WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogobig.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2015 AOL, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. View our terms of service here: http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[A lot can change in six years]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/28/a-lot-can-change-in-six-years/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/28/a-lot-can-change-in-six-years/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/28/a-lot-can-change-in-six-years/#comments I worked at Blizzard from 2006 to 2008. After a year of working overnights as Belfaire the talbuk on the WoW customer service forum, the stress and screwed-up sleep schedule and lack of support got the better of me. I got let go right before Christmas 2008, just after Wrath of the Lich King launched. As I sat in my apartment and wondered what I would do to support myself and my then-girlfriend, who also got let go from Blizzard just a few months before, a lightbulb went off. If all I know right now is WoW, why not try to leverage that?

I emailed WoW Insider through the tips line and asked about writing opportunities. "I'm sure you get these emails all the time," I said, and I'm sure they did. But I guess they saw a special opportunity in me. Within half an hour, then-Managing Editor Dan O'Halloran emailed me back and asked if he could call me. Within two hours, he had sent me the AOL contract information. Within a week, I was part of the team.

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]]> (Michael Sacco) Wed, 28 May 2014 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: I'm a Skrull]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/25/the-queue-im-a-skrull/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/25/the-queue-im-a-skrull/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/25/the-queue-im-a-skrull/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

That's right! And I've been a Skrull all along! Now my master plan of writing Sunday's Queue has come to fruition!

hyde_v asked:

Have the San'layn been eliminated or did some of them escape? Unless I am mistaken, there were only a small number of them. Maybe less than ten.

A very small number indeed, and as far as we know, we killed them in all in the Northrend campaign. Even if some are alive, without Lana'thel, it's probably not possible to make more San'layn.

That was a poem, accidentally.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 25 May 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Zzzz]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/24/the-queue-zzzz/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/24/the-queue-zzzz/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/24/the-queue-zzzz/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

What's it called when you fall asleep writing the Queue? "Bad"?

JeffLaBowski asked:

Is there anything particular I am missing about Anduin and Wrathion being either gay or wanting to have relations with each other? Or is this all wishful thinking on certain individuals?

Nah, there's nothing in official media to say that Anduin and Wrathion are anything but friends. Also, they're children. But for many fanfic writers and fanartists, well, there's nothing more beautiful than two boys in love. Even if one of them is, for all intents and purposes, a toddler.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 24 May 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Queue straight]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/18/the-queue-queue-straight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/18/the-queue-queue-straight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/18/the-queue-queue-straight/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Happy Sunday, everybody.

itsdeeps asked:

so what do you guys think/hope will be the next race model previewed?

I think there are two answers to this. The "I play this one a lot and want to see how great it looks" answer for me is male draenei. The "I have to see how the hell they're going to fix them" answer is human males.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 18 May 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Return of the Mike]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/17/the-queue-return-of-the-mike/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/17/the-queue-return-of-the-mike/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/17/the-queue-return-of-the-mike/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

But I queue, but I queue-queue-queue~

MTA asked:

What's your opinion on the news that Alpha has been postponed? This is obviously bad for Blizzard but how do players view it? The more you wait the more you want it? Or is it "meh, lost interest"?

Well, as someone who genuinely likes WoW but is basically through playing until 6.0, obviously I'm sad I don't yet have access to an alpha or beta, but I get. Certain things need to be done to make the alpha worthwhile to open to the public. Blizzard is making me less and less confident that we're going to see the game go live before its "on or before" date, though.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 17 May 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Zandali lessons]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/11/the-queue-zandali-lessons/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/11/the-queue-zandali-lessons/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/11/the-queue-zandali-lessons/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

A question about in-game languages! My favorite!

Lenneth asked:

When tromping through ZG the other day I noticed something odd. One of the Zandalari Hierophants mentioned a certain MoP inspired dino boss we all came to know and love. Here is what our troll buddy said, those of troll ancestry feel free to translate;

"Deh dem riva tinG bwoyar Ju wassa cyaa oondasta fu ju dim iman is ir machette"

Since ZG was revamped and was part of Cata content I thought that name was interesting. Possible foreshadowing of our future Isle of Giants' all star? Most threatening word in the Zandalari dialect Blizz could adopt for the bad dino? Perhaps "oondasta" was the dying curse thrown at the player going through ZG and that curse finally manifested when we arrived in Pandaria?

