Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Special guest Ali (@aliandrask) joins us to talk about the difficult subject of the Activision Blizzard lawsuit. Mike announces that he's leaving the show, but fear not!…Renata will be taking it over!!

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Our week in WoW…well, Ren's because Mike was working on the house all week. Could the game be even more alt-friendly? Be nice when reporting issues to WoWhead! The new job posting for an unannounced IP - what could it be? Strategies for multiple alts

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Gin from Morally Grey and Live, Laugh Lore joins us to talk about 9.1 and the latest cinematic.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on We talk about BC Classic PvP, Retail 9.1, and other things

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on We return before 9.1 to discuss TBC Classic, 9.1, and what we've been up to since March.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Thoughts on patch 9.0.5, 9.1, and the current state of leveling alts.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Guests Aliandras and Christy join us to talk about Blizzconline 2021.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Our last two weeks in WoW

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on A dialog about Renata's article on Wowhead about whether Shadowlands is alt friendly.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on More Shadowlands discussion with Mike and Renata. - Is Blizzard being stingy with gear? - Can alt leveling be better? - What are the worst world quests?

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on More Shadowlands discussion with Mike and Renata.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on More Shadowlands discussion with Mike and Renata.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on More Shadowlands discussion with Mike and Renata.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on We talk about our second week in Shadowlands.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Mike, Renata, and Ali talk about our first impressions of Shadowlands!

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on In our final BfA show before Shadowlands, we talk about some pre-patch stuff we've been doing, talk about Ion's interview on Wowhead, and how we felt about BfA. Shadowlands next week!

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on It's that calm before the storm, so we just have a casual chat about the pre-patch and what-not.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Renata joins Ali and Mike to talk about a whole bunch of aspects about Shadowlands.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead A short show this week because it's just been a busy week for both of us. We talk about the release date for Shadowlands, and some of the news that happened this week.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead This episode we cover: What have we been doing in the pre-patch Is being a guide worth it? Ghostcrawler's thoughts about Shadowlands Ali bought the Humble Bundle and the Rise of the Horde book Drexl from Discord will be doing a charity stream on Nov. 7 Today would have been Blizzcon, and we're sad.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead Shadowlands delayed Class changes Hunter Mark no longer does 5% extra damage Is there a good reason for this? Don’t be a spreadsheet dick https://www.wowhead.com/news=318436/ion-hazzikostas-on-covenant-abilities-outside-of-shadowlands Also, he mentions there will be another expansion This is an odd restriction. Why does it matter? https://www.wowhead.com/news=318429/only-max-level-characters-can-use-the-black-market-auction-house-in-shadowlands 9.0.1 notes https://www.wowhead.com/news=318426/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-pre-expansion-patch-notes-patch-9-0-1 Why would water regen mana slower NOW? It’s been this way for 16 years https://www.wowhead.com/news=318424/save-30-on-select-game-services-race-change-faction-change-and-character-transfe https://www.wowhead.com/news=318330/overwolf-addon-management-app-now-launching-on-oct-20th wowup is open source overwolf has had complaints about privacy Humble Bumble Deal https://www.humblebundle.com/books/world-warcrafts-legend-library-blizzard-publishing-books?hmb_source=search_bar

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead Topics today include talk about the Revendreth cinematic, Dreamhaven, no more bonus rolls, Warcraft 2 movie rumors, Black Market Auction House returns in Shadowlands

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead Topics today include druid healing, how to gear a demon hunter, the Ardenweald "Afterlives" animate short, and comments on Wednesday's blue post. Covenant spreadsheet

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead Topics today include priest healing, love for Demon Hunters, what our mains will be in Shadowlands, and our thoughts on the last two Afterlives animated shorts.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren More guides, more news, more updates, more leveling and testing in beta Very little time to work on leveling toons in BfA Complaints inside beta - how much changes Thank the Blizzard gods for Torghast server! Mike Warlock leveling - finally got her to 120 Thanks to Caselock for getting me my Glacial Tidestorm mount This Week in WoW World Quest event starts next week Trial of Style begins Monday, August 31 News A plea for fishing help in beta Blizzard Companion App will support Legion, BoA and Shadowlands when it’s released for the expansion Ray tracing in Shadowlands Diminishing returns in secondary stat ratings After receiving 25% of a secondary stat from gear, increasingly more rating to increase another % from that gear Example: 25% -35%: 10% penalty, up to 49-106%, 40% penalty. Capped at 106%. Speed leveling in Shadowlands in under 3 hours using dungeon boosting - probably not going to stay Yes, Blizzard is giving away beta access keys, but not in the Americas yet. Observations on leveling 50-60 in beta The downside to unpruning Best to worst zones Spoiler: Maw is the worst Best story line: Revendreth Best atmosphere and best sense of humor: Ardenweald Maldraxxus: decent story, very straightforward Bastion: more engaging than I thought the first time around, but still not interesting by comparison Rogue: Assessing the Covenant abilities Tips for things to have from BfA and prior (Goblin Gliders, Abyssal Healing Potions, high quality stat food) Early impressions of gathering and professions

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on 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).

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Mea culpa - 27 Guide Update Achievement Adventures in computer upgrades Running up toons for Classy achievement: cows can’t run Killing panda rogues gone wrong Pet peeve: Auction “Gotcha” prices Mike So much toon grinding DMF helps with rep Getting rep tokens on alts to alleviate the work The struggle to get to garrison level 3 Mage tower legion artifact colors Getting followers to 950 Crucible of storms Cloak questline This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire Pet battle event starts next week - August 10 Squirt Trainer Day in EU News Classic Gates of Ahn’Qiraj opened - and was completed in 14 hours on Sulfuras, beating old record of 19 days (Medivh server, 22 January 2006). Scarab Lord Reputation Grinds completed in 23 hours, just waiting for BWL reset - collecting the Silithid Carapace Fragments - large layered servers with multiple guilds working together have a distinct advantage Which has led to griefing through abuse of the automated reporting system Beta Covenant Sanctums -- or why the Venthyr are complete bastards

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Editing, editing, and MORE editing Diablo Season 21 “Classy” achievement Mike So much time spent switching mains This Week in WoW Timewalking: Cata (next week, Pandaria) Luminous Luminaries tomorrow World Quest event - ends Tuesday News Pre-Patch Corruption is being removed completely in Shadowlands prepatch Shadowlands news OPT IN FOR BETA! Heirlooms will have XP bonus removed Covenants and Renown (Pathfinder) Covenant Sanctums Soulbinds Explained Archaeology will receive no update in Shadowlands Legendary Runecrafting

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on This Week in WoW BC Timewalking Event week Midsummer Fire Festival News Naked & Afraid 21 participants, 2 finishers, with 5 still in the running who are over level 60.. Naked & Afraid IV - we already have 2 finishers! Ketchupman (Troll Enhancement Shaman) with either 1d10h9m or 1d7h32m, and Kara (Vulpera Arms Warrior) with 1d19h15m New Rule Announcement: 1-20 can use heirlooms Timewalking 5-week Timewalking Events - includes a 50% XP bonus for the expansion’s zones that stacks with WInds of Wisdom Now: Burning Crusade. June 30 - Wrath of the Lich King, July 7 - Cata, Jul 14 - Pandaria, 21 Jul Draenor, 28 Jul BoA Alpha news General Game World News Twitch sells Curseforge sold to Overwolf - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-22-twitch-sells-curseforge-to-overwolf

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on We have a short discussion about the new Naked and Afraid challenge, which starts today.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on This Week in WoW Battleground Bonus Event until Tuesday BfA Dungeon Event starts Tuesday Darkmoon Faire Thousand Boat Bash, June 6-8 - boating in Thousand Needles micro holiday Tune in June 9th for a live Shadowlands content update with Ion Hazzikostas and John Hight - 9 AM PDT More impressions of the Shadowlands alpha

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Our impressions of the Shadowlands alpha

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Wowhead keeping me busy - three new guides this week, two for classic Silithus and the main news aggregator for Shadowlands beta, which requires updates 2-3 times a day. Lots of updates to existing Covenant and leveling overview guides Playing Hardcore in Diablo III now Congrats to WNN for downing N’zoth (dotted to death) Ren Still more Wowhead work Still mostly playing D3 Still not in Alpha Mike Chilling in Classic More about old characters and professions This Week in WoW Pet Battle Bonus Week - and it’s Super Squirt Trainer Day on Sunday May 3 for NA realms! Children’s Week - May 1-7 New from 2019: four new pets, Scaley, Mr. Crabs, Beakbert, Froglet - from Kul’Tiran and Zandalari Orphan quests (a good combine with Super Squirt Day) Darkmoon Faire setup starts Fri, May 1 in Classic and starts Sunday, May 3 in Retail. Starts Monday, May 4 in Classic. Tuesday: Pandaria Timewalking starts Discussion Points: Michael Morhaime on accessibility and the waning of social interaction in MMORPGS Ian Hazzikostas liveblog includes: Expansion still set for 2020 release Planning about 2 expansions ahead Leaving a Covenant is not difficult; rejoining one you’ve left is You can only equip one legendary at a time Values for leveling rate are not yet tuned for Alpha Demon Hunters: restriction on only 1 per server being relaxed for Shadowlands Pathfinder will no longer be required for flying in Draenor and Legion zones with Shadowlands

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Wowhead keeping me busy - three new guides this week, two for classic Silithus and the main news aggregator for Shadowlands beta, which requires updates 2-3 times a day. Lots of updates to existing Covenant and leveling overview guides Playing Hardcore in Diablo III now Congrats to WNN for downing N’zoth (dotted to death) Mike Sad trombone. Still no Shadowlands Finished up Redridge. Talk a bit about how I feel useless as a warlock in classic This Week in WoW Noblegarden - nothing new this year Mike’s notes - This event sucks and needs a revamp Battleground Bonus Event Classic News Zul'Gurub released- and Hakkar already down with all 5 high priests alive - never achieved during Vanilla - down in 1 minute 21 seconds this was attempted just before BC launched by and they only got him to 2% with full Naxx gear Silithus and Cenarion Circle released but not the leadup quests to AQ40 World Dragons released Shadowlands stuff First datamined/playtested Alpha went live 8 April - week ago Wednesday Much of this can be located through Ren’s guide to Shadowlands Expansion News, https://www.wowhead.com/guides/shadowlands-expansion-news-datamining-and-playtesting Updates on class changes, race changes, leveling changes, covenants, professions, and player customizations

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Special guest Drexl comes on to chat about Shadowlands and a bunch of our usual tangents.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Life in the Time of COVID/New York edition Have been playing almost no WoW - Diablo III Season 20 Two new guides in review - Classic STV Fishing Extravaganza and BFA Guide to Alt Management Guested on Gin and Fear’s Patreon show, “How Have You Not Seen This?” ($2 level) Mike Timewalking with Ali Trying to clean up my toons This Week in WoW Arena Skirmish Event this week World Quest Bonus Event next week News Twitch! Blizzard Sent most of their staff home to work remotely Still paying janitorial, security, and cafe staff standard wages Gave thousands of employees care packages of soap, toilet paper, and paper towels BfA, Shadowlands, and Classic news

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on One of Renata's good friends, Zignea, comes on to talk about setting up and handling WoW when you have kids.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on This Week in WoW BC timewalking this week - special quest to do Black Temple Can’t do through LFR Pick up quest Disturbance Detected: Black Temple for 500 Timewalking badges Sunday - Hatching of the Hippogryphs mini-holiday Next week: Battleground bonus event News Opt in for Beta: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands - click Beta Opt-In Shadowlands Alpha Build 9.0.1 released - encrypted Legendary Cloak cap increased to 11 Classic Classic PTR! Classic Bot alert

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Special guest AliandrasK from Dungeon Fables fills in for Renata this week to chat about WoW and other Blizzard games.

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Revised Darkmoon Faire guide after Blizzard Darkmoon Faire overview came out - which linked to the Wowhead guide Completed Love is In the Air Classic guide Did first Horrific Visions, got cloak on 1 character to level 4 5-manned Vale world boss, Grand Empress Shek’zara - only took 17 minutes 24 seconds … Mike Wing 1 of Ny'alotha Horrific visions Cloak level 2 Better than I said last week This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire in Retail - runs to Sunday Darkmoon Faire Classic - starts setup in Mulgore Friday 2/7, opens Monday 2/10 and runs to Sunday 2/16 Lunar Festival ends 2/7; Love is In the Air starts 2/8 Special shoutout to Thyst who starts at Blizzard on Monday News Limit gets world first Ny’alotha kill Corruption changes incoming Lots of problems with Warcraft III Reforged

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Our thoughts on the 8.3 patch This Week in WoW The 8.3 missing patch notes

Join us on Discord Watch the show live on Twitch Support the show on Patreon Mount Up Add-on Ren Beat my first +4 mythic, completed but did not beat +5 Running and gearing up parallel Alliance and Horde shaman - running Alliance shaman as fast through war campaign as possible to get up to Battle of Dazar’alor Final alt tally after Korrak’s - 6 Alliance 120s, 12 Horde 120s (18 total) Looking at the holes: All classes but one on Horde side have a 120. Half the classes on Alliance side have a 120 (warrior, hunter, rogue, shaman, mage, and warlock) No DKs either side; plan Mag’har and Kul’Tiran when allied races become possible. Have lower levels on Alliance side mostly - dwarf pally, lightforged draenei priest, night elf demon hunter. No monk Alliance; plan Mechagnome monk. No druid Alliance; plan Worgen druid (maybe) No tauren or highmountain tauren; none planned. No empty slot for vulpera; will probably make Vulpera priest and retire Blood Elf priest to auction mule duty That will give me all races except 2 Tauren races covered, and all classes represented on both sides. No panda on Alliance. Mike Priest to almost 31 Healed Deadmines, BFD, and Stockades (twice) Started N’Zoth Forgot to start Kun’Lai Got a 440 wrist Worked on Mechagnomes and Dark Iron Dwarves Still need to do Kul’Tiran 245/250 mounts Comparing toons Mogging

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Finished the 4 mythic dungeons Finished guide to Classic Darkmoon Faire, starting on new guides Running Rustbolt - revered Mike So close to exalted with Rustbolt Got all the rares Operation: Mechagon - megadungeon? More like a mini-raid Some people like to work it out Started working on Waveblade again. No need for a Kul’tiran, just cuz Did my 4 mythics. This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire Super Squirt Day on NA servers Wanderer’s Festival - Saturday, D,mec 7 - “Celebrate and honor Liu Lang and Shen-zin Su at Turtle Beach in Krasarand Wilds. It is a time for contemplation and song!” Feast of Winter Veil coming up on Dec 16 - both Classic and Retail News Dottie the alpaca pet now available The Launcher has a new banner Classic, 8.3, Mechagnome, and BRD Pet Battle Dungeon

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Our week in WoW This Week in WoW This week - Battleground Bonus Event Next week - BfA Dungeon Event begins Monday Nov 25 - Pilgrim’s Bounty begins, goes to Monday, Dec 2 at 9:00 AM Bountiful Table - if you eat 5 helpings of each available food at one table, gain Spirit of Sharing - 10% rep buff increase for 1 hour Cooking - great way to get original WoW cooking from 1-300 Transmogs: Pilgrim’s Hat, Attire, Dress, Robe, and Boots. Includes Fine Pilgrim’s Hat, which can be used as a transmog for any armor-type hat. Found from Pilgrim’s Bounty, a daily quest reward. Battle Pets: Frightened Bush chicken, from Pilgrim’s Bounty Toys: Silver-Plated Turkey Shooter, from Pilgrim’s Bounty Several achievements and the title Pilgrim Community New podcast: People of Azeroth, hosted by Juno-Eclipse Mike was on Frazlcast PTR News Classic News

