Welcome back to The Queue The Queue, the daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team will answer your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today.
If you lose control and you have no hope, it's a tragedy. When the morning cries and you don't understand why it's hard to bear.
Let's get right to the point. What's that? There aren't any questions, only people talking about their most loved fantasy books, movies, or games?
Tragedy.
Bhuta asks QfQ: With WoD's hybrid "gear tax" gone What is the incentive for a pure DPS-class to be taken on? I mean, I have been locked since BC... however, I'm finding it difficult to justify the need to keep it. I can do the same work in WoD, and I can also DPS and heal (with a priest ). There's no doubt that nostalgia is a great thing, but the additional utility is hard to ignore. What do you think?
Do you want to heal?
Every single time I've been in a guild I've always been tanking, even when I joined as pure DPS as warriors are able to tank and DPS. Monks and Druids can tank, DPS and heal - guess which roles are the most well-represented for them? (Hint that it's not their DPS specifications.) If you want to heal or tank in any way, then by all means play a hybrid capable of filling both roles.
To ensure that you aren't required to heal or tank, sign up to an organization. What you call optional , I consider eventually mandatory. The longer you play a class that can do something other than DPS the greater chance that you'll be asked to perform it. If this is what you are seeking, then you should consider playing a hybrid. You'll have to engage in lots of convincing if you want to be a shadow priest and nothing else.
If you are an individual player, or a five-man player of a PvPer then warlock might be an ideal choice.
Puntable1 asked: Which new Garrison building or perk to an already existing Garrison building would you want to experience? I'm asking softball questions to ensure they have something to answer tomorrow, since everyone else is waxing nostalgic about fantasy.
Puntable1, you don't know how much I appreciate it.
I would like to see a slot to be used as a sanctuary. This could be a retreat specifically designed to match the race of your character. If you were an orc, you could have an orcish retreat. Forsaken could get something similar to the homes in Tarren Mill, while tauren would get something like the structures found in Thunder Bluff.
JPEC07 asked: Do you consider it an appropriate decision that Blizzard acknowledged the DDoS attacks.
Yup, sure do.
JPEC07 also asked: Q4tQ? have heard that Blizzard wants the Transmog system to be more focused on the collection aspect of the game. What do you think it will look like and how will it work out?
In the beginning, I hope they take the Diablo III transmog system and implement it in some form. Hopefully a slightly less expensive version of it. Then I hope they give us a transmog hall at the Garrison where we can display sets of transmog on dummies and then I want to see them put more cosmetic stuff available for us to collect. All of that would be fantastic for a start. Also, I'd love to see them add something that lets us collect transmog looks on gear that only exists on NPC's in the game, such as the sword vrykul mobs found in Ulduar use.
It would be cool to collect models like these that are available only through NPC's.
HerrKlokbok asked: Although this isn't a WoW related question, the comments below discuss "how I started fantasy" and I thought it could be interesting. Which one of your roleplaying characters (either live, pen-andpaper, or on WoW RP server), is your favorite?
It's a tossup between my draenei and my tauren warrior. My draenei is ancient. He's so old he still has a memory of leaving Argus. One of his facial tendrils were cut off. He's been fighting and being beaten so badly up that they had to put him in a state of stasis to cure him repeatedly time throughout draenei time - he barely remembers Draenor because it was only one of the many worlds they ended up on while trying to escape the Legion. He is bitter, cynical and very taciturn. His response to the imminent end of the world was simply No.
Meanwhile, my tauren is a very sociable and concerned fellow, who can't help but think of orcs as tiny green fellas that need help, trolls being blue fellas who need assistance, abandoned as dead fellas that need help, blood elves being tiny fellas who need assistance and goblins as a monster who strip mine the Earth Mother and need to be watched carefully. He is extremely cautious around women who are tauren, but he can't determine if an orc male or female. He talks to members of other Horde races as if they're slow children.
Outside of WoW, Andak the Wolf is my favorite. He once destroyed an entire undead forest to rid it of the lich inside. Andak earned the name "Captain Pragmatism" and on several occasions my DM said that he thought Andak was the best representation of neutral good he's seen.
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