandaren's lanky Blood Elf buddy named Jay could just come over and tell his Orc friend Olaf to sing about the berserker stance.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 17)
Raineva Nov 1st 2011 11:04AM
I thought that tier 13 wouldn't be purchasable with valor at all... though this may have been changed at some point...
Adam Holisky Nov 1st 2011 11:07AM
Already fixed. Site is lagging. Meant to talk about tier 12.
Revynn Nov 1st 2011 11:11AM
Yup. The last I heard was that all T13 will come from boss drops, not VP at all.
Colleen Nov 1st 2011 11:26AM
I missed this. Does that mean VP won't be good for anything? Will you still be getting T12 with VP?
bjorn9486 Nov 1st 2011 11:33AM
I thought you could by the same iLvl as T13 gear with VP, it just wasn't Tier (as in no set bonuses)
Aurilia Nov 1st 2011 11:34AM
@Colleen
While T13 will be limited to token drops, VP can be used to buy non-set pieces for most armor slots (appears to be all except shoulder)
Elwoods Nov 1st 2011 11:39AM
You will get T12 from JP and get non-tiered T13 iLvl equivalent gear from VP
Grovinofdarkhour Nov 1st 2011 11:45AM
@ Colleen
VP will be good for all sorts of tasty gear of the highest i-levels, just not tier pieces.
eel5pe Nov 1st 2011 2:05PM
to clarify for Grovin, the gear will be normal ilvl (403) not heroic (410). I'm sure that's what he meant but I didn't want random readers to think they were getting the highest ilvl for VP.
Twill Nov 2nd 2011 1:29AM
Question for the Queue:
For the Annual Pass it requires that we use a credit card to sign up, but allows us to use pre-paid cards (60 day game time) to actually pay for the service.
I'm considering using a $5 Visa Gift Card as my credit card since I don't have one.... Is that Okay? I know that it is definitely not something Blizzard wants, but I just don't have a credit card.
Either way, I bought the entire years worth of game time already just in case ($180!), but I'm kind of scared that the "credit card" I'll use isn't actually a credit card. Should I be worried? Is this something you recommend for someone in my situation where you know you will be playing but you don't have a credit card?
I want a damn beta key!
Twill Nov 2nd 2011 1:30AM
And sorry that I'm just replying to the first post. This is a really important question and I don't want it to get lost in the 17 pages of comments. I'm sure a lot of people would like the feedback of people that worked at Blizzard.
Joyous_Oblivion Nov 2nd 2011 1:53AM
@Twill stop hijacking other people's comments to ask yours. Ask it normally and wait for an answer. You don't get any more privileges than anyone else and just end up ticking more people off!
Bellajtok Nov 1st 2011 11:05AM
Thank you very very much Adam. I hereby forbid anyone from asking any of those questions again. (No, it won't work, but I can dream.)
kingoomieiii Nov 1st 2011 11:44AM
I agree totally, but there are a few pressing questions left completely unanswered. Like:
1) What happens to my VP when 4.3 happens?
2) Can Pandaren of different factions talk to each other?
I need to know.
Grovinofdarkhour Nov 1st 2011 11:51AM
@ King Oomie III
1. They will abandon you in your hour of greatest need.
2. Theoretically, they could, but they won't. Some will side with the Alliance, some with the Horde, and it'll be like the miniseries North and South, with families being torn apart by political ideology.
Don't let the fuzzy pandas fool you. We are headed for dark times.
Bynde Nov 1st 2011 12:46PM
I seriously doubt a column devoted to answering questions will discourage people from asking questions even if those questions were asked before.
At least I hope not.
undeadgoat Nov 1st 2011 7:46PM
It makes me laugh a lot when people get all worked up about Pandaren being unable to talk to each other . . . Why can't human and worgen PCs talk to forsaken PCs, when just 20 years ago we were all humans? Why can't blood elf PCs talk to Alliance high elf NPCs in Outland? And, most importantly, why can't we all use the language(s) we use to talk to neutral NPCs with PCs of the opposite faction? THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW!
Greenimeani Nov 2nd 2011 9:11AM
@undeadgoat
With the forsaken not being able to communicate with the humans and worgen, I would imagine that having a functional jaw is required to effectively speak common, but not for Gutterspeak of Orcish.
As for the elves, everyone knows that blood elves and high elves are too snooty with each other to stoop to the point of actually talking. Really. If I recall lore right, the High Elves despise the Blood Elves because they let their magic addiction consume them.
And the neutral NPCs use a special Gnomish-grade Goblin-engineered telepathic brain-implant that allows sound waves to be translated into brain impulses of the NPC's native language.
keithcblack Nov 1st 2011 11:06AM
"2) What will happen to valor points and rewards in 4.3 can I buy full Tier 13 on day 1?"
"Valor points become justice points, and valor rewards will be added to the justice rewards. You can't buy full tier 13, only the gloves, chest, and legs."
This is not true Adam, in 4.3 you will not be able to purchase ANY of the T13 set pieces with Valor points. They will be dropping off bosses 2 - 6.
Adam Holisky Nov 1st 2011 11:07AM
I know, fixed. Meant to talk about tier 12.