Turdhat joins us for the whole show this week.  We talk about our attempts on the Lich King and our other current events this week, then we dive into the news of the week.  At that point the show heads completely into Turdhat territory.  We turn the tables and ask Turdhat the tough questions, like the ones he’s been throwing at us in past shows…no holds barred.  Also this week there are two terrible, terrible songs….one sung by Fen and one sung by Turdhat.  Oh dear…

Dreamwalker on 25 kicks our butt…

We fight the Lich King!  We dive into some of his mechanics.

Holiday stuff is here!  Hooray?

Esta is healing!

Limited attempts removed from normal mode ICC

Probably no more 40 man raid encounters

Ice Crown difficulty

1v1 balance?

More content coming before the next expansion

Lovely Charm farming nerfed

Vanish still screwy, staying screwy

Rawrcast & wow.com…hmm (I said rawr.com but meant Rawrcast.com, my bad!)

Authenticators for andriod

New plushies

Activision Blizzard 4th quarter info

Oh man….

Where do you draw the line between clever game mechanics and “cheating”?  Is beating a broken encounter cheating?

Holiday achievements:  Do you like them or are they a waste of your WoW time?  Would you like to see more “tangible” rewards for holiday type achievements like the the 310 speed mount, or should rewards be left to raiding?

JT Bruce, Universica – Bellatrix

Jt Bruce, Universica – Altair

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Are game bugs used to your advantage “cheating”?  Are strange mechanics in game that are used in ingenious ways “cheating”?  This week we tackle that topic, the news, our thoughts on the new bosses released, Turdhat’s corner, discussion topics, and more.  We even spend a solid ten minutes talking about balls.  Enjoy.

Fen was sick this week so the boys talk about fighting the new bosses.

Dreamwalker

Sindragosa

Ensidia:  Did they cheat or was it clever use of the cards they were delt.  This is our in-depth view, based only on what we know.  We want YOUR opinion on the forums.

We dig DEEP!

Also, go check this out…

Go check THIS POST: http://ensidia.com/muqq/blog/4078/

Versus the end of (bottom of the page) THIS POST:  http://www.legacyofsteel.net/oldsite/arc27.html

Look quite a bit alike?  The first is from Muqq from Ensidia, the second is from Jeff Kaplan, Lead Game Designer and FORMER Everquest end-game raider….posted YEARS ago.

New Weekly Icecrown Raid Quests!

Dungeon Finder loot system changes soon?

Dungeons made faster…except for Stratholme…

PVP healing 10% nerf

Love Is In The Air holiday stuff  (new boss)

New I-Phone Auction House app on the way

WoW Facebook dealy

Using gear designed for other classes

Where do you draw the line between “clever game mechanics” and cheating?  Is beating a broken or bugged encounter “cheating”?

Jardin de la Croix: Pomeroy – Antioquia, Polyhedron

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We tear apart everything from this expansion and rate it.  All of the raids, and as much of the new stuff as we can handle.  Tune in and find out what we did this week, our ratings for everything WotLK, interesting news, Turdhat’s Corner, our discussion topic…and so much more.  Check it out or you’ll be sorry.

Our raids this week!  Guild gets realm second achievement!

Esta and Bacon “pug” Nax 10 for the Immortal achievement…

The Aftermath…

Sauce’s random dungeon story

We rate EVERYTHING to do with this expansion, rating A-F…

Turdhat sends us something to rate…

Invincible Mount

DPS race fights

Titles mistakenly given out to 2v2 arean teams

Are trinkets the new tier sets?

Tier 10 tank armor changes

Night Elf Mohawk – GONE!

Gunship Battle development article:  http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/gunship-battle.xml

6 points about Cataclysm talent trees

Class in WoW with the biggest…”jerks”?

Guild Leader and Raid Leader roles, and discipline

Turdhat’s poem

If you could add a new boss encounter, what would it be?

