Podd: World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

Episode 387, "Correlation is not causation"

1 augusti 2021 | 97 min

Episode 386, "Promise not to squish them"

18 juli 2021 | 60 min

Episode 385, "F* Kevin"

11 juli 2021 | 88 min

Episode 384, "Shop, pick, go"

4 juli 2021 | 57 min

Episode 383, "Were Markirk wif"

30 maj 2021 | 56 min

Episode 382, "Just like a cat"

7 mars 2021 | 51 min

Episode 381, "MEGADUNGEON!!!!"

21 februari 2021 | 99 min

Episode 380, "We have plenty of phones"

8 februari 2021 | 53 min

Episode 379, "Get on with it"

24 januari 2021 | 68 min

Episode 378, "Fast and the Furious"

17 januari 2021 | 63 min

Episode 377, "Necrolords cheat"

3 januari 2021 | 60 min

Episode 376, "She doesn't have the lobes for business"

21 december 2020 | 66 min

Episode 375, "Put it in the tooltip"

13 december 2020 | 63 min

Episode 374, "Synergy"

6 december 2020 | 69 min

Episode 373, "These people are in a cult!"

28 november 2020 | 72 min

Episode 372, "He's down to 1"

20 november 2020 | 61 min

Episode 371, "Safer than the pandemic"

13 november 2020 | 47 min

Episode 370, "Arcane mages are like Buicks"

6 november 2020 | 64 min

Episode 369, "Nice cape"

31 oktober 2020 | 37 min

Episode 368, "My pretties"

24 oktober 2020 | 60 min

Episode 367, "Life is to be savored"

9 oktober 2020 | 59 min

Episode 366, "3½ mages"

25 september 2020 | 58 min

Episode 365, "There's a guide for that"

11 september 2020 | 58 min

Episode 364, "Stab, stab, stab"

4 september 2020 | 58 min

Episode 363, "The natural state of beta is change"

23 augusti 2020 | 56 min

Episode 362 "Loot the trash mobs"

16 augusti 2020 | 83 min

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Ren
Guides - covenant renown rewards, dungeon perks
Beta, lots of beta - level 57 finishing Ardenweald campaign
and why you should never train a rogue
Even more beta
the tl;dr descriptions of Covenants
Cocktails of the Covenants
But I did a goblin death knight to 63 (more on that later)

Mike
Rep grinding and leveling a warlock.

This Week in WoW
Cataclysm Timewalking
Free T-Shirt Day today (Sunday)
Stormwind: Dwarven District
Orgrimmar: Valley of Honor
Next Tuesday starts Arena Skirmishes

News
Naked & Afraid Winners!
Ketchupman - Lightforged Discipline Priest, 1 day 5 hours 4 minutes (also fourth with a Troll Enhancement Shaman at 1 day 10 hours 9 minutes) - Horgus mount
Guerrie - Void Elf Afflication Warlock with 1 day 7 hours 1 minute - Twilight pet
Drexl - Troll Guardian Druid with 1 day 8 hours 14 minutes - Transmorpher Beacon toy
Most Persistent: Zignea, with a Lightforged Shadow Priest at 2 days 21 hours 45 minutes.
Also thanks to finishers Thecowking, Koloka, Louielegdrop, Kara, Loosechange, and Hank. Koloka also ran more than one character.

Pre-patch on the PTR - what’s coming
Character creation and customization
New Player experience - Exile’s Reach and new leveling paths
The level and iLevel squishes
Limited time Scourge event
No time frame announced, but will be “several weeks” before expansion

Scourge event - updated gear from original WoTLK loot tables. Minimum level requirement for those items is 30 (or 80 for those who still speak BFA). Drop off bosses who spawn outside in Icecrown during the scourge event who used to be in dungeons and raids, like Patchwerk. Also zombie attacks in major cities.

Prepping for Shadowlands Pre-Patch
Level squish is coming to Shadowlands
Flying issue in Shadowlands: flying starts at level 30, which is level 80 in current reckoning
If you have any characters currently below 60, get them to 60 and teach them flying ASAP. Any characters who know flying going in will not have that skill taken away, even if they are below level 30 under the new system. (Time to make and park that Death Knight you've been wanting, or start at level 8 when the prepatch hits)
Gearing for Shadowlands
No real gear reset
Gear rewards are not super common, neither are drops
Maggie is 57 and has still not replaced 5 items - ilevel of blues is about 120, cloak is still 131 at level 4 (unimproved legendary cloak starts at 125). HoA was i489 and is now 132. No powers but still a good amulet.

iLevel translations
Starting characters in Beta with basic starter gear start out at iLevel 75. Some experimentation with character copy indicates this is about the same as iLevel 400-405.
My 443 character started out with iLevel 98.
Having gone through the Maw with a starter (75) and a better one (98), the latter is far more survivable
Therefore, you should consider iLevel 400 as "starter level".
Easiest way to get higher iLevels is to advance your HoA and at least get a cloak, which will be 125 out of the gate with no ranks (remember, blues around level 55-56 are 115-120).

Episode 361, "A terabyte of cats"

2 augusti 2020 | 83 min

Episode 360, "The OCD is real"

12 juli 2020 | 50 min

Episode 359, "Be excellent to each other"

26 juni 2020 | 50 min

Episode 358, "The Insane Mad Cow"

19 juni 2020 | 30 min

Episode 357, "Post-its everywhere"

5 juni 2020 | 53 min

Episode 356, "Druids will do that to ya"

17 maj 2020 | 60 min

Episode 355, "5 billion Drizzts"

1 maj 2020 | 56 min

Episode 354, "I write guides! Ask me how"

17 april 2020 | 66 min

Episode 353, "Just wants to be mounted"

10 april 2020 | 69 min

Episode 352, "Fun with Holynipz"

27 mars 2020 | 57 min

Episode 351, "It's Warlords..."

13 mars 2020 | 71 min

Episode 350, "There was much rejoicing"

21 februari 2020 | 55 min

Episode 349, "I wish there was a Wilhelm scream"

16 februari 2020 | 55 min

Episode 348, "Paladins really cheat"

7 februari 2020 | 60 min

Episode 347, "You play a mage. You cheat"

31 januari 2020 | 53 min

Episode 346, "Make it so"

17 januari 2020 | 63 min

Episode 345, "It was a Y2020 bug"

3 januari 2020 | 53 min

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Ren
Wrote new addon guides for Classic - PvP, raids, leveling, and gathering
More KR fun - have 2 new 120 resto shaman - Zandalari on Horde, undeleted and race-flipped 112-now-120, Tauren-now-Draenei on Alliance - KR leveling analysis, stories, and Korrak f*ery
Pandaria timewalking on Alliance
Bought new podcasting mic setup - mic stand, shock mount, pop filter
Computer gently frying - purchased new computer, arriving Saturday. Considered and priced out comps from several companies but ended up buying Alienware Aurora Ryzen edition - Ryzen 6 3600X (6-core 32MB L3 cache/4.4 GHz), NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super (6GB), 32 GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD

Mike
Priest, lock, hunter, rogue, warrior in Classic

This Week in WoW
Winter Veil ended January 2
Pandaria timewalking through January 7
Darkmoon Faire on Retail starts January 5 - no word yet about its release on Classic - supposed to happen in January but apparently not this week
Battleground Bonus Event begins Tuesday, Jan 7
WoW 15th Anniversary ends Jan 7th - with it, the quests, Korrak’s Revenge, and the xp/rep buff

News

Classic
Major update to Classic threat library - changed from the ThreatClassic-1.0 library to LibThreatClassic 2 - means that players using one won’t see/be able to communicate threat between players using different libraries
Players using ClassicThreatMeter must update to new ThreatClassic2
Be sure to update DBM and Details if you are using their built in threat meters
Warsong Gulch Classic
Queueing changed - if you are grouped and in queue, adding a player to your group will reset your place in queue
Retail
Season 3 ended prematurely on Dec 31 - usually resets on patch changes, which means it should have ended Jan 14
Working on a hotfix to restore Season 3 and retroactively retain rating changes and tier updates. They don’t anticipate being able to retain season games played count or win counts during the unexpected offseason.

8.3, which will be released Jan 14
Things to do to prepare

Episode 344, "WoW second-wind mid-life crisis"

23 december 2019 | 42 min

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Ren
Rewrote guides for Classic AV and WSG
Running KRs with WNNs - shoutouts to Cryler, Zignea, Webbley, Drexl, Hidebound, Loosechanj, Zeryl, and our visitor JP
Have leveled up 5 more toons to 120 - Alliance warrior and mage; Horde mage, priest, and demon hunter. Horde nightborne monk is now 103; starting work on Zandalari shaman.
Started a lightforged Draenei priest - level 26. Yes, Alliance. In war mode.
Guested on PEOPLE OF AZEROTH
Considering buying a new computer

Mike
Moved to Atiesh
Pagle started falling apart
Now in JunoEclipse’s guild
That means I had to start my Lock and Priest all over again.
Eh, that’s ok
How to level up skinning and cooking so easily in Elwynn
Why? Because when you get to Westfall you get level 80 recipes
Playing a rogue is SO SLOW
Exalted with Wavecrest
Now I have to work on the turtles

This Week in WoW
Ongoing: WoW Anniversary Event, Feast of Winter Veil
Winter Veil sleigh rides
Globe yeti spawn rates significantly increased (1 minute instead of 30 minutes)
Greatfather Pepe costume is a no-show
Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event

News
Classic
Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley went live
Paid character transfers
Classic Winter Veil
Retail
Korrak’s Revenge - going until 7 January
Learned about Korrak’s Revenge, and how Christy got us hooked
Favorite stories from KRs - Christmas sweaters, Ren’s language issues, taking Zig through her first BG and then her owning them, Webbley’s laugh, the collective obsession with Stormpike Bowmen, Drexl’s bumming rides, and how Cryler single-handedly sabotaged an entire BG
Why you never click anything in tunnels - or, how much fun is it to kick naughty mages
XP and Korrak’s Revenge
Can go in as low as level 10 when the Group Finder becomes available; have seen a level 12 in there
Amount of XP you get increases as you go up in levels. Levels in some ways are depending on activities, but this is what I got for typical runs. In some ways, it depends on your effectiveness.
At level 25, I got about 28% of a level for a win (1.07 % for a win)
Level 40: 50% of a level for a win (1.2% per level)
Level 50: 95% of a level for a win (1.9%)
Level 62: 125% of a level for a win (2%)
Level 103: nearly 2 levels for a win (2%)
Lesson: doesn’t really make sense to go in until at least level 50. No epic speed land mount until 40; can’t get quests til level 60
Korrak: DO NOT KILL HIM THERE. Go to Zul’drak.
8.3 launch date announced: January 14

Episode 343, "Who's PVPing at that hour?"

6 december 2019 | 53 min

Episode 342, "Don't pick your friend's nose"

24 november 2019 | 52 min

Episode 341, "Six stacks of determination"

15 november 2019 | 74 min

Episode 340, "I can't talk to Zug Zug"

8 november 2019 | 50 min

Episode 339, "Schrödinger's beer"

30 oktober 2019 | 51 min

Episode 338, "Ratchet and Clank"

11 oktober 2019 | 51 min

Episode 337, "Momma always said to bolt your linen"

4 oktober 2019 | 63 min

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Ren -
Still making little leveling progress
Wrote a feature article on WoW Classic Tailoring for Cheapskates - https://classic.wowhead.com/news=295400/wow-classic-tailoring-alternate-cheap-leveling-1-300-methods
Published https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/wow-classic-best-food and https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/wow-classic-flight-points-zeppelins-boats-travel
Starting a series about all WoW classic trainers (including pet, demon, and portal trainers)

Mike -
Lots of Classic stuff

This Week in WoW
Brewfest ends Sunday
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday
Battle for Azeroth dungeon event starts Tuesday

How Wowhead is being totally ripped off -- DO NOT support classicdb.ch or https://vanilla-twinhead.twinstar.cz

Blizzcon Virtual Ticket now available for purchase
Cost: $49.99
Access to streams of all events - replays available until March 31, 2020
In game loot:
World of Warcraft - pair of faction specific Murloc pets and Wendigo Woolies transmog
Overwatch - Overwatch skins look like Illidan and Tyrande
Hearthstone - Golden Legendary card
Heroes of the Storm - BlizzCon spray and portrait, and a Celestial Deepcrawler mount
StarCraft II - 3 new skins - Classic Battlecruiser, Classic Ultralisk, and Classic Carrier.
"More", including a pair of wings for Diablo III players

8.2.5 went live
War Campaign finale
Goblin and Worgen model updates

Recruit A Friend returns

Honeyback Harvester Bee Mount - work with Barry to locate the hive and court the favor of the Hivemother and earn the Honeyback Harvester mount. Both factions can earn other bee-themed toys and items.

WoW 15th Anniversary - November
Log in to receive the Anniversary Gift: Lil' Nefarian pet, Celebration Package that increases XP and rep during the event, a reusable firework, an item that teleports you to the Caverns of Time during the event, other goodies
Defeat 3 bosses in 3 event wings to be awarded the Obsidian Worldbreaker mount
Burning Crusade: Kael'thas Sunstrider, Lady Vash, Archimonde
WOTLK: Heigan the Unclean, Anub'arak, The Lich King
Cata: Chogall, Nefarian, Ragnoros
Alabaster Mounts from in-game shop
Korrak's Revenge - a throwback battleground to old Alterac Valley
Party Sync - when activated, everyone in party becomes aligned to the same quest state and phase. Includes "replay quest" for players who have already completed a quest. Quests can be replayed for rewards once per day.
Relaxing level restrictions: when a lower-level and higher-level character queue for instanced content, higher level players will scale down to match. They will also lose any abilities that aren't appropriate for the new lower level.
New Timewalking: Firelands
Changes to Lunar Festival (Jan 24 - Feb 7 2020): complete the Rite of the Moon to make flower crowns transmoggable year round.
Black Market - removed Grimoire of the Four Winds, added new items
Timewalking vendors now restrict their wares to those who participate in their respective Timewalking events
Several items created with Kul Tiran Engineering now restrict to level 110 or higher - these include Electroshock Mount Motivator, F.R.I.E.D, Organic Discombobulation Grenade, Thermo-Accelerated Plague Spreader, Unstable Temporal Time Shifter
World Quests and Missions now offer gold or war resources to players who have maxxed out their Heart of Azeroth
All reputation requirements have been removed from several War Campaign quests
Auction House purchases over 50k gold now require a confirming dialogue box
Player characters can now be displayed in the Mount Journal preview
Players can now toggle between the map of a quest's final destination and its starting point by clicking the arrow icon next to it on the map

Classic News:
Estimates that Classic has increased WoW subs by 223%
Layering update
All realms will be on a single layer by the time Phase 2 is rolled out
All realms have a maximum of 2 layers - the 13 least populated realms are all permanently set to a single layer
Realms that are operating on more than one layer will soon say "layered". You'll only see Full/High/Medium/Low on realms set to a single layer
Will continue to offer free character moves to balance populations and manage login queues
No date for Phase 2, but confirmed that there will be 2 world bosses (Azuregos and Lord Kazzak).
Reports it will take more than 30 minutes to kill Azuregos -- intentional on Blizzard's part to prevent corpse running
Corpse running - when you run back to your body to resurrect - but when you are killed by Azuregos you get a Mark of Frost debuff that freezes you solid for 15 minutes.
Dire Maul also being reintroduced, as well as the Honor System and PvP rank rewards - Battlegrounds won't come back til phase 3

Mod of the Cast: AutoBiographer

Episode 336, "Wowhead is Renata's personal notebook"

20 september 2019 | 43 min

Episode 335, "OMGZORZ"

5 september 2019 | 52 min

Episode 334, "This Old Warcast"

31 augusti 2019 | 67 min

Episode 333, "Long live Thottbot"

26 augusti 2019 | 64 min

Episode 332, "Math is hard"

15 augusti 2019 | 72 min

Episode 331, "The heart attack was merely a setback"

8 augusti 2019 | 71 min

Episode 330, "Everyone needs a hobby"

14 juli 2019 | 53 min

Episode 329, "I have barnicles on my shoulders"

3 juli 2019 | 79 min

Episode 328, "In a world..."

23 juni 2019 | 61 min

Episode 327, "Siri can't pronounce anything right"

8 juni 2019 | 62 min

Episode 326, "What game is this?"

31 maj 2019 | 81 min

Episode 325, "I could have been Vivian"

24 maj 2019 | 59 min

Episode 324, "Wanna do my Ogri'la for me?"

17 maj 2019 | 52 min

Episode 323, "Naj and the Eternal Palace"

10 maj 2019 | 65 min

Episode 322, "It's 5pm in Greenland"

28 april 2019 | 61 min

Episode 321, "Nobody ever made a peon simulator"

14 april 2019 | 109 min

Episode 320, "The dishwasher boss went down"

7 april 2019 | 68 min

Episode 319, "No pants, no WoW"

24 mars 2019 | 51 min

Episode 318, "Circle gets the square"

17 mars 2019 | 51 min

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Ren
Raiding with Leashes (8/11) - gotten the two from Terrace of Endless Spring and the five from Heart of Fear, and one from Moshugan Vaults (Comet). Missing three from Moshugan Vaults (Stoneclaw, Wayward Spirit and Baoh-Xi). Bit of a pickle with Blade Lord Tal’yak.
Kul Tiran druid - not playing the race game
Druid healing is not for me
Bought the transmog mount (but not giving up on making money)
Can’t continue War Campaign … yet
Magni … Magni … Magni...