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Eight Warcasters and the Six Stacks of Determination, or Secrets of Success: Kick the Warrior and Announce Last Round Happy 11th Anniversary, Lich King! (squish) Doing the Cataclysm three-boss section next Wednesday Hordeside, all are welcome Taking a break from Classic & taking advantage of Anniversary buff Returning to tanking Vengeance Demon Hunter 110-116 Finishing DID warrior and BE priest - 115 New guides live: Overview of Covenants and Overview of Leveling Changes. Indepth Covenant guides for each of the 4 covenants submitted. Currently writing articles for engineering and PvP. Mike Took a (mostly) break from WoW to put in time to Overwatch This Week in WoW WoTLK Timewalking News Shadowlands features Class changes Covenants Cosmetic changes Classic update

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Our post-Blizzcon chat

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Our week in WoW and pre-Blizzcon chat

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Starting over (again) - level 20 orc warlock Published 8 new guides in a 9-part series on finding class trainers (up to 31 guides) - working on last guide (rogue) and a new guide to find repair NPCs in every zone Mike 60 slowness Rerolling a warlock because of a better name This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday The Great Gnomeregan Run - Sunday Oct 13th The original Running of the Gnomes is at 7PM EST on Scarlet Crusade, 7 PM EST Donation link: https://thepinkfund.kindful.com/the-running-of-the-gnomes--2019 Tuesday - Pet Battle Bonus Event October 21st (Monday) Super Squirt Trainer Day on NA and Oceanic realms 8.3 datamining Going back to Icecrown? Vulpera and Mechagnomes Auction House changes finally coming Pat battle dungeons - Blackrock Depths Classic Changes to login Dire Maul coming next week Mod of the Case - Prat

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Advanced Adulting last week Still very slow progress: 23 rogue Finished a few more guides: Cooking Ingredients A-Z, fishing location guide, travel guide -- have two more assignments to finish next week and several more backlogged Interesting travel facts - a stray 6.0 feature and travel times Mike Fun in Classic This Week in WoW Pirate's Day (today) Brewfest: starts Friday, Sep 20 - Sun, Oct 6 Nothing new for 2019, not running on Classic 2018 update: Coren Direbrew's trinkets are iLevel 335 Timewalking starts Tuesday, 24 Sep - Warlords of Draenor New 8.2 Snapback Scuttler mount now available for completing the Undersea Usurper achievement in Nazjatar 8.2.5 upcoming patch New items coming to the Black Market Auction House NA realms: free transfers start today - only to specific realms (eg. Pagle to Windseeker). EU realms start tomorrow (Sep 20). Free transfers will be available for 11 days. New servers: New PvP Classic Spanish server Mandokir, and free PvP character moves to the new Brazilian Portuguese PvP realm Sul'thraze and Latin American Spanish PvP realm Loatheb. Other news Blizzard announced that there has been an arrest in the case of the DDOS attacks that plagued the server on September 7-8. Several things available by 1.12 are not available in Phase 1, including Thorium Brotherhood reputation rewards Classic Sunken Temple Class quests Bug #1: Buffs falling off before the 32 buff cap - most observed issue was a loss in +hit bonuses. Bug #2, part 2: Some raids have been resetting prior to the weekly lockout, likely due to the layering issue. One streamer found that Molten Core had reset since the last visit less than a week ago, and actually checked with Blizzard before proceeding. Bug #3: No Summer Bass Bug #4: Feign Death not working properly

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Got flight on Monday - game changer Started working other characters through Continued issues with Alliance-heavy server Stealth issue with bodyguard - known issue Using TomTom with HandyNotes Secret Fish goggles - segment later Switching mount equipment Listening to a new podcast: Morally Grey - thanks to @Ali for the recommendation Mike Mythics w/Ali TWIW Pet Battle Bonus event Eternal Palace raid begins - Lady Azshara is already dead, cinematic released News Blizzard is asking people who have been unable to drop combat to bug report - they want the character name and realm, date and time, place it occurred, what pets and/or bodyguards you had active, any steps you took to get out of combat Classic WoW Classic Closed Beta is … closed. Hotfixes to 8.2 8.2 impressions Secret Fish in Mechagon Mod of the Cast: Rarescanner, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rarescanner Thanks to @louielegdrop for this recommendation Mod of the Cast Part 2: Minimap Range Extender, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/minimap-range-extender

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Router choking Started Nazjatar with mage - grouping issues Divide and Conquer strat,egy for 8.2 Confirmed: Pathfinder 2 has fully credited for both Explore Mechagon/Explore Nazjatar achievements gained on two separate characters Wowhead: published first guide, Lost Recipes of Azeroth - working on topics for next guides Mike Started working on converting files to MP3 Nazjatar Sold NOTHING on the AH TWIW Starts today: BoA dungeon event 4th - Thursday: Fireworks Spectacular - fireworks every hour visible from Booty Bay, Stormwind and Orgrimmar 5th - Friday - Fireworks Spectacular ends, Midsummer Fire Festival ends 7th - Sunday - Darkmoon Faire begins 9th - Eternal Palace raid opens, Pet Battle Bonus event News New Mount Reward for 6 Month Subscription - Syverian Dreamer Battle for Azshara 8.2 Undocumented patch notes

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren - Vacation leads into work-a-thon New writing gig Playing on other podcasts Playing Diablo 3 Season 17 (when I have the time) and waiting for 8.2 Mike- Timewalking with Ali Got my Midsummer hearthstone Did peeing on the horde cities change? Got my BC mount Got a tailoring recipe I never had Classic Made it to level 8 Didn’t have enough time to spend in it as much as I wanted Herbalism and Alchemy This Week in WoW Midsummer Festival started last Friday 6/21 and will run until Friday, 7/5 Battlefield Bonus week News Naked & Afraid 3 New Finishers in Fully Strapped! Zeryl, Kul Tiran Balance druid in 2 days 22 hours 12 minutes - joining Kara’s two druids in the 2 days 22 hours club (hers finished at 4 minutes and 16 minutes). Also Alberthe, Kul Tiran Guardian druid at 3 days 6 hours 34 minutes. Alberthe mentioned that this was the first Naked and Afraid challenge she had finished! New Finisher in Truly Naked! Gorrum, Kul Tiran Guardian druid finished in 4 days 1 hour 21 minutes. Classic Server Indexing old episodes European realm structure - EU realms will not be split by language, except for Russian. Stress Test servers now show as WoW Classic under Live - four realms in US, two PvP, two PvE Next stress test: Jul 18-19 and will involve EU test realms as well 8.2 on Tuesday! https://www.wowhead.com/news=292443/rise-of-azshara-official-patch-notes

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Lots of discussion about Classic

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike This Week in WoW - Pet Experience Bonus Week - Super Squirt Day Friday - Glowcap Festival on Monday, May 27 - Draenor Timewalking starts Tuesday NEWS More on Azeroth Pathfinder, Pt 2 - In addition to the reps, you need to complete Explore Mechagon and Explore Nazjatar Our impressions of the Classic beta. Desert Island Mods

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren DID warrior now 97 - spent nearly all of 80-90 in one zone (Jade Forest) Very little time spent in-game Stupid discovery of the week: didn’t realize mission champions could go Legendary Ren Got Perma-Pepe Got the Azeroth's Top Twenty Tunes achievement Dark Iron Dwarf warrior now 107 Mike Working on DH Blizzcon Mogging Greater tokens This Week in WoW Children's Week ends today Spring Balloon Festival mini event starts Friday, ends Sunday DMF ends 11:59 PM Saturday BFA Dungeon Event starts Tuesday 8.2 PTR news Clarification to Mount Equipment Slots Heart of Azeroth: Essence System New Benthic Gearing system New profession items

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren DID warrior now 97 - spent nearly all of 80-90 in one zone (Jade Forest) Very little time spent in-game Stupid discovery of the week: didn’t realize mission champions could go Legendary Mike Mount farming - nothing. Crucible on normal w/Ali. So much fun Finished up more of the war campaign. Trying to get a damn belt lol. It’s 355 blue. Did NOT do Noblegarden. THIS WEEK IN WOW Noblegarden - ends tomorrow - three new bunny ear circlets in blue, brown, and yellow (50 chocolates each) for transmog and the hearthstone Noble Gardener's Hearthstone (250 chocolates). End of World Quest Bonus week - ends Tuesday Timewalking - Pandaria starts Tuesday Children's Week - starts Thursday 5/2 and ends Thursday 5/9 NEWS Naked & Afraid 3 Info about Blizzcon 2019 Suspensions went out this week Classic news 8.2 PTR news

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Christy, Mike, and Cryler join us for a round table discussion about Battle for Azeroth.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren We bought a new dishwasher… Remembering why I hate Zul’drak Loving resto shaman life Mike BoD with Ali Still can’t get the damn staff from BoD. In fact, got a ton of stuff I already had. Got the mog toy Achievements w/Ali - aka - f’n golden egg Did people change or the game change? This Week in WoW Pet Battle Event - no confluence with Squirt day on NA realms, but Tuesday was one on Euro realms (next one will be 24 May 2019) Darkmoon Faire starts today- new things Darkmoon Faire Roller Coaster - serves same purpose as the carousel for getting the xp/rep Buff, but MUCH slower By timer: Roller coaster took 1:20 to get the buff; carousel 13 seconds; carousel is over 9x faster Getting off the coaster early doesn’t help New balloon pets - Horse, Murloc and Wolf. 90 tickets each. Companion only, not battle. Fish head hats - random fishing reward - white quality, 5 at a time Reminder: make sure to get any professions to level 75 in Vanilla to do the corresponding profession quest in DMF March of the Tadpoles micro-event: April 5th - Borean Tundra News Segment: Getting Around Azeroth

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Raiding with Leashes completed Kul Tiran druid - level 40, 11 hours 43 minutes Dark Iron Dwarf, level 70 Not much play time this week - bird banding, new genealogy reference book This Week in WoW Trial of Style ended today BoA Dungeon Event starts Tuesday - last boss drops extra loot News Naked & Afraid Update Already have 2 finishers in the Fully Strapped Division -- both Zandalari Feral Druids! - Thecowking finished with 1 day 21 hours and 1 minute, and Kara with 2 days 22 hours and 16 minutes. Current highest level in the Truly Naked Division is Morgahn, also a Zandalari Feral Druid at level 76 with 1 day 11 hours and 33 minutes. Tip: 120s KTs/Zandalari start out at Honored with home faction - buy the 320 cloak WoW’s Welcome Back Weekend - Mar 21st through 24th, ends today, reactivating all accounts without a subscription Loot Trading in Classic Temporary Bans for Leveling Exploit Q&A with Ian - highlights What we DO know about 8.2 MODS: Pretty Reps, SavedInstances

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Lots of advanced adulting this week (had to miss #WNN) Working on a nightborne monk as well as the dark iron dwarf warrior Also working on some rep grinds - still needs more Proudmoore Admiralty Mike DH to 119 Darkshore bosses Achievements with Ali This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until midnight, Sunday March 10th (Daylight Saving Time?) World Quest event runs until Tuesday, March 12 8.1.5 lands Tuesday Also starts Tuesday: Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking Ungoro Madness, March 17-19 News Naked & Afraid 2 running until March 12th Naked & Afraid 3: All Druids All Day - Clothing Optional Starts … NOW! Rule changes fleshed out - posted off our Discord N&A 3 channel 8.1.5 lands Tuesday More info on Tools of the Trade Raiding with Leashes: Pets of Pandaria New mechanical parrot quest - “Feathers”

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Was supposed to do timewalking but got caught up first in RL exciting project, and then power outages Dark Iron Dwarf warrior now level 61 Completed War Campaigns on both sides, up to the Battle of Dazar’alor Money making slowed down from lack of attention, but currently still averaging about 16k per day, mostly due to cheap monelite ore vs. expensive monel-hardened stirrups Talking to others in Discord about doing island expeditions Mike Demon Hunter to 115 Fun times with Ali doing timewalking This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday, Mar 3 World Quest Bonus Week - extra 50% bonus rep plus 1000 war resources for completing 20 world quests (good for those trying to finish up for the Kul Tiran or Zandalari racial unlocks) Third and final wing of Battle of Dazar’alor opened on LFR News Naked and Afraid News 8.1.5 news: Release Date: March 12 Kul Tirans and Zandalari will launch From the Discord:

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Three down, one to go: Waycrest Manor with #WNN with Kara, Alla, Zignea and Level Discipline priest or resto shaman? Playing with healing mods The secret of the vulpine familiar Mike Fun with Ali Druid to 110 This Week in WoW Love Is In the Air - through Tuesday Feb 26th Burning Crusade timewalking Hatching of the Hippogryphs - Sun Feb 23 News Layoffs at Activision/Blizzard - 8% work force (800 out of 9600 employees), primarily in public relations, marketing, and esports Love Is In the Air: New this year: Peddlefeet's Lovely Hearthstone - 150 Love Tokens Must be 110 or higher to acquire the Big Love Rocket mount Crown Company Necklace rewards are ilevel 365 max for 120 players (????) Economy hint: Swift Lovebird, for 270 Love Tokens, can be bought and sold on the AH (on Whisperwind median price is about 125k Naked & Afraid Update No new finishers but several people in the 70-90 range This season will end: Wednesday, March 20th Naked & Afraid 3: All Druids All Day will start about 2 weeks after the launch of 8.1.5 WNN will try to help people finish the Pride of Kul Tiras/Nation Divided for folks who need that to open Kul Tiras (Zandalaris have no dungeon requirements; Kul Tirans have 4) Wednesday Night Normals 8.1.5 patch news Economy Ren: Still making around 20k/day but shifted focus from farming mats to crafting stirrups and hoofplates with cheap monelite

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Wednesday Night Normals group - Shrine of the Storm and the Battle of the Bridge Zignea, Level, Geomancer, and Alla Got 10th 120 - finished my Horde panda mage Economy talk in news Mike I have decided to start getting money Went through all my toons to see what I have My value is 2.1M gold So many things that are wasting space This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Feb 9th, 11:59 PM server time Lunar Festival ends Feb 11th Love Is In The Air starts Feb 12th (no information on updates for 2019) Pet Battle Bonus Event begins Feb 12th - no Squirt battle available for NA realms (not until May 24th), but she will be up on EU realms on Sunday, Feb 17th News Method World First - Mythic Jaina (Limit was either #2 or #3) 8.1.5 news Fun with Tradeskill Master

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Rushing my warlock to 120 on Sunday, to iLevel 320+ and Darkshore, finished main lines of all zones, war campaign to date, current iLevel 361 Island campaigns Why Demonology Lock is becoming my new main, on both sides Mike Mog runs Finished up some things in Emerald Nightmare This Week in WoW Lunar Festival - Jan 28th - Feb 11th 31st: Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl mini event News Naked & Afraid Updates Flying Pig Mount available on Chinese servers for a 6-month subscription for the Year of the Pig Thursday Q&A with Ian Hazzikostas Discussion from Discord: Should Draenor flying be grandfathered in for all players?

