The Queue: Shark Attack

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 answering all kinds of questions today.

When I was a kid, my brother and sister and I all wanted the Shark Attack game for Christmas because the commercial made it look so incredibly fun. But that idyllic little slice of life shown in that commercial was far, far from the truth, friends. There was no giggling and happy shouting with this game. Oh no. The commercial has it all wrong. Picture if you will three children frantically shrieking bloody murder at each other to roll the dice whilst edging ever closer to that invisible line in which we start using the profanity we've heard our parents use off and on again for years, throw in a few tears of desperation and you've got a much better idea of the experience.

Oddly enough, most of the card games my siblings and I now play as adults during holiday gatherings involve much the same thing. Our family gatherings are things to be treasured. Let's answer some Warcraft questions!

Maelzrael asked:

Q4tQ: What would be, in your opinion, the most likely new system or feature in the next expansion? I would say this xpac it's obviously Garrisons followed by New Model Updates.

Most likely would probably be the overhaul to the transmogrification feature and/or the tabard and heirloom storage tabs. Both of those have been bandied about as being in progress or at least still being thought about, so they seem like they'd be the most likely selections.

Or, you know, the Dance Studio.

willdurandblack asked:

arent mak'goras a ritual fight for leadership? And does that mean Thrall is now the war song chieftain?

Boy that would be interesting, wouldn't it? But no. Thrall's challenge wasn't for leadership of the Warsong, it was a continuation of the duel that Garrosh started way back at the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King, during the Scourge invasion. In essence, Garrosh challenged Thrall for leadership of the Horde, but the duel was preempted by the untimely arrival of Scourge forces. Thrall said they would finish it later ... and then we had Cataclysm, and then we had Mists of Pandaria. When Thrall interrupts the fight in Nagrand and challenges Garrosh, he's essentially saying "Remember when I said we'll finish this later? It's later." As it stands, no one leads the Warsong as far as we know, unless someone else stepped up to lead after Garrosh.

JeffLaBowski asked:

Q4tQ: If you were in charge of lore/writing the day Garrosh was caught, what would you have done with his character?

Let Garrosh be taken to trial. Let him get whisked away to Draenor. But once he's on Draenor, let him have that moment of realization, of quiet reflection, looking on that world that was once his home. Have him meet his father and realize that in this world, he doesn't exist -- that he is a non-entity in his father's eyes. Have him save his father -- it's what he's always wanted to do, after all.

Maybe have him simply observe his father for a while and actually see who his father really is. Not colored through the eyes of how Thrall or others viewed him, but who the dude really is, what he is up to, what he's all about. And then have him come to the slow, sinking realization that his father is not this magic pillar of perfection everyone has been telling him about. He's not the cowardly, power-mad demon that the Mag'har made him out to be either. He's not a dude to be ashamed of, he's not an impossibly high standard to live up to. He's just Grommash Hellscream. He's just an orc.

I'm not sure where that would shift Garrosh's character, but I honestly would have liked to see him come to that moment of realization that perhaps all these hopes, dreams, fears, despair, and everything else he has been pinning on his father are really ashes in the end, and maybe see Garrosh start to develop into Garrosh, instead of who everyone else wanted him to be. Who he thought everyone else wanted him to be.

Lib asked:

I have a question. In Kargath's arena in Tanaan Jungle, you have to Kill Your Hundred, but you only kill 99. I've tried to watch now on a couple of alts and I can't tell who is the last one killed. Who is that last kill?

It ticks up to 99 and then jumps to the cutscene, because Khadgar has had just about enough of the games. That why Khadgar says "I guess we owe you one" to Kargath as you flee. If you raid Highmaul, the first encounter will answer the question of who is #100.

Chrth asked:

Q4TQ: Where do the doors in old Ironforge lead?

Fun question! If you head to Ironforge Airfield outside, you'll notice a door heading into the mountain with Ironforge banners on it. Swing around to the north, and you'll notice a dwarven farm above Menethil that also has a door leading into the mountain -- one that also has the Ironforge banners on it. I believe that the two doors head to these two locations, as they are the only two exterior doors leading into Ironforge, other than the main entrance. Alternatively, they could leave to a massive underground highway that stretches from Blackrock Mountain to Grim Batol -- but I think the airfield and Menethil are more likely. We don't have an official answer on that one, but that's my best guess!

angaurwen asked:

So, can someone update me on Kadgar? Or point me in the direction of his story?I thought when we saw him in shattrath back in BC, he was stuck in Outland since ages. I was so surprised to see him show up in the pre-expac quests with no whisper of explanation of what he was doing there.

At some point after Burning Crusade, Khadgar returned to Azeroth. We don't know exactly when, but he joined the Six, Dalaran's ruling council, sometime between the end of Burning Crusade and the end of Cataclysm. He was there in Dalaran when Jaina arrived looking for help to combat the planned attack on Theramore in Tides of War, and he was the council member that suggested making Jaina leader after Rhonin's death. It can be assumed that once mention was made of the Dark Portal changing colors, not to mention the destruction of Nethergarde Keep, he was either contacted or simply arrived to offer his expertise on the situation. Khadgar actually oversaw the construction of Nethergarde Keep after the Second War, so it stands to reason he'd at least check in and keep tabs on the place once he returned to Azeroth.

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