Well, Jaina got her upgrade already, and we’ve heard that other NPCs may be looking a little better very soon. But what about us players? Don’t we get a cool, slick new look too? Vaneras has the answer: erm, maybe. As you may have noticed, our armor has been getting updated as we’ve gone along — the Tier 10 armor is much clearer and more stylish (well, depending on who you talk to) than the original tier gear that dropped way back when. But as for the actual player models, Vaneras says it’s something that Blizzard would like to do, but it’s all a matter of time and priority. They’ll get around to it, sure, but only when it makes sense for them to spend the time on it.

Which is what we’ve heard before, really — J. Allen Brack told us way back that things would be updated bit by bit rather than having a major patch be focused on updating everything you can see on screen. Still, Cataclysm, the expansion that redoes the old world and all of its old

without a side view. So, after some datamining and image editing of our own, we’ve put

You guys have probably noticed The Queue has slowed down a lot as well, and it’s somewhat for the same reasons. We love writing it, it’s probably one of my favorite things to write because the format lets me be a little more candid with you guys while being helpful at the same time, but it’s a huge time sink and relies heavily on the state of the game. Sometimes there simply aren’t enough hours in the day for the editors to get this thing written up. And some days, like today, we have to go to other places to get questions to answer because we’re currently in that pre-expansion lull that always tends to happen. Everyone wants to hear about Cataclysm, and we can’t squeeze a time machine into WoW.com’s budget.