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Getting my red-butt skitterer Void Elf Warlock is now level 112 Avoiding getting rid of the Irontide Hat disguise Yet Another Headset Mike Started working on toys, and more mounts, and my Void Elf This Week in WoW World quest event - 1000 order resources Tuesday: Battle of Dazar’alor raid opens Pandaria timewalking Call of the Scarab microholiday News Naked & Afraid updates - No new 120s but many making excellent progress! Tides of Vengeance 2 goes live Burning Crusade released 12 years ago - A Retrospective

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike 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”

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Renata Finished second part of war campaign on Horde - what’s unlocked anyway Up to seven 120s, closing in on #8 - getting sick of the 110-120 leveling grind Thoughts on incursions Thoughts on Battle of Darkshore Taking advantage of the leveling improvements Learning to “edit” Professions? New headset - yes, another one Mike Got the Hivemind Spending time on misc. things Might start on toys this weekend. This Week in WoW Ongoing: Feast of Winter Veil BfA Dungeon Event until Tuesday Tuesday starts Pet Battle Bonus Event - and Squirt Day on NA servers! News Naked & Afraid Update Disabling XP Gains at 110? Blood soaked Tome of Dark Whispers - allows hunters to tame blood beasts (crawgs and blood ticks) Blizzard is retiring several mounts, pets, and helms from the Blizzard store - Ivus loot bug: suspensions incoming Pet Smugglers: Olly and Dodger

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Renata- Finished zones and war campaign on Alliance Working on zone achievements - got the Wicker Pup doing the Drustvar treasure achievement Decided to shelves Naked and Afraid characters until December 10th - using the Celebration buff to run up 110s Mike Exalted with Storm’s wake Just Champions of Azeroth and Turtles left Got two pieces of gear from anniversary New 355 headpiece - i352 now I now have two pieces with compasses on them. Neither are in sync. This Week in WoW Pilgrim’s Bounty - Nov 19 through 26 Arena Skirmishes start Tuesday News Warcraft turns 14! Now through November 30th The rest of the Blizzcon Q&A questions are up and answered Forum upgrades Segment: Remembering vanilla

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Renata - Exalted with all BfA factions Hordeside 2 level 30s in Naked and Afraid - one doing MUCH better than the other 120 #5 - Orc destruction warlock This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until Saturday Pet Battles this week (Squirt is coming November 10!) Monday 12th: Moonkin Festival Tuesday: Burning Crusade timewalking News Naked & Afraid is well underway! And with that …. Experience Reduced in upcoming 8.1 Experienced required to level from 20 to 120 has been reduced - biggest reductions In the level 20-32 ramps up from 2.5% to 20% drop 33-58 ramps up from 20% to 39% drop, about a half percent increase per level 59-66 40% drop 67-80% 39-26% drop, reducing 1% per level 81-111 25% drop Minimal drop 111-120 (less than 1%) Allied race issue: Classes misreported at Blizzcon Zandalar trolls cannot be warlocks, and Kul Tirans can be mages. Classic Demo extended to November 12th Diablo Immortal: Conflicting info on whether Blizzard was planning to present D4 information at Blizzcon but then decided against it. Blizzard has said they did not make such plans Blizzard has said they are working on several mobile projects across multiple titles, some with NetEase, others internally Segment: Making WoW friendly for people that are dyslexic

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: Finished 120 on my Alliance rogue - still haven’t set foot in Drustvar Starting to hit Revered with various factions on Horde rogue Did warfronts on Horde rogue and paladin First warfront (rogue) - lots of fun, very quiet, felt epic - got a 355 cloak 370 bracers Second warfront (pally) - ended up tanking a lot of the bosses, including the last one - self-appointed “general” who would not shut up - got a 340 BP and 370 cloak Had issue when tried to take pally in - 320 minimum iLevel but was 309 Made some purchases to shore up worst items Tried to upgrade items through WQs but wasn’t getting much luck with availability - only azerite item still 310 was hat, and I got 3 breastplates in a row from azerite caches Thanks to Thecowking for tipping me off to a cheap level 355 Darkmoon trinket that took me from 316 to 320 Mike: Got a mythic +2 chest! Oh, but it has a lesser item than what I had :P Rep, rep, rep This Week in WoW: 18th-25th - Harvest Festival; Pet Battle Bonus Event 18th - 19th: Pirate Day 20th - 6th: Brewfest News: Blizzard Virtual Ticket on sale - $49.99 (same as last year) Most will be available until March 31, 2019 - Community Night and closing night guaranteed to be up for 1 month after event No details on in-game loot, except for an Overwatch skin for Sombra modeled after the Diablo III demon hunter Ian Hazzikostas will be having an AMA on /r/wow (started at 2 PM PST today) so we will go over that next week. Classic WoW AMA 0n the /classicwow subreddit - some highlights

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: “Fixed” my problem with subtlety rogue Working rep with rogue - finishing all quests in each zone 114 worgen rogue working through Tirisgarde - “the zone that never ends” Major rant about the differences between layouts of Dazar’alor and Boralus Harbor, including a major physics problem for the Horde Found another way archaeology is different = Darkmoon Faire War Campaign on Horde on hold until Revered with Honorbound Mike: i339 Mythics with Ali Finished the whole Kul Tiras storyline Oh, but you have to be revered with 7th Legion to continue with Z Working hard on rep because ^^ Arathi was amazing. Lag on night one So many epics and toys One more heroic for the achievement Working on Pathfinder This Week in WoW: Darkmoon Faire until Sunday Warfronts open (more in news) Uldir opens Next Tuesday: BfA Dungeon Event begins News Notable hotfixes of the week Unintended gear drops - Blizzard corrections

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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?

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up This Week in WoW: Pet battle bonus event Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday News: Lots of hotfixes to classes, creatures, professions, raids, dungeons and quests - almost daily since prepatch Hotfix to experience: experience required to level has been lowered for all levels 40-100. Reduction averages 14% between 60-80, with smaller reductions at other levels. Quest log bug - “Due to an issue, during a short time between 1st of August, 09:30 pm and 2nd of August 01:45 am players would get all their quest log abandoned when using a teleportation ability, such as hearthstone or mage portal. This issue is fixed by now, and we will try to assist you with recovering your quest progress. If you lost a progress of a quest, that can be completed during single play session, please, proceed by restarting this quest. If you were impacted by this issue and you lost a progress of a multistep quest, that takes several days to complete or a quest that you are not able to pick up anymore, we will try to recover the progress. Please, note, that we do not guarantee to recover progress as it was before the loss, but we will do our best.” War of Thorns parts 1&2: thoughts

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: Mocktail of the Cast: Juniper and Tonic Shoulder surgery on June 9; haven’t been able to do much in game since Shoulder surgery turned out to be a little more involved than anticipated; spending 2 weeks in cast. Now have leave to spend small amounts of time out so I can type, but WoW doesn’t work Playing turn based strategy games instead Tried a multi button gaming mouse and the compact keypad and neither worked well Figured out the art of mouse flying but fighting is nearly impossible Finished home renovation projects Only real post-patch activity is logging onto characters and resetting talents Mike: Tried to get in on Tuesday. Nope. This Week in WoW: Who knows -- it’s been damn near impossible to play This week: Battleground Bonus Event - next week, Legion Dungeon Event News: CALL THE ORKIN MAN became OMG the bugs Drivers Some people reporting their drivers are fully up to date but Blizzard still flagging them for having un-updated drivers Legion App: Problems with only being able to access 3 characters Only way to change characters: log completely out of the app, sign back in, and select the starting character you want BlizzardCS confirmed in a tweet on 7/19: “Switch Character button was intentionally removed. You now switch characters by logging out, then logging in again. You'll be taken to the list of characters to select from at that point.” Cue well deserved community shit fit. Now as of 3:30 PM EST, they are saying they are “working on a fix for this issue.” Talents Icy-Veins has already updated class guides and talent suggestions for prepatch Communities Disabled on some realms, in testing on others 8.0 Undocumented features Q&A overview

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mike: Lucid Nightmare Map tips Finally upgraded to BfA Void Elf Even if you did all the prerequisites, you still have to do a short scenario to unlock each race (thanks Discord) Played the void elf for a few mins. Nothing special. More dungeons with Ali. Horde side BIG FONT BUG Killed Patreon Ren Also Lucid Nightmare (and considering Riddler’s Mindworm next) Still haven’t finished Fisherfriends Call for tips on how to play WoW one handed This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire Legion Dungeon Event Thousand Boat Bash News Million Dollar Pet in BfA: Francois the Faberge Egg Pet - near the 15th Annual Norwington Equestrian and Hunt Festival in Tiragarde Sound (hint: you only have to have it, not spend it!) New BFA items: new Vrykul helms, a candle helm, and a fish shaped mace Gale Rider glider, similar to Goblin Glider, that only works in Kul Tiras Discussion: Given the direction of the upcoming expansion (war between the factions), will this, or should this, have any bearing on deciding which toons to go forward with first? How will your characters react to the war?

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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?

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Ali (@aliandrasK) joins us to talk about Battle for Azeroth alpha. This week is Cataclysm Timewalking. Tuesday the 20th Arena bonus week. Un'Goro Madness starts Sat goes through Mon.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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?

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Cara(clysm) (@xandara) fills in for Ren. Mike Rep grinding is making me bored. Even if I did this when it was new, I find it dull because it’s too repetitive. 50% boost in rep from Sign of the Emissary, so go do it! I also haven’t upgraded yet. When I get to exalted in all 4, then I’ll do it. No rush now. Farming for the Love Rocket. No drops. Achievement runs Cara Heroic Antorus 2/11, first bosses aren’t too different Haven’t upgraded to BfA yet because I still feel like I have plenty to do without it right now, curious to see how long that will last But also I don’t really care about things as much as I used to? Like it’s still super fun! But I don’t feel like I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED it. I.e. Love Rocket runs, I do them when I can but I don’t frustrate myself trying to fit them into my day I did claim my character names I want for my BfA allied race alts though. Seems they freed up a lot of names recently so if you have a name you couldn’t get before, give it a shot now! Me too! -MG (kek) This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until the 11th Lunar Festival starts a week from today Ulduar News: BfA alpha is going out to some people. Not me :( Watched a few streams. Some people need to learn how to stream (don’t be rude!) I found the starting areas to be ok. Didn’t watch long. Wasn’t anything really impressive yet. Hotfixes: Nightborne faces should match what was selected Fire mage damage increased by a whopping 3% Hunter BM damage increased by 2.5% From Discord: BfA comes with a level 110 boost Shout out to PurpleMoose in Discord who was struggling what to do and used it for a Nightborne rogue. Utheron - bad experience with a GM. Was trying to make him switch specs.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv 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.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Thanks to Cara for filling in for me last week - also thanks for the tips on how to speed up load screen times Hit Revered with Argussian Reach, Exalted with Scryers and Shado-pan Finished 6 out of 7 class mount quests for my 110s (druid, mage, rogue, hunter, warlock, and priest) - only warrior to go thoughts on class mount quests and how class mounts are treated differently Finished 150 mounts usable on 1 character for the Jade Pandaren Kite (currently at 164) Got 3 Shado-pan mounts and a couple “unsolicited” mounts - Wild Dreamrunner and Crimson Slavermaw Finished Argus campaign on 3 characters (druid, warlock, and rogue) One stupid three star Crispy Bacon recipe short of finished with cooking with warrior Mike: Nothing this week. Too busy. This Week in WoW Continuation of Winter Veil Mists of Pandaria Timewalking Shaman Challenge: 2 new finishers = Rokica and Settlersrule Discussion: 2017 In Review

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com 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

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.

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?

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren: WHO BENCHES ELI? Accidental discovery: how accidentally three-manning heroic Eye of Azshara turned into two-manning normal dungeons (EoA, Black Rook, Vault of the Wardens, Violet Hold, Darkheart Thicket, Maw of Souls), mage and warlock style Epic troll druid progress: Resurrected October 26 -- in 30 days, leveled 101-110, finished 2 druid weapons, class hall, Broken Shore campaign, Argus campaign, iLevel 913 Worgen mage finished class hall, almost finished Argus, iLevel 911 - first level 1000 legendary Mike: Achievement hunting w/Ali Mount farming - nothing this week dropped :( This Week in WoW Antorus opened Antorus Mythic opens next week End of Pilgrim’s Progress, 13th Anniversary Pet XP event ends Tuesday Cataclysm Timewalking next Tuesday News and Discussion Shaman Challenge - new finishers and a new record! New secret mount discovered http://www.wowhead.com/item=152814/maddened-chaosrunner#comments New mount in Heroic Argus - Violet Spellwing Spoilers from the cinematic! Classic server discussion continued What happened when? An overview of vanilla patches Mod histories When did mods become available? First Mod of the Cast - SellValue, 26 March 2006 First 5 mods still available from Curse (but only one still works)

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.

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren - Shaman: level 96 Shaman challenge spreadsheet (of course it’s a spreadsheet) Resurrected old Legion baby troll druid Remembered why auction mules need to be at least level 10 Looking forward to season 12 in Diablo 3 Mike - Lots of mount runs on all toons. Only got the egg. I figure out how to solo Deathwing. Also, I tend to one-shot things. This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Saturday Lich King timewalking Sunday - Moonkin Festival in Moonglade (1 day) Observe baby moonkin dancing, napping and moonfiring and get your own temporary Moonkin Companion pet for 24 hours Other quests let you increase up to 5 moonkin babies following you around for up to 5 days World boss: Ana-Mouz in Suramar. Drops Skimpy Leather Tunic for transmog.

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

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Episode 264 Ren LIfe invasions continue - but for good reasons New microphone! (and why it’s a commitment stand-in) Seeing if I can resurrect the original Renata (but not til 6 PM tonight) Level 72 shaman Diablo III Contemplating a hardcore run for new Seasons (starts Nov 9) New undead murloc necromancer pet rocks Got Naxxy, and Pepe is uncomfortable on my Gilnean form witch hat Mike Horseman’s Reins Steamwheedle rep does work in Badlands And Tanaris Can’t really find any other post-cata quests. Is there something I’m missing because killing mobs for 2 rep each is not fun. Timewalking - got a 905 chest, iLvl went down one point lol. This Week in WoW Hallows End ends (Wed Nov 1) Day of the Dead starts (Nov 1 - Nov 3) World Quest Bonus Event starts (Tues Oct 31) News Shaman Challenge First two Finishers! Filius, with troll shaman Shameena reached level 110 in 4d 5h 44m and 14s. Jemela, Draenei shaman 2 days 10 hours 45 minutes, 41 seconds Token prices on the rise again - noted by Discord user JSHMLR 190k on US servers average, 290k on European servers Patch 7.3.2 - Documented changes Includes additional tuning for Antorus, but the raid isn’t open yet Balance druid and elemental shaman changes - Shamanistic Healing trait redesigned - now heals for increasing amount per rank (was fixed) with a fixed cooldown for 30 seconds (was 30 seconds minus 2 seconds per rank) Three new class hall missions giving follower armor rewards Added a Primal Sargerite vendor to the Vindicaar Can now sell a number of legacy class set items back to vendors *SPOILERS about the next expansion?* As of today, until Oct 31, Wowhead is giving away 15 Blizzcon Virtual Tickets. Visit Wowhead for entry details. It’s next week! Possible leak of the expansion title?

