WoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.comWoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gifWoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.comen-usCopyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/WoW Insider ShowEvery week, the WoW Insider Show brings you news and views from the World of Warcraft and the site that covers it all, WoW Insider. We introduce a panel of rotating guests, including bloggers from WoW Insider and other WoW blogs, and many popular personalities from around the WoW community. From the live listener chat and polls during the show, to the emails direct from listeners (reach us at theshow@wow.com), right on to the "meat" of the show -- in-depth discussion of the most popular news and posts on WoW Insider -- the WoW Insider Show is a terrific source of news and entertainment about what's going on with Blizzard and their World of Warcraft. Listen live every Saturday at 3:30 pm Eastern on our Ustream page (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wow-insider-show) or subscribe to the feed and let us know what you think by reviewing the show right here in iTunes.The Queue: No more cheese, pleasehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/19/the-queue-no-more-cheese-please/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/19/the-queue-no-more-cheese-please/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/19/the-queue-no-more-cheese-please/#commentsFiled under: ,

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Ravyncat1 said:

Tomorrow's queue will be a challenge to write due to a hundred plus comments about cheese.

Yep.

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]]>Alex ZiebartWed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Blue cheesehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/18/the-queue-blue-cheese/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/18/the-queue-blue-cheese/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/18/the-queue-blue-cheese/#commentsFiled under:

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I'm not sure why Blue Cheese wasn't listed as the best cheese in the world yesterday. But anyways, we've corrected the mistake.

Because Blue Cheese is really the best thing in the world. Especially between two hamburger patties.

Aliase asked:

What effect will the next tier of LFR have on the 5.0 content? Will it be possible to even run it anymore?

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsAdam HoliskyTue, 18 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Cheesehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/17/the-queue-cheese/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/17/the-queue-cheese/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/17/the-queue-cheese/#commentsFiled under:

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Today's edition of the Queue is brought to you by muenster cheese. There is no better.

Roseland1985 asked:

What are the odds that we won't actually kill Garrosh, but merely defeat him, casting him into exile? If this happened, I could see him going into exile to Outlands, being around the fel orcs who would more than likely share his yearn for war and bloodshed, more-so than the orcs already do, and going mad with fel corruption. He could end up popping up in the next XPac, if we are, indeed, headed back to Outlands to battle the Legion again.

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]]>Alex ZiebartMon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Robin Hoodhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/16/the-queue-robin-hood/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/16/the-queue-robin-hood/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/16/the-queue-robin-hood/#commentsFiled under: ,

The Queue Robin Hood
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It's just occurred to me that I've never seen a Robin Hood MMO, or even really a Robin Hood CRPG of any kind. I mean, I don't have a universal knowledge of gaming, it's certainly more than possible that such a thing exists, but I don't know about it. There's been a fair number of Camelot/King Arthur games, but a surprising dearth of games about Robin Hood. It could be because the character has a fairly convoluted origin with a lot of interpolations, or maybe the idea of a heroic outlaw is too far outside of vogue nowadays. WoW has the Defias Brotherhood, but it's less the Merry Men and more guys who build a giant ironclad warship to blow up Stormwind.

I may be bringing this up because both Kevin Costner and Russel Crowe have played Robin Hood, and they were both one of Superman's dads in Man of Steel. I'm not saying I am, but it wouldn't surprise me. Anyway, on with the Queue! Some of these questions will undoubtedly contain spoilers for Patch 5.4.

Electresserin asks:
Question for the queue- I'm not sure if this has already been answered elsewhere: does Vol'jin want to be warchief? I understand that he wants revenge for the attempt on his life, and of course he wants the trolls to get out from under Garrosh's rule. But does he really want to take on the responsibilities of being the warchief? If he defeats Garrosh, does he automatically become warchief or could he refuse the title?

Well, one of the problems here is, there is no mechanism for determining who is the Warchief. Thrall appointed Garrosh, and Thrall himself was simultaneously appointed by a dying Doomhammer and acclaimed by the orcs at Hammerfall (which wasn't named that yet, of course). Doomhammer got the job by killing Blackhand and anyone else who might stand in his way, and Blackhand got it because Gul'dan manipulated the orcs into accepting him. So basically, in the history of being Warchief, murdering the dude before you has been the method of succession once out of the four times the job got passed down. So if Vol'jin is seen as having defeated Garrosh in battle, then yes, he may well become Warchief. Now, I don't see any reason he couldn't refuse the title if it was offered to him.

