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Bob and Mel catch up with ScotteJaye and Duranasaur, hearing about what they have been doing lately in WOW Classic. We cover the news including the Brewfest event, PVP changes coming to Wrath Classic, the new Wrath trailer by Hurricane, and the developer notes on Sarth three drakes and adding raids to the instance per hour cap. In the discussion we break down some of the major points from the developer interviews that recently occurred. Mel and Bob interviewed Brian Birmingham, ScotteJaye and MRGM interviewed Kris Zierhut, Josh Corbett interviewed Aggrend, and a Wowhead article following up with Kris Zierhut. We discuss the loot changes, heroic plus dungeons, bonus bags, and a little season on mastery.

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:04:00 - Listener emails, reviews and voicemails

0:34:00 - Brewfest Event Is Now Live on NA Wrath Classic Realms

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/brewfest-event-is-now-live-on-na-wrath-classic-realms-328924

0:51:40 - Five Big Changes to PvP in Wrath Classic - Video Featuring WillE

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/five-big-changes-to-pvp-in-wrath-classic-video-featuring-wille-328925

Journey - A Wrath of the Lich King Classic Trailer by Hurricane

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/journey-a-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-trailer-by-hurricane-328986

1:07:00 - Wrath Classic Development Notes (9/23) - Sarth 3 Drake Zerg Strat Nerfed, Raids Added to Instance Per Hour Cap

1:30:50 - ScotteJaye interview with Kris Zierhut - https://youtu.be/L0jCDDydOfg

Loot Changes, Bonus bags and Heroic Plus Dungeons

2:45:00 - Addon of the week - MountsJournal_Classic

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/mountsjournal_classic

2:50:00 - Closing

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This week, the Spicy Bois talk about the all-new Beast of Prey Event, using the knife in the new Gun Run LTM, a small set of patch notes, and, of course, Loba's long-awaited heirloom.

We are back on track with one of the main quests! We're back on the trail to find AETHER, which turns out, is hiding in an old museum. Oh yeah, that old museum is now the capitol building of the Tenakth. We meet the Lowland clan Chaplain, Dekka, and finally get to meet the Tenakth Chief, Hekarro. He's everything they said he was.

In This Episode:

- Meet Dekka and Chief Hekarro

- Learn about the guiding principles of the Tenakth clans and their tribe as a whole.

- Find out what we are doing with those black boxes.

We start things off with a recap of the past week's news, including ANS and Piggy moving to new situations. We also cover our first look at Kiriko, the new support hero coming to Overwatch 2's launch. We go through each of her abilities and discuss her potential playstyle and battlefield impact, before taking a closer look at how new heroes will function in Blizzard's battlepass.

Next we recap all of the action from the Summer Showdown tournament. We go game by game, highlighting major performances, surprising upsets and more as teams battle to secure a finals finish. We wrap up with a quick look at ABK labor news as Activision Blizzard releases paybands for Raven Software due to the Freedom of Information Act.

Hear our ep, hear our ep, filled with chatty patch vignettes! We've got lots of 6.2 chat, things we did that are sort of 6.2 related, and some (more) discussions about the quality of parties. Plus island discourse, the sort-of-return of Zenos and/or Hydaelyn, and musings on why the new raid tier is just ever so much improved over the first one. Alternate episode title: The Wondrous 101, but we really liked the platonic ideal of Cruella De Ville.

Bob and Mel get to talk Wrath of the Lich King Classic with Brian Birmingham, the lead software engineer for Classic Wow. We discuss the length and timing of the pre-patch, how it has been going, some of the biggest hurdles, and their favorite things so far. We move on to cover the future of the Joyous Journeys buff, the queues on large servers, and server balance. We close out the episode talking about the decision to exclude random dungeon finder, badges awarded from quests and the potential ilevel changes in Ulduar or TOC/ICC.

Crashtag and StaticGorilla have returned for another episode of Double Tap with a lot to catch up on in one week! In the Fighter's Corner we gush over the newest reveal trailer for Tekken 8, which happened during the Sony's State of Play. Next, Guilty Gear: Strive brings a developer's backyard which reveals plans for the future but also shows the engagement with players and questions. Then the big news and reveals come from Capcom with their Tokyo Game Show presentation for Street Fighter 6. We get to see more World Tour information, with the starting roster revealed, and get an Open Beta announcement. We also review some of the latest game footage from content creators.

We start off the episode hearing from the community with a couple voicemails! We have a great discussion sparked on the server queues, server balance, and how things have been going. We then discuss how our weeks have been going and what we have been doing during the pre-patch.

We start with the discussion this week. We discuss our thoughts on each major change in Cataclysm Classic. We touch on the new zones, dungeons, and raids as we share our thoughts on the increased difficultly level as well as the favorite and least favorite raids. We go on to discuss profession changes including the addition of archeology and the guild advancement system. We then touch on some quality-of-life changes including user interface changes, the dungeon journal, AOE looting, and account wide mounts/pets. We briefly discuss the PVP changes but all agree rated battlegrounds are a great addition! We wrap up the discussion with some more controversial topics including raid finder, unified raid lockouts, and transmogrification.

We wrap up the episode with a couple pieces of news including the change to be able to queue for battleground from anywhere and the global release times for Wrath of the Lich King!

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:03:50 - Listener Voicemails

0:21:00 - What have we been doing lately in WoW Classic and Wrath Classic

0:32:20 - World of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic Survey Sent by Blizzard

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-classic-survey-sent-by-blizzard-328847

2:33:30 - September 13th Classic Hotfixes - Battleground Queues from Anywhere

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/september-13th-classic-hotfixes-battleground-queues-from-anywhere-328829

2:36:00 - Global Release Times for Wrath of the Lich King Classic

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/global-release-times-for-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-328845

3:38:00 - Closing

Bob and Mel sit down with SubtleFW and dig into where he started and how he got here.

Drakka may have gotten the machine hearts he needed, but looks like he may not get the water he was expecting after all. After talking with Jetakka we head to Scalding Spear to find out what's going on with the water, and after that is settled, we head to the Gate of the Vanquished to determine who will be running the Desert Clan.

In this Episode:

- Explore the Shining Wastes

- A Wound in the Sand [Side Quest]

- The Gate of the Vanquished [Side Quest]