/dons tinfoil hat :P

The truth is much more boring! Each race's in-game "language" is actually just a set of specific words used in the place of English words with the same amount of characters. For example, if you type a six-letter word and set your language to "Draenei", then you'll get one of these words in its place:

Arakal, Azgala, Kazile, Mannor, Mishun, Rakkan, Rakkas, Rethul, Revola, Thorje, Tichar

The word "oondasta" has been in the game since launch as part of the Zandali (troll) language. It's just one of the eight-letter words. Occam's Razor tells me that when looking for a name for Oondasta, the devs simply looked at the list of Zandali words and found a fun one.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 11 May 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Bitter rivals]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/10/the-queue-bitter-rivals/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/10/the-queue-bitter-rivals/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/10/the-queue-bitter-rivals/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I can't believe I only just found out there was a new Sleigh Bells album released last year. What the heck.

Hyde_v asked:

We know that gnomes and dwarves originated from their electronic and stone forms via the Curse of Flesh. We know that humans are descendants of the Vry'kul. We know that night elves evolved from trolls. But where did the trolls originate from? Azeroth was home to the Old Gods and their Elemental armies. Were the trolls a slave race?

Azeroth had indigenous humanoid races, or at least ones not created by the titans. Trolls appear to be one of those races, at least until we hear otherwise.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 10 May 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Talk nerdy to me]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/04/the-queue-talk-nerdy-to-me/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/04/the-queue-talk-nerdy-to-me/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/04/the-queue-talk-nerdy-to-me/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Lot of y'all fired up about tier sets being removed from LFR! Weekend queue comments are always a wasteland for actual questions.

Fussypants asked:

So, I saw this mentioned somewhere a little while ago, but was wondering if it was still a thing. Is Blizzard going to allow people to go back and solo Raid Finder difficulties of raids? With all the unique colorization of pieces that are available only in Raid Finder, it would seem almost a waste otherwise. Thanks!

Yes, Ion Hazzikostas mentioned recently that they're likely going to let you solo queue for Dragon Soul and all of the MoP LFRs at level 100.

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]]> (Michael Sacco) Sun, 04 May 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Sure. Fine. Whatever.]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/03/the-queue-sure-fine-whatever/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/03/the-queue-sure-fine-whatever/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/05/03/the-queue-sure-fine-whatever/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Sure. Fine. Whatever.

braellyn asked:

I missed something...what's this about LFR, tier bonuses, and transmog? Are tier pieces not going to be available in LFR in WoD?

LFR will have its own sets of gear, though they're only "sets" in that they have a cohesive look. There aren't any set bonuses to chase. If you want tier sets, you need to go to normal mode (or higher).

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]]> (Michael Sacco) Sat, 03 May 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Thin hamster]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/27/the-queue-thin-hamster/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/27/the-queue-thin-hamster/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/27/the-queue-thin-hamster/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

A very informative video.

michaelm517 asked:

Today, I received the notification allowing me to choose a reward from the Recruit-A-Friend system. With the recent tease of the fiery mechanical steed, and the message, "Fiery mechanical steeds are best when they can be used with friends," I have a good feeling that it could be a new RaF mount. If I am wrong, then whatever, but if that is the case, can I save my current RaF reward token and use it on the new mount if it ends up being one?

You sure can! Hold onto that token.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: What the heck]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/26/the-queue-what-the-heck/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/26/the-queue-what-the-heck/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/26/the-queue-what-the-heck/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Guys, over 500 comments yesterday and barely any questions? This is my weekend hell.

Moonwhisper asked:

So I was looking on mmo champion and I saw a lot of names from files such as: kil'jaeden , cho'gal, *HIGHLORD* bolvar fordragon.

Do you think we will see them in this expansion?

