The Queue: No can do
by Michael Sacco 
Jul 8th 2012 at 2:00PM
Chromeo and Daryl Hall?!
rczlapinski asked:
Is there a reason that pandarens can't be paladins? I know they were around during the second war when paladins were founded, but if they can be priests they are fully capable of wielding the light, this is wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination that they could also have some sort of paladin order.
The pandaren just don't know a whole lot about the Light, basically. Their culture is based on a different kind of spirituality. The priest excuse doesn't really fly because, to be frank, all of playable priest races use the Light for gameplay reasons, not lore. It makes zero sense for trolls, for example, to be using the Light given their culture. Making every ability about the Light makes it so the class is unified across the board instead of having to create differently named versions of every single ability.
Being a paladin is hard. Humans pioneered the whole paladin thing as we know it after thousands of years, then taught it to dwarves and ostensibly high elves with the Order of the Silver Hand. Draenei only learned how to be "paladins" when they were visited by beings made of the Light. Don't get me started on tauren paladins. Maybe a few expansions from now, when pandaren have experienced Azerothian culture, we'll see pandadins (paladandas?).
glyakk asked:
Do you think that blizzard will do away with the lvl 40 gear switch for plat/mail classes? Why was this even implemented in the first place?
Hitting level 40 was supposed to be a milestone back in the day -- it was when you got your first mount, too. Switching from plate to mail was supposed to be you coming into your own as a warrior (or whatever). I'm sure there are other design reasons too (less gear to design, for example).
Those milestones have long been piecemealed out to other, earlier points in the game (and probably rightfully so), but this one remains and will probably continue to remain, unless you really want Blizzard to spend time revamping low-level gear again (you don't).
BlazeNor asked:
Do you think there will be a World of Warcraft 2 some day?
If not, do you think WoW will be around for another 10 years?
No, because eventually they'll want to make a Warcraft IV, and WoW is making that next to impossible. Setting it in the future would just invalidate the work players do -- "Why are we bothering to try to defeat Enemy of the Expansion when we know things are just going to turn out this way anyway?"
WoW will be around until it's no longer profitable. EQ still gets expansions, let alone patches.
NathanielBlevins asked:
I can't remember the name, but there's a cloth hat, which looks like a peaked witch's hat, and when I tried to tranmog it over my cloth heirloom hat, it charged me like 350G for some reason.
Anyone know why this is??
Transmog prices are based on the vendor price of the item in question. For boss drops, that cost is pretty dang low, since the "vendor price" is just a factor of the repair cost anyway. Heirloom items like your cloth hat cost a bundle and thus cost a slightly smaller bundle to transmog.
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