As to whether or not he wants the job, so far in game he hasn't said. I suspect we'll find out once Shadows of the Horde comes out. My suspicion is no, he's not really keen on it, but he'll do it if he thinks he has to. I wouldn't be surprised to see him and Baine try and create some kind of Horde Council to replace the position.

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]]>featuredguidepatch-5.4qaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiSun, 16 Jun 2013 14:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Valdemar Atterdaghttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/15/the-queue-valdemar-atterdag/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/15/the-queue-valdemar-atterdag/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/15/the-queue-valdemar-atterdag/#commentsFiled under: ,

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I have absolutely no Danish heritage. Well, I might from my English ancestors, but none of my relatives that I can trace are from Denmark, so when I say I'm fascinated with Valdemar Atterdag aka Valdemar IV of Denmark, you know it's not out of any nationalist pride. My reasons for being fascinated with Valdemar Atterdag are threefold - first, that he came to the throne as a relatively young and untried man and through ruthlessness, guile, economic brinksmanship and naked war effectively reconquered Denmark. Second, he did so at a time when Denmark had been effectively parceled out and in the face of plague and powerful neighbors like Sweden and the Hanseatic League. Finally, he's become almost mythic as a consequence - Valdemar's name is actually used in connection with the Wild Hunt as the hunter himself, meaning that some people think Valdemar Atterdag was Woden.

What I'm getting at is that Warcraft needs more people like this, who achieve conquest through every means at their disposal and who create something when they're done. Also that name kicks ass - not many people get a last name that means 'day again'. Why doesn't WoW have a Wild Hunt yet?

Anyway, World of Warcraft questions! There will be Patch 5.4 spoilers in these questions. As a result, I'm putting the first question behind the break.

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]]>featuredguidePatch-5.4qaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiSat, 15 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Writer's Blockhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/14/the-queue-writers-block/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/14/the-queue-writers-block/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/14/the-queue-writers-block/#commentsFiled under:

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Sometimes I just can't come up with a good intro to the Queue. I don't have any music I really want to play, I can't really do a huge post full of spoilers about Man of Steel, so it's basically just me, sitting here, trying and failing to come up with anything clever.

In lieu of clever, let's just answer some questions.

Pmarsico9 said
I bet Malkorak is actually a dreadlord.......that's my guess. You heard it here first. Remember how Balnazzar manipulated the entire Scarlet Crusade?

Well I hope this the beginning of the re-emergence of the Legion.

I have no evidence that he's not a dreadlord, aside from him seeming fairly orcish in his appearances in Tides of War and the expansion to date. I kind of hope he's not, because frankly we've done that bit twice now with Balnazzar and Mal'Ganis. Sometimes people do evil things for their own reasons, they don't have to be manipulated into it by demons.

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiFri, 14 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Man of Steel tonight and I'm freaking outhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/13/the-queue-man-of-steel-tonight-and-im-freaking-out/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/13/the-queue-man-of-steel-tonight-and-im-freaking-out/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/13/the-queue-man-of-steel-tonight-and-im-freaking-out/#commentsFiled under: ,

The Queue Man of Steel tonight and I'm freaking out
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Yesterday was the huge Patch 5.4 infodump. Today, I'm going to see Man of Steel. So I'm all sorts of freaking out right now. Let's talk about WoW before I spin out of control and just start talking about Kryptonian Thought Beasts and the Jeweled Mountains of Krypton and Kandor and oh my Rao tonight is Man of Steel I am freaking out here.

And yes, a Thought-Beast was a big dinosaur looking monster with a screen on its forehead that showed you what it was thinking. In this case, it was thinking I want to eat that guy.. I don't know what possible evolutionary benefit that is, but there you go. Since a lot of these questions are about patch 5.4, expect many spoilers.

Thieren asks:
Any info on the Stromgarde Keep scenario that people are now talking about?
Please say it's true!

Anne covered the little we know about the Scenario in this post yesterday. All we know is that it exists, basically. Is it going to be the Alliance reclaiming it, the Horde taking it over, something else? We have no idea yet.

