The Queue: In which Scott Leyes is our hero

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.

I'm pretty sure my least favorite moment of every road trip ever was when we checked out of our hotel today and went to the parking garage only to find my car completely lifeless. After some brief panicking on my part and a call to my insurance company followed by an excruciating wait for a repair man who never came, reader Scott Leyes decided to be a big damn hero and swoop in to rescue us. And by rescue I mean jump start my car back to life, at which point we took the thing to an Auto Zone and got a new battery ... just in case. Look, the desert is nice and all, but I don't want to be deserted there.

Needless to say it's Been A Day, I'm really tired, and it's time to curl up and answer some Warcraft questions. We still do that around here, after all!

Devin asked:

I'm curious how many people actually want yearly expansion... I personally don't mind the downtime at the end of an expansion but understand why others do. I think 18-20 months per expansion would be perfect. Any faster than that and you're just paying more for roughly the same amount of content.

I think that it depends on what one's definition of an expansion happens to be. Blizzard has kind of defined the word as "a giant block of new content, new levels, new maps, new quests, new races, and anything else we'd like to throw in." That definition is very hard, if not next to impossible, to fill in just one year. And as long as that's the case, we're not going to see it. Personally, I'd be perfectly content if they reduced the definition of the word expansion and what that encompasses, and instead released smaller expansions on a more timely schedule. It's not that I don't like the idea of large chunks of content delivered all at once -- I just don't like the big delays in between those large chunks of content, and I'd be perfectly happy with smaller chunks delivered on a regular basis.

wrathofkublakhan asked:

How much 'stronger' am I from one level to the next? Will my 91 feel significant over my 90 in the same gear? How much is one level?

Not really amazingly overpowered. While playing on the beta with a premade level 100, I could go back into the low-level zones and one and two-shot things, but between 90-91, it was a pretty minimal increase. It never felt like I was getting way stronger while leveling, honestly, unless I went back and farmed some of the things from lower-level zones. It seemed to scale pretty fluidly with where I was at while leveling.

ScottLeyes (our hero) asked:

So just how restrictive was security at BlizzCon? I mean... how is it that NO ONE got any footage out from the Warcraft Movie? No smart phones? No Google Glass? NOT ONE PIRATED, LOUSY-QUALITY sneak video from the theater upstairs?

There were a lot of very important and very large men in suits strolling around the theater as the screening was being shown and making sure that everyone saw the giant "Hey, turn off all electronics" signs posted all over the place. Between that and the giant screen that politely informed everyone of the $250k fine for filming or leaking any such material, people were on a whole discouraged.

Plus I'm pretty sure if anyone had done so, their electronics would be confiscated, they'd probably be booted out of the convention and I doubt very much they'd ever be able to return, so there's that.

Jalamenos asked:

Q4tQ: On wednesday night for those of us planning to be there when the expansion goes live, where is the party going to be held? Meaning where is the quest for WoD picked up? I kind of got the sense that the giant Khadgar in SW and Org on the beta were placeholders.

I'm actually not sure how this is going to work out! I tried getting some clarification at BlizzCon, but wasn't able to get a solid answer. In the beta, you talked to giant Khadgar as a placeholder, yes. I'm thinking when you hop in on launch day, it might pop up the auto quest and if you accept it, just kick you to the cinematic and Draenor. Not really sure -- I imagine we'll see a clarification on that in the next couple of days.

urquan asked:

Q4Q: as an orc what is my lore or rp reason for fighting the iron horde? Given a choice I would follow the leaders of the old clans. Why is the horde treating this as a bad thing?

As an orc, probably the biggest reason is because the orcs of the Iron Horde want nothing to do with you. They would like you dead. Very dead. You have green skin, you represent a future that was tainted and corrupted by demonic influence, and they are having none of that. Sure, you could walk up and say "Zug zug dudes, totally wanna join your Horde," and the response would be the quiet whistle of the wind as your head was swiftly removed from your shoulders.

They really aren't interested in working with you. They'd just like you very dead, and they'd like to crush and conquer the world you've been calling home since you came through the portal 30 some-odd years ago.

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