Daniel Bautista, “15” – Fuego Camina Conmigo and In The Desert

On this episode we have four amazing women who not ONLY are tanks, healers and DPS that play World of Warcraft, they raid at an endgame level.  Fen, Sauce and Esta chat with Val, Sachi, Arcy and Eivez about their experiences as WoW players, gaming in general, and anything and everything else…no holds barred.  The ladies are even subjected to a few filthy questions from our old pal Turdhat.  Hold on to your hats, you’re not going to want to miss a minute of this one.

Meet the ladies!

Pugcast rocks, listen to them.

Authenticated.

Esta is OVER 9000! (What’s wrong with you!)

How many achievement points do you have?

Our raids this week:

Blood Prince Council 25/10

Royally screwed on Queen (UPDATE: Got her right after we recorded this, tune in next week!)

Rotface/Festergut

Sachi – Tank -Paladin

Eivez – Healer -Priest (Disc)

Arcy – Healer – Priest (Holy)

Valerial – DPS – Mage

Do you visit “girl gamer” sites?

Have you met people that thought you wouldn’t be “good” or a knowledgeable gamer BECAUSE you’re a girl?

Have you ever embarrassed a guy in game and laughed in his (virtual) face?

Do people ever not believe you’re REALLY a girl?

Have you even been hit on in game?  How do guys try to pick you up?

TANK GIRL!

Introverted male gamers and mixed signals…

Has the fact that you are female in real life ever been an advantage to you in game?  Do you get treated better in game?  Given free stuff?

What do you think about the female outfits in WoW or other games?

All of our stories of terrible groups…

New raid boss fixes

Lich King unlocks February 2nd(US)/3rd(EU)

Resilience Changes (Val’s potty mouth!)

Hunter Ammo (Costly!)

Heroism/Bloodlust – More credit then it deserves?

Classes in general and power swings with patches

Healing numbers versus doing the right things in raids

Sauce pick-up line

Deluxa!

Have you ever tried to benefit from an exploit?

Turd’s message to the ladies

How did you get into gaming?

Val’s Japanese gaming experiences!

Our raid leader’s wife is more hard core than he is? (We kid)

What do the women wear when they game?

Turdhat’s song/send me your pics

What would you like to see changed about the way we acquire gear? Choices of set bonuses? More Badge gear, ALL tokens in raids (even for weapons)? Things only drop for classes IN the raid? More class specific loot?

If you could add a new boss fight or encounter, what would it be?  Fighting in the air on jetpacks?  New vehicles?  Underwater combat?

(Sauce has something in the works…)

CdubCity – You rock our socks, thanks man!

Orlando, Co2, Co2

Daniel Bautista, Recycle Bin, Fractal 1

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To start off this week, Fen Esta and Sauce talk about the latest scam to get your precious account information. We talk about messing with “botters”,  go over our raids this week, and then we hit the news.  After that it’s time for Turdhat (with a T) and his call-in segment Q&A, followed by our weekly discussion topic.

Watch out for the armory scam!

Authenticators…waiting to be safe

Our 25s this week:  Damn you Rotface

Our 10s this week…what the hell made Putricide easier this time?

Esta’s OVER 9000 Achievement Points Report

“The Insane” title

Why don’t we have speed kill on Patchwerk?

Messing with Bots

Bot on Bot action

Esta breaks A’Nub! (Fen eats his words!)

Professor Putricide buff??? (Conan quote)

Putricide small fixes

Strength DPS rep ring on the way

ICC will be getting easier with the in-raid buff, but you can turn it off

No proc weapons in ICC 25 for Ferals or Frost DKs

Stratholme, Old Kingdom and Nexus changes

Quit the dungeon or stay with a slow (bad?) group…

Party leader rewards…gone!

Battleground Armchair Generals

No one wants to stay at stables

Horde vs. Alliance hatred in Cataclysm

Meaningful world PVP?

Is burst damage too high?

Possible resilience, health pools, and healing changes

Slower kills instead of huge burst?

Last season before and expansion is a sandbox

Proc per minute stealth nerfs!

No “sanctuary’ city in Cataclysm like Dalaran

Heirlooms will work

No guild housing

Possible increase to initial backpack?

