Filed under: The Queue

The Queue: Fargo (the flood, not the movie)

by Adam Holisky Mar 19th 2010 at 5:00PM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

Around this time last year I was off helping my area deal with a 500 year flood. This year it's struck again (although only 2 feet less, /cheer?). Pictured above is a shot from the live flood web-cams the local paper has set up, and it's kind of interesting to watch (for those wondering the water should be about 20 feet lower than it is now). Every once in a while you get to see a cop or some workers do something, and boy, is that exciting...

About as exciting as AoE pally tanking. /rimshot

Fornozo asked...

"How come the GearScore addon became so popular?"

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The Queue: The dating game

by Alex Ziebart Mar 18th 2010 at 11:00AM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Today's edition of The Queue is one part off-topic and two parts on-topic, but each and every part is worth it. Trust me on that one. Oh, and there's a couple more bad words than usual. You have been warned. I hope none of you are too scandalized by it.

Windswept asked...

"There is this girl I like that works at the mall, I want to ask her out but I don't know how. What would YOU do?"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue, Cataclysm

The Queue: Little things

by Alex Ziebart Mar 16th 2010 at 2:00PM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

I feel I've done one of these far too recently to do another one so quickly, but we're going to do another listening music day anyway. In yesterday's Blood Sport, Colby introduced me to Pomplamoose, a musical duo from Youtube. Considering most of my procrastination hours are spent on YouTube, I am amazed I've never heard of them before, but they are great. Plus the girl is way cute. She practically emits that kitty face emote when she talks. Seriously.

So today's listening music is Pomplamoose's Little Things.

Grumbly Stuff asked...

"What's your (or anyone's, really) favorite proc or on-use effect for any piece of gear/weapon/trinket?"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue

The Queue: In which vacation was taken

by Adam Holisky Mar 15th 2010 at 6:00PM

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Most of last week I was on a nice vacation to the Washington, DC area. Some very cool sights, one of which is pictured above. All I could think of?

But I am le tired. Well, take a nap. Then fire ze missiles! (NSFW and all that.)

Swifteye asked...

"On the way to Ambassador, is it worth doing quests for a faction you're already exalted with?"

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The Queue: Officially on notice

by Michael Sacco Mar 12th 2010 at 11:00AM

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Adam, when you get back from vacation, you're going to write the Queue for a week after causing 220+ comments to be written about sea mice. You're on notice!

DarkFinch asked...

Is there any time when Army of the Dead is appropriate in a 5-man instance?

I guess that depends on your definition of "appropriate." If by that, you mean "hilarious," then let me introduce you to a little game called Dragon Roulette.

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The Queue: Ghostcrawler promised me a Sea Mouse

by Adam Holisky Mar 10th 2010 at 11:00AM

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I'm using that picture of a Sea Mouse in The Queue today for a few reasons. First, it's disgusting and I can't wait to see all the comments. Second, this is the stuff Ghostcrawler dealt with before he was in video games. Knowing that makes one understand why he has such a sarcastic take on trolls.

So let's get into it.

Phil asked...

"Where do babies come from?"

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The Queue: Keeping it classy

by Alex Ziebart Mar 9th 2010 at 2:00PM

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We haven't kicked off The Queue with reading music in awhile, so let's change that. Once upon a time I posted some Rhett and Link for you, an internet-based musical comedy duo, and people seemed to enjoy it. So here's more! Behold, the T-Shirt War. T-Shirt War was actually my second choice behind the far more hilarious Butt Drugs, but perhaps Butt Drugs aren't as safe for work. Still, funny stuff. Butt Drugs.

The Queue is actually a bit short today, since a majority of the questions we've been receiving require rolling bones and gazing into a crystal ball to answer. If you have a non-Cataclysm question for us, please ask in the comments below!

busuan asked...

"Why is there almost no sound effect for a warrior's shouts? In Diablo II, the similar shouts come with awesome sound effects. But in WoW, warrior shouts merely generate a visual cue. If Blizzard though effect were annoying to other people, they could have restricted the effects as self-only."

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The Queue: 92 128 154 200 251 264

by Adam Holisky Mar 8th 2010 at 11:00AM

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If you understand what those numbers mean... then, well... it's time for a drink -- no matter what time of day it is.

Zaak asked...

"How do you think the new Cataclysm mobs while leveling to 85 will be affected by all the people who are getting geared through ICC? I mean there gonna have to make it a little easy for the new people hitting 80 once it hits, because they won't be wearing 264 pieces instead most of it under 200."

