The Queue: Owl worship
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
Goooood morning, WoW Insider!
ScottLeyes asked:
Is there a "best time" to queue for LFD? Or, more appropriately, are there "better" times to queue? I usually try to queue in the early evening, thinking there are more people online, but Saturdays seem horrible, and Sundays are hit and miss. Opinions? Data?
In my experience, Tuesday evenings are the best and Saturday evenings are the worst. Or, for players not in the Americas, the evening of maintenance day is best. That applies (again, in my experience) to both LFD and LFR. Players who are "with it" seem to all get their dungeons and raids in on Tuesday night, and as the week progresses, the people who are super passionate about playing to the best of their ability (and have plenty of spare time on weekdays) have finished their tasks for the week. As the week drags on, queues get longer and longer and the quality of play plummets.
As someone who often solo queues as DPS, the LFR queue is less than ten minutes on a Tuesday night. On a Saturday night, it's somewhere between one and two hours. LFD is around 30 minutes on a Tuesday night. Closer to an hour on a Saturday night.
HemttTanker asked:
After Kilrogg fought so hard to escape his slavery to the ogres as an arena slave, why does he so easily get back into the arena to die for the ogre's amusement?
I found that bit strange myself. He chopped his hand off to get out of the ogres' arena, then jumped back in? The justification I ended up reaching is he lived a gladiatorial life long enough that it became a part of him and the difference is he now fights on his terms. Nobody is whipping him and forcing him in there. He's choosing to step into the arena and beat up people he doesn't like.
@mbuhtz asked:
How do you get the Garrison story quests to appear? As far as I can tell, I haven't seen any of them yet in my L3 garrison.
I don't know the answer to this, but I'm including it in the hopes that someone does. I've had no trouble getting them each week on my main character, but my level 100 alt hasn't received any. My significant other, who hit level 100 a week or two after the launch of Warlords, has also not received any. I'm curious what the trigger for it might be. Completing all of the zones in their entirety? I have no idea.
Parou asked:
what would you think of having different body shapes in wow? Slim human males, beefy draenei ladies, chubby blood elves, stuff like that. I for one would probably give my first born for that level of custimization.
I think it would be awesome and I'd support the cause if Blizzard decided to do it, but it's unlikely. It took us this long to get new character models to begin with. Proceeding to make multiple body types for each race would take significantly more time, plus animating them, and making armor look good on all of the choices. "Good" as in "not-glitchy." Other games have done sliders, but other games were designed with sliders in mind. WoW just didn't take that angle back in the early 2000s and making it happen now would be a hell of a job.
@ShaofHappiness asked:
why is there a druid hub in the Alliance garrison?
I have no idea. They kind of creep me out. They're all off by themselves, hiding in their cave and never interacting with the rest of the garrison. Staring at owl statues all day. They didn't even ask anyone if they could set up shop there. They just showed up. Pretty shifty if you ask me.
@Grizz_Face asked:
When ever I make stir fry it always smokes up the kitchen, how can I avoid this?
... stop burning it?
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