Maybe Cho'gall and Kil'jaeden? They could be around and doing stuff in this alternate timeline. I don't see any reason or contrivance that would make seeing Bolvar make sense, though. Highlord Bolvar Fordragon was always his name.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 26 Apr 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Azathoth Choppers]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/20/the-queue-azathoth-choppers/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/20/the-queue-azathoth-choppers/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/20/the-queue-azathoth-choppers/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Vote for which motorcycle you want in the game: the cosmic horror bike, or the seething nuclear chaos bike! Also, despair!

BrianLuzovich asked:

do you think we will eventually see hearthstone for cell phones? and would there an offline play mode?

There are definitely Android and iPhone versions of Hearthstone coming; Blizzard announced it not too long ago. As for offline mode, I highly doubt it. It appears to be an online-only game and all of its systems tie into that.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Tonari no Garrosh]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/19/the-queue-tonari-no-garrosh/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/19/the-queue-tonari-no-garrosh/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/19/the-queue-tonari-no-garrosh/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Do you think Garrosh would've been better adjusted if he had a big magical friend as a kid?

bcf_80 asked:

Here's a newbie question, but how do you get to the Isle of Giants? Is this the same thing as the Isle of Thunder (and how do you get to that if they're different)? I've been away for too long :)

It's north of Kun-Lai. You can fly or swim there, but be careful if you're flying -- the island is a no-fly zone and you'll get dismounted when you get close. Once there, you can grab a flight path and you won't need to manually fly there again. Unless you want to, of course.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 19 Apr 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Pick up the pieces]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/13/the-queue-pick-up-the-pieces/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/13/the-queue-pick-up-the-pieces/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/13/the-queue-pick-up-the-pieces/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I spent many hours today cutting, gluing, and assembling pieces for my board game prototype (again).

Amarettosourz asked:

Is there such thing as an allotted RNG luck for drops? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of RNG itself?

Well, "true random" means you could possibly go forever without seeing a single drop you could use. That's not very fun. It certainly brings high highs, but also very, very low lows. There are safeguards for many types of loot, from bonus loot coins to Garrosh heirlooms, to make sure that you do get something given enough time. Diablo 3 has a similar system in place now if it detects that you've gone quite a while without seeing a legendary drop. I'd rather my chances get a nudge in the right direction than rely on "true randomness".

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: The questions we share]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/12/the-queue-the-questions-we-share/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/12/the-queue-the-questions-we-share/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/04/12/the-queue-the-questions-we-share/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Hello WoW Insider. How are you? I am fine. Please enjoy these questions, as well as their answers.

waitwut asked:

I keep hearing how "savage" being used when talking about WoD. Where did this come from?

The devs used the word a lot when describing Draenor and WoD in general at BlizzCon. It's sort of the expansion's keyword. And a running joke, now.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Pink Zeal]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/30/the-queue-pink-zeal/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/30/the-queue-pink-zeal/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/30/the-queue-pink-zeal/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Magenta...the color of righteousness!

Drewbob asked:

Agree or disagree: group quests are okay for current expansion content, and should be returned to the game.

While I think that it's okay, mostly, that former group quests in wrath era content and prior have been made solo-able, I think the lack of these quests in the open world definitely take something of the spirit of it being an MMO with a community away from the experience. As I was leveling my eleventy-billionth toon in Zinth'alor the other day (and cursing the developers for not retuning respawn rates), I remembered back when it was elite, and you needed at least a couple other party members to make it to the top. While I don't think the rewards offered for that were ever quite commensurate with the effort, I think that that's easy to remedy, and having more opportunities in the world to take down moderately more difficult quest and zone content beyond world bosses would be awesome.

I think that the open tagging system is a good compromise between group questing and soloing. You don't necessarily need to assemble a group for it, but anybody can pop over and participate if they're on it too (and especially early in an expansion, other people will be on it).

