The Queue: A giddy thing
by Michael Sacco 
Feb 4th 2012 at 12:00PM
This Queue is excellent. *throws The Queue on the ground; it shatters into a million pieces* Another!
Ellyon asked:
My main is a resto druid. Lifebloom triggers Replenishment and I keep a stack of Lifebloom on a tank for, ideally, the whole fight. Last night I was in Raid Finder and noticed that Replenishment kept falling off. I would refresh Lifebloom just to make sure, but Replenishment didn't return until some other moment: a moment when I was not casting or refreshing Lifebloom. I'm wondering, is there a priority system that another character is the trigger for Replenishment? With my style of healing, Replenishment should be up the whole fight, but I regularly saw it fall off and was not refreshed at the moment I would have expected.
Commenter metafarm answered this one really well, so here it is for posterity:
It gives 10 party or raid members (with the lowest mana left) 1% of their maximum mana every 10 second for 15 seconds, or 1.5% over the full duration. Each time it is triggered, the 10 most needy members are recalculated, and those people either receive the buff, or have it refreshed on them.
Stabbaa asked:
Is it possible that Blizz will ever implement a feature where you can link your inventory and have other players browse what's in your bags? This would be great for selling all the junk ive accumulated on my bank alt.
Like you could do a "WTS the glyphs I have in my bags" or something on trade. This would be better than justputting them on AH because most of us only go to AH when we know what we want rather than having a browse for anything interesting.
Honestly, I don't really see the point, especially for Blizzard. As it is, the Auction House queries the server an absolute ton; can you imagine the number of server queries being able to look in anyone's bag at any time would cause? Buying and selling via the AH has done pretty well for us for a long time, and I doubt the system will change very much.
Edymnion asked:
How can I stop getting disconnected when I tab out? If I tab out of WoW to look at say Wowhead while sitting in place, everything is fine. If I do it while on a flight path or during a loading screen, it will disconnect me almost immediately every time. I understand logging you out if you aren't actually playing to reduce bandwidth use, but why is the disconnect so much FASTER when it happens at the times you are most likely to want to check something else (like on a flight path from Tanaris to Orgrimmar)?
This happens to me a lot, too; commenters have said that it happens because Windows Vista and Windows 7 prioritizes whatever you're switching to when you alt-tab, which makes your WoW client think your computer is ignoring it, which makes you disconnect. You can prevent it from happening by running the game in windowed mode (or maximized windowed mode), but this may affect your video performance on slower machines.
Morgathio asked:
Q4tQ: I remember reading that blizz was going to offer a "clean your wow folder" option thing on the launcher, my question is is it on there now/ were is it located and would it mess with any addons?
If you've played since Tuesday, then the optimization has already occurred! It likely shrank your WoW folder by several gigs.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
chuparex Feb 4th 2012 12:04PM
I was at this performance! First time I'd ever heard that band. The music echoing across a big field, with hundreds of people singing along; it was really cool :)
Jwillcocks Feb 4th 2012 12:07PM
Q for the Q
Will Blizzard ever implement a way to change the color of your gear?
Maybe make it a feature that allows tailors to "dye" your gear and change it's color. Or add it into transmorg next expac so you have more of a unique look. As a Warlock I'd love to have my tier six set to be black and red or a dark purple/green.
Some sets look cool but the color let's it down.
Any ideas if this is at all possible?
KB3420 Feb 4th 2012 12:23PM
Assassin Creed tailors come to mind, with all their dyes!, I support this idea!
VioletArrows Feb 4th 2012 12:33PM
They gave us transmogrification so they *specifically* wouldn't have to do that. It was part of a Q&A. Dyeing armor would mean they'd have to go back in and change every single piece of armor in the game to have transparent pieces, make it work with dozens of color combinations, and even if it worked, it wouldn't look right.
zackwbrandon Feb 4th 2012 12:34PM
Or RIFT tailors.