Mike
I guested on FrazlCast with Ali!
Ulduar
Timewalking
ArkInventory issues
i379

This Week in WoW
Un’Goro Madness - today through Tuesday
Tuesday: Battleground Bonus Event
Wednesday: Trial of Style 3 (20-24)
Four new ensembles to purchase at 60 Trial of Style tokens, all based on Cataclysm End Time dungeon sets

News
Naked & Afraid 2 closed
Three new 120 finishers: Kara (Blood Elf Ret Paladin) 3 days 15 hours 14 minutes; SniperFrog (Dark Iron Dwarf Marksman Hunter), 3 days 5 hours, 16 minutes, and Sevy (Gnome Fire Mage) 2 days 18 hours 21 minutes.
Following Honorable Mentions for getting 90 or above: Ali, Hidebound, and Alberthe
Awards:
Fastest Finisher: Sevy, Gnome Fire Mage, Regular Division, 2 days 18 hours 21 minutes
Fastest Finisher, Warmode Edition: Thecowking, Void Elf Brewmaster Monk, 2 days 23 hours 17 minutes
Most Persistent - Skwahog, Void Elf Affliction Warlock, 6 days 14 hours 28 minutes
Most Gold: Kara, Blood Elf Retribution Paladin - 55,291
Naked & Afraid 3 - All Druids All Day edition, open
Fully Strapped edition - 28 participants so far -- 11 Zandalari, 11 Kul Tiran, 2 Highmountain, 2 Troll, 1 Tauren, 1 Worgen
Truly Naked edition - 10 participants so far - 5 Kul Tirans, 2 Worgen, 1 Zandalari, 1 Tauren, I signed up but undecided
Current Leaders: (Levels and times current as of 9 AM)
Fully Strapped: Thecowking (Zandalari feral) level 80 with 17 hours 45 minutes
Truly Naked: Morgahnn (Zandalari feral) level 52 with 15 hours 58 minutes

Issue with Discord overlay - Blue post acknowledging there is a problem with game display issues and crashes for users of Discord overlay

8.1.5 news

Episode 317, "Pumpkin memorial meow"

8 mars 2019 | 48 min

Episode 316, "Run through the juicers"

1 mars 2019 | 61 min

Episode 315, "It's one bigger"

18 februari 2019 | 74 min

Episode 314, "Bite-sized dungeons"

8 februari 2019 | 74 min

Episode 313, "Alliance cat"

1 februari 2019 | 76 min

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Ren
Warcast group run on Tol Dagor, after making a dreadful discovery
Didn't stream or record; computer equipment not up to the challenge
Alliance warlock now Exalted with 7th Legion, working on all quests, "finished" War Campaign
Horde warlock working through war campaign
Trying TradeSkill Master - discussion later on the state of professions

Mike
Did not do my Void Elf
Ran a dungeon w/Ren
Hellfire Citadel
Got everything except the belt
Will be trying to make 5 million gold

This Week in WoW
Darkmoon Faire, Feb 3-9
Battle for Azeroth Dungeon Event

News
Naked & Afraid updates
Newest 120s: Ketchupman, Normal Division, Void Elf Beastmaster Hunter - 2 days 19 hours 34 minutes - current leader in BOTH divisions --- Also Kara, Blood Elf Ret Pally, first Horde finisher, 3 days 15 hours, 4 minutes (adjusted)
Fully Strapped divisions have received consistent enthusiasm, not just from those who plan to use it

Lunar Festival -
7 new toys - Green Dragon and Blue Dragon Tail, Body, and Head Costumes, and Lunar Elder's Hearthstone sold by Fariel Starsong - similar to the Red Dragon costume pieces introduced in 2017
New complication: Because of the destruction of Lordaeron and the World Tree, if you're doing these with post-110 characters, you will need to talk to Zidormi to restore certain zones.
Undercity and Tirisfal Glades - near the Ruins of Undercity
Teldrassil and Darnassus - outside Lor'danel in Darkshore
Silithus - near Valor's Rest
Blasted Lands - north entrance of Blasted Lands
Hogrus, Year of the Pig mount, introduced to Blizzard store - $25 US

Battle of Dazar'alor Mythic and Raid Finder 1 unlocked

Race to World First Dazar'alor Jaina kill

Professions in WoW
Getting serious about making coin
Tradeskill Master has been a revelation
Features that make a difference
Prices of actual sales, not just what people post things for
Integrated DE prices and prices of crafting based on real time component prices
Instant information on what is profitable to make, or profitable to sell the components and buy
What drove this idea: discovery that Method is using Skystep Potions in its Jaina strat
The idea that consumables (potions, enchants, contracts) are the big money makers, but they are not - various information on some of the professions

Episode 312, "Now that you're a badass"

26 januari 2019 | 56 min

Episode 311, "He's got lunkers"

18 januari 2019 | 59 min

Episode 310, "Enjoy the silence"

11 januari 2019 | 57 min

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Ren -
Extensive testing on Darkmoon Faire profession quests
Void elf warlock now 94 - spent 60-80 entirely in two zones in Outlands, Hellfire Peninsula and Netherstorm. 80-86 spent in Vash’jr, moving to Twilight Highlands for final 4 levels
Went to Draenor just short of 91, got to 94 on opening campaigns and treasures
Need to get back to finishing war campaigns on both Horde and Alliance sides

Mike -
I was sick

This Week in WoW
Brawls and PvP
Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Week

News
Naked & Afraid Update

Warmode suggested mod from Cinnah: SPY

Darkmoon Faire quests now giving points for highest expansion pack your character has unlocked

8.1.5 PTR has opened
Will be testing a limited subset of features, including:
Kul Tiran and Zandalari race unlocks
Naga invasion World Quests
New portal rooms in faction capitols
Next chapter of Raiding With Leashes pet battle (Pets of Pandaria), collecting pets from Mogu’shan Vaults, Terrace of Endless Spring and Heart of Fear - 12 pets (3 magic, 3 elemental, 2 beast, 2 flying, 1 undead and 1 dragonkin)
Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin graphic improvements
Announced for 8.1.5 but not available yet on PTR:
New War Campaign quests
new manufacturing profession quests
Hati quests
Magni quests
Draenor timewalking
new brawl
Wintergrasp coming to Epic Battleground list
new Brawler's Guild update
new Darkmoon Faire roller coaster
new microholidays and updates to Children's Week
Kul Tiran and Zandalari unlocks revealed

Children’s Week changes

Stan Lee tribute: Reports of an Alliance-armored "Stanley" character in Stormwind Keep on 8.1.5 PTR. The NPC says "Excelsior!"

Destiny 2 is leaving Activision Blizzard - publishing rights are being transferred back to Bungie, the original studio
Blizzard: “Destiny 2 will still receive full support on BattleNet and we do not anticipate any disruption to our services or your gameplay experience”

Episode 309, "Nothing ever hinged on a rogue"

4 januari 2019 | 50 min

Episode 308, "Revenge of the show notes"

23 december 2018 | 71 min

Episode 307, "It's nobody's fault"

14 december 2018 | 53 min

Episode 306, "Everything is Ali's fault"

7 december 2018 | 58 min

Episode 305, "Everything is Mike's fault"

30 november 2018 | 58 min

Episode 304, "We're smart"

17 november 2018 | 55 min

Episode 303, "Hither and yon"

9 november 2018 | 59 min

Episode 302, "Welcome to Classic Park"

4 november 2018 | 95 min

Episode 301, "Camp taco"

19 oktober 2018 | 56 min

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Ren:
First BFA reps maxxed: Exalted with Honorbound and Zandalari (we need paragon rep!)
Finished 5 island campaigns on main - questioning whether will do it on other characters
Attempted 2 man of Atal’Dazar - almost but not quite there. High 340s not quite enough.
Mag’har racial opening quest is the WORST -- and a new justification/motivation for leveling another toon
Mag’har hunter: running zones using All The Things to identify areas where I haven’t gotten mail transmogs from questing there
Bonus: got the Hyacinth Macaw as a random drop
The Great UI Experiment - initial impressions and why I’m not going to go through with it after all
Random question of the week: who’s taking care of the poor carnies?

Mike:
Rep. That’s it.

This Week in WoW:
Hallows’ End starts today - goes through Thursday, November 1
Headless Horseman: levels 23-120
Things to buy with Tricky Treats: pets, costumes, masks, wands, Magic Broom
New toy: Headless Horseman’s Hearthstone for 150 Tricky Treats
“Return home in the spookiest way” -- creates a circle of flames around you and puts a Hallowed Helm on your head, and your character laughs when the cast completes
Pandaria Timewalking

News:
Naked & Afraid 2: Revenge of the Races is coming Thursday, October 25th!
Needed motivation for running up Allied race to 120 for achievement
Run an allied race or a non-allied race - no gold, no gear, no heirlooms.
Pick a race, class, and spec, and stick with it until 120 (one spec change allowed). Judged on /played time to 120. We encourage running a class or spec you haven’t run before but it isn’t required
Nonallied races will have time from 1-20 deducted from total, since allied races start at level 20
Two divisions: Regular and Warmode
New this time around: Guilds
US-Alliance Silvermoon: Naked & Afraid (could start the same guild Hordeside on Mok’Nathal, the connected server, forr those who want to start Horde races)
EU-Alliance Vek’nilash: Naked & Afraid
All members will have the power to invite to the guild, at least for a little while. Be careful only to invite people who are familiar with the Naked and Afraid challenge. Perhaps ask them to name the two hosts of the show as a challenge question.
@thecowking has made an EU Warcast Community and has posted a link to it on our #worldofwarcast channel on Discord
Full rules posted on the #naked-and-afraid-2 Discord channel

Wowhead is making a Classic WoW site - classic.wowhead.com, with all the databases, guides, etc.
Decided to use modern back-end elements but are using old-school styling such as logos and menus to reflect the retro style

Blizzard announced multiple Diablo projects are expected over the coming months
Diablo III coming to Nintendo Switch already announced for November 2
There will be a Diablo What’s Next panel shortly after the opening ceremony

Patch 8.1 - Notable changes on the PTR and from Ian Hazzikostas QA from the 11th
Lots and lots of discussion about azerite armor changes
New warfronts will run in a parallel cycle to the current one - you could be contributing to one warfront while attacking in another
No plans to make Death Knight class available for new Allied Races anytime soon
Several new battle pets associated with the new Darkshore warfront, such as the Darkshore Sentinel (Owl), Void Jelly, Everburning Treant, Detective Ray, Gust of Cyclarus
Also new mounts: a bear, nightsabers, chimera, and a kodo. Reins of the Onyx War Hyena will be a new rated PvP mount, and there are a couple frog mounts that have not yet been assigned
New pet model for baby raptors

Darkmoon Faire Favors achievement has been reduced from six to five profession based quests completed
New cooking recipe: Seasoned Steak and Potatoes (maybe something to do with those Thick Paleo Steaks other than the banquets?)
Reputation gains from Legion World Quests will be doubled
Looking at flight paths - possibly a book to buy at max level that unlocks all the flight paths on alts
War Campaign chapters not alt friendly - give almost no reputation when you complete them. They will be adding a “large amount of reputation” to these chapters

Episode 300, "Backers of the beast"

5 oktober 2018 | 44 min

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Ren:
Finished BfA Pathfinder part 1 on Horde rogue
Working on full quest completion with Horde rogue - using Quest Completionist mod to find quests I haven’t done
Close to finishing up my 4th 120 - Horde warrior is now 118
New experiment incoming based on two less structured experiments
Ran Alliance rogue up to 120 trying to complete all quests I could find in a zone before moving onto the next - finished 120 with 1 chapter left in Stormsong and no quests completed in Drustvar
Partway through running up Horde warrior, decided to stick ONLY to the mainline quests that give the zone achievements and do no side quests (not easy to figure out which those are) -- finished all three zones just after finishing 118
Will take up 2 more Horde toons, starting fresh with the idea that one will do all quests in a zone before leaving, and one will do just the mainline run, see where I end up by 120, including comparisons of rep
Neither will do the outpost campaigns until 120, just to keep those out of the mix
Benefit: mostly just to keep myself motivated through the process of leveling up yet another 2 toons
Another experiment incoming: Week-long tests of UI replacement mods - first test will be on ElvUI. May not happen til next week just because of other things going on IRL.

Mike:
Half way through exalted on some rep
Still friendly with turtles
Started my monk up again, but didn’t have nearly enough time to play yet.
Basically checked out talents. No dungeons yet.
I hate frost outdoors
So many resources!
I wanted to do timewalking this weekend and just had zero time.

This Week in WoW:
Darkmoon Faire - Oct 7th - 13th
World Quest Bonus Week starts Oct 9th - tooltip says it’s for Broken Isles WQs?
Running of the Gnomes/Great Gnomeregan Run on Scarlet Crusade, 4 PM PDT, Saturday October 13th - annual fundraiser for breast cancer research. Starts at the spawn spot of new gnomes - there is a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RunningofTheGnomes/

News:
Update: WoW Diary Kickstarter ended September 25th with 8,379 backers pledging $598,999 - biggest nonfiction book Kickstarter in history
By far the most popular tier was the $40 backers for both the electronic book and print book with 6,661 backers (80%), followed by the $150 level for the electronic book, signed copy of the print book and companion booklet with 1,117 backers (13%)
For those who missed this Kickstarter, the book will eventually be available on Amazon for about 20% more than the Kickstarter edition and without the perks
Mike Morhaime stepping down as President of Blizzard; J. Allen Brack, Wow’s Executive Director for WoW, taking over. Morhaime will remain as a “strategic advisor” to Blizzard.
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22456082/throw-your-own-epic-blizzcon-celebration-with-the-virtual-ticket-viewing-party-kit?linkId=100000003674039
Upcoming Azerite armor changes - Blizzard realizes there are problems with the current system
Make Azerite armor more available - looking to add Azerite Armor rewards from Emissary quests that scale up to 370, depending on current iLevel. Also mentioned “making further improvements to the ways Emissaries reward gear”.
When new Azerite Armor is introduced in “BfA Season 2” (Patch 8.1), armor that currently only has 2 possible traits will get a third.
Continuing to work on the individual traits themselves - balancing out those who want more generic traits for wider applicability, vs. those who want to fine-tune traits to specs or situations
The first problem - overall availability -- will be hotfixed in before 8.1. The third trait slot and the new abilities won’t come in until the patch.
8.1 news
Players beyond level 110 will be able to enter Legion era raids in LFR difficulty
Achievements:
Noblegarden: “Shake Your Bunny Maker” is being changed to place rabbit ears upon any character over level 18, not just female characters.
On the Frontlines: New achievement to complete all six Horde or Alliance assaults
Several new Battle Pet achievements, based on previous expansion achievements to defeat all 15 Master Tamers on Kul Tiras or Zandalar with teams of all one pet type (dragonkin, flying, beast, critter, etc)
New paladin spell visuals for Flash of Light and Beacon of Light
New information on Faction Incursions
Will only be for characters 110 or above (Ren: boo)
Completing 4 incursions will result in a random 370 weapon or Azerite Armor for quests. These items are from the same item pool from Warfronts (7th Legion/Honorbound items)
Will work a lot like Legion Invasions: after completing 4 incursion quests, you have to complete a short scenario to take down an airship
Doubleagent the Neutral Panda is now level 117

Episode 299, "Burritos for Azeroth"

29 september 2018 | 70 min

Episode 298, "Which comes first - Classic or people on Mars?"

21 september 2018 | 54 min

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Ren:
Learning curve with island expedition - Gamino joined Cryler and me for some island expedition fun
We learned there can be way, WAY too many bears
Quote of the day: “I pulled five … okay, thirty.”
Found out it was five ISLANDS, not five expeditions
Killing Azuregos when you’re a melee DPS
Finished Revered with Honorbound and am opening outposts
Exalted rep comparisons in preparation for the first major patch
Working on Insurrection line in Suramar to open Nightborne

Mike:
King’s Rest is hard
Did no
Another 350 in my trunk
More rep
Didn’t have time for LFR
Question of the week!

This Week in WoW:
Brewfest starts today
Only change this year, Coren Direbrew’s trinkets have been updated for level 120 players (iLevel 335 - may not be updating yet)
Harvest Festival - ends Tuesday
Pet Battle Bonus Event - ends Tuesday
Cataclysm Timewalking begins Tuesday

News:
WoW Diary Kickstarter Update:
As of 8 PM EST today, had raised $394,614 with 5,452 backers (trivia: was fully funded at original $10k ten minutes after launch, August 28) - up[ $6,620 from this 9 AM
Was able to add 2 upgrades:
$300k upgrade: added a gold foil end sheet with “Original Kickstarter Backer” printed on it
$350k upgrade: Gold foil title lettering on the spine and cover
Not yet funded: $400k upgrade - spot varnishing on all the pictures
Currently second highest non-fiction book ever launched through Kickstarter - has to pass $424k to do that
Google “wow diary kickstarter” or go to http://www.thewowdiary.com - now through next Thursday, September 25
New mount and pet in Blizzard store: The Dreadwake and Cap’n Crackers
Dreadwake currently tied to purchasing 180 days’ game time in advance - not sold separately
WoW Token price fall
from end of July through today, WoW token prices have fallen by half
Buying gold for real money isn’t cost effective, but cashing in gold for Blizzard Balance is at an all-time high - was talking to Wulfrictheslayer on Discord about his play to buy his virtual ticket with in-game gold (we calculated the Virtual Ticket to be about 260-270k gold)
Wowtoken.info - current US price is about 105,000 gold = $20

Patch 8.1 announced: Tides of Vengeance
No release date but the patch will be hitting the PTR next week
News tip from Discord users and Weekly Research Assistants Kneemo and Hidebound: Incursions, similar to invasions in Legion
Quests with extra-potent rewards that will randomly pop up and replace a zone’s World Quest content for several hours
Purpose is for helping level alts, although it seems as though this content will only be available at level 98 and above
Heritage armor will become available for all races - starting with Dwarf and Blood Elf - will require some short quest lines to claim
New Allied Races: Kul’Tiran and Zandalari Troll - “not quite there yet” but are getting closer.
Vol’jin, Saurfang and Tyrande will have their stories expanded
New warfront: Darkshore
Focuses on war between night elves and undead
Updated Darkshore zone, new max level rares
Alliance will start this one with the contribution phase
Updates to island expeditions
Two new islands
New events, enemies, spawn rates, and interactions
Example: setting up an Azerite extractor in a location that will feed a constant small stream of azerite to the party, but can be taken over by the enemy
Two new raids
Siege of Zulduzar (name might change)
Alliance will fight to the top of the city from the sea, and Horde will start from the jungle
Bosses will be unique for each faction
Crucible of Storms - only 2 bosses, centered on old gods in Stormsong Valley
Modeled after the 3-boss Trial of Valor
Azerite traits - traits are getting an overhaul
Champions of Azeroth - Unlocking Champions of Azeroth rep on one character will unlock it on all characters

All about the new rep changes.

Episode 297, "Got any Dreamfoil?"

