Posts with tag qa

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It's called illusion, Michael.

Miguel asked:

Is there any gear with valor points that doesn't requrie any rep?

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This is the oldest screenshot I have on this hard drive, from back in Burning Crusade alpha. I don't think I was supposed to be taking screenshots. Don't tell anyone.

arconx asked:

I got a mogu question: Information about lei-shen indacates that the Thunder King ruled all the way till the pandaren monk rebellions, but if he was the the first emperor,then when did all those other emperor's came from?Like the one who made the saurok

Lei Shen was the first mogu emperor, but definitely not the last. He died long, long before the pandaren revolution. There have been a lot of mogu emperors.

I was supposed to ritually sacrifice some virgin olive oil yesterday but I completely forgot. Fortunately the sports game the sacrifice was intended for hasn't started yet, and even if it had, it wouldn't be over for days. As it turns out though, I'm a Queue virgin -- that's right, I've never done a Queue before in my three years writing for WoW Insider. Go figure, right?

So how does this being sacrificed thing go? I assume there are cookies.

RussHada asked:

So once Throne of Thunder is released, what will be the official path of progression? Should my group (11/16N) run normal ToT after all 5.0 normal is cleared? Or are there some heroics (MSV?) we should do first, then ToT?

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Another supercut of my favorite thing: goats yelling like humans.

MusedMoose asked:

Engineering-based question: what do we use to blow up, erm, OPEN lockboxes in this expansion? I know I've had someone open a few of mine like that, but my main's an engineer and I can't find that item for the life of me. Even Wowhead doesn't have anything listed to open boxes with that level of locks. Help, please? @_@

This expansion's lock-exploder is the Locksmith's Powderkeg.

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This is my favorite cinematic trope of all time.

angerfork asked:

So is there a set-in lore reason for the varied strengths of the different Shas? I know there is something to gameplay considerations, but it's hard for me to see a 5 man take down the Sha of Violence when the Shas of Anger and Crayola/Fear take so many more. Is it just based on how we feed into their energy?

It's 100% gameplay. It also helps to remember that our characters are basically superheroes at this point, but, yeah. Gameplay.

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I said I would title this edition of The Queue this if I were allowed to write it. Here's the issue, as best I understand it.

1. They are introducing new snake models in patch 5.2.
2. These snake models are not tameable by hunters.
3. Several people, including my own wife, somehow think that if I say that I agree that these snakes should be tameable, somehow that will have some sort of positive effect and the snakes will become tameable.

So, in the interest of getting people to stop tweeting at me, I will now say that if Blizzard decided to make these snakes tameable I would be for it because then I wouldn't have to hear about it any more. I know that there are issues that are far, far more important than hunters, like warriors getting to dual wield polearms, but in the interest of a moment's peace I stand here today saying Okay, whatever, let hunters tame these snakes already.

Seriously, guys, my voice carries no weight. You're fooling yourselves. But for those of you who keep tweeting at me, here you go, I officially support strength polearms... er, I mean, hunters taming snakes. Yeah, that's what I mean.

darthonyx says

Freya isn't the only female Titanic construct like that though. There are several others, including Isiset, Ironaya, Auriaya, and Nablya.

There's also Myzrael, who might be an earth elemental, a titan construct, or perhaps both (a titan construct made out of an earth elemental) for all we know, but yes, there are quite a few female titan creations. Still, the vast majority of earthen, vrykul, mechagnomes, mogu and tol'vir we see are male (I have yet to see any demonstratably female tol'vir, not that I would be brave enough to try and check their undercarriage, as it were) and we don't really know why.

Vrykul are the only real exception in that we've seen enough female titan constructs to assume there could have been a few up front. (The Avatar of Freya is a female vrykul, not a human or titan construct). It's also worth noting that, while the Old Gods made the Curse of Flesh that seems to have created female counterparts for dwarves, gnomes, etc, the enslaved tol'vir and titan watchers in Ahn'Qiraj (Moam and Ossirian as just two examples) do not have flesh forms, nor do they have the female gender.

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This song is the header today because I just have it stuck in my head. Enjoy.

BlazeNor asked:

Is it possible to clear a current raid with everyone not wearing pants/leggings?

It's possible, sure, but it's gonna be a pain. Legs have a sizeable chunk of stats on them, and taking those stats away from every player in the raid puts you at a significant disadvantage.

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The latest WoW TCG set I was creative developer for, Betrayal of the Guardian, just had its full spoiler released -- you can check out the cards on the WoW TCG Facebook page. Hope you like 'em! Lots of Warcraft II stuff (and crocolisk nursery rhymes) in there.

malignantbacon asked:

I thought Gorehowl was Grom's axe? I read the Shattering when it came out, so I'm not too clear but I think Garrosh should drop whatever axe he used in the mak'gora against Carine instead. If it WAS Gorehowl, I think it would be a worthy reason to either move it off the Kara loot table or at some kind of adjective of superiority, though the latter would be a little awkward to see.

Gorehowl was definitely the axe that killed Cairne. Like I said yesterday, it's likely they'll pull an Ashkandi with it and just give it a qualifier.

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Footage of the meteor crashing in Russia yesterday is intense! Even the contrail is on fire!

phistu asked:

Will we ever see another Caverns of Time instance now that Nozdormu has lost his power? It doesn't seem like it would make a lot of sense lore-wise but I feel like the CoT-dungeons are too popular for there not to be another one. Not to mention a CoT-scenario. That would be so sweet.

I love the Caverns of Time and I think that Blizzard does too; strictly speaking, if they want to make more CoT content, they'll figure out a way to make it work within the story. They always do.

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Why was Bruce Wayne so scared of these things?

rpandagirl asked:

I got my priest some heirloom gear, which I thought meant I wouldn't need to replace her gear till level 80. But here she is, level 34, and I get a shoulder that increases her stats significantly! Am I missing something? If I have the heirloom gear in my bag but not equipped, do I still get the xp bonus?

The general idea is that even if a piece of gear has better stats than the heirloom gear of the same slot, you'll still level faster and more efficiently with the heirloom gear. A stat increase would have to be absolutely enormous to compete with an XP gain bonus-- far more than a single slot could contribute.

And no, you have to wear the heirloom gear to get the bonus. It doesn't work from your bags.

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I don't know why people don't like bats. They're like tiny bear-mice, with horrific monster claw wings.

hstein31 asked:

Now that we've seen the warlock green fire quest, what would you like to see for an epic questline for your favorite class?

Oh, no question here: I want a shaman quest that lets me use totems as a weapon like the tauren in Warcraft 3. I don't care how they implement it. I wanna knock some dude into the stratosphere with a totem.