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Too much adulting this week - only got to level 70 in shaman challenge Update on the restore/switch faction bug INCOMING: New mic Mike Shaman to 50. 200 mounts! Hallow’s End Got 150 treats in one night. Naxxy! The trick to doing the wickerman - invisibility items. Instant vs. casting time. Trying to get the headless horseman mount - how many years has it been? This week in WoW Black Temple timewalking - dropping base i900 items, NOT i930 Hallow’s End Tricky Treats - Headless Horseman, daily quests, candy buckets. Use to buy masks, costumes for you or for pets (there’s three pug costumes and one Pepe skin), consumables, pets (Naxx, Sinister Squashling, Cursed Birman, Feline Familiar or Widget the Departed), heirloom upgrades (armor casings), and toys (horse head and tail, Little Wickerman) Wickerman (Grim Visage) buffs for baby shamans (10% exp and rep for 2 hours)! XP bonus applies to mob kills only - doesn’t increase XP from quest turnins or pet battles (“Apply Aura: mod Experience Gained %(mob kills only)”). Rep bonuses: does work with Legion tokens and other commendations in the game, and does stack with human’s 10% exp racial ability New this year: Naxxy, undead companion pet (150 Tricky Treats) New costume - Xavius (200 treats) New front and back end of a horse Headless Horseman drops 880 loot Magic Broom - 25% drop rate out of Horseman’s stash mount - 0.5% 880 gear includes a sword (kind of silly for anything other than transmog), helm, and rings News Elysium shuts down because someone was taking home 2000 euros/month and someone else was running a gold selling service. Patch 8.0 made a (very) brief appearance on beta servers Mod of the Cast HandyNotes

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

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren - All shaman challenge! Mike Lots of mog stuff in AQ this week Shaman challenge - got to 15 pretty fast. Was going to play more on Wed. but got sidetracked. This Week - Brewfest ends Friday - Harvest Festival mini holiday on Friday Darkmoon Faire ends Friday Next week: Pet Bonus Experience - 300% pet xp News Legion Q&A No word on artifact appearances yet, but they’d like them to be mogs Exception - the shit you gotta work for :D Same with druid forms You can upgrade to 1000 the same way you did with 970 No new legendaries being added to the loot table More MDI in the future. Wants to give more classes more utility Maxed followers needed for Antorus raid missions Argus whistle will be unlocked on all characters shortly Krokurun and Mac’aree world quests will NOT be account wide - story dependent AK goes up until 55 Spider boss will be back Thinks that not everyone having everything is OK. But it’s not. problem - in vanilla you can work for it. There will be Sylvanas/Greymane story progression People still bitch about RNG (news at 11) - GATING OVER WAITING There will be better server connections No flying in Argus. Ever. PvP more character-specific. Shaman Challenge New names proposed (Xandara): Transcendental Elementals, Developmental Elementals, Nonjudgmental Elementals Naked & Afraid - “No Guild. No Gear. No Gold.” Will run a Naked & Afraid Challenge after the holidays Several Naked & Afraid Rules clarifications (posted on Discord #shamanchallenge channel) Tips from Ren and members of the Discord channel And Ren’s “do as I say not as I do” tips (how not to f**k up) Prize for completing the Shaman Challenge!

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Special guest Christy (@christylou) joins us! Ren: No, the Starlight Beacon does not work in Argus, but decent for Magic of Flight Mike: Siege of Orgrimmar is eternally long (w/Ali) Mount farming This week - 0 Trying to finish up achievements in old raids…..for mounts :D Did ⅘ of the MoP dungeons - forgot to do the fifth. This week in WoW Brewfest continues Tomorrow starts Harvest Festival - honor a fallen hero (NOT the Pilgrim festival) News: New Battle.net app on the Apple/Android stores. Chat with your friends! Argus unlocks on your alts!! “Appear Offline” coming “soon” Audio dramas - “1000 Years of War” Will be an expansion announcement at Blizzcon New project for Blizzard -- announcement of a job opening for Senior Client Engineer for a MMO real time strategy game on the Unity engine -- probably an iOS/Android game from the job description

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!

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 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

Mike: Farmed for the recipe. Took about 20m. I had 72 Shadow Silk in my inventory (ha! pack rat!) Make 8 Shadoweave Masks. Farmed more silk. Total at the end of the day, over 80k gold. Finished chapter 2 of Argus Bug in a invasion point Naigtal - Spores give 1M damage/tick, kept getting it on rez. Problem - skull mobs walk around, can really hurt you. Spore bug Not a lot of room to move Very hard to do solo unless you know how to maneuver Got my Sulfuras - Hand of Ragnaros Legendary on my DK Ren: Arena Skirmish Bonus Event Darkmoon Faire r Stupid dirgible is 1000 tickets News: Argus won’t have flying (but we knew that) The Flying on Argus debate: the tl;dr version Argussian Emissary Quests should now require 3 WQs Fel lava on Argus no longer damages pets http://www.wowhead.com/news=271115/lucid-nightmare-mount-discovered-by-secret-finding-discord Invasion points Available after finishing the second chapter of Argus in Mac’aree Starts with a quest from Ilidan, “Where They Least Expect It” to enter an invasion point to kill the legion commander Followup quest: recover 15 Argus Waystones to unlock Greater Invasion Points Invasion Points repeatable - you don’t need to be in a party to enter it. Will get credit just from zoning in. Finishing grants Artifact Power tokens, Argus Waystones and Veiled Aranite. Each lasts 6 hours Include Environmental hazards (watch your feet) and one unique objective Three stages: fill a bar by killing trash, more mobs spawn, LEgion Commander spawns If you wipe on Legion Commander, health will not reset Greater Invasion Points - can do once per week - Argus world bosses drop 930 loot Bring a Seal of Broken Fate for bonus rolls EMAIL

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

Ren: Cable cutting: Sling TV, HDTV antennas, solutions for watching football Played opening scenario for Argus What is it with night elves and bottled water? Don’t see myself going through this with more than one character Mike: Another legendary (waist) Got it from the world boss on the Isle i909 Working on getting the tokens for the next legendary upgrade. No new mounts. Forgot about Trial of Style News Patch 7.3 NEXT WEEK https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/32790-patch-73-official-patch-notes/ Other worlds?? Seat of the Triumverate - new dungeon 4 bosses Argus WQs (no surprise) Artifact customization New combat animations New items for mining, herbalism, skinning, tailoring, and shoulder enchants Achievements for the number of tabards you have. Class changes Broken Shore now has an emissary quest New factions: Army of Light and Argussian Reach - both advance with world quests, emissary quests, order hall missions and weekly quests Army of Light - Exalted reward: Lightforged Warframe mount for the low low price of 500k gold - looks like a gold mechanical golem Argussian Reach Exalted reputation paragon caches can include one of three Elekk mounts Other rewards Not a fan of the Hearthstone musical Not understanding the marketing behind it. Kel’Thuzad is the new hero in Heroes of the Storm What was with Jaina? lol Ali-Yesterday at 11:34 PM Oh hey everyone @here ....make sure to turn in your Legionfall Supplies before the patch. Once it drops, you'll no longer get the chests from that and the ap reward is also reduced.(edited) Email from Zak We fall down a rabbit hole about rare items from Uldaman. Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

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

News: What’s that thing in the sky? All of ToS is available in Raid Finder. Summer Games are out on Overwatch! Sharding? Plea to Blizz to remove sharding on NA RP servers temporarily. Approved in two hours? Yes, true - because RP peeps wanted no sharding. Still no release date for 7.3 - unlikely to happen before Gamescon in Germany (August 22) Speculation it may not release until as late as October A few more bans for selling raids/progression for RL money - Blizzard clear selling them for in-game gold is absolutely not a violation Mythic Dungeon Invitational: Clears done; 7 of top 10 clears completed by Europe teams. 2 Americas and 1 APAC (and 6 out of 10 were Horde ppbbbbttt :D ) Most popular dungeons: Vault of the Wardens (8/10), Halls of Valor (7/10), Neltharion’s lair (7/10), Black Rook Hold (6/10) Court of Stars (6/10 teams) and Eye of Aszhara (6/10) Rules deliberately vague on criteria for getting in - timing is just one factor Mike: Lunch with Thorn and Thyst Lots of thoughts on playing the priest (Disc, Shadow) Ren: Switched mains in Diablo 3 Necro: lot of fun, tired of getting killed a lot Crusader: “good enough” DPS and don’t have to worry about getting blown up so much - running Blessed Hammer build with the Seeker of Light set Rep-a-palooza didn’t happen, but at least finished exalted with Darkmoon Faire

Ren: Still experiencing life invasions, still playing Diablo III (up to T11, level 50 GRifts) Haven’t had much time to do anything else Mike: Hit the 500k mark Started playing the warrior again - up to 17, but too early to tell if it’s a good fit because I can one-shot everything. Wanted to play the priest. No time. Timewalking mount This week in WoW Northrend Timewalking Dungeon Event Darkmoon Faire this weekend (8/6-13) New Darkmoon Dirigible mount coming in 7.3 for 180 tickets -- start saving now! New cat mount/pet We talk about today's Twitch Q&A session w/Ion. Other news 7.3's Blood of Sargeras: Primal Sargerite new crafting reagent Transmute: Primal Sargerite (1 Primal Sargerite from 25 Blood of Sargeras) recipe comes from Alchemist Funen in a new zone, Krokuun Argus world quest rewqrds If you are revered with Armies of Legion, can purchase a shoulder enchant that will increase drop of Light's Fortune, which contains Primal Sargerite What requires Primal Sargerite: all kinds of new recipes for armor, jewelcrafting, engineering, alchemy example: Tears of the Naaru (shows all demons on minimap for 30 minutes) Primal Obliterum: needed to advance crafted armor to 935 Why Icy Veins says to dump Defiled Augment Runes before patch 7.3 "Patch 7.3 comes adds a new faction called Army of the Light and at Exalted you can buy a new BoP rune that has the exact same stats as the old one (Lightforged Augment Rune). It seems it won't get consumed on use, so Defiled Augment Rune will be relevant only by the time players reach Exalted with the new faction. "

Ren: Life invasions > demon invasions WoW - still plugging away at exalted - finished Armies of Legionfall Diablo III -- Season 11 started 8 PM EST on July 20, running a necro - When I checked at 20 hours in, the highest season necro was level 70 and running level 86 greater rifts (GR 60= T13). I was level 8 and grateful for pants. - Necro is level 70 running T4 (GR 17) Mike: How to report a bot Related: Vial of the Sands no longer crowded on the AH This Week: - World Quest Bonus Event - rep gained with all Legion factions increased by 50% - World Awaits quest - 5k order resources for completing 20 world quests - Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl (July 31st) - find Tipsi Wobblerune outside your faction's inn in Dalaran - she will go to diffferent inns every few minutes (pay attention to chat) - each tavern will have Tavern Enthusiasts, new drinks and food - some short term items such as Tavern Finery (a hat), food or drink that changes your appearance - Hozen Pool Party on the Veiled Stair NEWS Changes to world bosses - bosses like Withered Jim - rotation is currently random but will be changed to a fixed rotation Raiding with Leashes V - The Cuteaclysm - Collect in Bastion of Twilight (3 pets), Blackwing Descent (3 pets), Throne of the Four Winds (2 pets), Firelands (4 pets), and Dragon Soul (3 pets). - 8 of the 15 pets are elemental pets. There are also 2 magic, 2 dragonkin, and 1 each of mechanical, undead, and beast. - Achievement reward is the Amalgam of Destruction, an elemental pet. - Christie Golden writing another novel. No idea what it’s about yet. - ToS Wing 3 on the PTR - No more XP or Vista support come October, except Overwatch - Russell Brower leaving Blizzard after 12 years. Aker sends us a lot of information about what it's like to be in Method.

Special guest host Thyst (@thyst03) from Lagging Balls fills in for Ren this week! Thyst: 5/9 Heroic ToS Friend’s Heroic Lockout before KJ BoE farming (10 man group can expect 5-7 drops, 25% warforge rate. i.e, 4 915s, 1-2 920s) Doing Deep Six Brawls Normal Four Piece Mike: Timewalking BT and dungeons done Timewalking Black Temple with Ali’s guild - so much fun! Key for Mana Tombs works in Timewalking Got people some xmog doing Mana Tombs twice Tried to fix sRaidFrame, but it's too far gone. Replacement - grid2? Z Perl? Did the quests for the legendary cloths. Finally i907! WoW: Method gets first Mythic Kil’Jaden kill (of course). Longest progression race since Al’Akir. https://twitter.com/Justw8/status/886725643672711168 654 wipes!!! 19 new mounts in 7.3! http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/07/18/blizzard-panels-swag-san-diego-comic-con/ HotS: What will be the new HotS hero? Tease from the Dark Portal. It’s Gary Hellscream! Overwatch: Doomfist will be available July 27 Win/Lose rates for OW: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20757706588?page=2#post-24 https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20757527371#post-2

Support the show! http://www.patreon.com/starmike Mike: Windchanneller’s Raiment - an old secret? Tried working on ToS - long story. Got in two BT raids that fell apart before the first boss. Ren: Still mostly playing Diablo III - keeping up with Exalted, sort of Season 11 starts July 20 . deciding what my toon will be (necro or witch doctor) News: Black Temple timewalking is out! Make sure to talk to the NPC in Shatt first. You queue by having the raid leader talk to the NPC, and then you’re all ported there. “This is harder than timewalking”. No, it IS timewalking. It’s a raid, fool. Lockout has been hotfixed. Don’t forget to xmog before you go! :D “Appear Offline” coming to battle.net? http://www.wowhead.com/news=267447/appear-offline-mode-teased-in-hearthstone-update New caster animations Overwatch League is officially starting Blizz pulling back from SDCC-exclusive items - merch will premiere at SDCC and then will be sold online. It’s official as of 10:45 AM today: Kil’jaeden the longest lived mythic mob since Cataclysm - beats Archimonde (16 days). Current recordholder: Al’Akir (42 days) Mythic Invitational - PVE esports tournament - How it works: - July 25-August 8: group runs mythics and submits their 5 highest Mythic Keystone runs to Blizzard. - Blizzard chooses top 8 teams from each of the 4 regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and China) - September Regional Playoffs - single elimination until 2 teams remain - each region gets one streaming day. Blizzard chooses the dungeon (presumably different each time so no one can prepare?) September 16: China September 17: Asia-Pacific September 23: Europe September 24: Americas - grand finale: remaining 8 teams battle it out - Prizes: 1st: $50k 2nd - $20k, 3rd/4th $10k, 5-8: $2500 Email

The woes of trying to get rep with factions that come and go. Dealing with Dubenko the Turtle. Don't forget farm rep if you're working on Pandaria rep. Vial of the Sands is returning 30k gold in a matter of hours. Is that good? This week in WoW: Pet event: 200% xp Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday am Tuesday July 11 - Tomb of Sargeras - second wing opens to raid finder July 11, Burning Crusade timewalking **BREAKING** Doomfist is up on the Overwatch PTR Ren talks at length about the Diablo III Necromancer

Warcast turns 12 on Sunday! Thanks to everyone who has listened to and supported the show all these years. Mike and Ren go off on an unexpected tangent about games and age - have you changed your gaming habits as you got older? Dinner with Thorn and Thyst in meatspace! How to NOT recruit for your guild. Mike finally gets Vial of the Sands after a week of farming. - Was it worth it? - Can you undercut the competition? - How much are the mats and how much profit would you make? Authentication issues with the Legion app (Mike had login issues with the game as well). This week: Darkmoon Faire! With the start of Blight Boar? Fireworks on the 4th. Fire Festival ends the 5th. News Patch 7.3 hitting PTR https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20757296503 First wing of ToS LFR opened up. Blizz taking action against accounts that advertize raid clears for money. It’s summer! http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/06/27/qiraji-guardling-summer-pet-wow/ The Necromancer arrives in D3 $15 Overwatch hoodies from Jinx Mention of class development Reddit AMA that happened last Friday - https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/6j2wwk/wow_class_design_ama_june_2017/?st=j4inb11y&sh=c7617731 Discord! https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

News: Tomb of Sargeras is open. Midsummer Fire Festival Book of Matches - 500 blossoms Sets you on fire, and running screaming!! Gathered all 500 in maybe 2 hours or less Other new pets There’s a new(?) helm for 350 blossoms Candy Buckets addon helps a lot Blizzard signs two-year exclusive deal with Twitch to stream eSports More Blizzcon tickets go on sale July 5 Great, but what will that do for an already-full hotel scene? Overwatch: new map - Lunar Colony Overwatch: get a golden crate with a Twitch Prime account http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/06/16/wow-secret-finding-discord-uncovers-secret-behind-sun-darter-hatchling/ https://www.scribd.com/document/351437491/Sun-Darter-Hatchling?irgwc=1&content=27795&campaign=VigLink&ad_group=2332445&keyword=ft500noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrb02monDMg Mike: All you need to know about how to farm the damn Vial of the Sands recipe. Why did the price of Blood of the Mountain skyrocket last week? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

Patch 7.2.5 is out! We take a look at the documented and UNdocumented changes, including a compilation of undocumented changes found around the interwebz. Midsummer Fire Festival next week, with new items. Black Temple Timewalking is next week. Work on that Shaohao rep this week! Overwatch - Lunar Colony map June 20. Mike: Mount count is up to 189. Getting there. The Sunwell transmog set achivement is now fixed. Using a bank toon to auction things. Mike tried the Chromie scenario (tried...). Ren: The Wowhead premium subscription is worth it. The new flightpath toy for alts. Time to get the Bloodsail Admiral title?