Realm-wide banking

Hunter pet scaling…have fun waiting

Tabard and Armor set storage

(Smoke grenades)

“Gimmick” fights

Esta’s creepy face

Armory changes!

RSS character activity feeds

Export in-game calendar data and keep it updated

(in game calendar sucks)

Calendar events in our guild mean you’re dumb

Elitist Group Add-on vs Gear Score

Gear score doesn’t equal skill

Mages need more than just main city ports

Have you ever peed in a jug to keep gaming?

Have you ever purchased ANYTHING with real money for a video game? (Turdhat HAS…and SAUCE???)

Have you ever pretended to be a noob to get stuff?

(Turdhat is sleezy, FYI)

Do you ever play naked?  (Are you in the sweatpants club?)

Do you drink or do….other stuff…while gaming?

You ever uh…”help yourself” while on vent?

Turdhat’s poem…

And his call back poem…

What new abilities/talents would you like to see introduced in this next expansion, what shortcomings if any, would you like addresssed?

What would you like to see changed about the way we acquire gear?  Choices of set bonuses?  More Badge gear, ALL tokens in raids (even for weapons)?  Things only drop for classes IN the raid?  More class specific loot?

ITUNES REVIEWS PLEASE!

Temporal Distortion:  Anomalous Material, JT Bruce

Looking Forward(Radio Edit):  Binary, ED3-Studio

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This week it’s just the boys (Fen even took a shower!) , but they’re joined by some very interesting phone calls, including one by the infamous Turdhat.  If you don’t know, you better ask somebody!  After introductions we hop into our week with the new raid content, then the week’s news, the phone calls, and finally the weekly discussion topic.

We talk authenticators, Fen breaks down and buys one

Hacked guild bank stuff is returned (again!)

The new Stinky and Precious trash & traps

Raiding Rotface

Raiding Festergut

Raiding Professor Putricide

Lady Deathwhisper Nerf

Rotface 10 man nerf (snarky!)

Rogue’s won’t spring traps a mile away

Professor Putricide working as intended – One Abom

Wing end bosses meant to be harder

Occulus change rocks our sockkulus

EoE and Occulus drake drops

Halls of Reflection requires slightly higher gear

Dungeon finder screws up, welcome to 15 minute wait

HoR mob nerfs

“Slow down DPS, you’ll break the game”

Arena season ends Jan 19th

What the hell do we spend arena points on?

New guy in VoA?  Let’s see some more tier 10!

Low rolls with the “RNG”

Deathbringer’s Will change

Greatness deck card still rocks!

Nibelung Staff buff

Heroism/Bloodlust DRUMS???

Rogue nerf, big or not so big of a deal?

Elemental tier 10 4 piece set bonus

Warlock damage in PVE getting buffed

Prot warriors may be nerfed, but just in PVP

Druid tanking boring?

Threat reducing talents out the window next expansion

(Can I get salvation please?)

Are authenticators going to be mandatory?

Blizz backlogged restoring accounts

Account admins encouraged to offer “care package”

Authenticate, Authenticate, Authenticate.

“Onioning?”

Who is Trudat/Turdhat?

Turdhat corner:

Who has secret alts?  Bank alts?

Non-Vent users…are they quick to go?

Esta’s voice is HOT

Reading (or NOT reading) raid chat vs talking on vent

“Lady Gamer” Roundtable?

Turdhat’s Poem

Arcy’s call

Sauce’s…call

Are mods making the game too easy?  Everyone uses mods like DBM Grid, Healbot.  Do these things make the game so easy now people don’t even need to think?  Should Blizzard add these mods to WoW by default like they did with Questhelper and others?

What new abilities/talents would you like to see introduced in this next expansion, what shortcomings, if any, do you feel Blizzard should try to address?

Caf Connection:  Morgantj

I Like It Like That(S.Thaens):  Stefsax

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This week Eivez joins us and we cover the last two weeks worth of WoW.  We start off catching Sauce professing his love for Esta’s buttery smooth voice (in a manly way).  Good times.  After introductions we jump right into it.

HOLY CRAP WE GOT AN EMAIL!