I do kind of miss group quests -- there's something about putting a team together and tackling a tough mob -- but boy was it a pain. I don't know if it was the same for everyone, but there were quests I simply never got to do in vanilla because I could never find a group and they were literally impossible to solo.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Mildstar]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/29/the-queue-mildstar/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/29/the-queue-mildstar/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/29/the-queue-mildstar/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I got into the WildStar beta after...what, three years of waiting? I've really been looking forward to it, but under all the (admittedly lovely) art and animation, it's...just another kill-ten-rats MMO. I wonder if I'm outgrowing this genre.

DeanofWhoopass asked:

Is there any announced "catch up" mechanism for WoD? If they truly do get rid of valor/justice gear, getting alts up to speed will be a royal pain. I shudder to think how many weeks of LFR it would take to slowly get geared up enough to viably raid current normal/heroic raids.

Expect there to be mid-expansion dungeons this time; beyond that, we haven't had any concrete information on catch-up mechanisms yet. It's likely something we won't hear about until it becomes relevant.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: To Zanarkand]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/23/the-queue/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/23/the-queue/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/23/the-queue/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

No, you're getting emotional over the intro to a video game!

JediExcel asked:

Question on the changes removing certain stats from armor and weapons in WOD. Does this mean I could basically switch between enh/ele shaman or feral/boomkin druid? Or have I grossly misunderstood the concept?

This is precisely what you can do, but with a few caveats:
  • It only applies to items made for WoD
  • It doesn't apply to certain item types, like weapons and trinkets
So you could feasibly switch to your offspec wearing the same gear and be okay, though you'll still probably have a set of trinkets and weapons/offhands for your offspec as well.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Zap Luftrauser]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/22/the-queue-zap-luftrauser/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/22/the-queue-zap-luftrauser/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/22/the-queue-zap-luftrauser/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Anybody else playing this and/or Final Fantasy X HD this weekend? I AM PLAYING BOTH.

Nurph asked:

With all the talk of the price of the 90 boost being so high, what do you think the possibility of it lowering once Warlords comes out? Is it possible the high price is simply temporary until the new game drops?

Tough question. On one hand, the price does seem high (to me, anyway). On the other hand, we said that about realm transfers, and those prices have never changed. I don't see the price going down, especially not right after launch. But I can't see the future.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Welp]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/16/the-queue-welp/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/16/the-queue-welp/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/16/the-queue-welp/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

That was one hell of a Titanfall game.

michaelm517 asked:

I have been playing Hearthstone since it released officially. I was wondering if it is possible for me to run WoW and Hearthstone at the same time using two different computers. Does this break the Terms of Service regarding Battle.net accounts? I tried logging into both, and it let me, however I don't want to break any rules. Is this allowed? It would be great to play Hearthstone while I wait for LFR queues!

It's definitely allowed. You're fine!

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Rodeo]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/15/the-queue-rodeo/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/15/the-queue-rodeo/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/15/the-queue-rodeo/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I got Titanfall last night. I don't even really like shooter games, but here I am, hooting and hollering, riding giant robots and shooting their innards out while double-jumping and wall-running. I am having a blast. Go figure.

JackJesson asked:

My current preoccupation is, is it Hearthstone as in 'earth', or Hearthstone as in 'Arthas'?

This isn't actually one of my questions, what I would like to know is, does it even matter at all? (Seems it does to me right?) is there a specific way to pronounce these things anyway? Or, as I'm starting to think, is it possible that me, trying to render a proper noun with my British accent as a West Coast American working for blizz would say it, just going to ruin the structure of the words and the poetry of the environment? in the same way that no one would expect me to pronounce Moscow asin a 'grazing, milk making, Mulgore resident.

It rhymes with Darth Stone. There is usually a specific way to pronounce the names of fictional places/people/items; the creator undoubtedly has it in mind when crafting them. As to whether or not you use their pronunciation, well, that's up to you. The creator of the GIF recently explained that it's pronounced with a soft G, but you have people really adamantly against it who still pronounce it with a hard G. Death of the author and all that.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: THE QVEVE]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/09/the-queue-the-qveve/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/09/the-queue-the-qveve/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/09/the-queue-the-qveve/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

My jam of late.

