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) has gone Super Saiyan on this thing today.
Last night, I did a nice little Firelands run with my guild. After we were through, one of our tanks insisted I check his link in Vent. "You'll like it," he said. "Someone told me you'll love it." So I obligingly clicked and was treated to a piece of fan fiction featuring a crossover with Dragon Ball Z and ... Anne Frank. I wish I were kidding. (And don't forget page two!)
Let's answer some questions and try to get our minds off of Goku and Anne's charming romance.
KalenBarnes asked:
Q4TQ: remind me again how blizzard is making everyone use ground mounts again in mop. Is it going to be for all the new zones? Will there ever be a point where we'll be able to fly in those zones?
Last night, I did a nice little Firelands run with my guild. After we were through, one of our tanks insisted I check his link in Vent. "You'll like it," he said. "Someone told me you'll love it." So I obligingly clicked and was treated to a piece of fan fiction featuring a crossover with Dragon Ball Z and ... Anne Frank. I wish I were kidding. (And don't forget page two!)
Let's answer some questions and try to get our minds off of Goku and Anne's charming romance.
KalenBarnes asked:
Q4TQ: remind me again how blizzard is making everyone use ground mounts again in mop. Is it going to be for all the new zones? Will there ever be a point where we'll be able to fly in those zones?
As far as we know, flying is going to work pretty much the same as it did in The Burning Crusade -- you'll be grounded until you hit max level, and then you can learn to fly. This only applies in Pandaria; if you have Azeroth, Outland or Northrend flying, you'll still be able to fly in those zones. It's just Pandaria that will have the restriction. Don't worry, the scenery in Pandaria is gorgeous enough that you won't mind riding around in it at all.
I don't know as of yet if we'll get a bind-on-account flying book for alts like we did withWrath. If we see it, we'll let you know, of course!
SallyBowls asked:
Qs 4 [MoP] Q: When do you estimate the beta will be far enough along for me to choose a main? Currently, some of the spells/rotations are changing each week. So while it is very interesting (keep the articles coming) it is not very productive to get too in-depth or worked up today.
To be perfectly honest, class changes and spell changes happen all the time in the beta. It's what the beta is for. I could tell you to wait a week before the beta shuts down to make a choice, but even then there's no guarantee Blizzard won't be tweaking one class or another at that point. For now though, I'd say play through the classes you're interested in, test out the spells and rotations, offer feedback if things don't seem to be working right, and have fun trying things out.
jackjenkinz asked:
Q4TQ - Where the hell is Turalyon? As my favourite lore character i have been waiting and waiting for years on end for blizzard to even drop a hint. But so far, nothing. Anything revealed on the MoP beta?
Straight from the beta, just for you, Jack.
I'd like to see him again. It is my not-so-secret hope that he and Alleria are stranded on a Frazetta-esque fantasy planet of barbarian bad-asses. Mostly because I want to play on a planet of barbarian bad-asses.
steve.jabber asked:
Spoiler request. In Mists, will we use current JC daily tokens to buy new gem patterns or will a new token be introduced?
Oh Steve, I see what you're trying to do there. Sadly, it did not work for Cataclysm, and it will not work for Mists. If there is a jewelcrafting daily available in Mists, you can be almost certain it will introduce a new currency token -- no grinding old quests for new stuff. Sorry!
angerfork asked:
...given that we have AoE loot coming, what is the next thing that you would like to see WoW "steal" and/or improve upon from another MMO? For me, I vote either the Companion system from SW:TOR or the crafting mats scratch-ticket lottery game from RIFT's mobile app.
Remember City of Heroes? Remember the sidekick system? I want that.
@WowExlucis asked via Twitter:
What rogue talent has you the MOST excited!?!
I like Crimson Tempest a lot. But my favorite rogue thing so far has to be the Glyph of Disguise. It is amazingly entertaining, and I can only imagine the havoc that glyph + Potions of Illusion is going to wreak when the expansion hits.
