The Queue: Fiddling around with a Bic pen
by Anne Stickney 
Aug 19th 2012 at 2:00PM
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Anne Stickney (@Shadesogrey) is dealing with ink-stained fingers today.
I've been working on rearranging my desk on and off again for the past several months -- in between arranging furniture and storing items and just trying to sort through things in a desperate attempt to clean house. Regardless, I finally got my scanner hooked up last night and decided to test it out. To test it out, I needed something to scan. Since I had a pen sitting around, I figured I'd draw a dragon. Dragons are cool.
Warcraft dragons have way more horns and spines and beards and other fiddly bits than the dragons I usually draw, though.
TimAlexander commented two days ago (but it's worth mentioning):
Kara needs to become 2 raids. The original above ground and a new one which is below ground in the dungeon area. I would even say that the new one should be a Caverns of TIme style raid or instance that takes you through the end of The Last Guardian and has you play along with Khadgar and Garona as you battle Medivh.
OK, Blizzard. This guy? You should listen to this guy, because that would be a really awesome idea. And I'm not just saying that because The Last Guardian is one of my favorite books and Medivh is one of my favorite characters and I'd like to go kick butt with Garona. Really!
I've been working on rearranging my desk on and off again for the past several months -- in between arranging furniture and storing items and just trying to sort through things in a desperate attempt to clean house. Regardless, I finally got my scanner hooked up last night and decided to test it out. To test it out, I needed something to scan. Since I had a pen sitting around, I figured I'd draw a dragon. Dragons are cool.
Warcraft dragons have way more horns and spines and beards and other fiddly bits than the dragons I usually draw, though.
TimAlexander commented two days ago (but it's worth mentioning):
Kara needs to become 2 raids. The original above ground and a new one which is below ground in the dungeon area. I would even say that the new one should be a Caverns of TIme style raid or instance that takes you through the end of The Last Guardian and has you play along with Khadgar and Garona as you battle Medivh.
OK, Blizzard. This guy? You should listen to this guy, because that would be a really awesome idea. And I'm not just saying that because The Last Guardian is one of my favorite books and Medivh is one of my favorite characters and I'd like to go kick butt with Garona. Really!
JoshuaDuguid asked:
With the MoP cinematic highlighting the 'oh crap we have to work together to defeat a powerful foe' image, who do you think will be that evil in MoP? Panderan superbad perhaps?
Oh, Joshua. You have no idea how cool this is going to be. For that matter, neither do I -- but I've got some utterly amazing theories that signs are pointing to. Those will have to wait until Mists launches, however. Spoilers!
MoeruComic observed:
"I remember reading somewhere that elves descended from trolls."
I feel this is a common misconception. More likely Trolls and Night Elves share a common ancestor, and they diverged way before the Well of Eternity. The primitives that lived around the Well are most likely the evolutionary divergence that eventually got transformed into the Kaldorei, while the Trolls we know today are the rest of those naturally evolved primitives.
I feel this is a common misconception. More likely Trolls and Night Elves share a common ancestor, and they diverged way before the Well of Eternity. The primitives that lived around the Well are most likely the evolutionary divergence that eventually got transformed into the Kaldorei, while the Trolls we know today are the rest of those naturally evolved primitives.
Sorry, it's definitely not a misconception -- it was flat-out stated in the last issue of the Warcraft Magazine. Dark trolls showed up at the Well of Eternity, and the Well turned them into night elves. That's where they came from. It's canon now.
tomfromhr asked:
When the Sundering occurred, how did anyone survive it? I mean, we're talking about an explosion massive enough to split a continent in 4 (or 3? Was Pandaria part of Kalimdor?) and, presumably with enough force to push the continents thousands of kilometers apart. Or did that drift happen more slowly? Did the Night Elves (and Trolls and whoever else was around then) simply hide out on the edges of the continent?
It wasn't really so much of an explosion as that. I think the mental image I have of it is this -- picture a bathtub full of water. Pull the plug. You know how the water spins around? The explosion at the Well of Eternity was like pulling that plug, and the world started to rip apart as the water started flooding in. There was time for the elves to get all the way from Azshara's palace up to Hyjal, which was high enough ground that the water wasn't going to drown anyone.