CatrionaShadowleaf asked:

What's your favourite starting area and why?

I dislike the back-and-forth of Azure/Bloodmyst so I hightailed my new paladin out of there post haste, and now I'm doing the dwarf/gnome area just to try to level mining (not working btw, it's picked clean).

Years ago I probably would've said the draenei starting zone, but having done it again recently, hell no. So much running around, back and forth. Ugh. I'm all about Gilneas now. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, it's also fairly brisk.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Untouched]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/08/the-queue-untouched/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/08/the-queue-untouched/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/08/the-queue-untouched/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Yesterday was "load up music you listened to in 2007 on Spotify" day. Here's a relic from my not-so-distant past.

BlackSeal asked:

I've always felt the biggest disappointment of Cata (which I think many would agree was not Blizzards biggest expansion success) was the large reuse of already existing assets in the game when it came to locations and bosses/skins/models. (especially boss models). It really came across to me as if they didn't have the time or money to put into creating new assets for the game.

Pandaria I've largely enjoyed being that it's a whole new world and culture to see and discover along with many unique creatures and models and architecture.

Do you worry they are in danger of repeating this with WoD? Especially considering we are going to what is basically Outland once again, with an obviously completely similar map and set of locations along with the fact that I have even read of them redoing UBRS/Possibly LBRS? Do you believe we about to be delivered "Cata 2" in these regards? Its got me a little worried!

Good question. I wouldn't worry, though. A lot of the creatures we saw in TBC straight-up didn't exist on Draenor prior to the calamity. There were no naga, no demons, no lost ones, no broken, the arakkoa looked different, etc. We'll be seeing a lot of orcs and draenei, for sure, but also lots of new or remodeled faces.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: PDA]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/02/the-queue-pda/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/02/the-queue-pda/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/02/the-queue-pda/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I remembered this song last night in bed and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

Twowolves asked:

How long after Garrosh's arrival are we arriving on Draenor-2? Apparently enough time has elapsed since he halted the drinking of the blood to forge the Orc clans into the Iron Horde and begin their march of conquest. Do you think it's a few months or a year later?

We don't know exactly how long yet, but at BlizzCon the devs said it would be "a few years". Definitely enough time to get that crucible of war heated up.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Twitch Beats Pokemon]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/01/the-queue-twitch-beats-pokemon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/01/the-queue-twitch-beats-pokemon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/01/the-queue-twitch-beats-pokemon/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Where were you when thousands of people beat Pokemon Red by jamming random buttons for 16 days?

dafino asked:

Going forward, will the WoW Insider podcast still be offered as a download? I know it takes time to edit and I hope recent events won't interfere with it's availability.

The WoW Insider Show must go on. We still plan to record and make the show available every week. That much hasn't changed.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Light it up]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/23/the-queue-light-it-up/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/23/the-queue-light-it-up/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/23/the-queue-light-it-up/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I've had this song stuck in my head for like an entire week, so now I deliver it unto you.

SichasStudios asked:

In today's Breakfast Topic, the header image says "No Veteran Bonus" on the form to boost to 90. What's that bonus, and how do you get it?

The veteran bonus is a reward for using the 90 boost on a level 60+ character. It boosts the character's primary professions and first aid to 600.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Everything is awesome]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/22/the-queue-everything-is-awesome/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/22/the-queue-everything-is-awesome/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/22/the-queue-everything-is-awesome/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Well folks, I held out as long as I could, but there was a BOGO sale on Lego sets at Toys-R-Us. I am now nine years old again.

morvackthemountmimic asked:

I have a two part question. When you make your character, it shows them in a certain set of gear. Are these gear sets obtainable? If so, where?

Those sets are usually riffs on existing sets (the warlock one is a retooled Nemesis, for example), but they're not available in the game, much to my chagrin. You'll notice the texture resolution on them is quite high, and the shoulder models are brand new in most cases. Sad we don't get to wear them! They'd make great heirlooms!

