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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Blizzcon 2013 Announced!
As expected, Blizzcon will be at the Anaheim Convention Center again this year. There will be news, announcements, hands-on with the latest Blizzard games, and we’re sure there will be the staple of the show – the costume contest and closing ceremonies with a surprise event. As always, we’ll do our best to cover the show from the show. The date of ticket sales have not been announced yet. We hope to see you all there in November. For more information, visit http://www.blizzcon.com.
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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Episode 131 is up, “New Horde profession-chiropractor”
This Week:
Eric – started a healer, tried out a rogue, warlock, and monk.
What’s the WoW experience like for new players?
Mike – Worked on getting his mage DPS a little higher. Still not as high as he’d like. The search for better raid frames continues.
News:
All current raids will have a 10% buff when patch 5.2 lands.
Blizzard says the macro system can use an overhaul.
Project Blackstone unveiled – conencted to Starcraft 2: HoS.
PTR:
Green Fire quest for warlocks.
Feat of Strength for people that finished current raids on Normal/Heroic (NOT PTR).
Current conversion for 5.2
LFR is up this weekend. iLvl 480 minimum.
Mod of the Cast:
Mike – Auctioneer
Eric – Rarity
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Episode 130 is up, “Marmot Merlot”
What we did this week:
Mike – New bags, checked out the PTR, what to do after you maxxed out your toon? Alts or PTR?
Eric – Finished all of LFR, got fishing out of the way, played on the PTR.
News:
Lunar Festival is in full swing, along with flagged players.
Tides of War machinima is up.
Duncan Jones is tapped to be the Warcraft film’s director.
PTR
New raid rules, new class changes, bonus rep in dungeons, and two new scenarios.
Casual topic – is there a need for a guild in WoW anymore?
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Episode 129 is up, “A Boy and His Boss”
After eight years, we changed our theme.
Warcast will be recorded every Thursday.
What we did this week:
Mike finished with Golden Lotus and tried soloing Naxx 10.
Eric opened up the post-GL quests and worked on Brawler’s Guild fights.
News:
Blizzard says they’re not getting rid of addons (via WoWInsider).
PTR 5.2 updates – we don’t have any because we haven’t tranferred our toons over there yet. Next show we will.
Getting gear for xmog – is it fun? Is it worth it? Does it eat up your bag space?
Blizzardverse – New cinematic for Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
Mod of the Cast:
Mike – Dominos
Eric – Screengrid
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Episode 128 is up
Special guest host Eric Rice (@ericrice) joins us.
All about the 5.1 Patch.
New faction questline – Operation Shieldwall for the Alliance, Dominance Offensive for the Horde.
New scenario – Dagger in the Dark.
Gear upgrades – upgrade your rares and epics.
Changes to tooltips.
LFR bosses remaining counter removed.
Raids no longer necessary for old school raid instances.
New pets with some old school raid bosses. Get them all and you get Mr. Bigglesworth.
New pets with Darkmoon Faire.
Raiding in MoP.
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Episode 127 is up
My God, it’s full of dailies!
Ways we’d rather get VP without so many dailies.
Gating – good or bad?
Starman stars a pally.
5.1 changes.
- Some class changes.
- Rep changes for alts.
- Brawler’s Guild
- No more shared lockouts
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Episode 126 is up
Before we started doing more structured shows about Mists of Pandaria, we thought we’d do a show about our first impressions of the expansion, and talk about some things players should know.
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Episode 125 is up
News:
Blizzard announced they were hacked. What to do to protect your account.
Lindyen gives us a little minicast on pet battles.
Patch 5.0.4 coming Aug. 28.
All races available in 5.0.4, not all classes.
Our experiences with LFR. What changes will be coming, and how will it affect guilds in the future?
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