We got Saurfang two weeks in a row, and we’re one/two shotting all four of the current bosses

We chat about what we’ve been doing to improve on Saurfang (yay for the achievement!)

Healers talk about Marrowgar and issues regarding healing that fight

It’s all on farm(?)

Someone is suicidal on the gunship battle every week

Another player in our guild gets hacked

New Dungeon Finder stories

Is Occulus still the worst instance?

Christmas Presents!

Razer Naga mouse opinions/what mouses we use

New raid content opens this week!

Professor Putricide, Rotface & Festergut

10 attempts is kind of a lot! (For us)

Occulus is indeed random, states blue posts

“Randomly” getting dungeons that no one else wants

What dungeons do you “randomly” get the most?

What’s the longest dungeon?

Sachi loves to pull LOTS!

Earthquakes (out of game and in!)

Cataclysm starting events…

How does a floating city have earthquakes?

Blue post smarmy responses…

Why would anyone make 900 pygmy oils?

Mailbox snubbing

Winterveil gift 2009 was TERRIBLE

We reminisce of gifts past

We talk bank space/bag space

We talk about World of Raid’s “Biggest Surprises of 2009” article

Why have we NOT hit up Blizzcon?

ToC wasn’t very exciting…2 rooms, 5 bosses

Why get rid of multiple lockouts for normal/hard modes?

Opinions on faction changes

Cataclysm by this summer or people will split

WoW the magazine!

Collector’s Editions and WoW art books

Mike Schramm leaves WoW.com

One authenticator will work for multiple accounts linked to one battle.net account, blue post says

Latest hacking in our guild may move more of us to get authenticator

Cataclysm stat removal:  Taking the math out of being a good player or dumbing down WoW?

Are mods making the game too easy?  Everyone uses mods like DBM Grid, Healbot.  Do these things make the game so easy now people don’t even need to think?  Should Blizzard add these mods to WoW by default like they did with Questhelper and others?

La Sedia Vuota:  Talco, Combat Circus

Silver Surfer:  FOOL DADAZ FIRE, CNSM SESSIONS #1

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This week the boys are joined by Arcy, secret priestess queen of all things healing.  We talk about our experiences in the Dungeon Finder, our raids this week, pets and mounts, and a million other things.  Sauce starts off the podcast by eating a muffin.  Nice and classy Sauce.

Tales from the Dungeon Finder – 497 DPS

Our fun with Lady Deathwhisper

Gunship Battle – Esta’s on a boat! (The wrong boat)

Saurfang is sour

Arcy dings a druid, Fen becomes an (off spec) tree!

Rogues – Spec Mut + spam two buttons = profit

Icecrown Loot – Bows and healing leather only…thanks

Stupid Winter Veil – Fen is a Grinch

PVPing with a gnome illusion (destroy them and drink their tears)

Arcy’s stuff collecting!  Pets and Mounts ahoy!

Favorite pets and mounts

Corehound pet and authenticators

Blizzard Store Pets

Things that make noise passively destroy Fen’s mind

Phasing bugs in Icecrown – have fun summoning with people who can’t see you

Ashen Verdict rep reward rings  – You get 4 choices…Because Blizz CAN’T give you 5

Proc happy loot in Icecrown

Loot table discussion

PVP gearing system in Cataclysm

Arena style loot without the arena?

Comp dependency in arenas

Wintergrasp built in bonuses for losing factions?

Battered hilt drop rate increased – for everyone except us

The new dungeons – They ain’t no Magisters’ Terrace

Tom Chilton interview from Champions’ Carnival in Taiwan and WorldofWar.de

-Wardrobe feature to bank

-Heirloom items for every slot

-In-game voice chat (sucks)

-“Instance spectator” mode for arenas and raids

-No plans for in game housing

-Arenas a mistake because of balancing issues?

-No Old Ironforge in the expansion but…changed Stormwind?

-Patch 3.4 before the expansion???

Is Blizzard removing the immersion of the game by making getting around too easy?

Cataclysm stat removal:  Taking the math out of being a good player, or dumbing down WoW?