15 september 2018 | 64 min

Episode 296, "It's a mini-mall"

7 september 2018 | 54 min

Episode 295, "Big Top BS"

31 augusti 2018 | 59 min

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Ren -
Now have two 120s and two 111s, gotten most of my characters into the city
Still working on effective AOE for subtlety rogue
Still have not resolved missing XP bar but have a workaround (Experiencer)
Started archaeology
Archaeology progress still showing old number system (current level 825), but shows as “Zandalari Archaeology”
Restored Artifacts - no new vendor, not showing up for Legion era fragments (usually current through previous expansion)

Mike -
i328
Want to do mythics this weekend.
Trying to get 330+
Revered with Order of Embers. - yummy 335 gear.
It’s been all rep and rep and rep and gear.
Stalled professions because I can’t make anything decent until I do mythics.
I plan on finishing the other zones over the next few days.
Need more followers
Dills

This Week in WoW
Trial of Style started - free transmogs!
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday

News
BfA sold 3.4 million copies on its first day - franchise record
Does this only count new purchases on opening day, or does it count prepurchases?
Notable hotfixes for the week
Auction House changes - will be discussed separately
Classes
Demon hunters no longer falling to their deaths gliding away from Dazar’alor.
Feral druids continuing to receive upgrades to their AOE abilities
Creatures and NPCs
Treasure hunters around the Deadwash will no longer inadvertantly flag Horde players PvP

Dungeons
Freehold now has an NPC at the end that will port characters to the beginning
Kings’ Rest: enemy casters now have mana bars
Items
Azerite armor now tradeable
Faction items can now be traded back to their Quartermaster for a full refund for 2 hours
Professions
Inscription - Contract duration is now 7 days
Cooking - Foods now provide significantly more health and mana
World Quests
Profession WQs will now not show up for characters who don’t have that profession
Being hit by Frightened Stomps of Frightened Brutosaur during “Underfoot” will no longer flag players
World
Several missing Zandalar mailboxes have been returned
Auction house hotfixes, plus premium 20% extra deposit for tradeskill items. But are the actual numbers going to dissuade sellers?
Wide variety of deposit prices for stacks of 1 vs larger stacks
Remember: only pay the deposit if the item doesn’t sell
Sample items from BfA: Monelite ore, Gloom Dust, Great Sea Catfish - Deposit inflation between 1 stack of 200 and 200 stacks of 1:
Great Sea Catfish - 7.5g to 47.5g - or 633%
US median 24g - lose 47.5g out of 4800, 1% loss
Gloom Dust - 8g to 200g - or 2500%
US median 27g, so 200g out of 5400, or 3.7% loss
Monelite Ore - 1s 30c to 40g - or 307,000 %
US median 48g, so 9600/40, or 0.42 loss
HandyNotes has new modules for BfA treasures and achievement points in zones
WQ exploit - how it worked, how it has ended
Warning: getting whispers from accounts that make you think it’s Blizzard saying you have to go to a website to plead your case because you’re about to be banned - recognize official Blizz communications

Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part One - start working on it now for increased mount speed
Battle for Azeroth Explorer
Explore all 6 zones on both continents
Wide World of Quests
Complete 100 world quests
Azerothian Diplomat
Earn Revered with the following factions, Champions of Azeroth and Tortollan Seekers, and the following for each side:
Alliance - Proudmoore Admiralty, Storm’s Wake Order of Embers, 7th Legion
Horde: Zandalari Empire, Voldunai, Talanji’s Expedition, The Honorbound
Either Kul Tourist or Zandalar Forever - complete all main story lines of your side’s three zones
Ready for War (faction) - complete your side’s War Campaign - starts with establishing footholds necessary to open world quests. The rest requires becoming Friendly with your side’s war rep (Honorbound or 7th Legion)
No dungeon or raid requirements (yet)

Mod of the Cast: The alpha release of WORLD QUEST TRACKER.

Episode 294, "327 stairs"

24 augusti 2018 | 59 min

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Ren
Have 1 level 117 prot paladin and 1 level 114 subtlety rogue
Disappointed by pickpocketing
Noticed small amount of voice recycling - some of the voices/sayings of the Vulpera are identical to those of pandaren children
Navigating the ziggurat: 8 level changes and 327 stairs between the main level and the profession trainers
Fossilized Raptor mount now has apparent hip problems
Technical issue: keep having problem where my xp bars aren’t showing xp -- just showing rep and artifact power %. Temporary fix: open Rep pane, toggle one of the reps “show as experience bar” on/off. Problem seems unrelated to mods, as it does it even when all mods are off

Mike
Burning the horde in the Clearcut was fun :D
Dinged 120 on Sunday - it was faster than expected.
Marie Davenport is the best grandma in WoW
WITCHES!
Drustvar is amazing
Trying to get geared up for heroics - currently 301
Have not finished all zones. Still four whole zones to complete
New trick - group members kicking themselves to beat the timer.
Got into a dungeon where three people left, no tank
Next dungeon got me three pieces.
Tailoring has slowed.
Still have to deal with enchanting. Haven’t taken a good look at it.
WQs open after two Zandalar zones are quick-finished, then one solo island expedition, THEN the third, THEN friendly rep.

This Week in WoW
PvP Brawl: Gravity Lapse event
Seemingly not going for weekly stuff for another few weeks into the expansion at least

News and BfA

Do the city quests first - leads to other benefits
Example: Pests in northern area of Horde city called the Zocalo - be sure to pick up
“Pests” - gives you access to Jani, the Loa of Scavengers. As you’re out and about, you will sometimes get a whisper from her that you’ve found a “shiny trinket” - find her trash pile to get a treasure chest
Horde - starts in the Zocalo, the northern part of the city, so do this right away.
Alliance: starts in Shatterstone Harbor in Vol’dun, so you don’t get this one til later
Changing and advancing professions in BfA
Advantage to changing: you can start along with everyone else
When you change the profession, you have to click TWICE - once to get the initial Vanilla levels, and then a second time to learn the Zandalari profession
Check to make sure you pick up all your level 1 abilities and recipes - you get them automatically sometimes (cooking) and not other times (gathering professions)
Worth getting your other profession alts at least started in the city - early level stuff can be useful, such as the level 1 Rubellite recipe in JC (Insightful Rubellite - +5% xp) and the Zandalari tradeskill glove enchants. Rubelite currently selling for around 70g on Whisperwind AH; Zandalari tradeskill enchants are pretty cheap also if you don’t want to DIY
Developer Q&A with Ian Hazzikostas: some highlights
Feral druid AOE tuning has been improved but isn’t finished yet.
120 power setback is noticeable - looking in future expansions to smooth it out so you don’t feel like hitting max level is a huge backward jump
Autoaccept removed from groups: development believed autoaccept for groups and using addons for searching for groups created an imbalance between those who used addons and those who didn’t. (Ren does not approve)
AH is showing its age, particularly on high pop servers.
Search options too limited
May introduce deposits that would reward people with bulk pricing -- higher deposits for people who post a single stack of a stackable trade good (what could go wrong?)
Community moderation coming in the next patch
Azerite armor will be tradeable starting after next week’s patch (“they don’t want players to abuse the system to look for the best possible class/trait combination to loot a certain piece of azerite armor”)
AP needed to advance your Heart of Azeroth will be reduced
New models incoming for goblins and worgen (please fix hats!)
Is this expansion “alt friendly”?
Takes me about 20 minutes to get from beginning of entry quests to in the first inn, bound, and basic professions upgraded. Multiply that by 13 level 110s and that’s over 4 hours just to get everyone in the game. Not even counting the 1 Horde and 1 Alliance character I needed to take through the whole thing.
Are side quests a problem?

Episode 293, "How to succeed in tailoring without really trying"

17 augusti 2018 | 52 min

Episode 292, "Anything is better than Skype"

3 augusti 2018 | 58 min

Episode 291, "Scat Twitch"

21 juli 2018 | 56 min

Episode 290, "Netflix and fish"

29 juni 2018 | 58 min

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Happy 13th!

Ren
Cocktail of the Cast: Julep Zecca Italiana
About 80% through the “Home Flooring Renovation” achievement
Completed the new pre-expansion quest line on paladin - upgraded artifact from 75 to 126
Purchased a small one-handed gaming keyboard from DeLux - $30. Taking some time to get used to but may be easier to use than full sized keyboard when I’m one handed.
Only real problem is maneuvering while flying
Other issue: no English instructions came with it

Mike
I made a thing.
I thought I needed things from Midsummer - nope.
Did the artifact thing
Poop quest :P
Still need to do the mage tower

This Week in WoW
Midsummer Fire Festival continues through July 5 (Thursday)
This Week: Arena Skirmishes; next week, World Quest Bonus Event
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday, July 1

News
Pre-expansion artifact quest in Silithus went live this week
Achievement: Crucible’s Promise - upgrades your artifact from 75 to 126
Several of the Silithus quests are NOT REQUIRED to complete this (but you can’t skip the trips to Stormwind or Orgrimmar)
Only the quests directly from Nolan Speed (Alliance) and Grol Warblade (Horde) are required to complete the quest line
First Horde quest: motivate peons; first Alliance quest, collect Mysterious Ore by killing goblins. Horde quest turns in to Grol. Alliance has turn-in for Mysterious Ore going to a dwarf, but then return to Nolan Speed to pick the line back up.
From this point on, the main line is identical, Horde or Alliance.
Pick up “The Twilight Survivor” from Nolan or Grol. Ignore “Desert Research” because it’s just a breadcrumb to an unnecessary gnome or goblin line.
Pick up “A Recent Arrival” to talk to Khadgar, and this leads to the end.
You can skip ALL the gnome quests (Alliance) and goblin quests (Horde) and the outhouse quest and it does not affect progress. These extras provide color and 18g but no rep or other rewards
Confirmed upgraded ALL owned weapon artifacts, whether they are on you or in the bank
When you have completed this quest, if you complete any other weapon quests, these fully upgrade as soon as you shift into that specialization
Underlight Angler graphics do what the regular artifacts do and it shows TRILLIONS of AP, but doesn’t actually upgrade the Angler (AP yellow bar still shows proper amount of points. Display bug)
Reportedly making the Mage Tower much easier to complete and sudden uptick in new guilds finishing Mythi and Cutting Edge Argus the Unmaker achievements.
Mage Tower is now live 24/7

Forbes Interviews with Ion Hazzikostas
Change in BFA: Prevent players from swapping gear in high difficulty Mythic+ dungeons - make it consistent with not changing talents mid-encounter. Mythic+ now requires complete speccing (talents AND gear) for the entire dungeon, which Blizzard now views as a single encounter.
New Azerite armor
Can’t be warforged or titanforged
Only source that can be run repeatedly is normal or heroic dungeons
Can be gained as a world quest emissary reward, but not from world quests themselves
Can get as a weekly PvP or conquest reward, but not at the end of a match
Mythic dungeons - not from box at the end, but only from the weekly reward box
Clear tiers of Azerite armor
Communities
Will not be cross faction (“we’re at war!”]
Yay Discord!
Confirmed the following are all going away in the prepatch:
First Aid achievements
Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements
Violet Spellwing mount quest from killing Argus.
Guaranteed mount drops from mythic Argus and Gul’dan in The Nighthold will become rare drops
The Chosen title (killing bosses in mythic Trial of Valor without dying)
Brawler’s Guild seasonal achievements
Legion Elite PvP armor sets, achievements related to the Ashran battlefield and several other Legion specific PvP achievements
Mentioned Fisherfriends of the Isles isn’t going away but will be a lot easier to achieve now that there are huge groups doing it
Professions
Professions system is “changing dramatically”
Each expansion will have its own separate skill tier level\
Analogy: Pandaria cooking
If you have 800 skill in a profession, you’ll be at 100 skill level in each expansion’s profession tier, and will start BFA as level 1 for BFA crafting.
If you have 650, for example, you will have 100 through Pandaria, then 50 for Warlords, and no Legion
Also means is that if all you want to do is craft items for Battle of Azeroth, there’s nothing you have to do - you do not need to get your profession to 800 - there is no advantage because all 800 profession skill level means now is that you will have 100 level in all expansion tiers short of BFA. Everyone will start at level 1 for BFA crafting and gathering.
Question: how is racial profession bonus going to figure into this?
Also means if you want to change professions, it’s a great time to do it.
Ian’s advice: professions “extremely optional” to level up - “don’t worry about anything other than the Mage Tower”.
No specific events planned for prepatch that will boost levels the way the Legion invasions did
BFA kinder to alts?
Only things specifically mentioned:
artifact necklace will work for all specs - no having to develop separate necklaces for tanking, DPS and healing
No class legendaries

Episode 289, "Fire up your Voodoo 3 2000"

16 juni 2018 | 52 min

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Episode 289

Ren
Finished Fisherfriend of the Isles
ALMOST finished Lucid Nightmare
Got into Beta, but no time to do anything about it
On Sylvanus server, copied my Horde paladin Krystoff onto it and created a Warcast channel

Mike
Nothing
Well, did some beta w/Ali but basically covered the same ground as pre-reset.
Guild moving to horde

This Week in WoW
Pet Battle Bonus Event
Next week: Cataclysm Timewalking
Midsummer Fire Festival starts Thursday, June 21
New from 2017: Set of Matches toy (500 Burning Blossoms), Igneous Flameling pet (350 Burning Blossoms), Illusion: Deathfrost from Ahune (Slave Pens)

News

BfA news

8.0 prepatch live on the PTR
Players gain access to a multitude of features and system updates in the pre-patch, including Communities, War Mode, the new Honor System, overhauled Professions, and Legion's final storyline leading up to Burning of Teldrassil and the Battle for Lordaeron.
Artifacts will be disabled when the pre-patch goes live. Player power will be buffed to compensate for the power loss.
Class Changes
A stat/item squish
Legendaries won't work past level 115.
Retired artifacts lose all their traits and become normal weapons, with stats scaling with relics installed in the artifact weapon. The main artifact effect of each spec's weapons is becoming a talent instead, as are several class specific legendaries.
Underlight Angler was originally showing as disabled, but the latest build fixed it.

WoW Classic
Will start with 1.12 Drums of War: Features introduced in 1.12 included:
Cross realm battlegrounds (Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin)
World PvP
Some of the past things from previous patches that will be included as a result:
Ruins and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - so this will be after opening those
Blackwing Lair
Darkmoon Faire
Raid dungeon timers, calendars and lockouts
The high level class dungeon armor sets
Weather
Quest experience for gold at level 60
Final destination flight paths
Linked auction houses
Some world holidays
Soul shard bags (!!!)
Expected issues with the first prototype
didn't recognize current video cards and was incompatible with the current login/authentication server (authenticator became available 2 Jun 2008, almost 2 years after 1.12's release on 22 August 2006)
Does not support modern security and anti-cheating capabilities
Second prototype: instead of going forward with old code, work backward: take the modern back-end code and use it to process Patch 1.12 game data
Start with modern architecture, security and stability - catalogue any differences in behavior between the development build and the Patch 1.12 reference build
Three types of game data:
Table data: numbers - hit points, stats, spawn timers, etc.
File data: dense data such as 3d models, textures, animations, terrain, user interface, and art models (don't use the same file formats as commercial art tools - no jpgs, tifs, etc.
Lua scrips: custom behaviors for server side logic without needing engineering knowledge
Engineering challenges
All classic data is in original form since launch, but format has changed substantially over the year. Modern client is not compatible with old data.
Master data problem: from single line on a master table to multiple linked tables catalogued by ID number
much richer environment but not compatible with the single line system
For example, spells could only apply up to three actions on a target in classic
In current form, spells no longer limited to three effects and are formatted differently
Almost all other data such as items, characters, creatures, NPCs, AI, spawning and more) have had their database formats changed

Episode 288, "Orcs are Klingons"

2 juni 2018 | 65 min

Episode 287, "Kill 47 rats"

25 maj 2018 | 65 min

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Ren:
Started an orc death knight - level 69 in Northrend
Fisherfriends of the Isles - all but Akule Riverhorn
Sort of in a holding pattern - finishing zones with paladin, rep, that sort of thing
Most “finished” characters are druid and rogue in terms, but not sure going to start with those in BfA

Mike:
Horde side scenario is epic. Alliance will have one later, I’m sure.
Alani
Underrot

This Week in WoW:
Lich King Timewalking
Glowcap Festival Mini-Event
Drugon the Frostblood
Mage Tower active on North American realms

News
Mythic +15 appearances obtainable in Battle for Azeroth
Can either complete it before August 13, or wait a few weeks for Mythic difficulty to open back up after BfA launch
Confirmed only artifact appearance that will be obtainable after BfA launches are the Mage Tower base appearance.
BfA will have 18 character slots per realm

News BfA BETA
Environmental changes after the battles:
Alliance: After Siege of Lordaeron, Darnassian refugees in Stormwind Harbor and you can no longer take the boat to Darnassus. There is now a portal.
You cannot travel to the zone because fatigue will kill you.
Talk to Zidormi in Darkshore to witness Darnassus before the siege.
Similar story for Horde: zep to UC no longer works, portal to Ruins of Lordaeron
Entering the zone will kill you
Talk to Zidormi in Tirisfal to witness Tirisfal before the Battle for Lordaeron

Reputation Rewards - list of all the goodies (what to focus on depending on your interests). If you’re into:

FROM THE DISCORD
Naked & Afraid Challenge officially ending June 1. This is as much to give people time to finish leveling up characters without the restrictions before the expansion hits.

3 new finishers! Please let me know if I missed anyone:
Boomstyx, orc Beastmaster hunter: 3 days 11 hours 47 minutes (current leader!)
Gautama, panda brewmaster monk: 5 days 8 hours 30 minutes
Zignea, human arms warrior: 7 days 7 hours 4 minutes (current winner of “Most Persistent”)

Lots of discussion generated by the question: who are you leveling first?

MOD OF THE CAST: ShutUpRhonin

Episode 286, "Ring of Booty"

13 maj 2018 | 53 min

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BfA Alpha

Dungeons
Waycrest Manor
Freehold
Temple of Sethraliss

Had to start over
Was able to go through the initial scenario, but the key cutscenes are placeholders.
“Cool cutscene”
Ali went through horde starting scenario, followed by amazing Escape from Stockades scenario.
Both Horde and Alliance zones are gorgeous!