@MontoyaDaniel asked via Twitter:
With Worgen largely being ignored after their starter zone, do you think Greymane and his people will get any MoP action?
At the moment, it's doubtful -- we really haven't seen anything of them at all so far in the beta. Given the fact that the Gilneans lost their home and countless citizens during both the worgen attacks and the Forsaken assault, I imagine they're quietly busy rebuilding their lives and figuring out what action to take next.
@NoHopeForSome asked via Twitter:
Why do people dislike Richard Knaak and his Day of the Dragon stuff?
Honestly? I have no idea. Knaak's a super-cool guy -- he was fun to interview back atBlizzCon 2010. To me, it seems like most people have a problem with his characters and his plots. There are a lot of accusations of Mary Sue characters being written.
I think what people don't really realize is that the authors Blizzard hires to write novels aren't just free to write anything they want. There's a huge amount of back-and-forth that goes on between Blizzard and an author, and all kinds of revisions are made. It's not like Blizzard orders a book blindly. Blizzard is specific about what it wants out of a book and what should happen within it.
That said, my largest problem with Knaak was that he had a really good grasp of descriptive prose, but his characters didn't seem to have that emotional connection that Golden's do. However, Wolfheart pretty much blew all that out of the water -- it was easily the best book he's written for the Warcraft universe.
If you're looking for non-Warcraft original Knaak stuff, he just realized a book called Dragon Mound earlier this year, the first of a trilogy. It's an excellent novel, if you're into the fantasy genre.
steve.jabber asked:
Spoiler request. In Mists, will we use current JC daily tokens to buy new gem patterns or will a new token be introduced?
Oh Steve, I see what you're trying to do there. Sadly, it did not work for Cataclysm, and it will not work for Mists. If there is a jewelcrafting daily available in Mists, you can be almost certain it will introduce a new currency token -- no grinding old quests for new stuff. Sorry!
angerfork asked:
...given that we have AoE loot coming, what is the next thing that you would like to see WoW "steal" and/or improve upon from another MMO? For me, I vote either the Companion system from SW:TOR or the crafting mats scratch-ticket lottery game from RIFT's mobile app.
Remember City of Heroes? Remember the sidekick system? I want that.
@WowExlucis asked via Twitter:
What rogue talent has you the MOST excited!?!
I like Crimson Tempest a lot. But my favorite rogue thing so far has to be the Glyph of Disguise. It is amazingly entertaining, and I can only imagine the havoc that glyph + Potions of Illusion is going to wreak when the expansion hits.
@MontoyaDaniel asked via Twitter:
With Worgen largely being ignored after their starter zone, do you think Greymane and his people will get any MoP action?
At the moment, it's doubtful -- we really haven't seen anything of them at all so far in the beta. Given the fact that the Gilneans lost their home and countless citizens during both the worgen attacks and the Forsaken assault, I imagine they're quietly busy rebuilding their lives and figuring out what action to take next.
@NoHopeForSome asked via Twitter:
Why do people dislike Richard Knaak and his Day of the Dragon stuff?
Honestly? I have no idea. Knaak's a super-cool guy -- he was fun to interview back atBlizzCon 2010. To me, it seems like most people have a problem with his characters and his plots. There are a lot of accusations of Mary Sue characters being written.
I think what people don't really realize is that the authors Blizzard hires to write novels aren't just free to write anything they want. There's a huge amount of back-and-forth that goes on between Blizzard and an author, and all kinds of revisions are made. It's not like Blizzard orders a book blindly. Blizzard is specific about what it wants out of a book and what should happen within it.
That said, my largest problem with Knaak was that he had a really good grasp of descriptive prose, but his characters didn't seem to have that emotional connection that Golden's do. However, Wolfheart pretty much blew all that out of the water -- it was easily the best book he's written for the Warcraft universe.
If you're looking for non-Warcraft original Knaak stuff, he just realized a book called Dragon Mound earlier this year, the first of a trilogy. It's an excellent novel, if you're into the fantasy genre.
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