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by Adam Holisky 
Mar 5th 2013 at 11:00AM
It's called illusion, Michael.
Miguel asked:
Is there any gear with valor points that doesn't requrie any rep?
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It's called illusion, Michael.
Miguel asked:
Is there any gear with valor points that doesn't requrie any rep?
The Queue: Screenshots of yore
by Michael Sacco Mar 3rd 2013 at 2:00PM
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.
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The Queue: Mwah!
by Anne Stickney Mar 2nd 2013 at 12:00PM
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) desperately wants a teeny tiny goat.
This goat is so cute. I can't. I seriously can't. You know what would be cuter? Nothing.
alexskylark pointed out:
"However Taurens can be Paladins, and they do NOT worship the Light."
But blizzard cooked up a half-arsed excuse at to let them be paladins... completely messing up Blood Elf lore along the way (BE lore states that the sun is related to ARCANE energies, not the Light)
Um, no, actually. The Sunwell was created with a vial from the Well of Eternity, at the conjunction of a whole mess of ley energy. It had absolutely nothing to do with the sun what so ever, and to my knowledge, there is nothing in blood elf lore that states that the sun provides arcane power -- it can all be traced back to the Well of Eternity.
So why, you may ask, did they call it the Sunwell? Likely it had something to do with the fact that night elves worshiped Elune and the moon. The blood elves were originally night elves, but they were banished for practicing arcane magic -- so they may have called it the Sunwell just to emphasize the fact that they had nothing to do with the kaldorei anymore. Or they may have named it after Dath'remar Sunstrider, who led them to the Eastern Kingdoms after they were banished.
This goat is so cute. I can't. I seriously can't. You know what would be cuter? Nothing.
alexskylark pointed out:
"However Taurens can be Paladins, and they do NOT worship the Light."
But blizzard cooked up a half-arsed excuse at to let them be paladins... completely messing up Blood Elf lore along the way (BE lore states that the sun is related to ARCANE energies, not the Light)
Um, no, actually. The Sunwell was created with a vial from the Well of Eternity, at the conjunction of a whole mess of ley energy. It had absolutely nothing to do with the sun what so ever, and to my knowledge, there is nothing in blood elf lore that states that the sun provides arcane power -- it can all be traced back to the Well of Eternity.
So why, you may ask, did they call it the Sunwell? Likely it had something to do with the fact that night elves worshiped Elune and the moon. The blood elves were originally night elves, but they were banished for practicing arcane magic -- so they may have called it the Sunwell just to emphasize the fact that they had nothing to do with the kaldorei anymore. Or they may have named it after Dath'remar Sunstrider, who led them to the Eastern Kingdoms after they were banished.
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The Queue: Virgin sacrifices, Throne of Thunder progression, and old gods
by Dawn Moore Feb 27th 2013 at 11:00AM
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Dawn Moore will be your host today.
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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The Queue: Goats yelling like humans
by Michael Sacco Feb 24th 2013 at 2:00PM
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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The Queue: Hit by a bus
by Michael Sacco Feb 23rd 2013 at 12:00PM
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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The Queue: Literature is lovely
by Anne Stickney Feb 22nd 2013 at 11:00AM
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. You will have to pry Anne Stickney's (@Shadesogrey) book collection from her cold, dead hands.
Pictured above are two books from my collection. Both are significantly older than my father, and he was born in 1929. There is something so keenly beautiful about holding something that has passed through the hands of I don't know how many people in its 100+ years of existence, and I can't really describe it. Yes, they are books of stories -- fairy tales, actually -- but the books themselves are a story, delicate and winding and impossibly long, trapped within the fragile spines and soft, worn pages. I'm glad they've found a home with me.
Now stop trying to sell me on a Kindle.
ejunk77 asked:
Q for the Q: Are you rooting for Lilian Voss to return in one of the remaining MoP patches? I know I am!
Not especially. But there's a reason behind that.
Pictured above are two books from my collection. Both are significantly older than my father, and he was born in 1929. There is something so keenly beautiful about holding something that has passed through the hands of I don't know how many people in its 100+ years of existence, and I can't really describe it. Yes, they are books of stories -- fairy tales, actually -- but the books themselves are a story, delicate and winding and impossibly long, trapped within the fragile spines and soft, worn pages. I'm glad they've found a home with me.
Now stop trying to sell me on a Kindle.
ejunk77 asked:
Q for the Q: Are you rooting for Lilian Voss to return in one of the remaining MoP patches? I know I am!
Not especially. But there's a reason behind that.
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The Queue: Snakes on a complain
by Matthew Rossi Feb 21st 2013 at 11:00AM
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.
- They are introducing new snake models in patch 5.2.
- These snake models are not tameable by hunters.
- 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.
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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The Queue: I'd love to see LA
by Michael Sacco Feb 17th 2013 at 2:00PM
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 Queue: Betrayal of the Guardian
by Michael Sacco Feb 16th 2013 at 12:00PM
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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The Queue: Meteor swarm
by Michael Sacco Feb 15th 2013 at 11:00AM
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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The Queue: Hanging around
by Michael Sacco Feb 10th 2013 at 2:00PM
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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The Queue: I am the night
by Anne Stickney Feb 9th 2013 at 12:00PM
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 pretty keen on wee ittle baby bats herself.
I find it super weird that Sacco posts a Queue extolling the virtues of baby bats the same day that my sister decides to share the above image on Facebook. Should I be worried?
alch3mist12 asked:
Will there be, or has there been an article written about what items to stock up on for when 5.2 drops?
Kristin touched on a few things a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think we've had a Gold Capped specifically addressing that subject yet. The biggest thing? Ghost Iron. And miners may want to start farming Trillium as well, because Wrathion asks for 40 Trillium Bars in the next leg of the legendary quest chain.
loremasterzecheriah asked:
Q for the Q - I hate having to run out of a raid to repair. Do you think there's any chance of Jeeves becoming BoE and sellable? Or at least being able to mount in the outside parts of raids?
I find it super weird that Sacco posts a Queue extolling the virtues of baby bats the same day that my sister decides to share the above image on Facebook. Should I be worried?
alch3mist12 asked:
Will there be, or has there been an article written about what items to stock up on for when 5.2 drops?
Kristin touched on a few things a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think we've had a Gold Capped specifically addressing that subject yet. The biggest thing? Ghost Iron. And miners may want to start farming Trillium as well, because Wrathion asks for 40 Trillium Bars in the next leg of the legendary quest chain.
loremasterzecheriah asked:
Q for the Q - I hate having to run out of a raid to repair. Do you think there's any chance of Jeeves becoming BoE and sellable? Or at least being able to mount in the outside parts of raids?
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The Queue: Baby bats
by Michael Sacco Feb 8th 2013 at 11:00AM
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.
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The Queue: Superb Owl
by Michael Sacco Feb 3rd 2013 at 2:00PM
It's Superb Owl Sunday! Discuss all the best owls today with friends.
koboi_K asked:
If the Burning Legion wants to pay a visit to Azeroth, do they always have to be summoned via a portal? Then they need some expert in magics on the receiving end, like in the War of the Ancients. Or do they use space ships or other nether floats giving the freedom to travel wherever they want? Not sure how they came for the Battle of Hyjal.
Demons travel through (and often live) in the Twisting Nether, which is sort of an adjacent dimension to ours. To get to Azeroth, they need portals opened, either by current demonic residents of Azeroth or mortal servants.
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