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]]>featuredguideKlaxxiMalkorokNazgrimpatch-5.4qaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiThu, 13 Jun 2013 15:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Patches always drop when you're sleepyhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/12/the-queue-patches-always-drop-when-youre-sleepy/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/12/the-queue-patches-always-drop-when-youre-sleepy/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/12/the-queue-patches-always-drop-when-youre-sleepy/#commentsFiled under:

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So yeah, I was hoping to go to bed when patch 5.4 news dropped and I ended up being awake for hours working on posts about it. I may be ludicrously groggy right now. Anyway, best news of patch 5.4 is Titan's Grip for polearms wooo! There's other stuff ... proving grounds, flex raiding, virtual realms, something in Orgrimmar ... but all of that pales compared to the majesty of TG with polearms. Many warriors will now twirl our way to greatness.

Since none of you knew that 5.4 would drop on the PTR when you were commenting in yesterday's Queue, most of your questions won't be about it. That's okay, it happens. As a result, we're lucky that folks on Twitter never sleep.

@AlternativeChat asks on Twitter:
Chances of mail across Virtual Servers? So you can finally send Heirlooms?

It looks pretty good, considering you can join a guild across them, use a shared AH across them, and do dungeons and raids (and no word of limits on that) across them. I would be very surprised if you couldn't mail across them. We'll see, though. The patch notes don't say yet.

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiWed, 12 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Tanks and raid leadinghttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/11/the-queue-tanks-and-raid-leading/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/11/the-queue-tanks-and-raid-leading/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/11/the-queue-tanks-and-raid-leading/#commentsFiled under:


Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky (@adamholisky) will be your host today.

Today's Queue is coming out at 11 o'clock in the AM, specifically for one of our readers.

Bam. Delivered.

Fraug asked:

What role does your raid leader play?

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsAdam HoliskyTue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Another Mondayhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/the-queue-another-monday/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/the-queue-another-monday/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/the-queue-another-monday/#commentsFiled under:

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Welcome back to another Monday edition of The Queue, where I stare at my work in panic because nobody likes asking questions on Sunday!

Oh, well. We'll make do. Let's begin, shall we?

ArliSunblade1 asked:

Why do the chickens on Sunsong Ranch sometimes instantaneously combust and die? I'm a rogue, pretty sure it's nothing to do with me.

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]]>garroshoutlandsunsong-ranchAlex ZiebartMon, 10 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: New Leafhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/09/the-queue-new-leaf/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/09/the-queue-new-leaf/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/09/the-queue-new-leaf/#commentsFiled under:

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

Guys. GUYS. It's Animal Crossing: New Leaf release day! I'm shaking so many oranges from trees and designing pretty dresses and repaying predatory mortgages!

inkliizii1 asked:

Is there any info on the numbers for flex raiding? Like would it be possible to get 40 ppl together? Or run it with a tank, a healer, and a dps, like an extreme scenario? Lots of possibilities.

You can have between 10 and 25 people in a flex group. Can't go higher or lower that we know of.

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMichael SaccoSun, 09 Jun 2013 14:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Get Lucky, KKhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/08/the-queue-get-lucky-kk/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/08/the-queue-get-lucky-kk/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/08/the-queue-get-lucky-kk/#commentsFiled under:

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

Animal Crossing: New Leaf comes out tomorrow! In celebration, let's jam with KK Slider and Daft Punk.

RikOsborne asked:

Can someone tell me what's going on with that big Horde excavation right in front of the Shrine of Seven Stars? I have four Alliance level 90s, but I haven't found a damn thing in-game to tell me what's going on there.

I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll tell you this instead -- play the Dark Heart of Pandaria scenario! It's all covered in there.

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]]>Michael SaccoSat, 08 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Put them in front of mehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/07/the-queue-put-them-in-front-of-me/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/07/the-queue-put-them-in-front-of-me/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/07/the-queue-put-them-in-front-of-me/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

The Queue Put them in front of me
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It's no secret that I spent a lot of time playing pen and paper RPG's. This is a story from one of those.