Ren: Fun with rep grinding. Mike: Mounts up to 186. Class mounts became available Tuesday. Achievement run fun with @Xandara. News: All about 7.2.5 which Blizzard hopes to drop on Tuesday. We also talk about the live Q&A from yesterday. Mod of the cast: Ren - Reputation Bars Mike - Rarity, and Elkano's Buff Bars

Mike: Overwatch fun this weekend. Transmog - yes, you can still get new vanilla stuff after 12+ years. Renata: Reputation issues - go for 60? (hint: Mike is 67) News: Overwatch competitive season 5 started this week. Overwatch lunar colony on the PTR. Tomb of Sargeras opens June 20 We’re close to our class mounts! You can’t find a server without finding a covfefe. Good idea or was it a scheme by Blizz to get people to eventually change their name? How do people feel about Twitch? Darkmoon Faire Thousand boat bash Letter from Maxcorpious, human mage, Riders of Rohan, Argent Dawn - what are our hardware setups? Mod of the cast: Mike - Ackis Recipe List Ren - Request for a rep mod

Ren announces the winner of which headphones she picked and why. Squirt/200% pet binge - 33 pets from 2 to 25! Always listen to people when they say something could bug a boss. Abuse in Overwatch voice chat? Are DX Racer chairs really worth the money? News: Tokens went WAY up this week due to Destiny 2. Upcoming events in patch 7.2.5, both in scenarios and the Darkmoon Faire. Come join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

Spring balloon festival is this week! Don't forget your Inky potions! The new armory UI! How to buy a good pair of headphones. Your letters and comments!

Ren is back! Special thanks to Cara and Thyst for filling in this month. How to play WoW without playing WoW. Dark Animus 10H is a pain in the ass. How Mike beat it as a mage. Children's week is here! Should Blizzard make a Battle Royale-type game? (H1Z1) Other goodies!

Special guest host Cara (@Xandara) joins us! We talk about the Legion Q&A, fresh off the livestream! Is AoL rep needed anymore now that you don't need exalted for your class mount? Don't sell/DE your transmog gear too soon! How to not run a bad transmog raid. Cara tested out the PTR. Get Warglaves, get a transmog set for your Demon Hunter! Dark Mirror short story is out. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story/short-story/dark-mirror A bit spoilery talk about the Anduin cinematic. https://youtu.be/Ck8CTBkQ0lI Laggin Balls is celebrating their 100th episode with a 24-hour stream this weekend. More hidden items in-game. http://www.wowhead.com/news=263047/lalathin-hippogryph-tame-and-garrison-dog-in-dalaran-discoveries

Special guest Thyst (@Thyst03) fills in for Renata this week. How important is flying in Legion? Thoughts on Overwatch: Uprising. All about the AP. Gravity Lapse was amazing, but buggy, but still amazing. Getting all the mounts for the green fel firehawk isn't as easy as it looks. What do we think of the new Twitch app? Did Blizzard fix Noblegarden? And other fun topics!

Special guest Cara (@Xandara) joins us again! The mind worm and how to get it! Mike got flying. Is it useful so late in the expansion? Broken shore buildings update Cathedral of Eternal Night nerfed (why?) Champions of Legionfall is out! Can hunters tame Fenris? Use the Kirin Tor WQs to boost your AoL rep. Who got Blizzcon tix? Not us! Overwatch Uprising is out now for a limited time. How to get the Mind worm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UzvELi9no&feature=youtu.be&a

Special guest host Cara (@Xandara) joins us again. Thoughts on 7.2 part 2. The Armies of Legionfall rep grind is all you need to do now that Pathfinder part 2 has been nerfed. Inky black potion! Shard farming! April Fools Patch notes were on point. Clearance sale in the Blizzard store! Lots of other fun things.

Our thoughts on Patch 7.2

Ren's back! What our two weeks have been in and out of the game. News: Blizzcon! Blizzard bans people asking for real money for things like raid runs and mounts. Second relic trait removed from 7.2 and replaced with double AP from world quests. 7.2 preview, including flying! Forum discussion of the week. Mod of the cast Ren: RelicHelper Mike: Mount Farm Helper

Special guest host Cara (@Xandara) joins us again. Taking a break from WoW for a few days - pros and cons. Why there's a purpose to running so many alts. Cara talks about her Nighthold raid. Overwatch: new hero Orisa! Hearthstone: Un'Goro Crater expansion! The next archaeology quest is up. How to handle game burnout. How to let WoW work for you in and out of the game. Let WoW be your muse!

Special guest Cara (@Xandara) joins the show today. We recorded just after the WoW Q&A ended, so we cover that today. Are raiders really getting burned out? Mike gets another character to 110 - a monk. Could alchemy and jewelcrafting be improved if you're starting a 1? (spoiler alert: yes). A few thoughts about starting a demon hunter (again) Cara's links to the WoW Q&A: Clarification on old AP tokens in 7.2: https://clips.twitch.tv/warcraft/CrazyLouseSwiftRage Artifact Knowledge catch-up tomes in 7.2: https://clips.twitch.tv/warcraft/CautiousCaterpillarUleetBackup

How to not finish the class hall. Wike wins WoW (ok, not really). Spirit of Echer'o archaeology quest is up. Cataclysm Timewalking is this week. When doing Vault of the Wardens, please mind the gap. Mike's DK is now 110. Alt leveling guide. Your letters!

Ren gets an accidental 110 warlock using pet battles. Will Ren do an XP experiment? (spoiler: yes) Ren does Firelands for the first time. Mike spent more time with his hunter. Which does he like better - DK or hunter? How to get tailoring to 800 if your recipes are gray. What was with the WoW tokens/ Pet Battles at 200% XP this week. Love is in the Air has started. New 7.2 info

Ren finishes up the warrior class hall. Mike gets his DK to 100 - the easy way? We talk about the upcoming changes to 7.2 including the Legion invasions, new rep, new artifact traits. February's holiday roundup. Mod of the Cast - Barrels O'Easy and ArkInventory The Mailbox

We talk about the 7.2 patch notes that were just released, including details on the new pet battle arena. Thoughts on the Ahn'Qiraj mini-holiday. Lunar Festival has begun. Druid or Monk? - Mike tries out the class trial. We want to hear from you - would you like to see segments or you like the stream-of-consciousness?

Special guest Pamela Horton (@pamelahorton13) joins us again! Once again, an epic converstaion which encompasses Patch 7.1.5, Sylvanas, gaming relationships both in and out of the game, alts, AH expectations, and DKP points.

All about patch 7.1.5 Undocumented features! Leaving a dead guild for a new one. Why does Mike have so much crap in his bank guild? Ren discovers "Boon of the Zookeeper"

Moo! Ren goes nuts with Pet XP. What to do with gold that's on a character on another server you don't want to transfer. Ren changed her main to a warrior. WQs and alts. The Diablo 20th anniversary event! Why grouping for Sha of Anger at 110 is a good idea. Wand of Simulated Life

What do you do after you get all the AP for your artifact? Can you just switch specs wiht the same gear (answer: no). Finishing old achivements and getting pets. Some achievements you can solo, some you can't. Winter Veil starts Friday. Triple-XP for pet battles starts next week. Another Ren experiment - should you get to 110 soley by pet battles?

Special guest host Cara (@Xandara) joins us. Got the Star's Design Cara's anniverary present - very limited edition Warcraft novel. Upgrading to a Logitech G600 mouse. What is involved in "relearning" keys and "unlearning" the G13. Muscle memory vs. fast casting. This week's Timewalking is Cataclysm. Blizzard fixed the Suramar AP exploit. Mike finally transferred off Emerald Dream. WoW up to WoD is on sale for $4.99. Cara's raiding experience.

Our coverage of Blizzcon 2016

Update your addons! Some are slowing down loading the game. This year in Hallows End Day of the Dead started yesterday and runs until Nov. 3 - new stuff! Darkmoon Faire starts this weekend. Patch 7.1 is released. We talk about the new stuff, the bad stuff, and some undocumented features. While we didn't talk about it, Blizzcon is next week so be sure to listen in on our thoughts about it on the next show. Should the Personal Loot Helper addon be banned?

Special guest Pamela Horton (@pamelahorton13) joins us! (Mike is a little sick. Forgive the raspy voice!) Hallows End returns tonight Now that we're a few weeks in, what's your routine? Are alts still a pain to level? Mike has one, Pam has...more. Favorite holiday events. WoW Q&A - Mike's question was used! WoW Q&A link: https://www.twitch.tv/warcraft/v/94908250 My question was at 30:53 Artifact power fatigue? 7.1 dropping next week! Holy paladin secret artifact appearance found. Mike and Pam working on a super secret project? Follow Pamela on Youtube and check out her Drawesome Gaming series. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUDAGCLaeXfkvr6g_LcQtA

Special Guest Cara (@Xandara) joins us this week! News: Dev Q&A about patch 7.1 this Friday Hallow's End starts Tuesday Timewalking is back! Burning Crusade this week. Why getting more AP feels like a wall (but isn't). World Quest reward hotfix. Did Blizzard hit a home run with Legion's content creation? Why leveling alts will be better in 7.1 Raiding in Emerald Nightmare

News: Blizzcon is in a month World Quest bonus XP starts today for one week. Darkmoon Faire is this week. Economy updates. Assassination quest experience from Renata Your feedback and emails.

The Alt Wall. Someone got a Torn Invitation. Is Mythic group finding as good as it can be? Pathfinder part 1. Ren wants to do crazy experiments. Triggered!

Special guest host Patrick Beja (@notpatrick) joins us! And YOU get a Legendary! Are Mythics as scary as people think? Rep grind vs. gated professions. Is the economy in trouble? Life on a PvP server. Are we getting old?

It's week two of Legion. Mike and Renata talk about class halls, artifact quests, farming AP, gated professions, and is the game alt friendly?

Guest host Pamela Horton (@pamelahorton13) joins us to talk about our first week of Legion. News Flying coming to Legion, but mid-expansion, so possibly a year from now. Patch 7.1, return to Karazhan, will expand the Stormheim storyline. Roughly 9 weeks of new content. Legion companion app coming Sept. 6. You can manage your class halls and check world quests (yes!!)

Special guest host Renata joins us to talk about Legion, the past, and the future. * What happened to the new show? * What's been going on this past year? * Why bring back Warcast? * Is Warcast back for good? Thoughts on the Legion invasion, how it affected our alts, why come back to the game now after pushing it aside for so long? How to prep for Legion?

Our last show! Thoughts about the last 10 years, and some details about the new show that Mike and Eric will be launching on August 8! …and Infernal Bill!

Patch 6.2 and our big announcement.

Our take on the 2015 Q1 numbers. Patch 6.2 Heroes of the Dorm Warcraft movie now pushed to 2016 Should WoW use newer gaming technology to bring people back? Mystic Runesaber mount! 100,000 people banned from WoW

Blizzcon tickets went on sale. Next batch on the 18th. Warcraft trailer set to debut with Jurassic World Children's Week coming up. Practice your PvP! Hearthstone is out for phones! All about Patch 6.2

Blizzcon 2015 announced. All about 6.1.2 How will tokens affect the game? Heroes of the Nexus updates Hearthstone Blackrock Mountain coming Heroes of the Dorm registration ends...today! Hurry! What games have we been playing?

We talk about all the changes that came with patch 6.1

WoW 10-year gift is out. Eric T3 garrison and what it took to get it. Should you go all-out with the smaller garrison buildings first? Too many pets nippin' at my heels! All about the cool things coming in 6.1 A bit off-topic, but we talk about the new Windows 10 holographic interface and what it could mean for gaming.

WoW 10-year gift is out. Eric T3 garrison and what it took to get it. Should you go all-out with the smaller garrison buildings first? Too many pets nippin' at my heels! All about the cool things coming in 6.1 A bit off-topic, but we talk about the new Windows 10 holographic interface and what it could mean for gaming.

News: 10th anniversary event extended a week. Dark Horse Warcraft coming coming W way to get your missing followers is coming No more trap-stealing Hotfixes for January 5 Eric: Preparing for Molten Core Alliance Tier 2 garrison oh the zone and lore differences Switched the Outposts & different garrisons Inn, quests, recruiter (useful!) No LFD or LFR yet Mike: Busy holiday, not much play time. Some garrison followers up to epic. One mission rewarded Halaa tokens. Heh. (those are for mounts -ER) Spending most of my playtime doing PvP - PvE isn’t doing anything for me. Problem - tried doing rBG and nobody wants a mage. Warcast question of the week

Eric does the Great Alliance Switch Are pro-ground mounters starting to switch? More PvP for Mike's mage. Do you really need garrisons? Hearthstone now on Android We go over the list of improvements coming in 2015. This is our last show until January. Have a safe holiday!

News: Lots of hotfixes the last few days. Garrison outpost changes coming. Hearthstone Goblins vs. Gnomes is live. "The Last of Us" bug? New Charity pet What's up with the iLvL of followers? Eric does Ashran Is it server/faction switch time for Eric? What's going on with max level garrison missions? Mages finally feel like mages. To tailor or not to tailor. PvP happened on Emerald Dream

News: Icons, Icons, ICONS! What we learned from today's WoW Developer AMA on Reddit. All about garrisons and what we had to do to get to level 3. Mike's experiences with mages and rogues What's with the crafting bottleneck? Tales from Ashran Has trade chat gotten worse? THIS JUST IN - Crystal vials only sold in Ashran?

All about Blizzcon 2014 and our first impressons of Warlords of Draenor.

Special guest @ikrissi joins us. News: WoW back up to 7.4 million subscribers Patch 6.0.2 The Dark Portal event (no spoilers) Void storage - more bag space! All about the Toy Box Some addons work, some don't The new UBRS Talent resets And other interesting tidbits about the new patch

News: Horde Chopper on PTR. Upgrading from the digital to physical Collector's Edition. Brawler's Guild going away in 6.0.2 until WoD comes out. Legendary cloak quest going away in 6.0.2. New UI changes. Lords of War Part 3 up. Mike's comments on reputation when working on "The Insane" title.

What does ten years of expansions mean for the players that are getting older? What would Blizzard have to do to keep players interested for the next ten years, and how do you attract new players as time goes on? WoD was supposed to be out in June. Would that affect the Blizzcon announcements? Mike's experiencs playing beta last week before vacation.

Special guest @iKrissi is here to talk about Blizzard's WoD Cinematic announcement.

Warlords of Draenor cinematic and release date coming August 14. WoW's 10th anniversary preview Warlords of Draenor: Illusions change your enchant effects World of Warcraft down to 6.8 million subscribers What this whole JustinTV/Twitch issue means for streamers. Batman vs. Superman movie release date changed, now competing with Warcraft in March, 2016.

