Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back to look back at Battle for Azeroth and prepare to enter the Shadowlands! But first, Rei talks about running Mythic Battle of Dazar'Alor and how listener and Mash Those Buttons family member Kurabara has joined Order of Corrupted Souls. Nick tries to list all of the games Kurabara plays and it is a lot. She has also been running Alterac Valley (Korrak's Revenge) for the ram mount. Eric, meanwhile, has been running Alterac Valley as a druid and having fun trying to stealth attack people, even if it doesn't always work. Harv also enjoyed Mythic Dazar'Alor.

Nick brings up that this is the final hours of Battle for Azeroth and asks everyone to reflect back. Harv rates it low, around Warlords of Draenor levels, and goes off on a tangent about Warlords and Legion trying to compare them. Shackles in the chat brings up the concept of Borrowed Power and Nick argues back with him about whether that is good for the game or not. Nick ultimately argues that something must be done, and Rei suggests a Guild Wars model of restricting the number of active abilities a player can choose. Eventually, everyone agrees they are glad Battle for Azeroth is ending, and while it wasn't anyone's favorite expansion, it wasn't completely hated.

In the news, Blizzard posted an Engineer's Workshop about the new customization features that are available. Also, a new cinematic "Beyond the Veil" was released to hype Shadowlands. Additionally there is a new short story "We Ride Forth" about the Four Horseman raised during the Death Knight campaign in Legion, and how they prepare to face Bolvar. Finally, Blizzard released lo-fi remixes of the zone music from Shadowlands.

Last week's question of the week was What Covenant you are joining, and Kurabara answered. This week, we ask what songs about Death would you put on your Shadowlands playlist?

Finally, we look back at episode #72, which was our first patch quiz, in preparation for patch 7.1.5.

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