Friend of mine was running a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game, one of White Wolf's original "Noun: Definite Article Gerund" games. I actually liked both Werewolf and Mage: The Awakening, just because you could do some crazy stuff in these games. I turned an ancient vampire into a chair once! Paid for that one in paradox, whoo boy. Anyway, so we're at the table, all of us playing werewolves (as you do) and we've discovered that the mayor of the city is in league with the Wyrm (the game's ultimate antagonist, think Sargeras meets a Captain Planet villain) and has a host of Nexus Crawler minions waiting for us. One of our more (up to that point, anyway) meek and mild players is incensed with this betrayal and she says "I'll tear out his heart for this!"

The GM smirks and says "First you have to get past his private army of fomori."

She takes off her glasses, stands up straight and says with an actual growl "Put them in front of me."

And that, my friends, is why I love gaming. Put them in front of me. Let's get on with the show!

Slothcloctimus asks:

Question: Why is there not a third phase in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms? I love the first phase -- when you first enter and all the pandaren are coming in for the first time. It feels like you're part of something big. Then when you hit 90 and start the Golden Lotus quests, you get a second phase where you're holding off the Sha attacks and the mogu and everything. The dailies kind of dragged on, but I love how the story ended with the epic quest at the end. Then I turned the quest in, saved everything....and flew over the same bad guys still there on my way out.

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]]>daily-questsfeaturedflexible-raid-sizesguideqaquestion-and-answerRefer-a-friendwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiFri, 07 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: LoLhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/06/the-queue-lol/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/06/the-queue-lol/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/06/the-queue-lol/#commentsFiled under:

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I've finally gotten a little bit into League of Legends. I've played a few matches last night and this morning, and I'm having a good time. Seems to be a nice PvP focused game (I know I late to the party on this one...). The only thing that bothers me is that one guy who always nerd rages at everything going on.

Ok, I get it. I died to a turret. I'm a terribad and a noob. It's only my first game... At one point I was actually yelled at in chat, "haven't you ever played this game before?!!!!eleventyonepointone." I just love it... and the ignore button.

Also my name is TheQueuebringer. Get it?

Heather asked:

With the 50% toon services being offered, just what can a toon bring with them if they go to a new server? Does everything in void storage and the bank go with, what about heirlooms, and how much gold can you have?

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]]>Adam HoliskyThu, 06 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Rifts and scenarioshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/05/the-queue-rifts-and-scenarios/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/05/the-queue-rifts-and-scenarios/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/05/the-queue-rifts-and-scenarios/#commentsFiled under:

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Return of the RIFT character header images! Run away!

MikeLinton said:

I have to seriously question the "super positive response" that you are seeing to scenarios. I only see my small slice of the WoW community, of course, but what I'm seeing tells me the opposite. The only people I knew that ran regular scenarios were for either daily valor or guild gold, and they didn't like doing it. Heroic scenarios are a little better because Blizzard made the rewards awesome and forced people to go in with a full group. If Heroic 5-mans were the same way, then they would be far more enjoyable to heroic scenarios.

I know this isn't a question, but I feel a need to respond to it. What I tend to see personally is that people who play only healers or only tanks dislike scenarios for the most part. People who primarily play DPS (like myself) enjoy them quite a bit. As a DPS player, queues for dungeons and raids are (were?) so absurdly long that I stopped bothering. Scenarios didn't have that problem, plus they give me much more freedom in how I played. Scenarios had me digging tools out of my belt that were never relevant in the tank/healer/DPS tinity, but made a big difference in scenario performance. Not being locked into the trinity is refreshing.

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]]>lfrriftscenariosvoice-chatAlex ZiebartWed, 05 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: It's the final countdownhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/04/the-queue-its-the-final-countdown/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/04/the-queue-its-the-final-countdown/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/04/the-queue-its-the-final-countdown/#commentsFiled under:


I've been rewatching Arrested Development lately with the wife, and I'm just struck at how amazing the Buster / Gob relationship is. Especially the scenes when they're doing a magic trick together. It's just priceless entertainment, and it gets funnier every time I watch it.

This is my third viewing of the series, and I realized all the reference to Buster getting his hand cut off early on in the series. Such brilliant writing, so far ahead of its time.

Jabbok asked:

How big of an effect did Dungeons and Dragons have on WoW? Obviously it was some, but did the coders reject D&D and want something else?

