The Queue: Let's do the time warp again
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 spent way too much time yesterday looking at the screen pictured above -- let's hope that won't be the case today, shall we? More importantly, let's answer some Warcraft questions.
msphoenyxx asked:
Follow up question on the portal thing. Khadgar (and all the mages in Stormshield) can open it from alternate Draenor to our Azeroth in present day. As alternate Draenor is not present day time, how does this work? I'm not familiar with mages having the powers to access time ways. That sounds like a bronze dragon thing.
Mages can handle time magic a bit -- Time Warp, after all. It's definitely not just a bronze dragon thing -- although from a speculative standpoint, I think it has less to do with time manipulation and more to do with the fact that they are basically creating a portal home -- making a portal to a place they've never been would likely be pretty difficult. Making one to home? Little easier. But only a little. Khadgar has a tough time with it, at first -- he says as much in the quests.
Andrew10 asked:
If we did open a portal to AU Stormwind, and they entered my garrison, and saw the commander was a worgen, would they be like "What's a worgen?" Or would they be like, "Isn't that one of those crazy dog humanoids we fight and skin outside Darkshire?" Or would they know we were humans who went all wolfy due to druidism gone wrong?
For all we know, there's no such thing as AU Stormwind. Maybe human civilization never rose and became a thing. Maybe the Old Gods don't exist on that AU Azeroth. Maybe it's already been overrun by the Burning Legion because we aren't on it. Maybe it's kaldorei central, and still exists as one continent. Who knows? It could be anything over there.
Sengel asked:
Why do people keep saying that us destroying the IH Dark portal keeps our Azeroth safe? The dark portal is a permanent connection between our world and Draenor (now w/ 100% more Draenor). If the portal on our side is closed it can be re-opened (don't y'all remember BC?).
Well ... it does keep our Azeroth safe. At least for now. Temporarily safe is still safe. We're just stuck on Draenor's end with the arduous task of trying to stretch that temporary solution into something a little more permanent. Now that we've made our way to the source of the issue, we're going to try a more direct approach and just get rid of the problem at its root.
w0wgrl asked:
I'm a little confused about the various items I'm gathering in my bags. I have some medic kits and supposedly, I can trade them for Garrison resources (someone said) through a First Aid NPC. But I have no one at my Garrison who wants them. I picked up the the Draenor level ability through a drop. What did I miss?
The med kits you find are a catch up mechanic for boosted players and those who have not already reached 600 First Aid. If you have reached 600, you can still make the item, but it's not going to do anything but vendor for gold -- and that's kind of a waste of resources that could be used elsewhere.
Zopyros asked:
Q4TQ: So I watched the cinematic again, read Rise of the Horde, went through the portal, and am confused...According to Rise of the Horde, the Horde conquers Karabor, Kil'Jaeden appears before Ner'zhul and Gul'dan and shows them Mannoroth, Mannoroth spills some blood into a pool in Karabor, etc... Then later on that night they meet in the mountains near Karabor and Gul'dan offers the blood of Mannoroth to the Horde - the point being that Karabor should be destroyed, and Shadowmoon should be mostly free from Draeni, especially from large open unprotected settlements...what changed or how do we explain the inconsistency?
Garrosh showed up well before that meeting with Mannoroth. For more on that, read Gul'dan and the Stranger, a comic that was put out earlier this year, and the short story Hellscream. The other thing you'll want to keep in mind is that this is an alternate version of Draenor -- the events of this Draenor's past don't quite match what we know from our own history. Unfortunately, we don't have the specifics as to what happened when -- we're going into this nearly as blind as our characters are.
thebghero1 asked:
Why would Garrosh seek to conquer our Azeroth instead of AU Azeroth? Our Azeroth is prepared for war, knows the enemy, and has way more soldiers (orcs, forsaken, pandaren, etc. . .) than AU Azeroth. WoD story might have been a little more realistic if we destroyed the new Dark Portal to stop invasion of AU Azeroth--people we've never met, or ever will meet.
Because that alternate version of Azeroth, whatever it might be, has no idea who he is. They weren't the ones who condemned his actions, threw him in chains, put him on trial, humiliated him. He has no reason to seek vengeance against those people. He has nothing to prove to those people. Our world, on the other hand, is one he'd very much like to conquer and show once and for all that he is far, far greater than we'd ever given him credit for.
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