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Up up up down A select A B A A A up down]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/16/the-queue-up-up-up-down-a-select-a-b-a-a-a-up-down/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/16/the-queue-up-up-up-down-a-select-a-b-a-a-a-up-down/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/16/the-queue-up-up-up-down-a-select-a-b-a-a-a-up-down/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

45,000 people are currently trying to play Pokemon Red simultaneously using a chat parser. The results are about what you'd expect.

pedroboteon asked:

WIth the news that the PvP Season is ending could that be a sign that:

1) Patch 5.4.7 is about to drop.

2) WoD will be available for pre-purchase very very soon[TM]?

I think 1) and 2) are both true, actually!

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The candy aisle, that is! Valentine's candy is half off or more!

JohnO asked:

If the friends and family testing version is the Alpha and select people get to test the Beta, then is the version of the game that we buy just the Gamma test version when we all get to first log in?

Usually, once a game is ready for the general public, it "goes gold" and stops being given testing phase designations like alpha, beta, etc. However, some might refer to the "release candidate" stage as delta or gamma. You can read a little more about the software release cycle here.

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]]> (Michael Sacco) Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Welcome Bear]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/the-queue-welcome-bear/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/the-queue-welcome-bear/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/the-queue-welcome-bear/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

An old friend visits in today's Queue.

GnomeMaleModel asked:

Ignoring all current race/class restrictions, what would be your dream insta-90 character? Tauren Rogue? Gnome Hunter? Panda DK? Murloc Priest?

Undead druid, just so I could see their ostensibly-awesome forms. A playable version of the classic Welcome Bear from Western Plaguelands! A big ol' dead tree form! I'm sure the artists would have a grand old time with it, and so would I.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: RIP Flappy Bird]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/the-queue-rip-flappy-bird/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/the-queue-rip-flappy-bird/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/09/the-queue-rip-flappy-bird/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

You were too good for this world. Rest now, old soldier.

BlazeNor asked:

What ever happen to the World of Warcraft Official Magazine? And did they ever replace it with something else?

The magazine was canceled after five issues, leaving some people with a subscription a magazine that didn't exist. They offered refunds or vanity pet vouchers for those affected. I can't say for sure why it was canceled, but I do know that it was constantly late, the information was often old news before the magazine even hit the newsstands, and it arrived to many subscribers' homes in terrible condition. I think Blizzard and/or Future (the publisher) probably noticed these things and opted not to continue the print media war of attrition. It was a good-looking magazine, though.

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]]> (Michael Sacco) Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Take Your Dog to Work Day]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/08/the-queue-take-your-dog-to-work-day/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/08/the-queue-take-your-dog-to-work-day/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/08/the-queue-take-your-dog-to-work-day/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Well, technically you can bring your dog to work every day at my office. But yesterday I brought Miga. She was so productive I ended up getting replaced by her, as you can see above.

curleyjoe666 asked:

How likely do you guys think it is that Blizzard will ever allow us more frredom with our character names? For example, I really want to be able to use apostrophes in my characters names, especially Orc and Troll characters and it does make me feel less connected to those characters because their neames aren't right.

This is something I've always wanted. In beta, the first character I ever rolled I named Ciel Larkin, but the naming thing truncated it to Ciellarkin. I was sad. It always seemed like a flavor miss to me, not being able to give yourself a real orc or human or troll name. Unfortunately, this seems like one of those things where if we haven't gotten it yet, we probably never will. Maybe in WoW2.

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The new Warpaint album is out and it's really good.

JohnO asked:

If Blizzard were to do a redemption of any one orc leader in Draenor, who do you think it should be and why?

Specifically, I am talking about those that drank the Kool-Aid in pre-BC Draenor, but became a better person because he/she didn't drink the Kool-Aid in the new version of Draenor.

Ner'zhul, for sure. He's the only one who doesn't seem like a complete maniac. Gul'dan, now there's a dude who's just pure evil. Ner'zhul was a dope who just got in over his head and paid the price. Without the demon blood, maybe he has a chance. Given what little we know, I think I might be on to something?

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Is that how you pronounce Onett? Or is it "oh-net"?