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsAdam HoliskyTue, 04 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Flight, Darkmoon CRZ, and morehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/03/the-queue-flight-darkmoon-crz-and-more/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/03/the-queue-flight-darkmoon-crz-and-more/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/03/the-queue-flight-darkmoon-crz-and-more/#commentsFiled under: ,

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.

What's this? People actually asked questions in a Sunday Queue? Hooray, I have something to talk about!

Brian asked:

Blizzard stated that if they could redo wow they would have never implemented flying mounts, and awesome that they are, I agree with the. But the question is: what would the best alternative be? I was thinking special crawler mounts that move at 60% speed but could scale cliffs to a certain steepness. What do you think?

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]]>Alex ZiebartMon, 03 Jun 2013 11:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Meowhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/02/the-queue-meow/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/02/the-queue-meow/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/02/the-queue-meow/#commentsFiled under:

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

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msadlerjr asked:

Unless things change, if 5.4 is suppose to be Ogrimmar Raid and Garrosh is the end boss for this expansion....next expansion is probably not at least year away ....does that make sense? Do you think we won't kill Garrosh, he will go on the run and we chase him down with another Big Boss #2 for 5.6? Just seems a lot of time unless they plan on having expansion at end of this year. That in my opinion is way to quick for me to be forking out another $40+ lol

I can't really speculate on what goes down in the next expansion, but yes, you're right in that it's almost certainly not far away. We should expect an alpha/beta not long after BlizzCon and the expansion itself not more than 6 months later, though that estimate relies on 5.4 being released prior to BlizzCon, which may or may not happen.

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMichael SaccoSun, 02 Jun 2013 14:00:00 ESTThe Queue: Rescue Mehttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/01/the-queue-rescue-me/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/01/the-queue-rescue-me/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/01/the-queue-rescue-me/#commentsFiled under:

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

Commenter JeffLaBowski requested this video as today's header, and I'm happy to oblige.

lackinganame asked:

5.3 content seems a little "light" dose this mean we can expect 5.4 to drop quicker then other patches?

Not necessarily; you should expect to wait about as long as the wait between 5.1 and 5.2 for 5.4. 5.1 was another smaller (read: non-raid) content patch and it came out pretty swiftly as well. Look for 5.4 around the end of summer.

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]]>Michael SaccoSat, 01 Jun 2013 12:00:00 ESTThe Queue: The Monster With 21 Faceshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/31/the-queue-the-monster-with-21-faces/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/31/the-queue-the-monster-with-21-faces/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/31/the-queue-the-monster-with-21-faces/#commentsFiled under:

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 is fielding your questions and statements today.

I'm not talking about some new WoW boss. The Monster with 21 Faces is the name of a villain from a series of novels by Japanese mystery author Edogawa Rampo. However, imagine if someone started actually committing successful crimes while calling him, her, or themselves the Joker and you'll have what happened in the case of the Monster with 21 Faces. You see, someone really did commit crimes using that name, almost 20 years after Rampo's death, and whoever they may have been the Monster with 21 Faces was never caught.

The Monster with 21 Faces targeted two of the biggest names in food production in Japan, including kidnapping the head of Glico Morinaga, sent mocking letters to the media and press, successfully laced food with extremely toxic substances, and in short behaved, again, exactly like the Joker. They only stopped their unusual criminal rampage when the police superintendent of Shiga Prefecture committed suicide by burning himself to death.

The case has remained unsolved to this day. Anyway, how's about that World of Warcraft?

BaronOfTheLake asks:
Has anyone else, especially melee, had problems trying to click on things that are somewhere else since the new patch came out? I've noticed it especially on the blobs in Primordius (every time I try to attack one, it says that I'm not facing the right direction or that I'm too far away) and in pick up dead fish quests in Golden Lotus dailies. It isn't a lag issue, as my latency is the same. It's just super disorienting and frustrating, as I like to be precise with my movements and attacks.

Yes, I have had this happen to me. It was happening all last night during raid, actually. Other raiders seemed to be DCing a lot around the same time, but I have no idea if it was connected, and no idea what causes it or if it's a bug or an addon or what have you.

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]]>featuredguideqaquestion-and-answerwow-answerswow-daily-answerswow-daily-questionswow-guidewow-player-questionswow-q-and-awow-questionsMatthew RossiFri, 31 May 2013 12:00:00 EST