To me anyway, it always seemed like the site of the Well essentially became a giant sinkhole, and the waters of the oceans just started pouring in. The force of the water pouring in pushed the land masses apart, and they kind of spun out to what we see today. It's described in the War of the Ancients trilogy in far greater detail. I'd recommend picking that up if you want more information.
mstrieff55 asked:
There was a lot of Horde vs. Alliance conflict in Cataclysm, and while this is debatable the Horde seemed to have slightly more gain in territory and victories than the Alliance. Factoring in the sacking of Theramore which faction seems to be stronger in MoP?
We don't really know. Mists concerns Pandaria and the natives on the island far more than the rest of the world -- for now, anyway. We have no idea what later patches will bring to the expansion, but from what we've heard, that war is going to ramp up. And after Theramore, it can be safely said that the Alliance are mad enough to flat-out murder any Horde they see without question. We don't know how it's going to end, we don't know who will have the upper hand, but we do know whatever happens, it's likely to be bloody as all get-out.
michael.t.albers asked:
If one were a panda who wanted to remain neutral, is it possible? Could I grind out all of the levels and only use neutral vendors to get rid of loot?
If you wanted to remain on the Wandering Isle forever and ever, never able to get past level 13 or so, sure. You cannot leave the Wandering Isle without choosing a side. You cannot be summoned off of the Wandering Isle. You can not zone out of the Wandering Isle in any fashion until you have chosen either Alliance or Horde. Your only option, if you wish to remain neutral, is to simply sit on the Wandering Isle and do -- well, a whole lot of nothing.
grpcaro asked:
what can you tell me about chen`s eyes, in the cinematic we can easily see that they shine, and we now that only the superior races, those that has been touched by a superior power have shinning eyes, for example: the draeneis and the night elves
They are a glittering golden reflection of every drop of tasty beer he's tossed down his gullet.
@JoshSalt asked via Twitter:
Q4TQ Are starter editions (free up to 20), also allowed to create a character of any race when 5.0.4 drops?
I would assume so. If people want to play further than level 20, they have to purchase the game anyway. So why limit what race of character they can make? Please note that I am not 100% certain on this, however.
@RhoWoW asked via Twitter:
Knowing what we know now from the Horde intro to Pandaria, do you think Nazgrim is being set up to be the next Warchief?
Lord, I hope not. Look, I had to help that guy out in Grizzly Hills. Who got the promotion? He did. Then I had to help him get his butt out of Vash'jir. Who got the promotion? He did. Frankly, I'd rather not see him as warchief because I have the sinking sensation he'd knock on my door and I'd invariably end up digging him out of whatever scrape he happened to get into. Without getting a promotion. Again.
Man, the last thing in the world I need is a warchief who's basically gotten where he has in the world because I was behind him lifting his hefty orc butt over every fence he couldn't manage to scale on his own.
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW Insider crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Leave your questions in the comments, and we'll do our best to answer 'em!
If you wanted to remain on the Wandering Isle forever and ever, never able to get past level 13 or so, sure. You cannot leave the Wandering Isle without choosing a side. You cannot be summoned off of the Wandering Isle. You can not zone out of the Wandering Isle in any fashion until you have chosen either Alliance or Horde. Your only option, if you wish to remain neutral, is to simply sit on the Wandering Isle and do -- well, a whole lot of nothing.
grpcaro asked:
what can you tell me about chen`s eyes, in the cinematic we can easily see that they shine, and we now that only the superior races, those that has been touched by a superior power have shinning eyes, for example: the draeneis and the night elves
They are a glittering golden reflection of every drop of tasty beer he's tossed down his gullet.
@JoshSalt asked via Twitter:
Q4TQ Are starter editions (free up to 20), also allowed to create a character of any race when 5.0.4 drops?
I would assume so. If people want to play further than level 20, they have to purchase the game anyway. So why limit what race of character they can make? Please note that I am not 100% certain on this, however.
@RhoWoW asked via Twitter:
Knowing what we know now from the Horde intro to Pandaria, do you think Nazgrim is being set up to be the next Warchief?
Lord, I hope not. Look, I had to help that guy out in Grizzly Hills. Who got the promotion? He did. Then I had to help him get his butt out of Vash'jir. Who got the promotion? He did. Frankly, I'd rather not see him as warchief because I have the sinking sensation he'd knock on my door and I'd invariably end up digging him out of whatever scrape he happened to get into. Without getting a promotion. Again.
Man, the last thing in the world I need is a warchief who's basically gotten where he has in the world because I was behind him lifting his hefty orc butt over every fence he couldn't manage to scale on his own.
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW Insider crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Leave your questions in the comments, and we'll do our best to answer 'em!
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