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The Queue: Reinhardt is

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today.

Okay, when I finally get to play Overwatch, I'm absolutely going to play as this man/woman/robot/whatever it is. Just look at it. It's perfect. It's huge, armored, carries a gigantic hammer. Boom. Sign me up.

jpec07 asks:
So Rossi is on queue duty while the rest of the gang is on vacation to SoCal? That sucks, man, I'm sorry.

Q4tQ: I'm going to be picking up my pre-order of Warlords: CE next Thursday/Friday, and it made me realize I have an entirely new opportunity to do a level 90 boost. So queuers, my question to you:

What is your favorite race/gender/class/spec combo? If you can, give me three reasons why.

Yes, yet again I miss all the previews and games and just all the cool stuff. It has always been this way. As for your question, my actual answer would be draenei male fury warrior. This is why. (I know that's the old model, but if anything he looks better now.) But since I know you want something else, I'll say female undead fury warrior. Roll one, get it a couple of two hand weapons, watch her go. It's mermerizing. The animations are the best. And you get cannibalize, which is gross, but it's helpful while leveling. Also, you'll get to ride around on a bone pony. (My actual #2 is tauren prot warrior, but I figured I'd give you something unusual.)



waiting4giants asks:
Since I'm not at Blizzcon, where is the best place to go to ask Blizzard a question. I ask because I really would like them to give Blood DKs back Blood Worms; I feel it was a mistake to remove them, they are iconic to the spec and they weren't button bloat since they were a passive. I don't mind how there brought back, a possible example would be a Minor Glyph that causes a Worm to burst forth from any kill worth experience or honor and follow the DK around for 2 minutes killing and critters they encounter.
So where do I make this suggestion? And please don't just say "the Forums" I figured that much, but their are a bunch of them, which one is likely to get noticed. I just can't seem to navigate those things. Thanks for the help.


Well, if you're on twitter, you can directly tweet them - @celestalon and @WatcherDev are both on twitter (there are more, but those two are pretty good to start with) but keep in mind, just because you believe Blood Worms are iconic and should come back doesn't mean they will. We're less than a week from the expansion, and major changes aren't very likely.

As far as the forums go, there's a class forum for death knights here. That would likely be the best forum to post your concerns about your death knight.

Yet more dragon reproduction talk

I'm going to see if I can explain this more clearly. Remember, this is the link from Sean Copeland explaining the situation. Here's the basic gist of things -

Before the end of the Dragon Soul raid, dragons were in fact capable of reproduction. You've seen such dragon eggs in places like Grim Batol, the Obsidian Sanctum, Sinestra's lair, books like Day of the Dragon, etc etc. At the very end of Dragon Soul, when the four dragon aspects unified their power through the Dragon Soul artifact to destroy Deathwing utterly, they discharged the purpose for which the Titans created them, ending at long last their tens of thousands of years as aspects, and ushering in the age of mortals. When they did this, they not only became mortal (that is, subject to dying from old age just as the mortal races do) but they lost the ability to reproduce. They could reproduce before that moment - after it, they were rendered effectively sterile.

This change does not seem to have affected their proto-drake relatives (the creatures that dragons were created from by the Titans), just dragons. Whether it has effected nether dragons is unknown to me at this time. So, yes, in the past, dragons could lay eggs and reproduce - that's a big part of the plot to Day of the Dragon. But they no longer can.

dirtychild asks:
Q4tQ: Have any of the major chain stores (Wal-Mart, Game Stop, Frys, etc) said anything about release events for WoDjQuery191006217638114275237_1415427544169 I went to the midnight release at Wal-Mart for MoP and got a free poster but I haven't seen or heard anything about them doing the same for this expansion. The reason I haven't gotten the pre-sale/digital version was I wanted the free gimmie...but if nothings happening then I might as well upgrade so I don't have to stand in line at midnight.

Unless your friendly local games store or chain has specifically said they're doing one, don't expect one. Blizzard moves a lot of units through the digital download nowadays, and as a result, pre-orders through brick and mortar locations have gone down. It's just not worth it for most locations to do a midnight release anymore since they don't have the pre-orders to support the extra expense of being open late.

Kovarian asks:
I've seen some responses to this on the forums, but I trust you all (and especially the queue writers) more. Is it possible to farm Garrosh heirlooms? Let's say I have already killed Garrosh on Normal difficulty on Toon A this week and gotten an heirloom (not my first one at 100%, but just a luck-based one). If I keep killing Garrosh on Normal on Toon A, is there a chance (albeit the small 10% chance) that I can get a second one in the same week as the first?

The way the heirloom works, you currently (until Warlords drops next Thursday) have a 100% chance of getting an heirloom per raid difficulty, excluding raid finder, the first time you kill Garrosh on that difficulty. So if you could kill Garrosh on normal, heroic and mythic in one week on a character that had never gotten an heirloom on those difficulties, you'd get three, guaranteed. After that, you have no guaranteed chance. You can potentially get one heirloom per week per difficulty (normal/heroic/mythic) but you can't get more than one from the same difficulty - you can't get them off of a Warforged Seal, for instance. So no, you can't farm them by killing Garrosh over and over again on normal.

Have a happy second day of BlizzCon watching, everyone.


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