Professions are sort of in
You can train, but no vendor for BfA tradeskill mats. Old school tradeskill mats vendor is there.
Fishing trainer added this week, only trains up to Pandaria fishing (Ali fished up Midnight Salmon)
Herbalism: herbs are not just in the ground. Star Moss grows on walls, Siren’s song grows out of trees...refreshing change

Mike
Making up the money I spent on the T3 chestpiece.
Problem - Vial of the Sands sells for garbage on my server (69,000g)
No mounts this week
Started going through ALL my screenshots. 103GB of them.
Sorted by expansion
May split them between characters.
Found out that I was leveling TWO mages at the same time on two servers.
Apparently I was on Aggramar and don’t remember why.
I also moved toons around a lot and don’t remember why.

Ali
Still trying for Invincible….Arthas is a bitch
Raid is working on trying to get Ahead of the Curve achievement together. Heroic Coven is a struggle. Going to get lockouts-Skipping it to work on Aggramar and Argus.
Halfway through Field Medic (got some repeat quest drops)
Really starting to focus on my N&A toon
Ren called for June 1st to official deadline. Can still work on it and complete it but after deadline, finishers won’t be announced on the show. Summer gets busy. Maybe a new challenge at some point? Never know with Ren!
My N&A toon is almost 65, determined to get it done in time
Ren spoke again about starting a Warcast guild on Silvermoon-US. Alliance side? We’ve been discussing different names on discord!

News:
Blizzcon tickets went on sale
Several people helping others to get tickets.
Both waves of tickets are over.
Don’t buy scalped tickets. Better to see if anyone has any extras.
GCD is a Big Thing™
Racials will be removed from the GCD
http://www.wowhead.com/news=283908/comprehensive-list-of-abilities-added-to-the-gcd-in-battle-for-azeroth#mage
Mage:
Time Warp
Charged Up (Arcane)
Arcane power (Arcane)
Spring Balloon Fest going on now until tomorrow
War Mode available.
Have not tested it yet
I might test it just to see how it goes, but will not be a permanent change for me.

Talking weapons transmog will still talk?

Don’t DDoS Blizzard
Romanian man extradited and sentenced to one year for DDoS in 2010
Also has to pay almost $30k

Episode 285, "And and or edition"

27 april 2018 | 56 min

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Ren:
Success on BunofSteel and “the wolf in sheep’s clothing”
Fisherfriends fun - though if you have a choice, don’t do melee
Soloing normal dungeons

Mike:
T3 chest!
BfA beta walkthrough
Green proto-drake
Primal Fire
i1000 chest

This Week in WoW
Pet Battles
Children's Week starts Monday 30th - through Monday 7th
Volunteer Guard Day Mini-event Saturday the 28th
Next week: Burning Crusade Timewalking

Q&A
Ion spent a lot of time covering the change to GCD
They still want feedback wrt how the class feels
Some abilities such as Charge, Infernal Strike and Heroic Leap for warriors and DIsengage for hunters being taken off GCD
In Final Fantasy XIV, everything is on GCD, but the GCD is 2.5s, but can be reduced with gear.
They want people to make decisions - A or B instead of A and B.
Azerite Power being renamed Artifact Power
There will be a way to respec traits.
Talking about adding in that functionality later, and a return to the old respeccing a la vanilla (paying an increasing scale for respecs, with decay)
BfA should be more alt-friendly.
Heart of Azeroth -- universal for all specs instead of having to develop AP in multiple weapons
New BGs called Epic Battlegrounds
Large battlegrounds are being split off
Removing blacklisting from Battlegrounds
Strand of the Ancients is being removed in BfA (not sure if temporary or permanent)
Ashran is being temporarily retired.
No plans to deactivate racials in rated PvP
All loot will be personal loot
Will still be flagged going into an enemy major city, whether you are in War Mode or not

More BfA stuff
Battle Pets in beta:
Some nerfs incoming:
Bone Serpent: swapped positions of Call Darkness and Lift-Off
Practical upshot: This is a huge nerf. Call of Darkness now shares the slot with Nocturnal Strike. Call of Darkness blinds all pets, and Nocturnal Strike always hits if the target is Blinded. In combination, this is huge. Having to choose between them now significantly reduces its power. (Workaround: do the Frostfur Rat with Call Darkness and Sneak Attack)
Crow and Gilnean Raven: -200 power, +200 speed
Cyclone: Damage changed from 7 to 3-7
Haunt: returns the pet at 50% health instead of 100
Teroclaw Hatchling: Dodge and Nature's Ward will now occupy the same tier as will Hawk Eye and Ravage.
Practical upshot: Slot 2 will now put Dodge (4 round cooldown) and Nature's Ward (5 round heal) on same tier, basically making you choose between damage mitigation or pet heal.
Pet Battle World Quests incoming and will scale to the highest pet on your team (NOT apply to wild pets outside world quests)
New pet battle mechanics:
Random weather effects
More heals that have increased effects on pet's health
Aura effects that heal your pet or damages enemy pet based on the last hit dealt

From the Discord:
N&A finishers: Congrats to Buffysummers - Human Windwalker Monk for finishing N&A with 23,055 gold 4/1/43
Shoutout ot Dodoobrawn-Bladefist - nice fishing with you! Hello to Mrs. Dodoobrawn as well.
Question: Why do you still need a WoD garrison? Is it worth going back if you have a character who skipped it?

Episode 284, "Bun of steel"

20 april 2018 | 53 min

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Ren:
Not played much in past couple weeks
Next projects: mechanical pets for hunter, Field Medic, Fisherfriends

Mike:
Started working on Field Medic. No bueno
cjracer20 in Discord suggested premades. Will do that soon™
Did not get into alpha this week yet. Ali couldn’t Monday, and then Wednesday turned into hell.
Been doing follower missions.
Mount and mog runs. Tailoring/enchanting finally at 800.
Went through old pics.

This Week in WoW
Mage Tower currently active on North American realms
Legion Timewalking this week. Pet Battle event next week

General News
Blizzard Balance can now be gifted - send a friend an electronic gift card with a personalized message
Remote Auction House: Blizzard confirmed in a blue message that the reason they closed the RAH is that a "tiny fraction of one percent" of their user base was actually using the RAH and it was not worth their time and effort anymore to keep it updated

Battle for Azeroth
In-Game Communities:
Quoting Wowhead: “This system will allow you to have broader communication options with fellow community members, including multiple text channels, text channel history, simple role management, quick join, voice integration, roster listing and calendar invites. You will be able to be part of multiple communities at the same time, in addition to your current guild.”
Interview at Pax East with lead designer Daniel Stahl and lead encounter designer Morgan Dey about Island Expeditions:
More intelligent AI in NPC encounters
Some AI groups may be aggressive - others may be passive and require you to chase them down
Weather improved and may be a factor
Different mobs may appear at different times of the day
"Fog of War"
Blizzard has confirmed people will still be able to get class mounts after BfA has launched
Tribute to last year’s BlizzCon Costume Contest winner Kazplay - when Horde invades the Stockades, they encounter a human female in a cage with a crumpled costume next to her: Text: “Look, it's just a costume! See? Feel it! Now will you tell them to let me out of here? It was just a joke! Hogger wasn't really terrorizing Stormwind!”

Alpha News:
Battle for Lordaeron scenario now playable on Alpha
Heart of Azeroth item levels show ranges with iLevel starting at 265 and going up one point per level from there. Highest they show is at level 300 with an iLevel of 564
Mag'har and Dark Iron Dwarves now playable in Alpha.
Maghar racials:
Ancestral Call - Invoke the spirits of your ancestors granting you their power. Increases a random secondary stat by 102 for 12 seconds.
Open Skies - Increases mounted speed by 10%.
Savage Blood - Reduces the duration of Poisons, Diseases, and Curses by 10%.
Sympathetic Vigor - Increases pet health by 10%.
Dark Iron Dwarves: still no reports on what the Mole Machine racial does
Blood Elf and Human racials seriously nerfed.

From the Discord: Bucket Lists
Expansion Countdown: 116 days to Expansion (3 months, 25 days / 16 weeks and 4 days / 2784 hours)
Congrats to
Alberthe for getting the Forgotten Hippogryph mount
Mightymurloc for the new Kara mount
Txcoolkid for finishing FIeld Medic
Suggests joining a Field Medic premade group, as did Cjracer20
It’s not a shared drop (personal loot) but since there is a lot of competition and in some areas the respawn is fast, you have a greater chance of being able to loot more mobs

Episode 283, "Booty Bay has the worst doors"

5 april 2018 | 64 min

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Ren:
Have a new Highmountain Tauren - enhancement shaman
Got the noblegarden bunny
Working on the four hatchling pet quests -- haven’t finished any of them

Mike
Exalted with Army of the Light.
8000 from exalted with Argussian Reach
Tol Dagar BfA dungeon
Odd thing about BfA - some people have quests, I don’t.
Finally finishing up getting followers to 950
Noblegarden fun
Field Medic

This Week in WoW
Pandaria Timewalking this week, Battleground Bonus event next week
Darkmoon Faire
Noblegarden (ends Monday)
March of the Tadpoles (Borean Tundra - ends tonight at midnight)

News: General and Current
April Fool’s patch notes
Remote Auction House is retiring on April 18th.
Realm connections
New round of realm connections is “on the way” to help with low pop servers.
Family Guy: a 30 second Leeroy Jenkins reference.

News: Battle for Azeroth
8 - 14 - 18
Ren’s Ridiculous Fun Facts about the History of Blizzcon Expansions
Collector’s Edition - box set
Limited edition hardcover edition - 2 new WoW novellas by Christie Golden and Robert Brooks
Horde & Alliance Double Sided Mark of Allegiance with stand
Digital soundtrack
Collector’s Edition box set owners will be able to unlock and create unreleased Allied Races in advance
If you bought Digital Deluxe and want Collector’s Edition box, you can get a refund on Digital Deluxe to Battle.net balance
Digital Deluxe edition - mounts, pet

Island Expansions
Expedition table in Boralus Harbor (Alliance) or Zuldazar Harbor (Horde)
3 man - Normal, Heroic, Mythic or PvP - reward of 6,000 Azurite
Azurite: killing mobs, finding treasure, defeating the opposing team, or mining nodes
Drawn on “lessons learned” from past content like scenarios and keystone dungeons. Replayable content.
WoWhead interview with Jeremy “Muffinus” Feasel, Senior Game Designer for WoW
No death knights for allied races - tied to Lich King
Other possible rewards for Island Expeditions, like in the Timeless Isle
When asked whether quest and profession progression will be gated behind dungeons and raids: No real discussion yet on profession progression, although he did say he thought ending final part of certain questlines end in a dungeon was “super cool, as it is the best way to tell the end of the story”.
Felt that artifact weapon system was interesting in the beginning of the expansion but not at the end of it. Lots of choices in the beginning and none in the end.
Discussion about making certain things accountwide -- seemed to think things were pretty OK the way they were. Too much accountwide stuff and characters lose identity, but opening areas, flying, etc., seem to be good kept accountwide.
Battle for Azeroth
Mag’har Orcs and Iron Dwarf allied races will be available after completing the Battle for Azeroth war campaign. Zandalari and Kul’Tiras will be unlocked later in the expansion.
BFA alpha lasting longer than in the past. Beta polishes features and features are still being added to alpha.
Six emissaries for each faction - 3 home continent, two neutral (Tortollan and Voice of Azeroth) and a War Faction with quests on the enemy continent.
8.0 prepatch
Likely a few weeks before the expansion
Will introduce the Burning of Teldrassil and Battle for Lordaeron. May be new mounts themed around Night Elves and Forsaken in conjunction with this event.
New details on PvP
New world PvP system called War Mode: players toggle PvP in a capitol city on any server. This will put them in a separate server shard, away from the PvE characters.
War Mode gives extra rewards and Azerite, and also allows access to special world PvP events.
PvP gear system revamp: conquest point system returning in the form of a bar you fill up to earn new gear each week. When you’re finished with a set, you can move up. There will be ways to skip ahead.
Changes to Honor and Prestige: honor levels will be account wide.
Naked and Afraid FInisher: Alcina, night elf mage -- 110

Episode 282, "Fuego"

29 mars 2018 | 59 min

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Ren:
Finishing zones, changing to Beastmaster on hunter
The handy parts about thinking about alt priority

Mike:
Island Expeditions
Antorus
Rep

This Week in WoW
World Quest Event - bonus reputation
Darkmoon Faire starts on April 1 - rep bonuses from carousel and top hat stack with World Quest Event
Noblegarden - April 2
Reminders: 2 pets and 1 mount - spring rabbit, noblegarden bunny (added 2017), springstrider mount

News:
New Naked & Afraid Finisher: Settlersrule, Alliance panda windwalker monk, with 5 days 23 hours and 28 minutes, and 24,483 gold.
Next highest in progress: Norgreyclub, dwarf retribution paladin, level 92, closely followed by Alcina, a night elf arcane mage at 91 and Buffysummers, a human windwalker monk at level 90
Pax East - Apr 5-8 at Boston Convention Center - Demo stations for new Island Expedition feature
Family Guy episode April 1 - Warcraft references
Player gets every achievement in game (3,314) - Xirev, a blood elf fire mage
Need to do things like reach prestige 25, collect 300 toys and mounts, and win 5000 pvp pet battles
One achievement ahead of Metatrosha, a human shadow priest (same number of points; Alliance have one extra 10 pointer)
Wowhead interview with Xirev
Single hardest achievement: high rated PvP ones - most others simply “tedious”
Single hardest non-PvP achievement - “Going to Need a Bigger Bag” - obtain all the rare items from Timeless Isle. Involved a lot of realm hopping (56 items)
Time /played: Estimated 850-900 days /played. 434 days /played on mage alone.
20,400 to 21,600 hours
8,760 hours in 1 year (not counting leap years)
Done over 6 years - 6 years has about 122,400 hours (without leap years)
Average of 5.5-6 hours per day, every day, or 38.5 - 42 hours per week
Ren: Did my own /played calculation on all active toons - came out to 6554 hours or 273 days /played. Sounds like a lot, but when averaged over 10 years (didn’t play for 4 years out of the past 14) it comes out to less than 1 hour per day /played
Alpha News
Changes to quest log - looked at first like the quest log limit was going up to 50. Not true - but it seems like some quests no longer count toward the 25 limit - including account wide quests such as many battle pet quests
New Alpha build includes several class talent changes

Alpha Profession changes:
Enchanting: many new ring and weapon enchants, glove enchants for gathering professions
RETURN OF Wands (Scepters). Last available: VANILLA
Engineering: some of the usuals like glasses, explosives, and scopes
RETURN OF Engineered belts. Last available: WRATH OF THE LICH KING
More weapons (guns, maces)
Interesting bits: Slumber Bombs, Electroshock Mount Motivator (+10% mount speed for 10 seconds, stacks up to 5x, “increased motivation may cause your mount to become disoriented”), Deployable Attire Rearranger, Interdemensional Companion Repository (portable stablemaster), and an XA-100 Surface Skimmer (25 sec duration)
Inscription: new codex
New Darkmoon cards, Vantus runes
RETURN OF
Offhand tomes and stat buff scrolls.. LAST AVAILABLE: CATACLYSM
New: Contracts: allows you to choose a faction with which you will gain reputation when you do world quests - requires Friendly rep with target reputation
Scroll of Unlocking - unlock anything that requires 550 lockpicking skill
Jewelcrafting - usual rings and stones
NEW: two staffs - both listed were listed as Mage but the second one (Laribole Staff) also listed Agility as a stat
Leatherworking - usual armor bits and drums
NEW: create fist weapons and bows (bow/crossbow was available in Engineering, 490/525, Cataclysm)

From the Discord:
Seems there is a fashion in listening to our oldest episodes

Episode 281, "Fel sanitation simulator"

23 mars 2018 | 56 min

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Ren
- Life invasions of all life invasions
- Had to update laptop to make WoW run
- Game goals:
- get Field Medic done
- get toons left behind caught up on Argus and professions
- running up a void elf warlock for the hell of it
- Question to self: do I have too many alts?
- 12 110s with two duplicates (rogue and mage on Alli/Horde)
- no DK or DH
- Question: Is Blizzard both encouraging more alts AND not paying enough attention to making game alt-friendly?
- If I had to pare down my alts, who would make the cut?

Mike
So close to finishing up this rep from Hell.
Thanks to Ali for filling in last week about alpha
Infinite Timereaver mount dropped while doing timewalking. That was fun.
Alpha is still fun, but obviously limited in scope at the moment. There was a 1GB patch.
Maybe I’ll try tanking again.
I have a ton of quests I need to finish up.
The Argus version of the flight whistle should have been available at honored, not revered.

This Week in WoW
Not much - Arena Skirmishes, then World Quest Event next Tuesday
On the horizon: Noblegarden (4/2 - 4/9)
(Mike - I HATE NOBLEGARDEN)

News

Hotfixes:
Mythic Antorus now available for cross-realm groups, though not through LFR. “To join a public group for Mythic Antorus, just open Group Finder (hotkey: i), select 'Premade Groups', then 'Raids-Legion', then click on "Find A Group". That returns a list of many public groups that are available to you. Start typing 'Antorus' into the search bar at the top, and you'll be prompted to select a difficulty.”