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The Queue: You know this because you are psychic

by Michael Sacco Mar 5th 2010 at 11:00AM

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Writing about World of Warcraft as a full-time job can be pretty mentally exhausting, believe it or not, and can affect your enjoyment of the game if you're not good at compartmentalizing. But even with that in mind, I'm excited for Cataclysm. Why? Because it's going to be awesome. I know this because I am psychic.

Lornicide asked...

"We know that the Vanilla areas will change completely when Cata comes out. This change will affect even players that only have the Vanilla version installed.

Let's say that Cata rolls out and I don't get the CD right away (blasphemy!), how will this affect my gameplay?"

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The Queue: We love fasty, too

by Alex Ziebart Mar 4th 2010 at 2:00PM

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The above video is brought to you by our very own Mat McCurley. You might know him better as "that guy that writes about addons I guess" if you don't pay much attention to author names. There's a backstory to the video, but I think leaving it out makes it far more hilarious.

Enjoy!

clundgren asked...

"Why is there a continued perception of ret paladins as overpowered? Raid data shows them to be a lower tier DPS class on ICC bosses, and they are not particularly feared in arena. What gives? Did patch 3.0.2 leave that much of a lasting impression?"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue

The Queue: A poll

by Adam Holisky Mar 3rd 2010 at 2:00PM

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Let's take a poll today.

Zayd asked...

"Assuming you leave your toon in a city or inn how long does it take to get fully rested?"

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The Queue: Earthquake bonanza

by Alex Ziebart Mar 2nd 2010 at 2:00PM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Today we're going to skip the wacky shenanigans that usually plague the intros to the Queue. Instead, I'm going to blow your minds with the news that Chile's recent earthquake was large enough that it has potentially moved the Earth's axis and an Earth day is now shorter because of it.

dav103id asked...

"When running Shadowfang Keep during Love is in the Air, did anyone else notice Arugal on the other side of the courthouse gate when you first enter the instance? Has he always been there at that location or was he added for the Love is in the Air boss event?"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue, Cataclysm

The Queue: That paladin doesn't know what he's talking about

by Adam Holisky Mar 1st 2010 at 1:00PM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

I love paladins. I really do. Back in vanilla WoW they really didn't appeal to me at all. They were just a raid healing class back then (save for the few awesome folks who bucked that trend), and I wasn't really interested in being a plate healer who wore cloth. In The Burning Crusade things got better, and I raided for a long time with an amazing paladin tank named JT (his brother, JT2, was a holy paladin -- they were kind of odd, but in a good way). JT's awesome tanking skills more or less convinced me to switch to a paladin as my main, away from my beloved warrior. So today I'm sporting a nicely geared prot pally (along with a resto shaman). Yay for switching mains!

Taristo asked...

"I was healing heroic Halls of Stone on my shaman the other day. I had a paladin tank complain that I was not healing enough and he was not getting any mana back. Mind you, my healing stream totem and Earth Shield kept him topped of so I was DPSing. He got so upset at me that he dropped group. Where did I go wrong? He was completely topped off at all times. I could not possible heal him more..."

Filed under: Paladin, The Queue

The Queue: An unrelated Q

by Alex Ziebart Feb 25th 2010 at 11:00AM

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I'm in charge of the Queue train today, which means for the first time this week, this is a Star Trek free zone. Admittedly, I can't shake the obsession with the letter Q, so we're just taking things a different route today. Behold: Q.

Darasen asked...

"Perhaps this is better answered by the Priest community but thought I''d ask here. I have been leveling a healing priest through the dungeon finder and was curious about the proper use of "Power Word Shield". I use the spell constantly as it is very mana efficient. I have had some players tell me I should not use it though. A warrior told me he thought the shield kept him from gaining rage (he was unsure) and a Paladin told me that he couldn't get mana back when shielded. So should it be used regularly or not?"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue

The Queue: Q2

by Adam Holisky Feb 24th 2010 at 11:00AM

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

Gray decided he had to go and be a trekkie too. And that means that there is now an official Q-off in the Queue. Today's featured Q is Q2, played by actor Corbin Bernsen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Deja Q. He primary role that we saw him in was to remove the power of the Q from Q at the request of the Q Continuum.

Q2 isn't my favorite auxiliary Q character, that'd fall to my pre-teen crush Amanda Rogers. But for the sake of this week's Q-capade, Q2 will do nicely.

Majinon asked...

"Do you feel like blue posts are telling enough? Are they in a good place in terms of giving out information?"

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