RyanKomisarz asked:

Do you think there will be a representation of Taunka or Hozen into Orgrimmar or another major Horde city ever? We gone through quests to induct both into the Horde, or were they only brought in simply for the sake of a military force to get a helping hand on the continent they were found?

Good question. I'd say it's pretty unlikely that we'll see any sign of them past their respective expansions, even though at least the taunka are technically real members of the Horde. Until they become playable, don't expect to see them in Orgrimmar.

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Rode_And_Babe asked:

It's the year of the horse. Why no horse theme queue yet?

Okay.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Tony Stark's wardrobe]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/31/the-queue-tony-starks-wardrobe/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/31/the-queue-tony-starks-wardrobe/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/31/the-queue-tony-starks-wardrobe/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Jeez, think Iron Man has enough alternate costumes in Marvel Heroes? The Starboost armor on the left side is pretty cool, though. (Brief note: I have been playing said game lately and it is way, way better than it was at launch. Consider trying it out. Big thumbs up from me, your old pal Mike.)

Selethor asked:

Do we know how much the Blood Elves have recovered since Arthas came through and destroyed everything, and will we ever see the sunwell's effects on the elves?

The blood elf population is still small, but it is recovering since the end of Burning Crusade. I don't think we have any solid figures on exactly how much it's recovered, but generally once a population is less worried about surviving the day, they get to more mundane stuff like baby-makin'. As for the Sunwell's effects, one can assume it's already begun to work its, well, magic. The nature of the fel green eye glow the blood elves currently have is kind of ambiguous; like the green skin of the orcs, it may never go away.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Deer fart]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/26/the-queue-deer-fart/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/26/the-queue-deer-fart/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/26/the-queue-deer-fart/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Deer fart.

Nekthara asked:

Question for the Queue: Is there any particular order that the Warcraft novels should be read? I got a few from Goodwill the other day but I don't want to start and feel like I'm missing part of the story.

Don't feel particularly compelled to read them in chronological order as listed here, but if you really want to adhere to an arbitrary guideline you could probably read them in order of release. That way at least you'll meet the characters from the War of the Ancients trilogy before their next appearances, etc.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Tear a foreman]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/24/the-queue-tear-a-foreman/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/24/the-queue-tear-a-foreman/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/24/the-queue-tear-a-foreman/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I'm designing a board game about terraforming. What are you guys up to?

Paggit asked:

Do we know if garrisons are going to faction specific or are they going to depend on your race.

Right now there's a human-looking one for Alliance and an orc-looking one for Horde. The devs said they'd like to do racial-specific ones but it's going to come down to time.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Lazy Sunday]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/19/the-queue-lazy-sunday/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/19/the-queue-lazy-sunday/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/19/the-queue-lazy-sunday/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Comments for Saturday's Queue were surprisingly few for so many comments. But that just means that people were having lively discussion there instead of asking questions, which is also fine.

MandaPanda asked:

Where do you think we'll encounter the warlords in Warlords of Draenor? Will we meet them in questing areas, trying to woo them to our side and not Garrosh's (and how will Alliance interact with them)? Will they be raid bosses, as we take out the orc army?

All of the above! Fighting off the various warlords is the main goal in several zones, and you can be darn sure you're gonna be killing some of them for purples. We don't know a lot about the who and where yet, but we know that at least on Horde side you'll be trying to get Durotan to join you.

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]]> featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questions (Michael Sacco) Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Queue: Gaining my religion]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/18/the-queue-gaining-my-religion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/18/the-queue-gaining-my-religion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/18/the-queue-gaining-my-religion/#comments Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I think Losing My Religion is somehow even sadder when it's in a major key.

john.aga1 asked:

Rhonin, leader of the Kirin Tor died at Theramore just prior to the start of the MoP expansion. However, he is still shown alive as leader of the Kirin Tor in Dalaran. When will he die in game?

Maybe never? After all, you still have Garrosh as a mopey nerd in Outland. There are lots of weird time bubbles in WoW. Schrhoniner's Mage being alive and dead is hardly the biggest oddity.

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