Battle for Azeroth
New Alpha Build changes:
Achievements to unlock Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har Orcs added
Dark Iron racial mount: core hound
Latest build tagged “beta” instead of “alpha” and new invitations out
New “boop” emote
Some new enchanting stuff:
Swift Hearthing: bracer enchant to speed cast time of hearthstone
Gale-Force Striking: weapon enchant to increase weapon attack speed
First Aid confirmed going away - bandages will be under Tailoring and antivenoms/pots will be under Alchemy
New customization options for Blood Elves - three new faces and glowing gold eyes
Azerite bonuses datamined: Set bonuses also going away, being replaced by Azurite empowerment on armor
Several class specific traits, but also several that appear to be multi-class
Traits that increase primary and secondary stats by a set amount
Absorption traits - traits that shield or absorb a set amount of damage
DPS,heal, and tanking traits. DPS obviously increases your DPS, healing traits are self-heals, and tanking traits are damage mitigation:
Examples:
(DPS) Gutripper - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 347 Physical damage to the target. Gutripper occurs much more often against targets below 30% health. (Approximately 5 procs per minute).
(DPS) Heed My Call - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 154 to your target, and 15 to enemies within 3 yards of that target.
(HEAL) Savior - Your heals on targets below 35% health have a chance to heal for an additional 208. (Approximately 5 procs per minute).
(HEAL) Self Reliance - While no enemies are within 20 yds, you heal for 70 every 3 sec.
(TANK) Gemhide - When dealt damage greater than 10% of your maximum health, gain 31 Avoidance and 138 Dodge for 10 sec.
(TANK) Winds of War - Taking damage grants you 14 Dodge for 3 sec, stacking up to 10 times.
New detail on parrot mount: drops from Skycap'n Kragg, boss in the Freehold dungeon

From the Discord
Naked & Afraid Challenge has its second finisher - TheCowKing (EU) with a feral druid - 4 days 1 hour 1 minute
Current highest still in progress - Settlersrule (101) windwalker monk

Episode 280, "The Burning Squirrel"

16 mars 2018 | 71 min

Episode 279, "No Bards!"

2 mars 2018 | 64 min

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Ren
MAJOR life invasions, may be more interruptions in weeks ahead
Dinged 110 in Naked and Afraid challenge - final money total about 62,000 gold, time 4 days 22 hours 1 minute
BUT ... forgot to take a screenshot (took one later; time finished can be calculated from the played time minus the time played at level, which was about 14 hours at the time)
Also moved the toon to Whisperwind and did a race change to undead
BUT ... plans to run up a void elf warlock to fulfill promise to Silvermoon gang
Odds and ends - getting things tidied up in prep for expansion
Advancing neglected professions
Finished paladin mount quest and working on monk
Getting all the class hall followers - Maximilian of Northshire is totally worth it

Mike
Interviews all day, every day.
Wrath timewalking was fun. 700 badges from my next mount.

This Week in WoW

Legion Dungeon event until next Tuesday - additional loot
Lunar Festival ends 3/3
Darkmoon Faire starts 3/4
Trial of Style starts Monday 3/5 and runs to Friday 3/9

News

Warcraft III Invitational happened Feb 27/28, with old school tournaments and various matches - major patch coming out to Warcraft III in late March
Second Mythic Invitational, July 25-Aug 8th for auditions, dungeon invitational in early September
Seething Shore battleground now available - currently available as a brawl, will be available as a regular battleground next week
10vs10 BG set in Silithus, to battle over Azerite
"Dynamic control point gameplay similar to Arathi Basin" - new control points pop up as resources become depleted
Solo run of Court of Stars Mythic +22 by Mionee, a demon hunter (iLevel 973) - took nearly 4 hours

Battle of Azeroth
Even more class changes - random notes that show trend changes
DKs are getting an ability similar to Counterspell
Demon hunters will get an ability to increase overall party/raid magical damage to targets with Chaos Brand
Druids getting back Hibernate and Soothe (CC and anti-enrage)
Hunters: Tranq Shot for hunters is coming back (anti-enrage)
Mages:
Fire: Phoenix Flames, Felo’melorn’s artifact ability, is being turned into a basic spell
All: Return of Arcane Intellect (group buff)
Priests: Return of Power Word: Fortitude (group buff)
Rogue: Return of Expose Armor (vanilla spell)
Shaman: Return of Tremor Totem (AOE ability to remove fear, charm and sleep effects)
Warlock: Return of Shadow Bolt (vanilla spell)
Only Destro locks can summon infernals now (boo)
Warrior: Return of Battle Shout to increase STR and AGI of party or raid
PARROT MOUNTS!!! No source yet
There will be some kind of garrison or class hall or something similar, as there is a mission table with followers. Lot of forum hate for this.
Followers include Technicians, Infiltrators, Combat Specialist and Faction Troops
Zandalari Troll Druid Forms
"Pterrakkoa" - "moonkin" form
Armored bear form - looks like a cross between a spiky turtle and a bear
Pterrodax flight form
Ravasaur travel form
Mag'har Orcs
Ren: really like the hair styles on the females - might have to race flip one
Skin colors range from pale grey-beige to reddish brown
Heritage armor looks very much like Thrallmar stuff
Upright posture, esp on the females
No "unnatural" hair colors
A couple of the new races flagged in such a way that they may become allied races
Vulpera - fox people
Kul Tirans - stocky humanoids

From the Discord: left over from last episode:
Should all classes be unlocked on all races? Or should class-race assignments follow established lore?

Episode 278, "Meat II Pet"

15 februari 2018 | 64 min

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Ren
Life invasions: thank you Cara - did not touch Love is in the Air
Naked & Afraid monk: level 95, 3 days 22 hours, 46k gold
Northrend: Leveling time slow, money amazing
Pandaria: Leveling time medium-fast, money good
Draenor: Leveling time medium-fast, money bad

Mike
Life invasion

This Week in WoW
Lunar Festival starts 2/17, runs to 3/3
Love is In the Air ends tomorrow
Battleground bonus event starts Tuesday
Ulduar Timewalking

News
Dungeon XP hotfix to bug introduced in 7.3.5 https://www.wowhead.com/news=281885/dungeon-experience-hotfixes
Side effect to creature scaling broke awarded XP in some situations
Significantly increased XP awarded for queuing for random Normal dungeons, Classic through Draenor
Mobile Auction House has been restored
New mount: Shu-zen, The Divine Sentinel - $25 in Blizz store (6 months game time for Chinese servers) - and fixed a scaling bug
http://www.wowhead.com/news=281915/upcoming-changes-to-the-na-wow-mvp-program

Battle for Azeroth: Alpha Build News
Tons of class changes but these tend to change a lot over alpha/beta

Allied races
New allied race? Orc based - either Mag’har or Frostwolf Orcs (brown orcs)
Datamined orc armor and a Mag’har Direwolf mount

Dark Iron Dwarf racials
Dungeon Delver: 4% increased indoor speed
Fireblood: Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic and bleed effects and increases primary stat by 100 for each removed. 2 min cooldown
Forged in Flames: 1% physical damage reduction
Mass Production: 2x speed creating blacksmithed items
Mole Machine: Summons a Mole Machine that tunnels through the earth (30 min cooldown)

Non-caster damage that used to be calculated on weapon damage is now based on a combo of weapon damage and attack power to help bring better balance between classes that rely heavily on weapons vs. those who do not

Return of Pepe: New Pepe costumes include a scuba costume and a Zandalari mask

Hunter pet specialization:
All pets will have equal damage, health and armor (all can tank or DPS equally well). Old designations Ferocity, Tenacity or Cunning will continue as categories, but as categories of pet families, not as descriptions of their utility
All pets will have Growl and Dash or Swoop
Pet families now each have a special ability - one active, one passive, depending on their category (examples: the passive for Ferocity is a 3% leech, for Tenacity, 10% max health, and for Cunning, 8% movement speed buff)
Each pet family will get one of six different abilities. Examples include a healing reduction debuff, reduced damage, increased dodge, etc.

Profession changes: (just noted things that are different or interesting) Major squish: Max profession skill cap going from 800 to 200
Alchemy preview:
Tinctures - trinkets with combat buffs based on the flask you’re currently using
Usual transmutes of changing one profession material to another. Also Fish to Gems and Meat to Pet.
Blacksmithing preview:
New stirrups for speed and interacting while mounted in the new zones
Khaz’gorian Hammer - blacksmithing hammer replacement that gives a chance to give crafted armor or weapons the Indestructible property
Cooking preview: Nothing special
Enchanting preview: Nothing special
Engineering:
Portable transmogger
Portable stable master
Herbalism: Nothing special
Inscription:
Contracts: Enter a contract with a faction that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the new zones
Jewelcrafting:
+5% experience gem
Leatherworking
Scuba gear
Mining: Nothing special
Skinning: Nothing special
Tailoring:
finally getting a bag upgrade - 1 30 slot bag (same as HW), 1 32 slot bag
Hot Air Baloon pet
First Aid getting at least a revamp - may be removed entirely and folded into Tailoring
First Aid achievements will become Legacy Feats of Strength
Now listed as “legacy”. https://www.wowhead.com/news=281844/first-aid-potential-revamp-or-removal-in-battle-for-azeroth

Episode 277, "Caraclysm"

8 februari 2018 | 44 min

Episode 276, "Remember when getting a gold was hard?"

1 februari 2018 | 65 min

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Ren:
N/A monk now level 74 with 2 days 18 hours played and over 20k gold
Boosted my 62 paladin to 110

Mike:
Rep grinding

This Week in WoW
Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl yesterday and today
Arena Bonus Event til Tuesday
Love Is In the Air Feb 2-16 (see news)
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday
Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event and PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill

News
Hofixes:
All accounts have 16 character slots per realm
Preorder for Battle of Azeroth
No official release date
Server issues
Perk: quests to unlock allied races
Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of Insurrection
Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of You Are Now Prepared!
Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of You Are Now Prepared!
Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Remember: DMF hat/carousel give rep bonuses, and next week is the world quest event which gives rep bonuses as well.
Walking into Light’s Hope Cathedral with a void elf sparks some interesting conversation.
http://www.wowhead.com/attunement
The economic impact of allied races over the next few weeks
Void Elves Everywhere! “Void elves are alliance only because they were crying and wanted their own blood elves”. - from Joe on the forums via a YouTuber he was watching
Unlocking races on factions: you can do the requirements on either side but you need someone on that faction to do the unlock quests. (An Alliance member can have the achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren, but a 110 Horde must do the quests)
Collector’s Edition perks
Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Seabraid Stallion (Alliance) mounts
Tottle turtle (aquatic) pet
Overwatch voice lines, emotes, sprays and icons
Heroes of the Storm Primal Flamesaber mount
Starcraft II sprays
Hearthstone card pack, Azeroth is Burning
No Diablo perk
110 Boost details
Boosts any toon to 110
Hearthstone and Dalaran hearthstone; hearthstone reset to Dalaram inn
3 level 870 artifact relics
Level 35 artifact power and first artifact weapon (make sure you’re in the right spec!)
Flight Master’s Whistle
Kirin Tor supply bag, which contains basic food, water, starter ancient mana, ancient potions, mana diving stone, a tome of the tranquil mind
If you are 60 or over, boosts primary professions to 700 and first aid to 700
Suramar is open to the extent that Thalyrissa is there and will give you the first few quests -- no longer have to do the opening scenario of finding her and escorting her in
Does NOT come with a level 3 WOD garrison - reports if you boost a “Character Trial to 100” toon to permanent 110 that you will get the garrison
Battle for Azeroth System Requirements
Windows machines will need 64-bit systems
Minimum processor: Intel Core i5-760 or AMD FX 8100 or higher, recommended i7 4770 or AMD FX 8310 - basically need at least a quad core machine now
Video cards: 2GB minimum on video board, GeForce GT 560, AMD Radeon 7850 or Intel 530 - recommended GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280 (up from 1GB cards)
Memory: Minimum 4GB, recommends 8 GB (up from 2)
Storage: 70 GB, recommends SSD, up from 45
No changes to minimum resolution/display

Love Is In The Air - Feb 2-16
Speculation that the new flower crowns datamined earlier will be perks for this year’s Love Is In the Air

Classic interview
Old code no longer compiles
Old database no longer works
New graphics are on the table, wants to hear from the community
My guess - not until 2019
Forum people are SO IMPATIENT.

Naked & Afraid
51 unique participants
Rule change: Allied Race Division
Current highest level: 74
Three characters at 60

Mod of the Cast: Memoria (Tororosso) - https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/memoria
Joe posted a screenshot macro on the Naked and Afraid discussion board that displays played time and takes a screenshot 0.2 seconds after
Tororosso posted about Memoria, an addon that takes a screenshot automatically for different milestones, such as leveling, achievements, reputation levels, or when a battleground or arena ends.
Only issue with Memoria is that it doesn’t put in the /played time, unless you’ve put it in right before you ding

Episode 275, "Hand-harvested free-range Cobalt Ore"

25 januari 2018 | 66 min

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Ren:
N&A monk now level 62 with 1 day 20 hours /played and almost 15k gold
Utilized the one-switch rule to respec from brewmaster to windwalker around level 45
Went “in order” until about level 40, and then went out of order doing zones where I had no transmogs (Burning Steppes, Stonetalon, and Southern Barrens) - thank you All The Things.
Finished to 60 in Winterspring to level up mining
Went straight to Northrend (Howling Fjord), skipped Outland entirely

Mike:
Working on rep and mounts.
Still working on that Nerf Scrapbots achievement. Is it bugged?

This Week in WoW
Burning Crusade Timewalking
Call of the Scarab ended Tuesday
Arena Skirmishes start Tuesday
Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl mini event Wednesday

News
Battle of Azeroth Collectors’ Edition perks datamined - https://www.wowhead.com/news=281070/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-ravasaur-?webhook/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-raptor-to - Seabraid Stallion (Alliance), Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Tottle (turtle pet)
Shu-zen, the Divine Sentinel flying dog mount datamined - probably part of Lunar Festival (Year of the Dog) starting Feb 16
Transmog bug - people reporting not being able to transmog while wearing some items from [Satchel of Helpful Goods]
Changes to Recruit a Friend:
Experience gains reduced from 200 to 50%.
Heirloom XP bonus no longer stacks with RAF XP bonuses

Patch 7.3.5 hotfixes this week

Lost Mail - now properly spawns at random Dalaran locations and Postmaster title is now account-wide.
Fixed the Normal/Heroic HP pool boss switch
Raiding fixes take boss HP levels BELOW previous levels
Fixed the bug that made pet names disappear
Boulder quest in Redridge has been fixed

Patch 7.3.5 - Leveling

Transitions between expansions
No big gear reset until level 61, when item levels jumped from 60 to 80
Professions do transfer but not smoothly
When you buy your skill for mining/herbs from 300, it now goes to 450 instead of 375 (both expansions)
Experience with mining: could gather and learn to smelt both Fel Iron (Outland) and Cobalt Ore (Northrend). Started with 252 mining; could only gather Cobalt Ore Nuggets
By level 325, still only collecting nuggets. Went to Outland and confirmed I could collect whole Fel Iron Ore. However, Fel Iron was gray (getting no skill). Cobalt Ore still orange (getting skill)
Last level to get Cobalt Nuggets: 340. Started getting whole cobalt at 341. Cobalt Ore gathers still orange and still getting orange skill from smelting. Turned Yellow at 350. Turned Green at 362.
Can get 80+ mining skill points off smelting alone (started slowing down at 355) - market has not caught up on all servers, but on Silvermoon ore is selling for 5x more than bars.
Filius reported re: manufacturing professions, also skipping to Northrend: There are recipes to make things at your level, but the results may not be usable. Was making potions that he could create in low 60s that were only usable by mid-70s.
Idea: how to find what’s good to sell?

Naked & Afraid 2018
Cattarina is new winner of the Shaman Challenge with 2 days 1 hour
Up to 41 participants, 28 of whom are now 20 or over
All classes represented, with most popular being druids (9) and monks (7); least represented, shaman (1) and priest (2)
8 participants currently have more than 1000 gold. Two have 3000 or more, and one has nearly 15,000
Minor rule clarifications:
Auction mules may not do anything but buy and sell -- no primary or secondary skill use (cooking, disenchanting, smelting).
Some confusion over mounts and which you can use
Some confusion over use of inherent class abilities such as hunter pet respeccing and use of monk daily
Filius is also live streaming
Lessons Learned: Lessons in the leveling experience from our Discord family
Restrictions: not as bad as Ironman Challenge

Episode 274, "Gallywix of Silvermoon"

18 januari 2018 | 94 min

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Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike
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Ren -
Did transmog count, found out only had 17% of mail transmogs
Kind of Argussed out
Running WoW off new SSD .. makes an enormous difference

Mike -
Still having problems with XT achievement. One day we get to 18, the next, 0
I got a pony!
I lost 700 achievement points, probably due to rearranging the achivements.
Mournful Moan of Murmur is now up and running after TWO YEARS of being broken.
I have not yet tried to level a toon yet.
The price of Celendras dropped like a rock. From 750k to 50k.
When you go into Ulduar, it’s now 10-man no matter what you set raid to.
It took forever to kill Galleon and Sha of Anger.
Zone quests are now gauged by chapters, not numbers of quests completed.
I was mailed all the new mats.

This Week in WoW
Pet Battle Event
Call of the Scarab - Jan 21-23

Patch 7.3.5
Patch notes: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365423
Undocumented patch notes

Known issues:
Mobile/web AH disabled
Dungeon boss HP levels reversed Normal vs. Heroic
Raid boss difficulty - difficulty turned up for Warlords/Pandaria raids to put in line with leveling characters but overtuned them
Pet names disappearing
New backpack slots not showing up right away for new authenticators
Last wing of Argus LFR was bugged - if you wipe you can’t get back in
Redridge quest Saving Foreman Oslow not working

Patch 7.3.5: Leveling
The leveling experience: uneven reviews
Journey vs destination
Ren’s personal experiences doing N&A and feedback from the N&A participants
Professions: 1-60 profession progression still klunky
Still have old gathers (copper ore, thorium ore, peacebloom, goldthorn) tied to former zones
Level gains from herb/ore gathers still about the same as it was - about 1.7% of total level XP per gather for lower level gathers (reduces over time - was down slightly below 1% at level 63)
Leather/cloth gathers still tied to former zones (eg. leather experiment in Azeroth, cloth in BC/WOTLK)
Mobs and equipment scale to the toon, but profession drops still scale to the zone
Pro: You can still do predictable lower level farming
Con: Leveling might be a freedom of choice experience, but leveling professions is not -- still tied to old zone definitions
Solution: Flatten mats to three tiers -- levels 1-20, 20-40 and 40-60.
Enchanting squish did not go far enough, may have skipped guild banks entirely

Naked & Afraid 2018
Ren is level 19 in N&A - not highest toon but has the most gold (Maxx, gnome outlaw rogue, is level 30 with 9 hours /played)
Started Wednesday, 1/17 - join in anytime
3 official servers but you don’t have to join
Lots of minor rule clarifications, one major change
Almost 30 official participants so far
Shout out to MythGamingMN for streaming his N&A.