Waiting So Long:  METISSE, Jeunesse

The Dreamer’s Overture:  JT Bruce, The Dreamer’s Paradox

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This week Fen, Esta and Sauce talk about their experiences in the new raid content, patch day, the new dungeons, and all things patch 3.3 and beyond.

We introduce Sauce, talk about how we came to know him, and Fen reveals that before he knew Sauce well he didn’t think highly of him.  Esta’s cats and Fen’s dogs do their best to destroy the show.

Off we go into this week’s topics:

PATCH DAY:

How was your patch day?

Dungeon Finder

New Instances (cannot be launched)

NEW RAIDS:

Our opinions and experiences of  all of the new bosses in depth

(Jetpacks burn the dingleberries off of Bear asses)

New reputation rings!

(Bastard Paladins can wear anything)

Raid:

Epic item drop rate decreased

Tanking Bug

28 days later (we get new content)

Attempts increased on Icecrown bosses

Dungeon:

Halls of Reflection ramp fixed

Epic item drop chance reduced

Hilt + Auction House = profit

Dungeon finder & gear score

PVP:

Wintergrasp ranks for vehicles changed

Wintergrasp exploit(?) discussion

MISCELLANEOUS:

Authenticator = Core Hound Pups

Hunter pets level faster

DISCUSSION STUFF:

Joystiq.com’s interview with Frank Pearce

Blue post:  Why do dungeon runners get/need tier gear?

Blue post:  Has the game gotten too easy?

Gear Score add-on, and “GearScoreBreaker”

Armory changes coming in January (supposedly)

THIS WEEK’S DISCUSSION TOPIC:

25 man raids versus 10 man raids.  Which do you like better, what differences make them easier or harder, should they drop equal level gear?

NEXT WEEK’S DISCUSSION TOPIC:

Is Blizzard removing the immersion of the game by making travel too easy?  (Automatically transport to and from dungeons, meeting stones, etc)

MUSIC FROM THIS SHOW:

Gars Trans:  Picanté, Demo 2008

Diablo Swing Orchestra:  The Butcher’s Ballroom, Balrog Boogie

Diablo Swing Orchestra:  The Butcher’s Ballroom, Heroines

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This week Fen is joined by Bacon and Esta, and they chat about specific 3.3 notes that they find interesting, among other things.

First we introduce everyone, and talk about our WoW background, our guild’s background, and what we’re looking for the show to be.  (We learn Bacon has a cell phone that sounds like an alien whistling, and Bacon is also a pro PS3 mechanic.)

We jump into the 3.3 notes of interest, here’s a few highlights of what we talk about:

RAIDING:

Taunt diminishing returns changing

Sapphiron/KT easily accessible

“Looking For Raid”

Weekly Raid Quests

PVP:

Minimum gear requirement for pick-up groups?

Vote Kick feature

Can your group leader decide you’re done?

Deserter debuff for dungeons

Dungeon Finder rewards

Perky The Pug Pet…throw yourself to the wolves

Any party member may mark targets (yikes…)

SHAME SQUARE!

DUNGEONS:

Battleground daily quests will reward 25 arena points…will this change PVP?

All player pets now get 100% of their master’s resilience

Unit nameplates visual range

Unit nameplates line-of-sight limitations in battlegrounds

New extra stats on Arena Set Bonuses

MISCELLANEOUS:

Quest Tracking Feature (Hooray for broken UIs on patch day!)

Random Crash fix?

Reputation grinds sped up!

Top level shoulder and head enchants (from rep) are bind on account

Hodir rep gains increased

New fishing derby

THIS WEEK’S DISCUSSION TOPIC:

Is getting gear too easy, and does Blizzard make their own content irrelevant?

NEXT WEEK’S DISCUSSION TOPIC:

25 man raids versus 10 man raids.  Which do you like better, what differences make them easier or harder, should they drop equal level gear?

Music from this show:

Gars Trans:  Picanté, Demo 2008

DJ Kryptide:  All_I_Need(Onza Remix)

Usta:  Pierwszy pocałunek, Bańka mydlana

trustno1:  Spacerun, Spacerun Part 1