Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s (almost) daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
Embedded video has absolutely not relevance to anything in this edition of The Queue. Why did I use it? Because I like the music. Do I really need more of a reason than that? Nope! Now let’s jump into the questions. Some of them came from right here on WoW.com, and others came from Twitter.
Lavoz asked…
“With Cataclysm, the blood elves will finally have access to the warrior class. Is there any information as to what order they will belong to? Will they be a part of the Blood Knights, or will we refer to them as Spellbreakers?”
We haven’t heard anything about whether or not blood elven warriors will have any special sort of story behind them. As far as we know, they’ll just be generic muscular thugs wielding large clubs. Or majestic, skilled bladedancers… however you want to look at your warrior. That’s your thing, not mine. There’s nothing official about them so far, and I’m sure we’ll talk about it here on the site if that ever changes.
metal_slime asked…
“What is considered the easiest/fastest way for a new 80 to gear up for Arena PvP?”
A lot of people will probably recommend the crafted blues you can get from various tradeskills, but I’m going to say avoid them unless your alternate gear is greens. It’s better than questing greens, but that’s all. All that you can really do is grind out battlegrounds, make sure you queue for Wintergrasp, run Vault of Archavon whenever you get an opportunity, or suck it up and weather through losing 10 arena games a week for awhile, just for the point gains. Allison mentioned to me that you might want to look into buying the previous seasons’ armor via Conquest/Triumph badges, but that’s a whole lot of badges and I don’t know how interested you are in PvE.
The arena is pretty hard to get into, especially when we’re a few seasons deep in the expansion. You’re going to need to suck up substantial losses before you win anything. Wintergrasp and Battlegrounds until your eyes bleed is definitely my suggestion.
number of other factors) rather than gear adding directly to AP. Of course, as Ghostcrawler says, these changes aren’t even coming until patch “4.0″ and the Cataclysm expansion, so there’s still lots of gear choices and balancing to do before then.
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