Mod of the Cast: Pawn
Mod of the Cast (Mike): All The Things

Episode 273, "Role playing is exhausting"

4 januari 2018 | 71 min

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Ren
Going for the drake achievement -- sort of
Got 3 fel eggs this week: 1 Felglow Mana Ray mount, 1 Fel-Afflicted Skyfin pet, and
Now “the Exalted” … “the Beloved” next??
Slowly getting everyone completed with the Argus campaign
New toon: male blood elf protection paladin (going to go brewmaster monk for N&A) - almost level 40
Discussion: What makes you keep an alt? (@Cattarina and the “nursery of alts”)

Mike
More Ulduar achievements
Still can’t do XT. Tried on alts. Just bad luck.
Going to finish up Argus because I’ve neglected it too long.

This Week in WoW
Third wing of Antorus is open
Battleground bonus event
Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday
Did we all watch Jeff Kaplan by the fire?

News
Legion Attunement Tracker on Wowhead now tracks Allied race unlock requirements
Nightborne unlocks with completing Suramar (Good Suramaritan)
Highmountain unlocks with completing High mountain (Aint No Mountain High Enough)
Void Elf and Lightforged Draenei open with completing the Argus campaign (You Are Now Prepared!)
Attunement tool at http://www.wowhead.com/attunement
New hunter pets on PTR for 7.3.5 - including ones obviously meant to be starter pets for new allied races
Nightborne: Manasaber
Highmountain Tauren: Great Eagle
Void Elf: Voidstalker
Lightforged Draenei: Lightforged Talbuk
Other hunter pets include beasts clearly from Argus, such as umbralfins, dustcloaks, and chitinbuks, and ones clearly associated with Silithus like silithids, flying hornets, scorpids, and spiders
Allied race racials: more complete data. (Speculate on best classes?)
Nightborne: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior
+15 to inscription=, increased magical damage by 1, access maili for 1.5 minutes (cooldown 10 minutes), A Force Shield that deals arcane damage and snares them by 50%, lasts 20 seconds (no info on cooldown), 1% magic resistance
Highmountain Tauren: Druid, Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior
charge that knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds (2 minute cooldown), +15 to mining and faster mining, +1% to versatility, overall damage reduction by 330 (scale?) and increased chance to loot additional meat and fish.
Void Elf: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior
1% reduction of shadow and arcane damage, “your abilities have a chance to empower you with the essence of the void” (?), reduces void storage and transmog costs by 50%, spell casts not delayed by taking damage, and a built-in rift teleportation similar to warlock gating (2 minute cooldown).
Lightforged Draenei: Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Warrior
20% extra xp for killing demons, +10 to blacksmithing plus summoning a Forge of Light on demand, reduce holy damage by 1%, call down a strike of holy energy damaging enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec, and “erupt with light upon death, dealing holy damage to enemies and healing allies).
Speculation: Allied races are not going to be introduced in 7.3.5, but there are plenty of files being pushed to the servers about four of the six races, which gives Bliz the option of releasing them before the expansion. Thoughts?

Original dry run of Leeeeroy Jenkins video
https://youtu.be/8hmgrHohDGM

From the Discord:
How to do less damage for raid achievements, without having to de-equip items or gear:
From @OPH on Discord: brought up there was a toy or shirt that used to exist that would reduce damage output by 90%. This is true. Whole Body Shrinka toy, which shrinks you down to a tiny size and does reduce your damage output to about 10% -- lasts for 3 minutes but has a 30 minute cooldown.
Soft Foam Sword also allows you to "mortally wound" a trivial enemy, but it isn't usable in dungeons or raids.
What else could be done? Came up with a cheap engineering solution even non-engineers can use.
Further discussion on queuing a Broken Shore class hall mission for Broken Shore Campaign -
@settlersrule said he was forced to take a 3 day elite mission because that was all that was available. Tips on how to manage this situation.
From Twitter: Going back to my report that the Murky world quest dismounts you when you fly over it, apparently it’s not just Murky, but any quest where you morph. @Frenzol informed me the wisp quest in Val’sharah does the same thing.

Episode 272, "Bacon!"

28 december 2017 | 63 min

Episode 271, "Antorus Slurpees"

22 december 2017 | 54 min

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Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Special Guest Cara (@xanadara) joins us!

Mike:
Achievements continue
More from Ulduar
Still having problems with XT
May be my fault - timing of the bots/heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8JuIoOY30
Got “Maybe He’ll Get Dizzy”
Got my mount
Are we at that point in the game where we finally take our time and slack off a bit?
Cara: Warcraft news lately is all about the future: patch 7.3.5 datamining, Battle for Azeroth speculation… focus on the here and now? Lean in to your community for keeping the game fresh while waiting for new content

*Cara news*
Campfire Chronicles
@CampfireChronic on Twitter and [email protected]
RCC at 7/11 Normal Antorus

SALE! ~ 50% off most pets, mounts, and transmog helms
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/11944163

Seasonal Event! ~ Winter Veil is up til January 2nd
HazelNuttyGames’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wpk9FKQrSc
Globe Yeti wild battle pet spawns in the snow globes! Ironforge and Org, not Dalaran - one spawns every 30min
http://www.wowhead.com/news=278497/feast-of-winter-veil-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide
https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/7266-Feast-of-Winter-Veil-Live-Lightsabers-Return-WoW-Alpha-Update-WoW-History
Elixir of the Rapid Mind no longer drops from Savage Gift
Don't forget to do the followup to You're a Mean One..., as it rewards Smokywood Pastures Special Gift, which has a small chance to contain Winter's Grasp or Flames of Ragnaros. *weapon enchantment illusions for transmog*
New Winter's Veil music was added in Patch 7.1
Farm the mount from Hillsbrad Foothills with characters level 60+
Use the teleporter to Dalaran Crater in new Dalaran to get there quickly

From Discord: Ali - The year is winding down. Maybe talk about favorite moments of the year? Or favorite part of/memories of Winter Veil?

Raaaaaidinnnnng! ~ Antorus LFR Wing 2 opened this week. This includes the bosses Portal Keeper Hasabel, Eonar the Life-Binder, and Imonar the Soulhunter. Wing 3 opens January 2nd.

Overwatch winter wonderland loot boxes up until Jan. 2

Episode 270, "That's it?"

14 december 2017 | 65 min

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Ren:
Life Invasion continuation - won’t be here next week
Yes, I was making a mountain out of a molehill, or YES DAMNIT I CAN FLY NOW
How the raid really works for getting Good Suramaritan
The overwhelmed WoW person’s quick and dirty guide to getting flying
Stupid flight bugs -- Murky, stop dismounting me!!
Working on getting my neglected toons un-neglected
Pro tip: If you’re two manning dungeons in WoW, pay attention to dungeon difficulty setting

Mike:
Yes, you can even screw up 25-man achievements.
Add-ons
Still no new mounts.

This Week in WoW:
Method has finished mythic Argus
320 pulls
Winter Veil starts this week (Dec 16-Jan 2)
New stuff
Hearthstation toy - sets out an “improved” Hearthstone table to play. No confirmation where this is from but possibly from Gently Shaken Gift
Winter Veil Gift is a Toy Weapon Set, which lets you spar with other players. Gives achievement Don’t Play Wi th That In The House
New pet: Globe Yeti. Probably wild, no data on where it is yet
And all the usual stuff -- garrison decorations, presents, the Greench dailies
Cara has a new podcast w/ Plaggy Boy called “Campfire Chronicles” - stories about WoW

News:
https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/12/get-vicious-war-fox-patch-7-3-5/
PTR
Trial of Style Season 2 is up.
If you buy the trial, the game banks up your XP post-cap and then gives it to you when you buy it.
NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS. What about all the stuff I have in my bank?
Several reagents no longer exist: Greater Astral Essence, Lesser Astral Essence, Greater Mystic Essence, Lesser Mystic Essence, Greater Nether Essence, Lesser Nether Essence, Nexus Crystal, Large Glimmering Shard, Small Glimmering Shard, Soul Dust, Vision Dust, Small Glowing Shard, Large Glowing Shard, Dream Dust, Small Radiant Shard, Large Radiant Shard
Illusion Dust is now Light Illusion Dust
Newbie zones are now 1-20.
Ren’s on the PTR on Renatta (two Ts) on Benedictus. I have a channel “worldofwarcast” if folks on Benedictus want to chat while online.
Discussion (@thecowking): What should you farm or bank to prepare for the upcoming expansion?
Discussions in Discord:
The Profession Manifesto for Battle for Azeroth - We want professions that aren’t gated. Also, spend more time focusing on usefulness than story
Cattarina’s idea of having a Discord channel for weekly achievements.

Episode 269, "Studly"

7 december 2017 | 61 min

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Ren:
McAdoo fired (and so was Jerry Reese) … Geno Smith didn’t win the day and Eli is back
Life invasions, but managed to do some gaming
Mod of the Cast: MaxDPS (for remembering how to play forgotten toons)

Mike:
More achievement hunting.
XT seems to be problematic.
Staying buffed all winter may be buggy
Forgot to do Algalon
Next week - all 25-man
Still need that 5-man Scholo one.
I started working on addons. Finally.

This Week in WoW
Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday
PvP week next week - Arena Skirmish and PvP brawl weekly events
Feast of Winter Veil starts on the 16th
Kobolds and Catacombs has an epic trailer. I still won’t play it.
https://youtu.be/Q0blneW2fTo

News
Shaman Challenge: No new finishers, but Rokica and Settlersrule both reached 100
From last week: Artifact Knowledge 55 cap reached
7.3.5 hit the PTR
Zone levels: While the continent zones all have the same upper limit, the lower limit varies, more or less matching the lowest level needed to enter the zones today (so no going from 10-60 in Silithus)
In the 1-60 Azeroth zones, once you hit 40 you can go anywhere
https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/06/level-scaling-testers-wanted-wow-7-3-5-ptr/
How will this affect storylines? You can’t jump from Redridge to Burning Steppes, can you?
Racial embassies
Horde embassy in Org, Alliance in SW
Seems to be where you will recruit unlocked races in the expansion
Racial abilities and racial mounts datamined by Wowhead, https://www.wowhead.com/news=277415/7-3-5-ptr-allied-races-mounts-and-racial-abilities
Dalaran Mailroom quest and minigame - pick up “Lost Mail” near a Dalaran mailbox to start (not sure about respawn time or frequency)
Rewards: the Mailemental pet
A toy to summon Katy Stampwhistle, a mail assistant who will “deliver and retrieve mail until she is called elsewhere”
Discussions from Discord: How to level fishing as fast as possible
Margoss + Ancient Vrykul Ring/Rusty Queenfish Brooch = Fast Leveling
How many vanilla players does it take to change a lightbulb?

Episode 268, "Was Moon Guard kinky back then?"

30 november 2017 | 71 min

Episode 267, "Happily transmuting"

17 november 2017 | 58 min

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Our talk about WoW Classic.

This week:

Ren -
Shaman now level 108
Now declaring new main: troll feral cat druid
Going to finish Suramar and get flying -- I swear it will be done
Jewelcrafting mounts

Mike -
Mount farming and a lot of toon cleanup.
Achievement farming w/Ali. I still one-shot things.

This week in WoW
WoW Anniversary - until November 30th
Mail goodies:
Celebration Package: 13% XP and rep bonus - 10 second cooldown, multiple uses throughout the next 2 weeks
Stupid tabard though
200 timewarped badges
A letter that starts Interesting Times, first quest to visit a historian in Stormwind or Orgrimmar
Daily quests:
Time to Reflect - 25 timewarped badges for answering a lore question
The Originals - 50 timewarped badges slay Lord Kazzak, Azuregos, and Dragon of Nightmare
Respawn timer 5 minutes
Lord Kazaak - Blasted Lands, north of the Tainted Forest
Azuregos - Azshara, southeast of the Secret Lab
Dragons of Nightmare - can be in Duskwood, Ashenvale, Hinterlands and Feralas
Druids: Dreamwalk can take you to some locations for Dragons of Nightmare (different Emerald Portals)
New badge loot
Bronze-Tinted Sunglasses - cosmetic transmog for 200 TW badges
Two celebration wands for 25 TW badges (5 charges) - Quillboar and Trogg
Tranquil Mechanical Yeti Costume (3 charges) - 50 timewarped badges
Can save TW badges for a variety of toys, mounts, and pets
Pilgrim’s Bounty - November 20 - 27
Do daily quests and earn achievements to earn pets, transmogs, and
Want to get Fine Pilgrim’s Hat, which adds the Pilgrim’s Hat transmog to all armor types - can be found in the daily quest reward Pilgrim’s Bounty
Good for leveling low level cooking & collecting new cooking recipes

The last (for now) thoughts on classic servers.

Battle For Azeroth Q&A
Heart of Azeroth will replace tier bonuses
The incentive will be Heart of Azeroth upgrades and other items.
7.3.5 - Antorus Epilogue quest content, Ulduar Timewalking, preview of Silithus BG, scaling world content.
Rep standing might affect allied race unlocking.
Yes, you can race change to an allied race
Troll posture will be covered in Zandalari allied race
Not as many legendaries in BfA
No plans for 10-man Mythic
Blizz thinks this is an “exciting time” for World PvP. I disagree. Once that hordie hovers over you for the third time, you just tick your flag off.

Episode 266, "I've gathered and I can't get up"

9 november 2017 | 79 min

Episode 265, "New horde profession-back surgeon"

6 november 2017 | 74 min

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Our talk about WoW Classic will be on Thursday's episode.

Incoming for 7.3.5 - (no release date; not even up on PTR yet)
Timewalking Ulduar, new battleground
Event in Silithus to herald in the start of expansion
Leveling Improvements (yay!!!!!)
All content previous to Warlords will SCALE TO LEVEL - within ranges
Classic starting zones: 1-10
All old world vanilla zones: 10-60
Burning Crusade and Wrath zones: 60-80
Cataclysm and Pandaria zones: 80-90
What this means: You can actually complete zones without leveling out of them and feeling forced to move on and you can choose where you level up
Dungeons will also scale accordingly - so will loot drops (yes, run Wailing Caverns at 60 and you’ll get level 60 mobs and level 60 gear)

Incoming also - no release date
Accounts with an authenticator attached will get a “small increase” to the size of their standard 16 slot backpack - may be connected to WoW’s upcoming 13th anniversary event (Nov 16-30)

Expansion: Battle for Azeroth (not Tides of Vengeance) - also no release date
Basics:
Level to 120 (one instant boost to 110)
Return to faction based play areas
Bye-bye Teldrassil and Undercity (but not Silvermoon and Exodar) -- hello each faction controlling their own continent
Does the zone control mean no leveling zones for the opposite faction?
New island zones Zandalar and Kul Tiras with three areas for each
Horde: Zandalar - obviously troll focused
Alliance: Kul Tiras - naval power (which we’ve never seen because apparently they’re so good they can hide the most powerful navy in the world from everyone until now)
New subraces: the four we mentioned on the last show plus two more (Horde: Highland Tauren, Nightborne and Zandalari Troll. Alliance: Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves).
Will get 6 new character slots on each server
You have to open these subraces via quests -- once opened it’s accountwide
Subraces start at level 20. You can race-switch into them using Blizzard game services, but if you run one from 20 to 120 you get an achievement plus special heritage armor transmog
3-person Island Cooperative challenge gameplay
Changing mini scenarios on islands
Would like to have seen this scalable to other size groups - 3 is awkward
20-person raids called Warfronts to claim strategic locations
this is a PvE system, not PvP, “inspired by classic Warcraft RTS battles”
(Ren: Damn good thing or the Horde on Whisperwind is screwed)
Artifact amulet (Heart of Azeroth) instead of an artifact weapon - a system with a sort of mini-talent tree used to select and empower abilities - replacements for the Artifact, Artifact Power and Netherlight Crucible systems from Legion
Powered by Azerite, will automatically absorb Azerite when it’s nearby
Helm, chest, and shoulders will be empowered through Heart of Azeroth
Probably will need an entire episode just on this - but practical upshot is the artifact weapons are going away and this is the replacement
PVP/PVE server distinction is going away - now it will be selectable
Internal sharding allows PVP-flagged players to see/group with only one another, and PVE-unflagged players to see/group only with one another
All servers will run under same rules of engagement
Only place you can flag PVP is in capital cities - can’t flag PVP on the fly
No randomly flagged people running around
PvP gives added bonuses in addition to added risk
Item level decrease incoming
Not exactly the warlords “stat squish” where numbers were reduced across the board
Numbers from the Dungeon Journal in the demo at Blizzcon - 880 items were showing up as 215, 900 as 235, 1000 as 335
Basically trying to make numbers a bit more meaningful
Presumably mobs and such will be scaled as well -- functionally should not change, just how it’s displayed
New model changes incoming for several character races - Orcs and Trolls were demoed to choose between a hunched or upright character). Mostly focused on original races, plus blood elf and draenei. Goblins and Worgen will get makeovers later.

