{"id":187606,"date":"2024-07-25T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=187606"},"modified":"2024-07-25T05:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:22:02","slug":"queue-one-two-three-cronch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/25\/queue-one-two-three-cronch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queue: One&#8230; two&#8230; three&#8230;Cronch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owls. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ZtbCOpx8Sk&amp;t=20s\">You can&#8217;t trust them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">ENO<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>I think the reason the actionbars got turned off for everybody is because they added an eighth actionbar? There&#8217;s one I didn&#8217;t have before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">CORGI<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>So. Warbands. Was it just my imagination, or were we told, repeatedly, that one&#8217;s warband would include ALL of one&#8217;s characters on a single BNet account?<\/p>\n<p>Because right now I have two warbands, and considerable disappointment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/guide\/war-within\/warbands-overview#:~:text=upon%20first%20login.-,The%20Warbands%20system%20is%20effective%20for%20all%20characters%20on%20a,factions%2C%20and%20even%20subscription%20types.\">that seems to be the case<\/a> according to a few sources I&#8217;ve found. The problem I&#8217;m having is that some sources say\u00a0<em>Battle.net<\/em> account, while others say\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1dodnz1\/a_reminder_that_your_warband_is_your_entire\/\"><em>WoW<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1dodnz1\/a_reminder_that_your_warband_is_your_entire\/\"> account<\/a>. Since you can technically have more than one\u00a0<em>WoW<\/em> account on the same b.net account, that could mean you could have two Warbands on one b.net account, one for each\u00a0<em>WoW<\/em> account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com\/en-us\/news\/24061008\/the-war-within-warbands-preview\">This preview from Blizzard<\/a> definitely says every character on your Battle.net account. However, it also says that Warbands include every character in a specific region. So if you have a\u00a0<em>WoW<\/em> account for the Americas and another for Europe, those two accounts would have their own Warbands because they&#8217;re in different regions.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">DRAKKENFYRE<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>As I mentioned in the last Queue, I spent my first 20 minutes logged in sitting at the character select screen trying to get all of my characters back in the order they were previously, and it didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize the title screen music is repetitive as HELL.<\/p>\n<p>Man I remember back in Cata that thing went on seemingly forever (12ish minutes, IIRC.) The new one seems to loop after just a few.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I liked the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jgjnru0h1zE\"><em>Cataclysm<\/em> login music<\/a> that much, but man, I loved the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YOovc5OtCs0\"><em>Warlords of Draenor<\/em><\/a> login music. I could listen to that for days.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">RED<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>Q4TQ: what are your favorite old raids to solo, and why?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for something that feels worth my time. Not too long or annoying to navigate, and with a good amount of good-looking mog or other drops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tomb of Sargeras<\/em> &#8212; both because I enjoy the aesthetics of the gear and the raid itself.<\/li>\n<li>I think I like most of the\u00a0<em>Mists<\/em> raids, but I&#8217;m a sucker for hitting up <em>Siege of Orgrimma<\/em>r, just to see the NPC&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li><em>Karazhan<\/em> because it&#8217;s pretty and the weapon drops are pretty, even though I already have practically everything from it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ulduar.<\/em> Because it&#8217;s Ulduar.<\/li>\n<li><em>Icecrown Citadel<\/em> because it&#8217;s a straight line until you get up to the three wings at the top, plus I really enjoy destroying Arthas so fast that I can potentially break the whole game.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellfire Citadel<\/em> because I really dislike pretty much every boss in it and so I love killing them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">RED AGAIN (RED ASKS A LOT OF QUESTIONS WHICH IS NICE BECAUSE IT MEANS I CAN WRITE THIS QUEUE FASTER)<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>Q4TQ: do you think it would take a handsworth of these hill dwarves to bring one from the Aerie down?