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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. What was your first MMO? Mine was Ragnarok Online, way back in the day. Right around the turn of the millennium. Now I'm playing the sequel over ten years later. Feels weird, man.
SammieDavion asked:
Everyone keeps going on about Theramore being destroyed! But I'm questing there right now and it's fine! What's with this destruction nonsense?
Theramore exists intact for you until you do the Battle for Theramore scenario, after which there's only ruins. If you need to go back to old Theramore, you can ask the bronze dragon hanging out at the ruins to "send you back in time" (read: change your phasing).
Amber1 asked:
If I complete the portion of the legendary questline in MOP to obtain the gem and I place that gem in my raid finder sha weapon. Does that mean I'm out of luck when I get a normal/heroic mode weapon, or can I get another gem?
You can buy a new gem from Wrathion, but the gems are unique-equipped, so don't try to dual-wield 'em.
erogroth asked:
Does anyone know where the Recolored version of the Cataclysmic Gladiator's set comes from? I am looking for the helm. The guy in Dalaran sells the regular set but not the recolor. Here is the wowhead link to the gear I am talking about but it does not say where it is or if it has been taken out of the game.
You would've needed to have 2200+ rating at the time the set was available in order to pick it up. I don't believe the deal still applies.
sicadastra asked:
What's the level range between 2 characters before XP is impacted for the lower level? In other words what level does my friend need to be before I take my level 84 questing with them?
The range is ±6 levels.
CiaphasCainWH40k asked:
How to change the egg Icon to the one you already have from where you log in, I want my Imperial Aquila to show, not some boiled egg.
Click your icon at the top of the comments section, then click "Edit Profile". You can change icons there.
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It's a brand new year, and we're all getting ready to celebrate, make new resolutions, and tackle 2013 with all the energy and gusto you'd expect. Sure, the New Year is an arbitrary marker to change your life, but there's no time like the present. So what are you resolving to do new this year? 
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Transmogrification and void storage was too little, way too late for those of us who ran out of space back in classic WoW. While it's easier than ever to retrace your steps via mogging, solo dungeon diving, and account-wide pets and mounts, quite a few items remain that simply cannot be regained. My original priest's 
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2012's drawing to a close, and we're wrapping up the most interesting articles we've published all year, one day at a time. Join us every day for the next twelve days with 
Problems began late last night in the EU, with players reporting on the forums that they had been seeing battle.net friends disconnecting in large groups from their servers, 20 or more at a time. These issues eventually turned into random disconnects for ever larger numbers of players, followed by players being unable to connect at all. 
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Mists of Pandaria is here! The level cap has been raised to 90, 
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Welcome to another addon question session! I was prompted to do one of these by the fact that a recent reader question has been answered by some updates on my curse client downloader. A while back I wrote a column about 
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Mists of Pandaria was released on the 25th, and everything about September is just an embarrassment of riches. Once again, opinions and editorials suffered a little bit as we turned our attention to other stuff, but this is easily among the most action-packed months I've ever had to summarize.
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The choice of what race you play in the game can be more significant than I'd understood. Usually, whenever I roll a Horde toon, I play a tauren. As a result, my point of view has always skewed towards that of the tauren NPC's like Baine and Cairne. I found certain Horde quests distasteful and couldn't get into how the Horde seemed to be getting more bellicose as Cataclysm developed, much less the full on 'war were declared' mindset of Mists of Pandaria. Doing the Horde side quests on my tauren, I always felt mindlessly violent and that I was simply making things worse everywhere I went. 
In many ways, Go'el son of Durotan was an anomaly, and as a result the alliances he forged with the tauren and Darkspear trolls were anomalous as well. The Horde is primarily an orcish institution, and it's important to remember that while Gul'dan perverted ancient orcish traditions to bring the Horde that invaded Azeroth into existence, he didn't invent them. Orcs are inherently tribal, competitive and aggressive, but they also value unity in the face of a larger threat or they wouldn't have come up with the Horde concept in the first place. 
Now, it's true that the orcs are alien invaders who destroyed their own planet and then came to Azeroth to use up another. The truth of that statement can't be denied, but most orcs aren't bothering to deny it. Why would they? They know how they got there. But it's worth keeping in mind that it's been decades since the First and Second War. Wherever they came from, however they got there, the orcs are here and they have nowhere else to go. The children of the camps, and now the children of those children, have come of age on Azeroth and have known no other world. This is home, as far as they're concerned. And when Garrosh tells them they deserve a rich homeland, like the one they see to the north held by the elves, like the ones they saw to the east in the Eastern Kingdoms, they see no reason to disbelieve him. Why shouldn't they take what they need? It's what they've been raised to believe, told in stories of old Draenor, and in the tales of heroes like Orgrim Doomhammer and Grom himself, the orc who damned and then saved his people. 
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