Eastland23 Feb 4th 2012 1:01PM
I concur! It's the next step of Transmog!
And because I can, I'll extemporize on the subject: Compared to other games' features of cosmetic gear, I think Blizz went above and beyond in their first step - differentiating WoW from the others - by allowing previously obtained gear to be used for transmog. Now that's completed, it would be awesome to change colors and add purely cosmetic gear to the available transmog list. Some of these looks have been taken care of by the misc cloth gear and holiday rewards in game, but there is definitely room for some fun combinations to be added.
lazymangaka Feb 4th 2012 12:51PM
If anyone was going to make dyes, it'd totally be Scribes.
Hilus Feb 4th 2012 1:31PM
Or Guild Wars, they have this function too...
radiationcowboy Feb 6th 2012 11:11PM
everquest used to (and may still) have this, and it was pretty cool. helped people have a distinct look.
hate to be "the eq guy" but EQ also had a bazaar feature where you would buy a special bag. put stuff you wanted to sell in it and price everything. then people could browse your stuff. it was kinda neat.
Nathanyel Feb 4th 2012 12:08PM
I thought live recordings were ok. GEMA disagrees :/
Cricket Feb 4th 2012 5:08PM
GEMA thinks we're all thieves and pirates. I long for the day when enough people complain about it that they finally have to work on a settlement. This has made casual browsing youtube completely defunct in Germany and google know it, too. That's why they put the information there, so you know where to direct your outrage.
The saddest thing is that it does not actually stop anyone who really wants to from seeing the content. It's just annoying.
Ace Feb 4th 2012 12:09PM
"...commenters have said that it happens because Windows Vista and 7 prioritizes whatever you're switching to when you alt-tab..."
Odd... I have Windows 7 on my laptop, and it never happens. However, on my desktop and my wife's desktop it happens all the time, with XP
Zankoku Feb 4th 2012 12:33PM
From my own experiences, alt-tabbed WoW will DC you on flight paths because of the lack of processing power lent to WoW (and because of that, WoW can not draw the world fast enough and causes graphical errors).
My suspicions are based on my experiences of when I do alt-tab back in, WoW is able to draw the world almost instantly, although for a second there is barely even a landscape polygon.
Arrohon Feb 4th 2012 12:42PM
It doesn't DC you until you land, and even then it isn't immediate. I've tabbed back into WoW to find that I landed in SW without DCing even though I usually do.
arkhan Feb 4th 2012 12:51PM
I have the same experience, it used to happen to me all the time when I was on XP, since I switched to 7 it hasn't happened once.
Noyou Feb 4th 2012 12:59PM
It first started happening around the time of the shattering. Right before or right after. So, that leads me to believe it is something in their programming/coding that does this. Knowing that it happens, I try and tab out and get back before I land. It's annoying but it's not game breaking. Now I kind of even use it as an auto log. If I am getting ready to take a break, I will take a FP, tab out, and go do what I need to do.
alittlemore Feb 4th 2012 1:05PM
I used to have that issue - but if you set WoW to run in full-screen windowed mode, it happened lots less.
Eastland23 Feb 4th 2012 1:14PM
Has never happened to me in XP or Win7, but I always play in fullscreen windowed so I can have easier access to the web browser. The only time I've ever had problems with WoW crashing due to low priority on my PC is when there was malware eating all the resources in the background.
Lipstick Feb 4th 2012 1:35PM
Windowed (Fullscrean) instead of windowed, or full screen is the option I selected and I stopped getting random DC's when alt tabbing.
Since it plays in (fullscreen) when you are tabbed in, I have yet to notice a discernible FPS loss.
Note: This is not the same thing as playing in windowed mode and stretching the window to fill the whole space, it's a completely separate setting in the options menu from windowed.
Jen Feb 4th 2012 3:07PM
Happens to me a lot - XP, windowed full screen mode... I thought there was something wrong with my computer, so I'm glad to hear it's been happening to other people!