Beta Opt-In for Expansion
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/battle-for-azeroth - scroll to the bottom of the page if you want to get into the beta

Episode 264, "You have to take care of Pepe's bum"

26 oktober 2017 | 51 min

Episode 263, "You can run around as a horse's ass"

19 oktober 2017 | 52 min

Episode 262, "It's a bit mage-y"

12 oktober 2017 | 60 min

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Ren
Shaman challenge
Level 69 at 1d 6h - got through Outland, now in Northrend - 60-68 seemed very slow
A funny thing happened on the way to the Alliance: Restored a previously deleted 110 horde mage, took her to Alliance and weirdness happened

Mike
Shaman challenge
15 to 38 in one night.
Lots of dungeons and dungeon quests.
Could get 2-3 levels in a run
Rested XP was a waste because you blow right through it.
Problem - Maraudon puts you in the dungeon, but no quests for two more levels. So, either quest or repeat dungeons.
Problem with that is now you’re moving further and further away from Stormwind (Stranglethorn or Plaguelands)
Had to run to Wetlands between dungeon runs. Waste of time. Not sure what else to do.
Toy is 10k gold, and only gives faction flight points, not neutral.
BTW: I still love Maraudon

This Week in WoW
Pet Xp event - 200% not 300% as originally advertised
Hallow’s End starts Wednesday the 18th at 10:00 AM PST
Running of the Gnomes - Saturday October 14th, to benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine, a proposed vaccine against breast cancer that’s showing great promise
Run from Gnomer to Booty Bay - clear 34 gates
Starts at 7 PM EST, purchase a pink tabard in Ironforge
This started on Scarlet Crusade and there are raids on Scarlet Crusade
http://runningofthegnomes.tumblr.com/post/164609327832/gnome-run-2017-faqs

News
Blizzcon 2017
All virtual ticket rewards
Flying mounts in WoW - two seaters (we knew this)
Other games - Overwatch Winston skin, Starcraft III Junker SCV, Probe and Drone Skins; Heroes of the Storm Nexus Razorback mount, Diablo III Murkromancer Pet, and a “mystery goodie” for Hearthstone.
Blizzcon Merch
New plushes: Pirate Pepe Plush, Raptor Plushie, Elekk Plushie
Jaina Key Art Poster
Ugly Holiday Greench Sweater
Sylvanus Short Sleeved Hoodie
Sargeras Shirt
New pins and new patches for the goody bag - trying to encourage badge trading\

Shaman challenge
Proposed change to 2018 Naked & Afraid Challenge: any class, any spec (but choose once!) and on your honor to pick a class you’ve never successfully leveled to 110
Scryer/Aldor
Demon hunter speed runs
Shriekrunner - uses demon hunter’s mastery scaling at level 101 to get a minimum speed of 230% base speed - speed going up to 350-410%. Uses tricks, potions, and shortcuts - showed video of clearing old world dungeons in a total of 18 minutes, not counting travel time between dungeons (Gundrak clear took 13 seconds)
Posts build and tricks in a linked Reddit thread

Episode 261, "Gating vs. Waiting"

5 oktober 2017 | 54 min

Episode 260, "Stoned Charlie Brown"

28 september 2017 | 89 min

Episode 259, "Need more coffee"

21 september 2017 | 55 min

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Special guest Cara (@Xanadara) joins us!

Mike:
Finished Argus storyline
Completely forgot about the new dungeon, will have to do that tonight.
Yaaarrrr! Talk like a pirate day.
New item - insult book
If you’re wondering how to get Steamwheedle rep back - Silk cloth turn-ins
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/6994-Celebrate-Pirate-s-Day-September-19
Spent some time this week playing Fortnite

Cara:
OOPS I wiped my addons
map error caused by Mappy “Large gathering nodes” checkbox
lost my weakauras. mogit outfits. pet battle teams. adibags custom filters 😩
remember to save your Interface and WTF folders every so often
Raiding - the balance between casual and progression between beating normals and new raids coming out; hadn't had to do that yet in Legion but we did in Warlords
My team got 3 heroics down! Woot! Goroth, Demonic Inquisition, and Harjatan
Worked on Misstress Sass’zine for an hour, oy
I'm trying to enjoy the new stuff and not rush through it, but I find myself having to be in the right mindset to focus and get really sucked in... vs just playing with audio/video on 2nd monitor - I want to learn the lore and pay attention to details but my perfectionism is sneaking up and keeping me from doing it because if it's not perfect why bother
How's your digital declutter going with old bank mats?

News:
Mists of Pandaria timewalking is out
Brewfest is out - til October 6th
i880 gear from Coren Direbrew
Stout Alemental
Brewfest Keg Pony! (I still don’t have it….or the Headless Horseman)
And who doesn’t want a sausage hat?
2hr exp buff! Level your alts!
Holiday mogs
http://www.wowhead.com/news=272222/brewfest-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide
Hearthstone innkeeper’s tavern cookbook out Nov. 7
Massive spoilers in 7.3.2. Why isn’t it 7.3.5?
PTR Datamined ilevel 1000 legendary upgrade tokens
http://ptr.wowhead.com/item=154879/awoken-titan-essence
CHRISTIE GOLDEN IS WRITING A NEW WOW NOVEL OMG
“Book #54, a World of Warcraft novel, has been sent to the editor!”
https://twitter.com/christiegolden/status/910630264606302208
Junkertown is out in Overwatch, along with the changes to heroes.
Eric is excited to take out Pharah with Mercy
Volskaya on the Heroes PTR
Blizzcon Virtual Ticket videos before Blizzcon!

Episode 258, "Orcs look great in lederhosen"

14 september 2017 | 47 min

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Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Ren:
Back to Bagnon
Cheatin’ in archaeology (more on this later)

Mike:
Altoholic rewrite
H Throne of Thunder with Ali

This week in WoW
World Quest Bonus Event
Pick up The World Awaits for 5k bonus resources
Argus Week 3:
Finish Argus Campaign on Mac’Aree
Unlock Netherlight Crucible and Seat of the Triumverate
New Mac’Aree world quests
Archaeology quest - A Beacon of Hope
Starlight Beacon - draw a box around yourself and fly inside, even when you don’t have flying
Apparently you can use this with a Goblin Glider Kit or Rocfeather Skyhorn Kite to do Magic of Flight if you don’t have regular flying. May also be usable in Argus??
Another reason why rogue = cheat mode
Upcoming Holidays:
Tuesday 19th - 20th - Pirate’s Day
Corresponds with International Talk Like a Pirate Day
1 hour pirate disguise in faction cities
Mostly occurs in Booty Bay
Get a 12 hour pirate costume that persists through death and gives an achievement
Complete quest “You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat” for 5 Emergency Pirate Outfits
Purchase Petey for 10g from Dread Captain DeMeza, a 5-stack item that allows you to have a green woodpecker on your shoulder (I looked at it. THIS IS NOT A PARROT). You can have it sit on your shoulder AND have Pepe on your head at the same time
Kill Ol’Eary, a rare elite shark off Booty Bay, get a Slightly Chewed Insult Book toy.
Wednesday 20th - October 6th - Brewfest
Some new things as of last year: Brewfest Prize Token items Gravel Goldbraid’s Famous Sausage Hat toy and the Synthebrew Goggles XL head item

News:
Blizzcon virtual ticket
More coverage! That means the panels we never got to see
ALL stages will be covered through Blizzcon All Access Channel
Can watch on demand replays for more than a month afterward
Cool mounts!
Multi passenger faction flying mounts - Stormwind Skychaser and Orgrimmar Interceptor
$39.99 US. Opening ceremony and all esports streams will be free to all but no convention coverage
More items for other games will be coming
There will be videos posted between now and Nov. on the web site.
Goody bag
It’s a backpack (useless to me)
Velcro area for little patches - one for each Bliz game
Overwatch figurine
Shadow: New Charity Pet
Fennec fox - color changing
All proceeds are being split between American Red Cross DIsaster Relief and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Disaster Relief Fund to assist with relief efforts around the world

Episode 257, "Turtle Ring Toss Time"

7 september 2017 | 44 min

Episode 256, "Not compatible with cats"

31 augusti 2017 | 57 min

Ren:
Started on Argus campaign with rogue (as predicted)
Still playing Diablo 3 but having some repetitive motion injury issues with right hand
Ditched Bagnon for ArkInventory
Pleased with TV appearance on THE DEAD FILES - and cancelled Sling (HDTV antenna works great - between that and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, Giants season is saved!)
Caught 3rd eagle this week

Mike:
Argus! Wait, it’s only one chapter?
Can’t do the dungeon yet
What’s this cloth?
Spoilers!
Chests everywhere
Couldn’t get enough items for the i880 gear (not that I need it)
Mobs aren’t that hard to kill.
What’s with the eye quest?
20% more damage in/out?
Some guy’s been buying my stuff on the AH and not making a profit
Uldaman
Tomb of Sargeras w/Ali

This Week in Wow
One word: Argus
Next week: Mac’Aree zone opens, unlock Invasion Points, and a questline to open Greater Invasion Points that can drop 930 gear.
For those who aren’t into Argus, it’s Cataclysm Timewalking.
The Archaeology reward for next 2 weeks is a toy called the Crystalline Eye of Undravius, which lets you look around and see invisible NPCs as demons or changes existing NPCs into demons for 15 seconds (apparently Khadgar is a succubus). If you’re a toy collector or are after your 8 archaeology quests for a new artifact tint, go for it. Collecting 300 toys will get you a mount, the Mechanized Lumber Extractor.

7.3 News
Nightfallen reputation requirements removed from several Suramar quests, making it possible to complete the Suramar campaign without reputation gates.
Undocumented changes
Artifact catch-up for alts:
Artifact Knowledge now starts at 41 regardless of book
Removes Class Hall Campaign for third relic slot
Removes Broken Shore campaign to unlock Empowered Traits
Higher drop rate for artifact appearances, and you can get them for artifacts you own that you aren’t currently using (off spec)
I880 Relinquished Gear no longer available to purchase with Nethershards.
Completing opening Broken Shore scenario on one character is required to unlock Argus
Reduced requirements for Breaching the Tomb - example, you only need 50 Mark of Sentinax instead of 100
Timewalking dungeon loot starts at 880, and Black Temple timewalking loot starts at 930.
Lots of Tomb of Sargeras changes - mostly nerfs
Nomi Work Orders can now yield Broken Islands Recipe Scrap (drop rate lower than Nomi Snacks). 10 scraps = one undiscovered recipe
Fishing Round the Isles achievement now requires 20 world fishing quests, not all of them
Levitating players can now jump
Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning updated animations were not implemented. Apparently they got bad reviews on the PTR.
Two new class hall follower catch-up items added to Warmage Kathleen at Deliverance Point: Grimoire of Lost Knowledge (adds 6000 XP to follower for 2500 nethershards) and Relinquished Armor Set (sets champion iLevel to 880 for 400 nethershards)
New missions for followers may be related to a new side quest, available to players after completing the An Offering of Light main quest series. These side quests unlock a new type of troop or missions that offer new follower equipment

Helpful toy: Sightless Eye (not to be confused with the Sightless Eye currency) - makes you much less detectable to mobs on Argus or Broken Shore for 10 minutes, with a 5 minute cooldown. Any damage, including falling damage, breaks this. (Or just make a rogue)

Diablification #1: Antaen Light-Bringer in the first part of Argus -- after the first few quests, you join Kil’jaeden and Prophet Velen to destroy a siege weapon that looks like a large green portal of some type
Spoiler: it pops up and it’s a big mob
Ren: Recognized this IMMEDIATELY because it looks almost exactly like a mob called the Realmwalker in the Battlefields of Eternity level in Act IV of D3, who is a giant mob who hides in the ground with a big portal eye on his head. Knew what was going to happen

Episode 255, "Banned From Argo"

24 augusti 2017 | 60 min

Episode 254, "The race is on"

17 augusti 2017 | 51 min

Ren:
Still feel like I’m waiting around for 7.3 - marking time
Love the lighting effects in Dalaran
Update on The Dead Files
RL achievement: Banded first bald eagle of the year, posted picture on Twitter.

Mike:
Yes, there’s a level 1 mount
SPriest is terrible at leveling, not bad in dungeons (but could be better)
Leveled up my DH and *love it*
Trial of Style!

This week:
Legion Dungeon event
Spirit of Ech’ero mount for weekly archaeology
Trial of Style mini-event starts today and goes til Tuesday
5 players given 2 minutes to create a transmog based on a theme - some PTR themes have included Summer Styles, Winter Wear, Mismatched Mayhem, Fun and Flirty, Tabard Time, Faction Pride, Epic Purple, and of course, the ever popular Freestyle
You can’t see what your competitors are doing as they appear to be wearing smocks to cover their transmogs until the unveiling
Contestants are pulled onto a stage where people can vote on two at a time - strike a pose such as /wave, /cheer, or /dance
After several rounds of voting, prizes are awarded, 1st through 3rd and Consolation. Contains Trial of Style tokens that can be traded for transmog gear in Dalaran
Some complaints on forums of people getting kicked from scenario groups and getting a 30 minute deserter debuff
http://www.wowhead.com/news=269877/trial-of-style-transmog-holiday-august-17th-22nd

News:
7.3 - details will be announced at Gamescon via the Blizzard Reveal Ceremony on Wed 23rd
Also at Gamescon - WoW European Championship Finals, and two top Euro guilds (Nova and Set Sail for Fail) will race each other in a live mythic showdown

Whispers of a Frightened World scenario live as of Tuesday http://www.wowhead.com/news=268553/whispers-of-a-frightened-world-scenario-now-live
Without spoilers: get a quest to go to Sholazar Basin and meet with Magni, to enter the Hall of Communion at Maker’s Overlook. Starts a scenario.
Getting high reviews from people who have completed it
New combat and casting animations shown
Resto Druid
Blood Elf Female Ranged Attack
All Mage Specs
Holy Priest
Shadow Priest
Elemental Shaman
Item level changes in 7.3
Dungeon item level drops will be each going up one rung. Normal will move from 825 to 845; heroic from 845 to 865; mythic from 865 to 885.
The Name Change that Didn’t
Blizzard announced almost a year ago it was going to shift from “Battle.net” to “Blizzard” for its online services
Branding change fail: they decided they will become “Blizzard Battle.net”
Activision Blizzard Investor call - 2nd Q 2017 (April through June)
Blizzard reported: All time record monthly active users, up 38% from last year
All time record daily active users and Q2 record time spent
Legion continues to outperform Warlords
Overwatch monthly active users have increased each quarter since launch, rose to a new all time high in Q2
Net revenues of over $3.3 billion (just Blizzard)
Blizaard outperforming the other divisions (Activision and King). Activision has titles such as Call of Duty, Destiny and SKylanders, and King brings you Candy Crush, Pet Rescue, Farm Heroes and Bubble Witch

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Episode 253, "It's all about the burritos"

10 augusti 2017 | 50 min

Episode 252, "Rainbringer"

3 augusti 2017 | 51 min

Episode 251, "Stop draggin' my Ashbringer around"

27 juli 2017 | 52 min

Episode 250, "Wrestle with Thyst, prepare for the fist"

20 juli 2017 | 72 min

Episode 249, "Rainstorm Renata"

13 juli 2017 | 55 min

Episode 248, "I found pants!"

6 juli 2017 | 58 min

Episode 247, "That's a wanker"

29 juni 2017 | 61 min

Episode 246, "900 or higher"

22 juni 2017 | 56 min

Episode 245, "My mount is an accessory"

15 juni 2017 | 59 min

Episode 244, "Khadgar's Drag Race"

8 juni 2017 | 49 min

Episode 243, "I killed a door"

1 juni 2017 | 54 min

Episode 242, "It's like a Darkmoon Rave"

25 maj 2017 | 55 min

Episode 241, "Murderess of Headsets"

11 maj 2017 | 67 min

Episode 240, "My pants still won't drop in Sunwell"

4 maj 2017 | 59 min

Episode 239, "Andiun is now a Manduin"

27 april 2017 | 57 min

Episode 238, "We are the priests of the Temple of Elune"

20 april 2017 | 64 min

Episode 237, "Miiind wooorm!"

13 april 2017 | 45 min

Episode 236, "Small digital world"

6 april 2017 | 62 min

Episode 235, "Khadgar is a sidler"

30 mars 2017 | 66 min

Episode 234, "Fishing raids?"

16 mars 2017 | 64 min

Episode 233, "I got a mount guy"

2 mars 2017 | 67 min

Episode 232, "Your herbs are probably dried out"

23 februari 2017 | 63 min

Episode 231, "Mind the gap"

16 februari 2017 | 72 min

Episode 230, "But is it fun?"

9 februari 2017 | 61 min

Episode 229, "Remember when..."

2 februari 2017 | 56 min

Episode 228, "Tab targeting troubles"

26 januari 2017 | 50 min

Episode 227, "Say that ten times fast"

18 januari 2017 | 52 min

Episode 226, "And you get a legendary!"

12 januari 2017 | 60 min

Episode 225, "Let's hang in Goldshire...on Moon Guard"

5 januari 2017 | 60 min

Episode 224, "I really miss Ice Lance"

15 december 2016 | 49 min

Episode 223, "I call her spider-bird lady"

30 november 2016 | 57 min

Episode 222, "Tourist class"

10 november 2016 | 56 min

Episode 221, "I can get these balls off my head"

3 november 2016 | 46 min

Episode 220, "Pokemom"

19 oktober 2016 | 46 min

Episode 219, "Keep the crits rollin'"

12 oktober 2016 | 61 min

Episode 218, "Netflix and fish"

5 oktober 2016 | 57 min

Episode 217, "Mythic schoolyard pick"

28 september 2016 | 61 min

Episode 216, "Is this 2007?"

22 september 2016 | 60 min

Episode 215, "We're all crack dealers now"

14 september 2016 | 72 min

Episode 214, "I brake for battle pets"

6 september 2016 | 63 min

Episode 213, "Not a sponsor"

29 augusti 2016 | 59 min

Episode 212, "See ya 'round"

4 juli 2015 | 42 min

Episode 211, "Step on a butterfly"

26 juni 2015 | 67 min

Episode 210, "Hail, Warchief Raynor"

15 maj 2015 | 55 min

Episode 209, "Too many exclamation points!"

17 april 2015 | 38 min

Episode 208, "Soup, salad, and breadsticks"

27 mars 2015 | 48 min

Episode 207, "Team blue and black"

27 februari 2015 | 41 min

Episode 206, "Buzzword bingo"

6 februari 2015 | 35 min

Episode 205, "Mythic holographic trade chat"

23 januari 2015 | 46 min

Episode 204, "Coreception!"

9 januari 2015 | 50 min

Episode 203, "How much Thunderfury does your server have?"

20 december 2014 | 55 min

Episode 202, "Unseriously serious"

12 december 2014 | 55 min

Episode 201, "Turkey sushi"

5 december 2014 | 71 min

Episode 200, "Time for your space bar break"

18 november 2014 | 78 min

Episode 199, "6.0 knockin' on your back door"

17 oktober 2014 | 81 min

Episode 198, "How much is your chopper?"

19 september 2014 | 41 min

Episode 197, "The 20-year expansion comes with Ben-Gay"

29 augusti 2014 | 38 min

Episode 196, "I've never been so happy to see orcs"

14 augusti 2014 | 34 min

Episode 195, "Starstone"

8 augusti 2014 | 45 min

Episode 194, "This Dark Portal goes to 11"

11 juli 2014 | 54 min

Episode 193, "Spell of passive aggressiveness"

20 juni 2014 | 41 min

Episode 192, "Exploring the Warlords Alpha"

6 juni 2014 | 46 min

Episode 191, "What are littel Dranei made of?"