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;re gonna need to find an owl to ask.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">ENO DECIDED NOT TO LET RED OWN THIS QUEUE<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>When do we get to be like a Tol&#8217;vir mage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Honestly, at this point, I&#8217;m low key wishing they do like a pack of new races\/allied races that are all weird and hard to animate in one go. Like, imagine an expansion where we suddenly got Naga, Centaurs, Tol&#8217;vir, Dryad\/Keeps of the Grove, just throw it all at us. Maybe even make the Naga similar to\u00a0<em>D&amp;D<\/em>&#8216;s Yuan-Ti, where you could have Naga that are more serpentine and ones that are more humanoid (or maybe even have playable Sethrak, who knows, go hog wild).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bw_queue_hr_v2\" \/>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_v2\">\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_from_v2\">MUSEDMOOSE KNOWS HOW TO SUCKER ME IN<\/div>\n<div class=\"bw_queue_question_body_v2\">\n<p>Lore Q for the Rossi Queue: how do you think the WarCraft story would have gone differently if Blizzard hadn&#8217;t made WoW?<\/p>\n<p>I think if they&#8217;d kept doing RTS games, we would have had more long, character-focused stories like Arthas&#8217;s instead of multiple scattered stories that WoW brought us. But I&#8217;d like to think we would have had a Blackrock Mountain campaign, and an Ahn&#8217;Qiraj campaign, since those were big lore moments in early WoW. And who knows, WarCraft VII might actually have been called &#8220;Wrath of the Lich King&#8221;, because of course they&#8217;d bring Arthas back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I mean, cynically, I think we&#8217;d have gotten maybe two more\u00a0<em>Warcraft<\/em> games and then the franchise would basically be as on life support as\u00a0<em>StarCraft<\/em> ended up.<\/p>\n<p>I do think the next\u00a0<em>Warcraft<\/em> game would have been bigger, with more factions at the start. Instead of Alliance v. Horde, I think we&#8217;d have seen balkanization in\u00a0<em>Warcraft 4<\/em>, with the tentative peace from the end of Daelin Proudmoore upset by a resurgence of Night Elves (remember, in\u00a0<em>WC3,\u00a0<\/em>Night Elves were portrayed as a whole as savage, feral and warlike) attacking the various Orc, Troll and Tauren across Kalimdor while the humans in Theramore tried to restablish contact with either Stormwind or Kul&#8217;Tiras.<\/p>\n<p>This would likely lead to Trolls vs. Humans and who knows, maybe the Undead under Sylvanas as an enemy faction as well. We could well have ended up with a story campaign that went from Nelves to Horde to Theramore Humans to Trolls to Undead before finally ending up going to Northrend to try and deal with Arthas. I think going after Illidan would be much less likely for a fourth\u00a0<em>Warcraft<\/em> game, and a lot of concepts we have today wouldn&#8217;t be there and we wouldn&#8217;t see them because it&#8217;s a different kind of game with different narrative needs.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, I think by the inherent nature of a RTS, we&#8217;d see way, way more antagonism and much less of the two faction system we saw in\u00a0<em>WoW<\/em> &#8212; there&#8217;s much less pressure to see Blood Elves join the Horde and the Draenei would never even have become playable, because I don&#8217;t think Outland would have come into play for at least two RTS releases. Without the Metzen Draenei\/Eredar retcon, the whole story of Sargeras would have remained on a different track and the story would have gone in a different direction dealing more with infighting on Azeroth and less on cosmic threats.<\/p>\n<p>Then it would likely have seen a lot less development because RTS games would still have likely declined. I mean, even when\u00a0<em>WC3<\/em> was huge, RTS as a whole were on the way out, and I don&#8217;t think another\u00a0<em>Warcraft<\/em> RTS in 2004 or after could have stopped that. But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that feels like a good number of questions to answer, and we got an in-depth exploration of how many licks it would take to take down one from the Aerie.<\/p>\n<p>Take care, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owls. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ZtbCOpx8Sk&amp;t=20s\">You can&#8217;t trust them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[78736,8041],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187610,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187606\/revisions\/187610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187606"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=187606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}