Warcast turns 9! Hearthstone Naxxramus expansion announced. Bottoms up! Undermine Journal closing shop. Rob Pardo leaving Blizzard. New male models released. Blizzard to sell SDCC exclusives. Auction houses to be cross-faction in WoD. Molten Corgi pet! All about beta (so far)

News: Blizzard releases a WoD Shadowmoon Valley preview. New Special Edition Armor PC series from Doghouse Systems with World of Warcraft artwork from Blizzard. http://www.DogHouseSystems.com/blizzard Patch notes for alpha. Black Prince buff until June 30. Midsummer Festival starts June 21. Eric's experiences in alpha.

Azeroth Choppers winner announced Hogs - 10th anniversary pet We're in with the Warlords of Draenor alpha, and we have a lot to talk about.

Transmog class items More WoD flavor items discovered Artcraft - Cosmetic Class Accessories Patch 5.4.8 with hotfixes Blaizzard created level 90 crash-course videos Tier 17 gear images Warlords of Draenor Alpha - Build 18297 Starcraft II hackers being sued Azeroth choppers

Special guest @ikrissi comes to hang out and talk to us about life on a PvP server. News: New female night elf model http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/14096397/artcraft-huntress-of-teldrassil-5-13-2014 Cloud serpent riding not needed for 6.0 Patch 5.4.8 http://www.wowhead.com/news=239002/patch-5-4-8-ptr-build-18273-new-mounts-database-updated-for-additional-item-upgr

Bodua B guests with Mike to talk about her experiences in purchasing Blizzcon tickets this year - what was good and what was bad. News: Authenticator update for iOS 7 - how to properly backup your info in case it gets wiped in the update. WoW subs down a bit to 7.6 million. Classic Blizzard games now available.

Blizzcon 2014! 50% off on World of Warcraft and Mists of Pandaria Azeroth Choppers eps. 2 and 3 Fiery Mechanical Steed Looks like there’s no flying in Draenor, even though there was a statement that there’s no definite answer yet. PVP School of Hard Knocks for Childrens Week (question of the week) New raid size mechanism PvP changes for WoD.

Azeroth Choppers made its debut today. Hearthstone is finally out for the iPad in the US/UK. Blizzard at PAX East Some people had WoD access, streamed for 9 hours. WoD invites STILL haven’t gone out yet, but beta keys did at PAX. Adam from WoW Insider hasn’t touched boosted character

News: Azeroth Choppers is a real thing: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/choppers/ New Tauren Male and Draenei Female shown (for realz!) Blizzard registers "Overwatch" trademark? New mounts datamined in WoD Mike and Eric go over half of the WoD alpha patch notes.

Mike and Eric come back from a one week hiatus, bigger and badder than ever! Mike is finally closing in on his Cata Legendary, while Eric worked on some more pet battles. Mike also got access to Heroes of the Storm very recently. Lots of news this week: April Fools! WoW 6.0 patch notes http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/12371977139 New female Dranei Happy Reaper http://media.blizzard.com/d3/games/happyreaper/ Herald of the Stars http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/13611763/hitting-on-the-selection-of-a-name-4-1-2014 Blizzard Outcasts: Vengeance of the Vanquished Pajamathur - http://www.heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/news/13593522/pajamathur-hero-spotlight Spirits of Harmony may become BoE after all Hearthstone for the iPad in Australia, Canada, and NZ http://www.wowhead.com/news=233080/warlords-of-draenor-alpha-has-begun Launcher chat active

New images of female dwarves from WoD posted. A bellyful of laughs! Wowhead updated their profiler tool. Good discussions on whether or not a WoW-themed version of Angry Birds is a good idea (or…are we getting Angry Birds in WoW?), and whether or not using flying mounts in battlegrounds is a good idea, even if they're grounded. Eric's adventures in the Land of the Lost to get the Tome of Dinomancy. Pet battle discussions. Mike's Legendary update.

News: Hearthstone is out of beta, they’re relasing on time. Hearthsteed if you win 3 games. Hearthstone demos on iPad at CN Hearthstone conference Heroes of the Storm tech alpha walkthrough WoD preorder is up. “On or before 12/20/2014” (meaning, fall). Normal or digital deluxe editions CE people have to wait. Free boost with DD version. Boost is $60 otherwise. Already seeing reports of bad groups Eric: BOOSTY GOODNESS - Hunter Celestial Tournament & 15 Max level pets Addon: PetTracker Mounts: Hearthsteed & Dread Raven Mike: PETS PETS PETS! Got my CE Panda to 25. Working on others, trying to find the right balance SO. MANY. PETS. Strats? Finally on the last part of the Cata Legendary. 24/250.

Eric and Mike talk more about hunters and pet battles because there needs to be more hunter discussion, right? RIGHT? Of course! Heroes of the Storm is now in "Tech Alpha", but still not out. No load screens in some WoD areas? Buy your MoP digital deluxe edition before Blizzard pulls a Disney and takes it away. Is that WoD gameplay real? Wowhead now has a Blue tweet tracker.

Budget cuts at AOL Tech means layoffs at WoW Insider. WoD info coming today. Silver rating in Proving Grounds required for solo heroic queuing in WoD. Hearthstone has new card backs. The fun of playing a hunter. Old school AV-type PvP coming back? Looks like it.

News: 5.4.7 Patch 5.4.7 roundup All games down today for maintenance Patch 5.4.7: oQueue's current issues to be resolved by Blizzard hotfix Patch 5.4.7 hotfixes for February 20 6.0 http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/18/warlords-of-draenor-pvp-rework-brings-back-skirmishes-adds-spe/ Orc female model revealed Level 90 boost appears up on live servers for $60 http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/shapeshift-into-a-baby-pand Eric: The ultimiate lovely charm farming experience (and grisly tokens) Mike: 748/1000 Finally killed Garrosh (still have to do the rest of the wing)

Eric and Mike (and WoW-This Just In) come together in meatspace. Eric talks about his time in NYC and how it compares to WoW. News: Love is in the Air has begun. Heroes of the Storm alpha screenshots. Some screenshots from Draenor on Twitter. Scroll of Resurrection going away. warcraftlesstraveled.com What are those pillars in Moshugan Palace?

News World of Warcraft up to 7.8 million subscribers Patch 5.4.7 arrival imminent as season 14 end is announced Two weeks http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/12801592/pvp-season-14-ending-soon-2-4-2014 Doronsmovies delves into The History of Warcraft in new documentary http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/02/04/patch-5-4-7-ptr-patch-notes-update-for-february-3/ (not much different from last week) Blizzard challenges you to put Garrosh on trial Hearthstone expansion details and Season 3 reminder Darkmoon Faire Love is in the Air Eric Hearthstone Mike Now up to almost ½ of what I need for the legendary Lots of inventory cleanup for the next expansion Trying to finish up some rare recipes

News: 100,000,000 World of Warcraft accounts infographic Patch 5.4.7 PTR: Level 90 character boost UI new Shop button Battlegrounds and Arenas Reaper of Souls CE Bots banned http://www.blizzposts.com/topic/en/234628/547-changes-to-battlenet®-chat#7 Quick mention of EVE War Eric: Archaeology, because Raptor Mount, dammit Two boxes of War of the Ancients: Timewalkers tcg redemption is on blizzard’s site, not cyryptozoic Did I mention? Onyxia runs now Mike: ⅓ of the way through the 1000 cinders Hunter to 80 The ilvl 403 gear kicks ass in pvp Question of the week - what do you do when an expansion is winding down? EMAILS Alpha geek radio fundraiser http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alpha-geek-radio-expansion

News: Human female update http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3707-Battleground-Win-Ratios-Upcoming-SoO-Changes-Feedback-Blue-Tweets-DLC-424 Hearthstone open beta New mount sneak peek on Warcraft Twitter Lunar Festival Great way to get XP, and decent gold for level 90s. Our week: Funny LSD conversation (“What are those blue dragons?”) T3 Priest chest on the BMAH Worked on my hunter. Still feel like I’m climbing a wall. 180/1000 Cinders Warcast question of the week: Would you say WoW is easy for someone to get back into if they haven't played it in over two years?

News: Iron Skyreaver mount is out. $25 Blizzard looking to expand microtransactions? You can now opt-in for Heroes of the Storm Seems like everyone has Hearthstone access now. Accounts are given access. Warlords of Draenor: PvP Power's proposed re-design Free character transfers opening next week for select NA realms Warcraft movie got a mention at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/interviews.html Eric: Mechano Hog - 100 Mounts achieve Farming Rep in Northrend for motorcycle recipe Attack of the buffet tables Black Temple farming Mike: Finally got past the hump in the Cata legendary quest. Now working on cinders. Need 1000. Hit a wall with my hunter - the same wall at level 71 I hit with my rogue. Warcast question of the week: Should players be able to group with RealID friends that play on the opposite faction?

News New skins and hairstyles planned for Warlords character models Someone read the script…. Hearthstone: Season 2 begins! Blizzard implementing callback support MoP will see another PvP season (15) Razer survey http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/esports_news/15533/wow-infographics.jpg Mike How to be a hunter Leveling 1-about 43 was easy, then it dropped off. What spec? I used BM. All heirlooms except weapon Not much difference between leather and mail except armor Hunters get an agility bonus of all mail (lol) The hunt for the right pet Dimiss your pet! petopia.com Leveling isn’t TOO bad, it would be nice if I could spend more time in some zones and less in others. Like having scalable questing. Pissy tank Eric Fully PVP geared (Tyrannical) Wintergrasp also good option + banners Hour+ queues for Horde An amazing Eye of the Storm victory Sky Golem More skymirror fun MONK FIST WEAPONS Legendary Chapter 3 Wife aggro PVP (also xmog bug) Arena, Warlock or Fistweaver

News Blizzard Customer Support warns of dangerous Trojan Today is the last day for Winter Veil Warlords of Draenor Level 90 Boost Survey, Blue Tweets, 10 Death Knight Heroic ToT Is leveling worth it anymore? What do you get out of it? Should we be able to pay for all toons or just one? After 10 years, does anyone still like leveling? New Year's Eve server connectivity issues Eric Reddit Secret Santa gift www.etsy.com/shop/SkahfeeStudios Guild! Learning to GM Legendary/Valor Revisiting Heroics post-Timeless Glory of Pandaria Hero achieves hoplings/quillins Skymirror and the onslaught of spiders and dinosaurs and special tricks for monks PVP/Dueling Mike Finished up some achievements Starting serious work on getting my legendary done What to do with a guild after break and most people hit 90? Laid back a bit. Took a break from the grind.

We catch up with Renata who was on Warcast for many years, and talk about birds, Blizzard, and the Giants.

News Wowhead introduces new sound database Latency and connection issues on all US Realms Warcraft Movie announces two new actors Feast of Winter Vale http://www.icy-veins.com/feast-of-winter-veil-2013-wow Eric Ai-Li Skymirror More Tol Barad farming Valor Farming, Sky Golem mats Emperor Sha-hao done (for quests), and the new Visions of Time questline Org with wreaths Mike Getting all the chests on the Isle You can get killed on the bird The cave by the Alliance landing point The chest next to Ordos Failed ICC 25H, redemption on Tuesday Making money on the AH from Winter Vale Eggs Winter clothes Boots (Eric’s note about Wool cloth for Horde)

News Patch 5.4.2 In-game raid/world boss LFG that works O->Raid->Other Raids Account-bound items can now be mailed cross-server/faction In-game store now live. (note location) Some stuff on sale. Monks still overpowered Customer service button moved (but I still see it) Game menu->Help The NSA Mike How to break OQ Arenas - got a chestpiece ICC 25 broken, but cust. service to the rescue! Farming still working out on Sunsong. Eric Healing Celestials, fight mechanics PVP build, Tol Barad farming easy honor (ohhh the memories!) Ugh Mage, and DK for that matter. OMG NICE PEOPLE, pet, lock, wipe Galactic Starfighter

News: Warcraft Movie Cast Revealed Robert Kazinsky, Warcraft movie actor, reveals he is a huge WoW fan Blizzard's Black Friday sale extended to Jan. 1, 2014 Ghostcrawler leaves Blizzard Mike: Timeless Isle - 20k XP/kill at 89, even the little turtles. Farming ore. More like farming BORE. BS still at 400. So. Boring. Finished wing 3 of SoO LFR. Started battlegrounds again. Druid to 90. Tillers to Exalted on more toons. Motes of Harmony BTW: Potion of luck and mischievous snow sprites = motes About 20 Golden Lotus’ a day OQ and YOLO RBGs Eric: Skinning night (northrend gorillas sholazar mammoths) Actual farming for Trillium for mount Karazhan for mounts, pets and...accidental LORE Pets Level 21 guild & taxi flight speed Faction PVP on Timeless Neutral Panda guy still at it - Level 76 Jinyulocs http://www.wowwiki.com/Jinyu Pilgrim done. Never again. Rogue hit 70 A touch of shadow priesting (23) Swifty Swatted Ex Astris Scientia: http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com

News: New Make-A-Wish charity bundle - mount and pet New female forsaken models from WoW Source (haven’t watched yet) Pilgrim’s Bounty Mon 25th WoW’s 9th anniversary past Monday, buff for rep and XP til Dec 2 Conan plays WoW Not a topic to spend a lot of time on - but the flying in 6.1 issue Who has frozen runes still? (I have 7) What other items that are no longer obtainable do you have? Blizzard Student Art Contest Eric: Re-specced healer Timeless tokens for spec & alts Running all raids again for wife Fight mechanics Accidentally geared myself Inventory/Banks/Mats oh my Mike: Transferring professions - harder than it looks. Started PvP with engineering on my rogue Nitro boots drop the flag Rocket launcher is neat, but necessary? Parachute rocks in AB Engineering overview Neat mounts Neat toys Neat pets Fireworks Blingtron Living Steel transmute is on an alchemist Guns, other weapons Gathering (mining) Adamantite and Cobalt ore SUCK

All about Blizzcon 2013 We cover everything in the new Warlords of Draenor expansion, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, and Starcraft II. We also have two interviews. Our first is with Bodua from our role playing episode 117, and our second with iKrissi who was on episodes 101 and 105.

News: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blink-182-playing-blizzcon-2013/1100-6415894/ More connected realms came online Blizzcon app now available Add your schedule Look at tweets, instagrams. Looks like they use #Blizzcon2013 Blizzcon next week! Virtual tickets for attendees! Don’t wait on stupidly long lines, order your gear from the store online. ** DON’T FORGET TO PRINT YOUR TICKETS ** Mike: So wrapped up in being an altaholic, I forgot about doing LFR this week. Finishing up cooking Did the Proving Grounds Warlock to 85 Started Brawler’s Guild. I’m level 1! (noob) What I’ll be doing at Blizzcon Music panel Voice actor panel What’s next for WoW Meet the Blues Q&A AIE Guild Hall Hearthstone Fireside Chat Eric: Don’t remember: first 3 parts of Downfall Brawler’s guild! From level 2 to 7 Blizzcon panel plans? Starcraft finals Voice Actor stage, game dialogue Artist stage: Burdens of Shahao & various drawing panels

News: Heroes of the Storm trademark conflict Potential new WoW feature caught on video Blizzard store now offering full Halloween costumes Hallow’s End Hallow's End 2013 Guide (October 18 - November 1) WTF SWTOR? Would Blizzard ever do that? Eric: SoO Downfall (but only Garrosh) armor drop! Hallow’s End again Mike: LFR finally - did all of SoO except last wing iLvl 510 Cooking going slowly Started playing on the isle again. Trying to find some higher purpose to it. Finished the next step in the legendary quest line. Guild doing well, people leveling up. Don’t seem to be enough on for heroics at one time for achivements. Old guild drama seems to be over. Some people left. Still no Horseman mount Haven’t played my mage in a while. AskMrRobot helped. 25k to 70k After doing what AskMrRobot said, went back, offered new things to do. Derp?

