Category: Podcasts
World Of Warcast Episode 142, “I don’t die in this game”
News:
Blizzcon tickets went on sale
Oondasta loot roll changes from other realms
85-90 XP changes
Bad Robot – only for Engineers????
Live WoW Dev Q&A tonight at 5:30 PT (8:30 ET)
We talk about PvP, and compare what Alliance vs Horde PvP is like, some aspects about crowd control, and whether mages are really overpowered or if that’s a myth carried over from previous expansions.
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Episode 141, “I would like to know how this story ends”
News:
PTR
- No gated rep!
- Battlefield: Barrens
- Get xmog gear
- What’s going on in Valley of Eternal Blossoms?
- New Battlefield: Deepwind Gorge
Calendar spam
Why tailoring?
Mike:
Gearing up the monk
Getting another mage to 90
14k in a week selling xmog gear
Eric:
Switching realms- considerations
Solid Week full 90 on monk
Back to the PTR 5.3
Discovery Armor XMOG for my rogue
Nalak & Oon
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Episode 140, “I got 20 silver in my pocket”
5.3 Patch news:
Wow to get a limited in-game browser.
We’ll be able to xmog using items in the bank.
New Brawler’s Guild 5.3 features.
You can pick LFR loot for a different spec.
Hearthstone tied to new mounts?
Why you shouldn’t wait until late in the week to do LFR.
Tips on raising tailoring and enchanting.
How skinning and Tillers dailies are awesome together.
No-kill servers and guilds.
Your emails.
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Episode 138, “Like a monkey doing a math problem”
(Yeah, I screwed up and said ep. 128)
5.3 Notes
WHO CALLED IT? Third spec in the 5.3 PTR
65% base resilience for PvP
All gear will be scaled to 496
Resilience removed from most PvP gear
Can still use gems/enchants
Heroic scenarios
5.3 will NOT be a new PvP season
WHO CALLED IT? Blizzard announces a new online TCG game “Hearthstone”
Mike:
Monk to 88
Tried LUI. Bleh.
Trying to get a good UI going.
Battlegrounds.
New LFR
Oondasta
Eric:
Monk 85
Moar nubschool
Auction House Bid or Buy
Is WoW doing a good job of teaching new players how to play the game and their class?
Tips on leatherworking.
For the bored – things to do when you’re out of things to do.
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Episode 137, “Occupy Lower City”
Our weekly look at the news of WoW and what we did this week:
Eric:
Wanderer’s Festival Achieve
Galleon for the first time + amazing loot
Monk @ 80
AH woes
Mike:
Monk to 81. Decided to slow down.
Did LFR ToT last night.
Will start PvP again tonight.
Lack of motivation for dailies.
Just like Firelands, it feels forced and I don’t like not flying.
News and views:
Should you be able to start at 55 if you already have a 90 of the same race?
If you could align yourself with one non-main faction, what would it be?
Oondasta – the grave maker
- Will be spawning more often
Automatic flight point discovery was not intended in 5.1
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Episode 136, “Dress like Garrosh, get a buff”
News:
PvP Season 13 started
There will be no more 5-man dungeons in Mists.
Players visiting a different realm no longer eligible to receive loot from Oondasta or Nalak.
Thunderforged dropping in LFR.
Massive monk DPS bug.
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm released
Blizzard debuting something new at PAX East.
Mike:
Leveled a monk. Started as a test, now 54+
Still having problems with rotation.
A bit of fun in the old world.
Love the fast-paced play. Better thann DK/Pally
Was healer, decided on tank after Dire Maul incident
Enchants make a huge difference (no duh)
Eric
Darkmoon Faire ended (hidden cave, weird stuff, check blue histories, ghosts http://miasazeroth.blogspot.com/2011/11/ghosts-of-darmoon-island.html sea ponies, also, seahorse mount )
Treasure of the Thunder King solo scenario loot run
Cross Realm IN SW/ORG now? (eldrethas)
Valor of the Ancients
Golden Lotus (mount!)
tanking
amani dragon hawk
A look at leveling after not leveling for a while
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Episode 135, “No Excuses”
Special guest: SoCalWowGal @socalwowgal / socalwowgal.com)
We talk about our impressions of 5.2 so far, and have an in-depth discussion with SoCalWowGal about her blog which tackles being a WoW Life Coach.
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Episode 134, “How to succeed in battlegrounds without really trying”
News:
Blizzard confirms no cross platform play for Diablo 3 on PS4
Thunder King trailer
Heart of the Storm trailer
Who’s going to Nerdtacular?
This Week:
Mike:
Formal Dangui dropped.
Lots of PvP. Capped out everything I wanted to do with PvE except Operation faction.
Will still do PvE, but waiting for 5.2
Trying to get as much Conquest Points before 5.2
Got full set of blue PvP gear, first epic PvP piece.
Eric
DK Leveling (at 89, return to the main!, former PVP main)
aside: I can riff on PVP, so don’t have much to add here
Changes to Mages/DK/Monk in 5.2
How to succeed in battlegrounds without really trying.
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Episode 133 is up, “Mount me! Let’s go!”
Blizzcon Nov. 8-9
Mike:
Forgot to really finish Klaxxi.
Working hard on VP. There has to be a better way.
Ancient Portal of Dalaran for mages
Rainbow trinket
Soloed some of Serpentshrine
Heard from Ren
Eric
Leveling alts
Being tech support for 3
Blizzard PS4 Diablo 3 on PS3/PS4 Chris Metzen announced at Sony Event
What about console MMOs anyway? Old fail article from 2009:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/02/04/mmos-on-consoles-epic-fail
PvP Season 12 ends March 5
Patch 5.2 PTR: Mac OS X 10.6 no longer supported as of 5.2
Blizzard’s Wraithion poll
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Episode 132 is up, “Crap! I’m a Death Knight!”
This Week:
Mike -
Exalted with Klaxxi finally.
Still fiddling with DPS output. Working on getting a trinket.
Ran LFR, finished the token quest. DPS up a little bit but not where I want it.
Eric -
Hellscream Shake
Love is in the Air
Scholomance – the pictures follow you.
Moar Nubs and rogue
News:
WoW down to 9.6M subscribers
Raptr rewards gives you an Alliance or Horde shirt for your Xbox avatar
Love is in the Air – get your meta going
5.0 cross-realm raiding in 5.2
Cache loot buffed in 5.2
Valor in 5.2 will stay, Conquest will still convert to Honor
5.2 supposed to be here the end of Feb, says Bashiok
Weekly topic – Does WoW seem too easy to vets or is this par for the course for new players that have never seen an MMO before?
Mod of the Cast:
sRaidFrames
NugComboBar -meh
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