23 maj 2014 | 36 min

Episode 190, "Life in PvP"

16 maj 2014 | 60 min

Episode 189, "Downing the Eventbrite boss"

10 maj 2014 | 54 min

Episode 188, "Ludicrous difficulty-We've gone to plaid!"

2 maj 2014 | 45 min

Episode 187, "Storage Wars: Azeroth"

18 april 2014 | 32 min

Episode 186, "Space Goat Simulator"

11 april 2014 | 60 min

Episode 185, "Stop comparing it to Warcraft"

4 april 2014 | 45 min

Episode 184, "Goblins have to drop bombs"

21 mars 2014 | 41 min

Episode 183, "Be a Responsible Booster"

14 mars 2014 | 50 min

Episode 182, "Tweet Twacker"

7 mars 2014 | 47 min

Episode 181, "Long time listener, first time huntard"

28 februari 2014 | 47 min

Episode 180, "Swirling Mist Soup for the Soul"

21 februari 2014 | 44 min

Episode 179, "Grinding for Godot"

15 februari 2014 | 59 min

Episode 178, "Physiology is to be savored"

7 februari 2014 | 52 min

Episode 177, "Do you even click, bro?"

31 januari 2014 | 49 min

Episode 176, "Karaclysm"

24 januari 2014 | 60 min

Episode 175, "Common college"

17 januari 2014 | 54 min

Episode 174, "We are the 1%"

10 januari 2014 | 54 min

Episode 173, "This is my exotic leather guild"

3 januari 2014 | 55 min

Episode 172, "Catching up with Ren"

30 december 2013 | 68 min

Episode 171, "Deck the halls with Thunderfury"

20 december 2013 | 60 min

Episode 170, "Two druids, one lock"

13 december 2013 | 42 min

Episode 169, "Like a stoned Spongebob"

6 december 2013 | 53 min

Episode 168, "Everybody loves Nagrand"

22 november 2013 | 57 min

Episode 167, "You can go outside"

15 november 2013 | 90 min

Episode 166, "Nobody's like Ozzy"

31 oktober 2013 | 51 min

Episode 165, "The Hordiness"

25 oktober 2013 | 53 min

Episode 164, "Gotta keep ‘em separated"

18 oktober 2013 | 56 min

Episode 163, "Guild togas"

11 oktober 2013 | 47 min

Episode 162, "What can a level 1 do with 10,000 gold?"

4 oktober 2013 | 54 min

Episode 161, "Virtual World Problems"

26 september 2013 | 42 min

Episode 160, "Grand Theft Azeroth"

20 september 2013 | 46 min

Episode 159, "We need more adjectives"

13 september 2013 | 44 min

Episode 158, "Money buys you happy things"

6 september 2013 | 51 min

Episode 157, "Did someone say Thunderchicken?"

30 augusti 2013 | 61 min

Episode 156, "Cool guys walk away from explosions"

17 augusti 2013 | 44 min

Episode 155, "Chen Stormstout should read cereal boxes"

9 augusti 2013 | 48 min

Episode 154, "What's up with all these stuns?"

26 juli 2013 | 49 min

Episode 153, "ROFLMAO"

19 juli 2013 | 62 min

Episode 152, "The diaper level"

12 juli 2013 | 61 min

Episode 151, "I got this"

28 juni 2013 | 44 min

Episode 150, "Full potato"

21 juni 2013 | 71 min

Episode 149, "Won the wisk"

14 juni 2013 | 40 min

Episode 148, "I've been in this theater for 37 days"

7 juni 2013 | 56 min

Episode 147, "And a Bloodwing ain’t one"

31 maj 2013 | 59 min

Episode 146, "Azeroth gang signs"

24 maj 2013 | 69 min

Episode 145, "I've never farmed while doing a show"

17 maj 2013 | 83 min

Episode 144, "The Ultimate Furry"

10 maj 2013 | 55 min

Episode 143, "The Temple of the Revolving Noob"

3 maj 2013 | 47 min

Episode 142, "I don't die in this game"

26 april 2013 | 58 min

Episode 141, "I would like to know how this story ends"

19 april 2013 | 57 min

Episode 140, "I got 20 silver in my pocket"

12 april 2013 | 52 min

Episode 139, "Chromie will be the final boss"

5 april 2013 | 42 min

Episode 138, "Like a monkey doing a math problem"

29 mars 2013 | 64 min

Episode 137, "Occupy Lower City"

22 mars 2013 | 65 min

Episode 136, "Dress like Garrosh, get a buff"

15 mars 2013 | 66 min

Episode 135, "No Excuses"

8 mars 2013 | 69 min

Episode 134, "How to succeed in battlegrounds without really trying"

1 mars 2013 | 83 min

Episode 133, "Mount me! Let's go!"

22 februari 2013 | 45 min

Episode 132, "Crap! I'm a Death Knight!"

15 februari 2013 | 60 min

Episode 131, "New Horde profession-chiropractor"

7 februari 2013 | 48 min

Episode 130, "Marmot Merlot"

1 februari 2013 | 58 min

Episode 129, "A Boy and His Boss"

26 januari 2013 | 51 min

Episode 128, Dec. 2, 2012

3 december 2012 | 69 min

Episode 127, Nov. 13, 2012

13 november 2012 | 67 min

Episode 126, Oct. 1, 2012

1 oktober 2012 | 58 min

Episode 125, Aug. 19, 2012

20 augusti 2012 | 60 min

Episode 124, Aug. 5, 2012

6 augusti 2012 | 65 min

Episode 123, Jun. 23, 2012

23 juni 2012 | 75 min

Episode 122, Mar. 11, 2012

11 mars 2012 | 46 min

Episode 121, Dec. 7, 2011

7 december 2011 | 99 min

Episode 120, Oct. 22, 2011

22 oktober 2011 | 73 min

Episode 119, Sept. 30, 2011

1 oktober 2011 | 72 min

Firelands Minicast, July 6, 2011

7 juli 2011 | 35 min

Episode 118, June 25, 2011

26 juni 2011 | 79 min

Episode 117, June 8, 2011

9 juni 2011 | 50 min

Episode 116, May 30, 2011

30 maj 2011 | 70 min

Episode 115, May 6, 2011

6 maj 2011 | 68 min

Episode 114, Apr. 7, 2011

7 april 2011 | 71 min

Episode 113, Feb. 10, 2011

11 februari 2011 | 69 min

Episode 112, Jan. 10, 2011

11 januari 2011 | 78 min

Episode 111, Dec. 13, 2010

14 december 2010 | 82 min

Episode 110, Nov. 14, 2010

15 november 2010 | 62 min

Episode 109, Oct. 20, 2010

20 oktober 2010 | 87 min

Episode 108, Sept. 15, 2010

16 september 2010 | 67 min

Episode 107, Aug 21, 2010

22 augusti 2010 | 125 min

Episode 106, Aug 11, 2010

12 augusti 2010 | 66 min

Episode 105, July 31, 2010

31 juli 2010 | 64 min

Episode 104, July 12, 2010

12 juli 2010 | 67 min

Episode 103, June 29, 2010

29 juni 2010 | 72 min

Episode 102, June 7, 2010

8 juni 2010 | 50 min

Episode 101, April 24, 2010

24 april 2010 | 71 min

Episode 100, April 11, 2010

11 april 2010 | 66 min

Episode 99, March 30, 2010

30 mars 2010 | 62 min

Episode 98, Feb 14, 2010

15 februari 2010 | 126 min

Episode 97, Jan 18, 2010

19 januari 2010 | 74 min

Episode 96, Jan 3, 2010

4 januari 2010 | 63 min

Episode 95, Dec. 1, 2009

2 december 2009 | 93 min

Episode 94, Nov. 19, 2009

11 november 2009 | 60 min

Episode 93, Nov. 2, 2009

3 november 2009 | 44 min

Hallow's End 2009 Minicast, Oct. 19, 2009

20 oktober 2009 | 27 min

Episode 92, Sep. 21, 2009

22 september 2009 | 52 min

Brewfest Minicast, Sep. 20, 2009

20 september 2009 | 35 min

Episode 91, Aug 31, 2009

1 september 2009 | 46 min

Episode 90, Aug 22, 2009

23 augusti 2009 | 45 min

Episode 89, Aug 21, 2009

22 augusti 2009 | 66 min

Episode 88, Aug 18, 2009

18 augusti 2009 | 69 min

Episode 87, Aug 1, 2009

2 augusti 2009 | 75 min

Episode 86, July 14, 2009

15 juli 2009 | 84 min

Episode 85, July 3, 2009

3 juli 2009 | 89 min

Episode 84, June 23, 2009

24 juni 2009 | 84 min

Midsummer Festival Mincast, June 21, 2009

21 juni 2009 | 25 min

Episode 83, June 10, 2009

11 juni 2009 | 75 min

Episode 82, May 10, 2009

10 maj 2009 | 65 min

Children's Week Minicast, Apr. 26, 2009

2 maj 2009 | 22 min

Noblegarden Minicast, Apr. 26, 2009

26 april 2009 | 26 min

Episode 81, Apr. 25, 2009

25 april 2009 | 106 min

Episode 80, Apr. 6, 2009

6 april 2009 | 133 min

Episode 79, Mar. 11, 2009

12 mars 2009 | 153 min

Episode 78, Feb. 25, 2009

26 februari 2009 | 103 min

Love is in the Air Minicast, Feb. 11, 2009

11 februari 2009 | 39 min

Episode 77, Feb. 8, 2009

9 februari 2009 | 76 min

Episode 76, Jan. 26, 2009

27 januari 2009 | 72 min

Lunar Festival Minicast, Jan. 24, 2009

24 januari 2009 | 20 min

Episode 75, Dec. 30, 2008

30 december 2008 | 79 min

Episode 74, Dec. 6, 2008

7 december 2008 | 65 min

Episode 73, Nov. 19, 2008

20 november 2008 | 86 min

Episode 72, Nov. 5, 2008

6 november 2008 | 65 min

Episode 71, Oct. 22, 2008

23 oktober 2008 | 93 min

Episode 70, Oct. 5, 2008

6 oktober 2008 | 76 min

Episode 69, Sept. 28, 2008

28 september 2008 | 95 min

Episode 68, August 17, 2008

17 augusti 2008 | 82 min

Episode 67, July 29, 2008

29 juli 2008 | 98 min

Episode 66, July 7, 2008

7 juli 2008 | 66 min

Episode 65, June 28, 2008

28 juni 2008 | 102 min

Episode 64, June 12, 2008

12 juni 2008 | 60 min

Episode 63, June 1, 2008

2 juni 2008 | 84 min

Episode 62, May 23, 2008

24 maj 2008 | 82 min

Episode 61, May 19, 2008

20 maj 2008 | 63 min

Episode 60, May 7, 2008

8 maj 2008 | 75 min

Episode 59, April 19, 2008

19 april 2008 | 76 min

Episode 58, April 5, 2008

7 april 2008 | 92 min

Episode 57, March 21, 2008

21 mars 2008 | 68 min

Episode 56, March 13, 2008

13 mars 2008 | 74 min

Episode 55, February 13, 2008

13 februari 2008 | 98 min

Episode 54, January 26, 2008

26 januari 2008 | 100 min

Episode 53, December 29, 2007

29 december 2007 | 74 min

Minicast 3, December 11, 2007

11 december 2007 | 33 min

Episode 52, December 6, 2007

7 december 2007 | 102 min

Episode 51, November 9, 2007

9 november 2007 | 93 min

Episode 50, October 19, 2007

19 oktober 2007 | 89 min

Episode 49, October 2, 2007

2 oktober 2007 | min

Episode 48, September 10, 2007

10 september 2007 | min

Episode 47, August 27, 2007

28 augusti 2007 | min

Episode 46, August 10, 2007

10 augusti 2007 | min

Episode 45, August 4, 2007

5 augusti 2007 | min

Blizzcon Call to Arms, July 28, 2007

28 juli 2007 | min

Episode 44, July 17, 2007

17 juli 2007 | min

Episode 43, July 4, 2007

4 juli 2007 | min

Episode 42, June 6, 2007

7 juni 2007 | min

Episode 41, May 20, 2007

21 maj 2007 | min

Episode 40, April 30, 2007

30 april 2007 | min

Episode 39, April 9, 2007

9 april 2007 | min

Episode 38, April 3, 2007

4 april 2007 | min

Episode 37, March 19, 2007

19 mars 2007 | min

Episode 36, March 14, 2007

15 mars 2007 | min

Episode 35, Feb. 23, 2007

23 februari 2007 | min

Episode 34, Feb. 18, 2007

18 februari 2007 | min

Episode 33, Jan. 29, 2007

29 januari 2007 | min

Episode 32, Jan. 18, 2007

18 januari 2007 | min

Episode 31, Dec. 30, 2006

31 december 2006 | min

Episode 30, Dec. 13, 2006

13 december 2006 | min

Minicast 2, Nov. 29, 2006

30 november 2006 | min

Episode 29, Nov. 22, 2006

22 november 2006 | min

Episode 28, Nov. 6, 2006

6 november 2006 | min

Minicast 1, Oct. 24, 2006

25 oktober 2006 | min

Episode 27, Oct. 17, 2006

18 oktober 2006 | min

Episode 26, Sept. 20, 2006

20 september 2006 | min

Episode 25, Sept. 3, 2006

4 september 2006 | min

Episode 24, July 31, 2006

1 augusti 2006 | min

Episode 23-Part 1, July 4, 2006

4 juli 2006 | min

Episode 22, June 25, 2006

25 juni 2006 | min

Episode 21, June 4, 2006

4 juni 2006 | min

Episode 20, May 21, 2006

22 maj 2006 | min

Episode 19, May 6, 2006

7 maj 2006 | min

Episode 18, April 24, 2006

25 april 2006 | min

Episode 17, April 10, 2006

11 april 2006 | min

Episode 16, March 26, 2006

26 mars 2006 | min

Episode 15, March 13, 2006

14 mars 2006 | min

Episode 14, February 21, 2006

22 februari 2006 | min

Episode 13, January 31, 2006

31 januari 2006 | min

Episode 12, January 18, 2006

18 januari 2006 | min

Episode 11, January 5, 2006

5 januari 2006 | 61 min

World of Warcast Revival Teaser

25 december 2005 | min

Episode 10, October 9, 2005

9 oktober 2005 | 64 min

Episode 9, October 1, 2005

1 oktober 2005 | 64 min

Episode 8, September 12, 2005

12 september 2005 | 52 min

Episode 7, August 29, 2005

29 augusti 2005 | 68 min

Episode 6, August 22, 2005

22 augusti 2005 | 49 min

Episode 5, August 1, 2005

1 augusti 2005 | 61 min

Episode 4, July 25, 2005

25 juli 2005 | 63 min

Episode 3, July 17, 2005

17 juli 2005 | 59 min

Episode 2, July 11, 2005

11 juli 2005 | 60 min

Episode 1, July 2, 2005

2 juli 2005 | 64 min

World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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Episode 387, "Correlation is not causation"

Episode 386, "Promise not to squish them"

Episode 385, "F* Kevin"

Episode 384, "Shop, pick, go"

Episode 383, "Were Markirk wif"

Episode 382, "Just like a cat"

Episode 381, "MEGADUNGEON!!!!"

Episode 380, "We have plenty of phones"

Episode 379, "Get on with it"

Episode 378, "Fast and the Furious"

Episode 377, "Necrolords cheat"

Episode 376, "She doesn't have the lobes for business"

Episode 375, "Put it in the tooltip"

Episode 374, "Synergy"

Episode 373, "These people are in a cult!"

Episode 372, "He's down to 1"

Episode 371, "Safer than the pandemic"

Episode 370, "Arcane mages are like Buicks"

Episode 369, "Nice cape"

Episode 368, "My pretties"

Episode 367, "Life is to be savored"

Episode 366, "3½ mages"

Episode 365, "There's a guide for that"

Episode 364, "Stab, stab, stab"

Episode 363, "The natural state of beta is change"

Episode 362 "Loot the trash mobs"

Episode 361, "A terabyte of cats"

Episode 360, "The OCD is real"

Episode 359, "Be excellent to each other"

Episode 358, "The Insane Mad Cow"

Episode 357, "Post-its everywhere"

Episode 356, "Druids will do that to ya"

Episode 355, "5 billion Drizzts"

Episode 354, "I write guides! Ask me how"

Episode 353, "Just wants to be mounted"

Episode 352, "Fun with Holynipz"

Episode 351, "It's Warlords..."

Episode 350, "There was much rejoicing"

Episode 349, "I wish there was a Wilhelm scream"

Episode 348, "Paladins really cheat"

Episode 347, "You play a mage. You cheat"

Episode 346, "Make it so"

Episode 345, "It was a Y2020 bug"

Episode 344, "WoW second-wind mid-life crisis"

Episode 343, "Who's PVPing at that hour?"

Episode 342, "Don't pick your friend's nose"

Episode 341, "Six stacks of determination"

Episode 340, "I can't talk to Zug Zug"

Episode 339, "Schrödinger's beer"

Episode 338, "Ratchet and Clank"

Episode 337, "Momma always said to bolt your linen"

Episode 336, "Wowhead is Renata's personal notebook"

Episode 335, "OMGZORZ"

Episode 334, "This Old Warcast"

Episode 333, "Long live Thottbot"

Episode 332, "Math is hard"

Episode 331, "The heart attack was merely a setback"

Episode 330, "Everyone needs a hobby"

Episode 329, "I have barnicles on my shoulders"

Episode 328, "In a world..."

Episode 327, "Siri can't pronounce anything right"

Episode 326, "What game is this?"

Episode 325, "I could have been Vivian"

Episode 324, "Wanna do my Ogri'la for me?"

Episode 323, "Naj and the Eternal Palace"

Episode 322, "It's 5pm in Greenland"

Episode 321, "Nobody ever made a peon simulator"

Episode 320, "The dishwasher boss went down"

Episode 319, "No pants, no WoW"

Episode 318, "Circle gets the square"

Episode 317, "Pumpkin memorial meow"

Episode 316, "Run through the juicers"

Episode 315, "It's one bigger"

Episode 314, "Bite-sized dungeons"

Episode 313, "Alliance cat"

Episode 312, "Now that you're a badass"