News: www.blizzcon.com http://www.wowhead.com/news=221826/heroes-of-the-storm-is-blizzards-new-moba New wave of Connected Realms announced World of Warcraft's base package now includes Cataclysm Three Hearthstone tracks up for download http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/media/ RAF temporarily shut down New RAF Mount Emerald Hippogryph Mike: *Still* have not yet done LFR Working on Anglers. Got the bug (pun intended) to get the Angler mount. Started working on cooking. No idea why. Farming rares on the Isle Never seem to have time to do LFR with how busy I’ve been lately (NYCC, etc.) Guild going well. We have more people under 90 so not a lot going on just yet. People working up to 90 Guild bank items not restored Nice to be social for a change and not have a “friends and family” tag like in my last guild because I didn’t raid. Eric: Underhold - Siege of Ogrimmar Emails Join Ex Astris Scientia! http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com

News: Blizzcon meeting stone BlizzCon Online Sale starts on October 11 The Underhold LFR now available Downfall LFR October 22 New Refer-A-Friend system revealed Eric: Gates of Retribution - Siege of Org Hearthstone! Also cooking Mike: Getting a good number of people for the guild. Some people haven’t logged in for their invites What are we doing? Why haven’t we done it yet? Getting cooking to 600. Should you use a token for stuff you can farm? Anglers - why 3 quests/day? Rares when fishing ups your rep w/Pat Nagle http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com

News: Warcraft movie has a release date - Dec. 18, 2015 Blizzcon virtual items http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/blog/11114480/BlizzCon_In-Game_Goodies-10_1_2013 Hotfixes for Oct. 2 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10932273/54_Hotfixes_October_2-10_2_2013 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/11144749/World_of_Warcraft_The_Ultimate_Visual_Guide_Now_On_Sale-9_30_2013 Getting your Noodle Carts Hearthstone reset happened yesterday http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/02/hearthstone-beta-patch-notes-for-october-2nd/#continued AIE Guild Hall http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484095571/aie-guild-hall-blizzcon-and-beyond/backers Mike: Trying to get xmog gear, still Lock still 82 All toons now on ED Priest has a few T4 pieces, can’t quite solo Kael’Thas. Void Reaver is a bitch. Did Coren Direbrew for some well-needed trinkets. The process of buying a level 25 guild Come join Ex Astris Scientia http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com Going to start doing LFR again soon. How do you get rep with your guild if you’re level 90? Wear the tabards Dailies Finish up some quests you didn’t do while leveling PvP with guildies Dungeons with guildies World Events Eric: VoES (3 drops!) Initial thoughts Yulon (1 drop!)

News Hearthstone beta getting a reset. Everything will be wiped. You’ll be starting from scratch. 100 gold for each pack you bought, 150 gold for each arena. Data after this wipe will cross over into release. WoW Movie rumors Colin Farrell (Total Recall) and Paula Patton cast. Map of Timeless Isle chests on mmo-champion. They’re not all accurate. Conquest points vendor is back WoW Trivial Pursuit is available for sale. Brewfest! iLvl 470 trinkets Boulderfist and Bloodscalp are now the first two connected realms. Should DPS/HPS logs been added to the game? Mike Paladin to 90. Still don’t know my rotation. Still on the island, but still feels grindy. Almost ready to start going LFR again. Best thing in life right now is not having raids forced on me. Transferred all but two toons to ED Deleted my duplicate 90 mage on ED because of the name. I can get a mage to 90 in far less than three months if I needed to. The issue now is professions, and what to do with them on these toons. Eric Bad luck on the island & Burden of Eternity http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/09/26/fitness-plus-wow-companies-seek-new-ways-to-market-to-the-gamin/

News Talk like a pirate day The big squish will still squish the mobs. Brewfest tomorrow! Conquest vendors are missing! Blizzard to shut down Diablo III auction house iOS 7 - back up your authentication ID Mike Lots of time on the island Good group Horde fighting horde Trying to get my priest geared first with cloth Still absolutely suck as a mage in pvp PVP ALL THE THINGS! Eric Timeless Isle: PVP and gearing and moar PVP Easy to gear alts

All about patch 5.4, until my computer locked up.

News: Diablo III out for consoles Announcing WoW Insider and Wowhead's Reader Meetup at BlizzCon 2013 Patch 5.4: Bashiok talks raid difficulty and unlock schedule Blizzard reveals Siege of Orgrimmar raid schedule September 10 – Patch 5.4 Release Normal Flex Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows” September 17 Heroic (Normal Garrosh kill required) Flex Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution” Raid Finder Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows” September 24 Raid Finder Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution” October 1 Flex Wing 3 “The Underhold” October 8 Raid Finder Wing 3 “The Underhold” October 15 Flex Wing 4 “Downfall” October 22 Raid Finder Wing 4 “Downfall” Reminder: Connected Realms will not be turned on immediately StarCraft II Art Tools Open Beta available Mike: More Hearthstone. Beta open in the EU Is this pay to win only? Can you beat people that spend hundreds of dollars on cards? I’ve been finding that it’s all about how well your cards work together. I did a live stream on Twitch. May do it again. Thanks to Zarhym for the backdrop! Eric: Darkmoon No Hearthstone Getting toons in order to gear for 5.4

News: Cinder Kitten 25% off this week only Rumor: Warcraft movie shooting in January Blizzcon barcodes coming (Eric and I got ours) Item squish likely coming in 6.0 Trading Card Game coming to an end We FINALLY talk about Hearthstone!! Mike: Priest to 90 Not sure what to do with her yet. Gathering as many conquest points as I can for next season Eric: Raid Scaling http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/08/28/low-level-dungeon-scaling-technology-completed/

Followup on Jim Cummings 5.4 Trailer out OMG You can keep your valor points in 5.4 "The Dark Below" - fake Raid testing 5/16 (today) on the PTR Season 13 will end on patch day, which should be Aug. 27th Hearthstone beta is out Mike: Priest still at 80. Leveling faster but getting “alt fatigue” Bought a guild

News: 50% off Swift Windsteed for one week only Patch 5.4 will not bring epic gems to Mists Blizzard releases more information on Connected Realms Blizzard introduces The Burdens of Shaohao Prelude: The Vision Blizzard music now available on Pandora http://exilic.com/m/articles/view/The-Faces-Behind-WoW-s-New-Community-Tribute-Items WoW Insider is looking for hunter and mage columnists Mike: Priest to 82 Can no longer get Benediction. Boo :( Soloed MC up to Gehennas Got two pieces of Darkmoon gear for her Found that the level 85 heirlooms don’t scale AT ALL Eric: What did I miss? Oh, everything. I went to Northrend and Grizzly Hills and looked at Jewelcrafting and Skinning and LW IN REAL LIFEZ

News What’s up with this Vivendi thing? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-vivendi-activision-idUSBRE96L07E20130722 http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/vivendi-might-force-activision-to-pay-out-a-special-3b-dividend/ WoW Movie Teaser - not shown on the ‘net T16 rogue set - looks like ass http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tao4ou4yUC4 Ghostcrawler, potentially, details the future of WoW at Chinajoy Hearthstone live stream scheduled for July 26 New collectables coming soon Mike Priest to 73 I was on Low Pop WoW Eric Monk on Proving Grounds Brief visit to Timeless Isle Undercity raid lols (monk pvp) Emails

News Blizzard at ComiCon Booth 115 Hall A Plush Zerg, mini Sylvanas, vinyl Shadow Illidan, papercraft, WoW Art book Funko - Shadow Illidin figure Booth 5343 Sideshow Diablo statue booth 1929 Insight Editions Art of Blizzard booth 1134 Licensing panel was today Cosmetic helms Possible hint to the next patch? From MMO-Champion You can possibly queue for more than one wing New Ticking Package for Winter Veil Possible texture from the next expansion datamined in patch 5.4 Mike: What do you do when your guild boots everyone for no reason? Hardened Shell BFF Necklace Starting to see item prices drop on the AH moonguard Eric: PTR 5.4 - Proving Grounds Emails

News Warcast turned 8 In-game store to be tested in Asia BlizzCon Talent Contest now open for entries Free character transfers for certain US realms Darkspear has a long queue Patch 5.4 PTR: PvP changes Patch 5.4 PTR: PvP Mount requirements Mike Priest to 66 Don’t forget the Ring of Blood Nerdtacular Eric Priest low-level heals The 90 conundrum Your emails

Security warning for WoW, and why the remote AH went offline. Shado-Pan Geyser Gun. Warrior and Priest T16 sets on mmo-champion. One level/hour (85->87) with @veroicone Deathfrost confirmed dropping from Ahune. 30m queues Realm Maintenance to hit episode 50 Mike: 6/16 Tyr Tried arenas for the first time in years Eric: Looked for low-level dookerdome equivs (uldum HoO) Summer’s here, economy changes

News: Flex raiding announced minutes after the last show 5.4 Updated Garrosh Model, 5.4 World Changes, Jun 10 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, GW2 Shoutcasts Massive world changes in Vale No more Golden Lotus dailies New Garrosh model Changes in Orgrimmar Flexible Raiding lockouts and queues clarified Area 52 server has a login queue of 1300! Proving grounds Virtual Realms Mike: Soloed as much as I had time for Tempest Keep was easy. Brought over my lock Eric: Streamapalooza light week because of e3 Emails

News: Flex raiding announced minutes after the last show 5.4 Updated Garrosh Model, 5.4 World Changes, Jun 10 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, GW2 Shoutcasts Massive world changes in Vale No more Golden Lotus dailies New Garrosh model Changes in Orgrimmar Flexible Raiding lockouts and queues clarified Area 52 server has a login queue of 1300! Proving grounds Virtual Realms Mike: Soloed as much as I had time for Tempest Keep was easy. Brought over my lock Eric: Streamapalooza light week because of e3 Emails

News: Character services 50% off this week WoW movie to start filming in early 2014 New Battle.net desktop client datamined Blizzard will be at San Diego Comic-Con Diablo 3 coming to the Xbox 360 (and PS3) September 3rd EverQuest Next teaser photo posted Mike: How to solo BWL PvP back on my mage Trying to finish up xmog sets for my rogue Eric: Kaelthas solo as monk Ahone - rare The arbitrary nature of world PUGs I game standing up Emails

News: New mount: Armored Bloodwing WoW Insider Poll /played (by expac) http://www.wowhead.com/news=213612/blizzard-on-titan-official-statement Mike: Shadow Dance nerfed. May go Assassin spec. What to do when you’re capped - Motes of Harmony - Trade for Justice points - get xmog gear - Gems - Mounts Pug low MMR groups Haven’t started doing LFR, but will. Played with a new opening rotation. Works...sometimes Tried OpenRaid Eric: Nal’lak the Ripper, Blackhoof, Bonobos, MAJOR NANNERS and DEGU wtf plus: lewts Back to Brawler’s Guild - Challenge Cards. Me and Mecha Bruce Brawler’s Fanfare (Triggered by First Rule achieve?) Bloodwing mount as gift! *** WE HAVE XBOX SHIRT AVATARS TO GIVE AWAY THANKS TO CM_ZARHYM *** Send us an email about your thoughts on PvP, or tweet us at @worldofwarcast, @starmike, or @ericrice and use #WARCAST Your emails and tweets

Patch 5.3! New scenarios New pets New weekly New pet Dungeon set gear Lesser charms and DS1 pieces from mobs New Battleground - Deepwind Gorge Loot specializations Massive PvP changes Everyone gets 65% resilience PvP Power gem stats cut in half iLvl 522 PvE gear makes Tyr gear irrelevant All gear scaled to 496 IN BGs Old school raid changes Voidbringers are back Mike: AV weekend meant lots of wins, at the beginning. Full HP gear, 2 pieces of Tyr gear The Hordebreaker Debating on what to do about this whole WPvP issue Eric: Darkspear Revolutionary farming in Barrens new helm 489 Heroic Scenario Tanking Finished LFR

News: 5.3 will allow you to farm low-levels in Pandaria!! Only works for miners and herbalists. 10 of a low-level item makes one ore. Should this work for tailors and skinners somehow? Ghostcrawler on the "sweet spot" in trying to keep people from unsubbing. And yes, the loss was due to MMOs in China How to survive on a PvP server Mike: Worked on getting my rogue to 90, which I did. Leatherworking up. Spent time cleaning out my bags. Lots of stuff that never sold. Eric: Running lowbies thru instances (instance lock is account wide) More tank practicing

News: WoW loses over 1M, down to 8.3w Is the game too easy? Lore sure isn’t a problem Most lost from the East Cata fallout coupled with Dailycraft? Prepping for 5.3 If you’re going to Blizzcon you have until May 14th to edit your info Patch 5.3 Tuesday? Eric: Tanking attempt again Guardian Druid & Brewmaster Tank Mike: Worked on my Rogue Did VERY well in BGs Tried level locking at 84. Didn’t work. Worked on leatherworking/skinning Level 85 BGs aren’t bad, could be worse. Emails!

Eric: Noob coaching Mike: Got my Blizzcon ticket Started taking screenshots of where players are in AB/WSG Finished up gearing up the Mage and started a Rogue Getting a rotation Dealing with cooldowns Staying alive has gotten better News: Children’s week The return of the firecat Ghostcrawler on tri-spec Exodus done w/25 man raiding Only 50 lesser charms needed now. THANK YOU!

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.

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

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.

BlizzCon tickets go on sale April 24 and 27 Blizzard defends not having an April Fool's Joke (and we agree) More Titan rumors! Patch 5.3 PTR: Fiery new mounts ElvUI does the Harlem Shake Eric: Westminster (Scarlet Monastery, Cathedral District IRL!) Archaeology dailies and by Archaeology I mean MUSEUMING Noblegarden (Attractions in London, walkthroughs, Dungeon, Doctor Who, theme park, China knockoff and WoW stuff, could it work?) Mike: Monk to 90 iLvl 470 pretty fast. LW has given me nothing I can use in 6 days. Getting undercut every day Noblegarden: Farming for eggs Chances of getting items while farming Best place for getting eggs

(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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4&feature=player_embedded Mod of the Cast: Mike - Dominos Eric - Screengrid Support the show! http://www.thenexicon.com Our sponsors - ThinkGeek and SquareSpace Donate to the show or subscribe

Special guest host Eric Rice (@spin). 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.

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

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.

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?

News: Blizzard announced the loss of 1.1 million subscribers. Is this really supposed to be something to worry about? Mists of Pandaria staggered raid releases. WoW movie news - what little there is. * Lots of info about Mists of Pandaria *

We're back! We talk what we've been doing in WoW, Diablo III, and how other MMOs are comparing against WoW. Lindy tells us all about how he's been doing in D3, and its effect on the guild. We cover some of the new things coming in Mists of Pandaria.

Lindyen's feelings about raiding in Cata. When is Mists coming out? Was Old Republic put out too early? Scroll of Resurrection gives you lots of goodies! How Lindy is getting to 100 mounts Excerpts from the dev water cooler - Hit and spell hit changes - How hit will be normalized - Block gets a separate combat roll - Changes to crit - How resiliance will change Your feedback

Class changes in 4.3 All about the lore-a-licious 5-mans! New raid - Dungeon Soul Transorgrification Void storage. Is it cool? Too expensive? The Darkmoon Faire is brand spankin' new!

All about Blizzcon 2011 and Mists of Pandaria!

Patch 4.3 on the PTR - Transmorgification - Void storage - New instances! - Troll instances no longer in their own section - Ghostcrawler's post on the 4.3 changes Is 25 man raiding dead? Is Blizzard really losing 900,000 subscribers? Listener feedback

Firelands!

