Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Why yes, that is the most disgusting whale you’ve ever seen. Unless, of course, you’ve witnessed local authorities taking dynamite to a beached whale to get it out of the way since they couldn’t move it just by pushing the thing. That is disgusting. Whale guts landing on cars a mile away? No thanks. I’ll take the guy pictured above over that.

Moonkinmaniac asked…

“On the WoW calendar there’s an undead whale picture. What the heck is it? Is it a rejected project for the current expansion or possibly one for Cataclysm?”

I hopped over to the Petopia link you supplied and took a look at it, and I’m going to guess it was concept art that didn’t get modeled for Wrath of the Lich King. If you remember questing in the Western Plaguelands, there was a string of quests that made it very clear the wildlife of the region was being impacted by the plague as well. Maybe not in the same ways that it harmed the humanoid races, but there was an impact nonetheless.

This was probably just a concept art, but they decided to go with the orcas you see off the coast of the Howling Fjord instead.

Every week, Matthew Rossi writes The Care and Feeding of Warriors. Every week, he claws at his feeble brain to come up with a header paragraph, which really is kind of unfair. Warriors shouldn’t have to think. Do you have any idea how many blows to the head we take?

So yeah, turns out I should probably have shut up and not told you guys that prot was actually good at PvP. Sorry about that. I’m not going to actually freak out until I see how they plan to balance prot so we’re not good at PvP anymore, since I barely even PvP and am far more concerned with prot as a PvE spec, that is to say, tanking with it. If they make a bunch of changes and my threat stays the same and my survivability stays the same and I’m not seeing any major hits to my tanking, then whatever, I’m sure there will be enraged prot warriors still but I won’t be one. If, however, I see a 2k threat loss and I’m dying like a chicken trying to tank a bloody heroic, then yeah, I’m gonna be upset.

I’ll probably skip ‘fevered pet’ and move straight into ‘enraged mouth breathing’ territory. I can think of all sorts of ways to tweak prot in PvP that wouldn’t have much of an effect in PvE, and I know the folks at Blizzard are better at class design than I am, so waiting and seeing is the order of the day. That being said I do find it irritating when we get told over and over again that we’re fine until suddenly we’re not. Just saying, some consistency would be nice.

I should probably also share something I admitted on Twitter the other day: yeah, I went ahead and race changed to draenei. Yeah, after writing a long post about how I probably wouldn’t, I did. Effectively all of my alliance toons are now space goats. I didn’t do it for the racial, mind you: ICC tanking gear is positively ridiculous in terms of hit, I’m swimming in hit. I did it purely because I wanted to play a draenei.