It's Midsummer! Get your free gold and XP! Is Patch 4.2 coming on Tuesday? Authenticator changes Play cross-realm with friends! Some info on Firelands. More to come when it's released. How fast can you get to level 10? Soloing MC as a mage Blizzard giving away free copies of the game for vets' friends Listener feedback

All about role playing in WoW with Bodua from the Dark Sun Cabal guild on Lightninghoof

Blizzcon tickets went on sale Starman is going to Blizzcon! What will they announce at Blizzcon? 4.2 patch Can Blizzard cannibalize their own fanbase? Starting a rogue after playing a mage for six years How to go from 1-70 in three days /played Making money with inscription Turning a death knight farmer into a tank Making the best of PUGs Listener feedback Don't stand in the fire

Patch 4.1 ZG vs. ZA Raiding spring fever? In-game raid signups good enough? Fighting the RNG boss with a mage fire spec 5/5 4.1 Patch Children's Week What warrior wears heirloom cloth? THAT GUY! The effect of ZG/ZA on Maelstrom Crystals Wrath gear for 5-mans? Reader feedback What class for new players? Gonna miss Renata and Citizen Azeroth Mod of the Cast: ArkInventory

Lindyen loves Shadow Era on his new iPad 2 Starman and iKrissi start a guild on Emerald Dream Lindyen's warrior tales How to make money with Justice Points The current state of raiding Thoughts on Rift Twitter and reader feedback

Finding a new server home. Lindy - is the new raiding different than old? Rolling while raiding. Patch 4.0.6 comments. Listener feedback.

iKrissi joins us Cataclysm impressions Best way to gear up for heroics and beyond Money in Cataclysm A trick for getting Greater Celesial Essences Fortune Cookies vs. Mysterious Fortune Cards DPS, healing, and tanking in Cataclysm Rare spawns Reader feedback Starman's comments on the Rift beta weekend

Cataclysm! Archaeology New instances Gear level and instances Replacing Wrath gear Best places to get new gear

Blizzcon wrap-up Stompalina is a badass party planner "The Raid" Elemental invasion Is Cata's release killing raiding? Reader's emails Are you rerolling? Battle.net now has phone authentication

Special guest iKrissi! Blizzcon! Meetup! Patch 4.0.1! Exclamation points!!! Class changes! Reforging! Broken Mods! Earthquakes! Glyphs! Loremaster! Oh My!

Cataclysm - what we know that isn't going to change by the time you read this. Retro spelunking. Reasons for going through old dungeons. More ways to line your pockets with gold. Viewer feedback

We welcome Christy from Analog Hole Gaming! Errata about JC Minicasts coming Private server bitchslapped Loremaster and the Everyquest addon Thoughts on RealID now that it's been in use for a while Listener feedback and emails about shammy heal rotation and badges PvP, uh, good God, what is it good for?

We're going to Blizzcon! How easy is alchemy? Our new (possible) minicasts Starman was on Rawrcast!! Raiding - Hardest bosses in ICC - Thoughts on the 30% buff - Cataclysm raiding Listener emails

Lindyen rejoins us Our podcast feed URL is fixed! Thanks @askbuxley! Insane in the Membrane Making money using jewelcrafting Starcraft 2 is released! Future topics on Warcast Razer Naga vs. the Logitech G13

Starman does PvP. Yes, really! Fifth anniversary!

Interview with Megadan of The Megadan Chronicles Megadan Audio Sample

Alachia's raid team has stopped Alachia's prediction: Looking for raids? Beta or first day? Blizzard's new RealID Blizzcon ticket dates announced The Instance releases images of female worgen iPhone Armory app updated! How would offline tradeskilling help? Virtual spaces (housing) for pets, gear, etc.?

Our first live show! Special guest @iKrissi Celestial Mount and XT Could the WoW subscription model go away? Raiding or Emblems. Which is better? The good, the bad, and the pugging Gearscore - holes in the system Noob vs. Veteran Quest dynamics

Special guest: Lindyen Talks about our classes, our roles in groups and raids, and how things have changed for the better over the last five years.

An unedited conversation about the game, the show, and the direction we're going in.

Frustrating raid week w/Putricide What's with the raid attempt limit? Things you find out when you level a new character Encidia banned for a Lich King kill exploit LFG group exploit Outisde Auction House access coming Facebook app that connects your character Blizzard's commitment to security How to eye a phishing email Blizzard chat on Twitter Tremors update This Week Inside WoW Mod of the cast: Perfect Screenshot Photowalk PFQ: How has Blizzard made WoW better? Recruit-A-Friend with eljeppy

Our week in WoW. Man arrested for selling WoW toons and not giving up the accounts. Cataclysm friends and family out Tremors in Theramore? WoW Magazine quick review Alachia's Occulus runthrough Alachia's Hilt hell story PFQ: How do you play WoW?

"You'll shoot your eye out!" Taiwanese man "finishes" WoW Alliance/Horde mosaic Looking ahead at Final Fantasy XIV Responses about homogenization and balance Is WoW becoming too much like a console game? How do you play your class? Mod of the cast: Pet Leash Podcast featured question Photowalk

WoW's 5th anniversary Pilgrim's Bounty This Week in WoW - Raiding mentality Mod of the Cast - Kennel Podcast Featured Question Latest photowalk

Azerothunited.com Alachia vs. the RNG Boss Blizzard sells vanity pets Patch 3.3 WoW banned in China Printwarcraft.com is live Twitter podcast list This week in WoW This week's PFQ

Where has Starman gone? Trial of the Crusader's gear discrepency Flickr group Warcraft and Windows 7 WoW's astounding numbers Flickr daily challenge Warcast on Google Wave This week's PFQ

Hallow's End 2009 Minicast

Authenticator problems Apprecitating WoW by seeing other games Old Azeroth screenshot project What defines 'hardcore'? Pirate Day! Twitter responses "Daily" Challenge New Warcast Facebook group Figureprints Price Drop Print Warcraft

Brewfest 2009

Different attitude towards welfare epics? How interested are you in the Arthas questline? World Of Warcraft Magazine Ask us questions using Twitter Pre-Cataclysm Boulderfist Photo Tour Alachia's Old Azeroth flickr group Should you donate for mo

Blizzcon report World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Patch 3.3

News Patch 3.2.2 Bean talks about leveling without killing Alachia joins us for Ren's important announcement

Alachia guestcast How did WoW become so damn popular? The future of MMO gaming The state of raiding Melding social media and MMOs What's the next innovation in MMOs?

Venture Company quests WoW Armory App for the iPhone WarcraftStat Sam Raimi picked to direct the new Warcraft movie TCG Mounts to be BoE Server transfer now three days Hunter Q&A info Venomhide Ravasaur mount quest

Reports on the Midsummer Festival Patch 3.2 Faction Changes Worgen pet bug Aion Mod of the cast: Gather Sage 2

World Of Warcast's 4th anniversary show with Veronica Belmont and Scott Johnson

Midsummer Festival thoughts Thrall is Canadian, eh? Patch 3.2.0 Eye on Aion

Midsummer Festival

We're not dead Loremaster preview News Mountain Dew Battle Bots. Hooray. New MMOs: Star Wars and Final Fantasy XIV Heirloom items, info and tips Mods of the cast: Gogo Mount, Gogo Pet

Children's Week wrapup Ren's experiment update Starcraft II beta opt-in What makes a good MMO? Blizzcon tickets Martin Fury Old login screens? Should WoW allow all classes to start at 55?

Children's Week

Noblegarden

3.1 reports Starman actually tanked Argent Tournament Ren's Experiment The Insane EZ mode is over Who pays for respeccing? WoWMatrix and Curse Player banned after being hacked Carbonite Minimap Button Frame

Christy from AHG joins us What's with Death Knights? What to Death Knights offer? Christy's ready for 3.1 Should you merge your account with Battle.net? Gear changes to Battlegrounds and Arenas Mage changes in 3.1 Blizzard takes twinking away So

Patch 3.1 with Mike from AHG

Love is in The Air Starman rolls a Death Knight The Borean Tundra server Patch 3.1 Notes Economies on different servers

Love is in the Air

Respeccing arcane Kat Hunter rocks Getting 160 recipes New achievements in 3.0.8 The last chance to open the gates of AQ? Ren pwns a level 5 Blizzard pwns Glider Changes to mana regen Patch 3.1 notes Is Blizzard screwing tailoring?

News Achievements Ren gets a new video card An NPC named after the show? Dailies in Wrath

The Lunar Festival

Achievements Merrymaker Effects of Achivements in the game Should PvP be a requirement for holiday achivements? Is Naxx too easy? Higher Learning

Random topic show! Naxxramas If you're 80 you're hardcore?! New armory Dalaran Cooking Respeccing at 80 Ren gets an Xbox 360

Wrath of the Lich King

News Patch 3.0.3 Things to do before WotLK comes out

Blizzcon Patch 3.0.2 Hallow's End

News Warhammer Blizzcon Twitter Achievements and UI changes in WotLK

Wrath of the Lich King's release date announced Renata talks about Warhammer We talk a little about WotLK beta PvE to PvP transfers?! Paladin Roundtable

Starman's going to Blizzcon Starman goes mage horde. Again. Coming back to the game after a break Competitor's Tabards Blizzcon Recruit-A-Friend Wrath of the Lich King: - Glyphs (Inscribing) - Hunter Pets Newbie Tips

/AFK Wrath of the Lich King patch notes Mod of the Cast: The Dailies Quest Tracker

Blizzard Authenticators Midsummer Festival Renata vs. the G15 keyboard Diablo III Patch 2.4.3 notes Mod of the Cast - Mob Info II

Blizzard announces SecureID for its games Diablo 3! Mage Roundtable with Christy from Analog Hole, Dave from In The World, and Lindyen

News More WotLK info Interview with DJ Wheat from CGS Win tickets to the Blizzard Invitational in France! Coming soon: win Blizzcon tickets! Mod of the cast: Ackis Recipe List

Renata's leveling experiment Warlock camping fun Notes about the class roundtables Game fatigue New G15 review Fallout from the WotLK alpha leaks Flash vulnerability found Mods of the cast: Reputation Monitor and ag_UnitFrames Hunter boar pet fix

Hunter Roundtable

Wrath of the Lich King info

Podcamp NYC Epic Flying Mounts Children's Week 2.4.2 Notes Coming into the game for the first time

Will the real Cryler please stand up? Badges are the new currency? Server problems in the A.M.? The new Shattered Sun Offensive Dailies Mod of the cast - Focus Mod

News Patch 2.4 How to Survive on a PvP Server

News Renata's Reputation Guide

News Class Roundtable - Druids Mod of the Cast - Quest Helper

Patch 2.4 notes Second Skin update

Ron Paul supporters attack Whisperwind Spirit Wolf changes Gold Farmer scams Gear Reset in next expansion Blizzcast Rogues with Sneeq

Ren's back! News Starman hits 70...again 2.4 changes Mod of the Cast - Sanity2 Dell M1730 for Five THOUSAND dollars

Interview with Ed Fries from figureprints.com

Starman joins the dark side 2.3 patch impressions Guild bank theft letter from FreeFoodFTW Warden worries Shaman and 2.3 Mod of the cast - MiniButtonBar (MBB)

News 2.3 Patch Notes (OMG more patch notes!) Letter. Yeah, just one.

Coverage of the Patch 2.3 notes

News 2.2 Patch AOE grinding with Paladins

News Tips on Gruul's Lair Mod of the Cast - Kill Log

Introduction News PvP with Christy from Analog Hole Gaming Mod of the Cast - Chatlink

Blizzcon with Patrick!

Are attunements done right? 2.2 Patch Notes Letter of the week Mod of the Cast

We ask our listeners to report from Blizzcon

Guild Management Part 3 Interview with Dragons from The Syndicate

Guild Management Part 2

Guild Management Part 1

News Mod of the Cast - Rating Buster

Introduction Patch 2.1 Notes Blizzcon Leveling Guide - wow-pro.com Farming Buddies Mod of the Cast - STFU

Introduction News Gear upgrades Spell damage Mod of the Cast - Siena's Gem Viewer Conclusion

Has BC changed guild dynamics? Tailoring respec issues Mobs in Botanica

Introduction Second Skin The line between the real world and MMOs Karazhan Key Quest Part 2 Mod of the Cast

Introduction News The Armory More banned players? Programming your G15 Karazhan Key Quest

Introduction News Enchanting in Outlands Mod of the Cast

Introduction News New Outlands pets with Tuscan

Intro/News Renata's reviews of the new races' newbie zones Starman's self power-leveling tips

Intro News Is BC the Great Equalizer?

Intro News 2.0 Changes to Healers Mod of the Cast - Recipe Book

Ramblings about 2.0

Reputation

Introduction News Mages in Raids Game Master Pax

Introduction News WoW TCG Honor System Changes Combat Rating System in BC Healing Changes in BC Raid Etiquette

Soloing

Introduction News Burning Crusade

Introduction Keylogger Warning Burning Crusade Talents Decursive Shadow Priests Naxx Chests Mod of the Cast

News 1.12 Renata's Life At 60 Burning Crusade News Warrior's Den

News Space Paladins Jewelcrafting How to tell a farmer's a bot Mod of the Cast: Sheepwatch

Part 1 of our one-year anniversary Interview with Leo Laporte

Introduction Starman Changes Guilds...AGAIN! 1.11 News Minus 50 DKP! Hidden Horde Quest Mod of the Cast - Atlas Conclusion

Introduction News Paying for Characters Warrior's Den: Aggro Management II Mod of the Cast: Metamap

Introduction Starman does something stupid This Week News Hunter Pets Mod of the Cast

News, Warlocs with Infernal Bill, Balancing WoW and a family

News, Warrior's Den-Aggro, Mod of the Cast - Telo's Self-Cast

News, Guild Events with Kirnkaterre, Mod Wrangling, Mod of the Cast, And APRIL FOOLS! (real late)

Renata visits EQ2, Priest correction from the last show, Donation!, Logitech G15 keyboard issue, Cryler and Shadow Priests, Playing the Auction House, Paying for Tradeskill Work?, Mod of the Cast: Sell Value

1.10 Patch, WoW hindering sales of other games?, Warrior's Den - Stances, CT_Mail

Valentine's Day, 1.10 Patch, Life After 60, Lineage II, Soundtrack, Brian's Mic Dies

Chain pulling in Molten Core, Renata's Week, War Effort, OOC Rezzing, Raid Leading Auto-Profit Tool

The Ahn'Qaraj War Effort, thanks for your donations, Warrior's Den

Renata joins the team, newbie guide to World of Warcraft, Renata's Warrior Den.

Just when you thought it was safe to launch iTunes...

Looting in Molten Core, Blizzcon, Searches on our site, Contributors, Macros, CT Mod, Dell 2405FPW Review, Mage's Tower

1.7 Update, Corrupted Blood, The Pod People, Gold Farming, Paladins, Role Playing

Ding! 60, Loot Rules, Raiding, Are You Attached to Your Character?

Levelism, Molten Core, CT Mod, Mage's Tower

TavernCast, Too much WoW, Small guilds, When will WoW expand?, UU Tee Eff

Topics for this week are: How has WoW affected you?, Scarlet Monastery, Titan Panel, Loot rolls in groups

Topics for this week are: BlizzCon, Enchanting, Gnomeregan, Things That Make You Go Hmmm...

Topics for this week are: WoW 1.6 Patch, The Mage's Tower, Guild Wars Review, Things That Make You Go Hmmm...

Topics for this week are: Introduction, The Mage's Tower, Things That Make You Go Hmmm..., Cosmos UI, Tari'qa, Logitech MX 3100 Review, Gender Bender, Picking a Good Guild

Topics for this week are: An introduction to Starman and Lindyen, the classes we play, grouping vs. solo, MMORPG comparisons, Myrna Tyrgaarde, No Beggars Allowed, Mage Tower.